Research LA County and other GIS datasets, evolve community taxonomy which will be used to log, describe and classify information relating to community issues using various Open Source GIS tools found in http://live.osgeo.org and other applications, in support of the ongoing, bi-weekly, LA Maptime Events: http://maptimela.github.io/
> The vision for this opportunity (which i hope to have 5-7 people, > working > independently and potentially as a team) is to participate in a > bi-weekly > http://www.meetup.com/MaptimeLA/meetup meeting with hands on data sets > and various mapping applications. > > We need to import and export various datasets (see below) on > http://openstreetmaps.org which is embedded in both > http://turnkeylinux.org/sahana-eden and http://turnkeylinux.org/ushahidi > > as we plan and then implement adding data to it's map according to: > http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/DeveloperGuidelines/GIS > > Please register, yourself on http://caltek.net > > we are particularly interested in the data resources of any one or more > of > the https://data.lacounty.gov/ for the greater los angeles area along > with > the https://data.lacity.org/ for the city. The Nov 12th maptimela used: > https://github.com/maptimeLA/project-sandbox/archive/master.zip > > mostly using leaflet and qgis which are both included in the > http://live.osgeo.org a GIS desktop distro DVD which is an open source > software platform for learning and training resource and for > administering > workshop sessions > > another open source software resource i use is > http://exelearning.net desktop editor, presentation framework and > learning > management system content publishing system. > > what i've done as a context...about me... > I have years of experience in working with all 3 of these > platforms/distros but i'm more of an organizational innovator and > database > person. i know a fair amount about programming but currently do not have > any single language that i know. > > Java Script is the program that seems to be the most appropriate > language > for this GIS project. So, one or more of us will definitely need to be > more than just familiar with it as well as some python. > > feel free to call me at: 323-268-0395 (as an option) so that we can > associate with each others voices. >