[Mapserver-west] another introduction

[Ken-ichi Ueda]

There are definitely others in the Bay Area doing Mapserver stuff.  I
use FOSS web mapping products (Mapserver, PostGIS, Chameleon) pretty
much exclusively on the Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project
over at UC Berkeley (http://vtm.berkeley.edu), and a few other people
in my group use GRASS, PostGIS, and Mapserver to varying degrees.

I also know the excellent folks over at the GreenInfo Network
(http://www.greeninfo.org/) use Mapserver, Chameleon, and Plone /
PrimaGIS to some degree.  Some of them might even be on this list.

Maybe a Bay Area meet-up is in order?  Just a thought.

-Ken-ichi

On 4/13/06, Eric S. Theise <mataro at cyberwerks.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thought I'd take a minute to introduce myself, too.  I signed up
> earlier in the week and am happy to see west coast traffic today.
>
> My training is in operations research (optimization modeling) and
> after a short academic career, I started doing Internet work (back
> in the day of another UMN product, gopher (!)).  A few more career
> twists and turns, and last fall I found myself team-teaching a
> course on mapping (broadly defined) at the California College of
> the Arts.  I taught myself enough GRASS to realize that it was going
> to be too complex to teach to art students with varying degrees of
> computer expertise, but I was able to demo it as part of the history
> of cartography, and in so doing, I seem to have caught GIS fever.
> I've joined the Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA), and
> am looking for work where I'd be able to get up to speed with the
> ESRI tools and eventually figure out how my earlier training could
> dovetail with GIS.
>
> In the meantime, I have a pet project I'd love to get online using
> MapServer, and have spent a good part of the last few days trying
> to get all the pieces to play together.  (It's an old freeBSD system,
> 4.10, with a fresh gcc, 4.1.0, but gdal does not want to build.)
>
> Anyway, hello, nice to see all the Pacific Northwest action and if
> there's any Bay Area MapServer activity, I'd like to know about it.
>
> Cheers, Eric
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