UK QGISuser group meeting

2nd April 2014

#ukqgis#loveqgis

Welcome

Smile and say #loveqgis

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!

The UK QGIS dream team!

Matt TravisSouth Westregional lead

Simon MilesSouth Eastregional lead

Kevin WilliamsWelsh

regional lead

Ross McdonaldScottish

regional lead

Google+ group - 131 strong

Plus…

http://ukqgis.wordpress.com

https://github.com/QGIS-UK

Collaboration…

+ +£resulted in….

The plugin only talked to Astun Technology web services

Collaboration part 2…

All worked together to create a QGIS 2.2 plugin to talk to any PostGIS

layer via apache webservice.

Collaboration part 3…

Tim Martin from OS with feedback built a gazetteer plugin that talks

to PostGIS and didn’tapache webservice!

So today…

#ukqgis#loveqgis

Lunch 12.30pmRoom 163

Workshops at 1.00’ishPython & QGIS - in here

QGIS - an Intro - Room 163

10.15am

David McDermott

GIS and Gazetteer

Officer at Surrey Heath

Borough Council

Talking about:

Atlas & Map production

10.45am

Mike ‘Eric’ Saunt

@skepticmike

Director of

Astun Technology Ltd

Talking about:

QGIS & PostGIS

11.30am

Jerry Clough

@SK53onOSM

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Talking about:

QGIS & Open Street Map

12.00pm

Andrew Bell

@Therealandybell

Open Geo-Information Solutions &

Astun Technology Ltd

Talking about:

QGIS & PostGIS

1.00pm

Python & QGISQGIS - Intro with

OS open-data

Pete Wells

@lutraconsulting

Ilhan Coskun &

Steve Kingston

3.00pm - ‘Its your floor’

3.30pm - Round up & discussions

4.00pm - ‘Fin’

Finally… #Thanku2

Imperial College,Ordnance Survey

& You for coming