Hands-on, GIS: From Zero to Open Source Spatially-Enabled Cloud Hero

Update: Someone suggested we do everything from an Amazon EC2 instance... great idea! If you want to follow along, go ahead and sign up for one of the free Amazon AWS accounts (https://aws.amazon.com... (https://aws.amazon.com/free/))

Hands-on GIS in one hour: From Zero to Open Source Spatially-Enabled Cloud Hero (Yep, that was the cheesiest name I could come up with!)

Hello Geogeeks!

Our next GeoMeetup will be a joint one with the local PostgreSQL group. So obviously, the content has to be PostGIS related!

In order to try something different to welcome 2011, we will try a live tutorial.

We will start with an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance:

• Install PostgreSQL
• Install PostGIS
• Grab a chunk of Openstreetmap
• Load it into PostGIS
• Use a tile generating server
• Style the Openstreetmap data so it looks the way we want it and generate tiles
• Create a web application that consumes the tiles
• Create a Geo web service that queries the PostGIS data
• Consume it in our web application

All in 1hr!!! (OK, perhaps 1.5) Presented by yours truly (https://www.burhum.com/about/).

Join us and see if I fail miserably at completing this challenge! Bring your own Ubuntu VM and follow along.

If the technologies above seem foreign to you, we had an introduction during our first GeoMeetup. Missed it?

Watch the videos here:

https://www.burhum.com... (https://www.burhum.com/2010/12/02/geomeetup-kickoff-videos/)

Hope to see you there!

• Ragi