[Mapserver-west] another introduction

[Allan Hollander]

Hi everybody,

Now that we're having a wave of introductions I'll join in too. Eric, I 
was delighted to see you pop up on this list. Wednesday my wife pointed 
out the mapping workshop you're teaching this summer at the San Francisco 
Center for the Book and I'm thinking of taking it! My background is in GIS 
analysis but I'm interested in hard-copy cartography as an artistic 
pursuit. My wife is fairly seriously involved in the book arts and I 
dabble in sketching, painting and illustrated journals; both of us have 
enjoyed the classes we've taken at SFCB very much.

I work as a research analyst at the Information Center for the Environment 
up at the University of California, Davis. Prior to that, I did a 
dissertation in geography from UC Santa Barbara on species distribution 
modelling. I still do some predictive modelling, mostly using GRASS and R, 
but have been heavily involved in developing the website for the 
California node of the USGS-based National Biological Information 
Infrastructure (http://cain.nbii.org/). I've done a couple of mapping 
applications for this site using Mapserver CGI, and am starting to work on 
another to display a set of predictive distribution maps we've developed 
of the complete California flora.

It'd be fun to have a Bay Area MapServer meetup. But since I'm up in 
Davis, it's hard for me to make such a thing unless it's on the weekends.

Cheers, Allan

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Eric S. Theise 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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