Following our Open Source Geo & Health event this week (look out for a further blog post and report on that) JISC GECO are proud to be supporting two events on using open mapping tools which take place in Glasgow later this month:
The DevCSI / GECO Open Mapping Workshop (Thursday 25th August 2011, Electron Club, CCA, Glasgow) is a fantastic opportunity to spend a day finding out more about using open mapping and open data. There will be introductory sessions on editing and reusing OpenStreetMap, getting started with PostGIS geographic database, creating interactive maps on the web with OpenLayers and using map styling tools. There will also be hands on support for your problems, questions or ideas. More information is on the DevSci page for the event and you can book your place here. If you can bring a laptop you should be able to try out all of the techniques on the day (and if you can install Java that would also be helpful).
State of the Map Scotland 2011 will see the Scottish OpenStreetMap community meet to talk, workshop and hack for two days. The event takes place at the Electron Club at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th August and you can find more on the #sotmscot wiki page and you can book your place here.
Both of these events are free to attend so we would encourage you to sign up early to ensure your place.
To find out about future GECO related events you should keep an eye on our new events page and you can also now subscribe to our events calendar [XML | iCAL | HTML]
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