Slides from my 2012 PGCon presentation Making your Own Maps are now available The presentation covered Common reasons people render their own maps Where to get OpenStreetMap data and how to load it into your PostGIS database How to use Tilemill to design your own map style How to render map tiles, both statically and [...]
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PGCon2012 – Making Maps
Posted: May 22, 2012 in postgresql, openstreetmap, PresentationsTags: postgresql, pgcon, osm, gis, fosslc, postgis, openstreetmap, maps, tilemill, mapnik, qgis
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Penlake Map May 2012
Posted: May 6, 2012 in openstreetmapTags: gis, huntsville ontario, maps, openstreetmap, osm, peninsula lake, penlakemap, tilemill
I have published a new version of the Peninsula Lake map. This edition includes new cartography and map updates based on my survey work last summer. I had written the previous map style in Cascadnik, a CSS like language that translates to mapnik XML. Cascadnik has since been replaced by Carto so I have decided [...]
OSM Hack Weekend (Toronto 2012)
Posted: March 18, 2012 in openstreetmapTags: hack weekend, openstreetmap, osm, postgresql, rails port, ryerson, toronto
The Toronto OSM hack weekend (2012) started on friday with an introduction to OpenStreetMap presentation at the Ryerson Geography department. Experienced OpenStreetMap presenter, Richard Weait gave a talk to a room of Geography students, staff and faculty. After Richard explained the basics of OpenStreetMap A.J. and Tristen gave a short presentation on some of the [...]
Virgin Roads
Posted: November 17, 2011 in openstreetmapTags: new houses, oakville, openstreetmap, osm, sub-divisions
The neighborhood I live in is between 20 and 30 years old, other parts of Oakville are under constant growth. When a new sub-division is built the developer will put in sewers, roads and start building houses. Sometimes the street signs will look home-made other times proper street signs will already be up. When I [...]
PostGIS Replication @ FOSS4G
Posted: September 18, 2011 in openstreetmap, postgresql, PresentationsTags: disaster recovery, foss4g, gis, postgis, postgresql, replication, slony
My talk on PostGIS replication at FOSS4G 2011 went well. It looked like there were about 150 people in the room. Most of them had not yet deployed a PostGIS replication solution. My talk covered Slony and streaming replication. It gave an overview of different replication patterns that can crop on in the GIS space. [...]
Big Tent Conferences
Posted: September 17, 2011 in openstreetmap, postgresqlTags: community, foss4g, postgis, postgresql, sotm
This past week I attended FOSS4G in Denver, a conference run by the open-source geospatial foundation (OSGEO) that also happened to be the largest PostgreSQL conference in North America. FOSS4G is a big tent conference that attracted about 900 attendees from all over the world with over 400 of them from the United States, over [...]
Monday was an off day for me. FOSS4G has started but is running workshops on Monday and Tuesday. I decided not to signup for any workshops and instead played tourist. The plan for Monday had been to catch a lift to Rocky Mountain National park with a few OSM’ers who were going to be staying [...]
Denver Day 1, What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.1
Posted: September 12, 2011 in openstreetmap, postgresql, PresentationsTags: fosslc, openstreetmap, osm, postgresql, sotm, sotm11
Saturday was my first full day in Denver for the OpenStreetMap State Of The Map conference. A few years ago I presented a talk at PGCon on OpenStreetMap. I have now returned the favour and presented a PostgreSQL talk (What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.1) at an OpenStreetMap conference.
Denver, Day 0
Posted: September 10, 2011 in openstreetmapTags: DEN, denver, foss4g, osm, sotm, sotm11, YYZ
Friday morning I woke up and got an early start to my workday so I could get a full days work in before leaving for Denver. I did not get a Slony release packaged on Friday but Chris might get to this early next week. The cab ride, checkin, and US customs (you clear US [...]
Happy OSM Birthday (to me)
Posted: August 11, 2011 in openstreetmapTags: birthday, mapping party, maps, opendata, openstreetmap, osm
Yesterday (It is still the 10′th in my timezone) was my 3rd OSM birthday. Pascal Neis has built http://osmbirthday.neis-one.org a site that shows you your OSM signup is anniversary and how you rank (in terms of signup time) with respect to other OSM contributors that have made an edits. I am contributor 17,540 (out of [...]
