[clug] November CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group meet ing

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Hi all,

I promised to send Andrew an abstract, but it's been a busy week.

In summary, we have used the UMN Mapserver, R, Latex, Perl and
other things to create customised atlases based on Social Atlas
data. As well as allowing the user to select the extent and themes
to be included in their atlas, the map classifications and comparitive
plots are re-calculated for the selected exent. This means that it is
possible to see how the selected region compares nationally. I will
mostly focus on the how Mapserver generates vector PDF maps, and how
understanding this process was important in in keeping atlas PDFs
down to a practical size.

Cheers,

Antti Roppola

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Pollock [mailto:andrew-clug at andrew.net.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2004 8:00 AM
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: [clug] November CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group
meeting


	CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group Meeting - 11th November 2004
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	Date:		11th November 2004 (Second Thursday of the month)

	Time:		19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)

	Speaker:	Antti Roppola

	Abstract:	Antti will give a brief talk about the Bureau of Rural
			Science's online atlas generator:
			http://www.brs.gov.au/socialatlas/

	Venue:		Room N101
			Computer Science and Information Technology Building
			North Road
			The Australian National University

			See http://clug.org.au/ for more directions and a map

	Food/drink:	Pizza and soft drink/juice. Come hungry, and bring 
			about $6 to cover the cost of your share if you 
			want some.

	If you would like to give a talk at a future meeting, please email me.

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