[Wolves] Talk offer: GPS and Geospatial Information Systems with Linux

[Alex Willmer]

Evening all,

Last year I gave a talk at SB LUG, on GPS and Geospatial Information
Systems with Linux. If you want, I'd like to present the sequel the
meeting after next, on Wed Oct 11th.

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are to geography, what CAD is to
engineering. It's revolutionising the field; even whilst itself being
revolutionised by the likes of Google Earth & web mapping.

I offer a tour of the GIS landscape - the whats, the whos & the whys. 
A vaguely sciency bit about the workings of GPS, with pictures. 
Demos of Free/Open Source GIS & satellite navigation (satnav) software.
A rundown of geospatial data sources, free as in beer and otherwise. 
Finally a pitch for OpenStreetMap, a project I'm involved with.

If you're interested, please let me know. As talked about on Wednesday,
Dave Morley's bingo den would make a good venue.

A taster of GIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS, as usual Wikipedia
goes into much technical detail. I aim to keep it lighter and more
focused on the shiny bits.

Regards

Alex

PS For anyone who didn't catch it on b3ta.com, someone has brought back
the good old days of google: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/