Opening slides - South-East UK QGIS user group meeting by Simon Miles, 2nd April 2014

1. UK QGIS
user group meeting
2nd April 2014
#ukqgis
#loveqgis

2. Welcome
Smile and say #loveqgis

3. How did we get here?
Matt Travis Me!
Matt, shall we set up a
QGIS user group here in
the UK
Why not Si, lets do it!

4. The UK QGIS dream team!
Matt Travis
South West
regional lead
Simon Miles
South East
regional lead
Kevin Williams
Welsh
regional lead
Ross Mcdonald
Scottish
regional lead

5. Google+ group - 131 strong

6. Plus…
http://ukqgis.wordpress.com
https://github.com/QGIS-UK

7. Collaboration…
+ +£
resulted in….
The plugin only talked to
Astun Technology web services

8. Collaboration part 2…
All worked together to create a
QGIS 2.2 plugin to talk to any PostGIS
layer via apache webservice.

9. Collaboration part 3…
Tim Martin from OS with feedback
built a gazetteer plugin that talks
to PostGIS and didn’t
apache webservice!

10. So today…
#ukqgis
#loveqgis
Lunch 12.30pm
Room 163
Workshops at 1.00’ish
Python & QGIS - in here
QGIS - an Intro - Room 163

11. 10.15am
David McDermott
GIS and Gazetteer
Officer at Surrey Heath
Borough Council
Talking about:
Atlas & Map production

12. 10.45am
Mike ‘Eric’ Saunt
@skepticmike
Director of
Astun Technology Ltd
Talking about:
QGIS & PostGIS

13. 11.30am
Jerry Clough
@SK53onOSM
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Talking about:
QGIS & Open Street Map

14. 12.00pm
Andrew Bell
@Therealandybell
Open Geo-Information
Solutions
&
Astun Technology Ltd
Talking about:
QGIS & PostGIS

15. 1.00pm
Python & QGIS
QGIS - Intro with
OS open-data
Pete Wells
@lutraconsulting
Ilhan Coskun &
Steve Kingston

16. 3.00pm - ‘Its your floor’

17. 3.30pm - Round up & discussions

18. 4.00pm - ‘Fin’

19. Finally… #Thanku2
Imperial College,
Ordnance Survey
&
You for coming