Summer Fling

On the second Monday of the month, we gather in an open, friendly, educational salon of geospatial ideas and projects.

OUR SPEAKERS

Matt Gove ( mgove@surfrider.org ) will give an overview on the Surfrider Foundation's (http://www.surfrider.org/) project to collect spatial data on coastal and ocean recreational users (surfers, beach goers, divers, etc) in the Mid-Atlantic. Surfrider is trying to figure out where people recreate in order to load that information into a larger project to map out all coastal and ocean uses (fishing, shipping, etc) in the region so that a comprehensive management plan can be created.

Chris Natali (@modilabs (http://twitter.com/modilabs)) of The Earth Institute at Columbia University (http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9) will discuss the data collection and electrification planning system used by the Modi Research Group (http://modi.mech.columbia.edu/) to help countries like Liberia and Indonesia build electricity capacity. Chris is a Software Engineer focused on building geospatial systems for infrastructure development.

Sarah Williams (@datasew (http://twitter.com/datasew)) - Digitial Matatus: Just back from Nairobi, Kenya, Sarah Williams will talk about about a project her lab, Civic Data Design Lab, is working on in Nairobi to use cell phones to map semi-formal bus. While these buses are the main way people travel through the city there is no data about where they go. Digitial Matatus leverages the ubiquitous nature of cell phone use in Nairobi to create a map using their data. Also see her page, http://civicdatadesignlab.org/