A joint event to help surveyors and spatial professionals understand: What are mashups? Why should I be creating them? How do I get started?
WHEN: 2011-04-13 to 2011-04-13
WHERE: ISNSW Office, Level 4, 162 Goulburn St Surry Hills, Sydney.
STATE: NSW
COUNTRY: AUS
SSSI and the Institute of Surveyors NSW will hold a joint event on 13th April to help surveyors and spatial professionals understand:
What are mashups? Why should I be creating them? How do I get started?
A mashup is a website or application that combines data or functionality from several sources to create something new. As the name implies, they are quick and easy to create and use.
Because mashups can be made so easily, they can help you in clearly and quickly communicating important information to busy non-specialists, like journalists or senior management.
For example, Energy Australia has mashed its GIS and other data with Google Maps for media communications, senior management briefings, and engineering collaboration.
Presenters Jose Diacono of Communica, Matt Robinson of Lagen Spatial and Cameron Shorter of Lisasoft, will provide lots of lively examples, and explain where to find data, what skills are needed and how to get them. They will take you step by step through creating a mashup, and give tips for creating good ones.
The organisers promise this will be an entertaining and educational evening. Absolutely no prior web development knowledge needed. Subject to available seats, students attend free.
It is part of the IS-NSW Twilight seminar series, and will run 5.30-7.30 pm on the 13 April at the ISNSW office, Level 4, 162 Goulburn St Surry Hills, Sydney. It is the first in a series of SSSI ad hoc mapping events for 2011.
To register, visit http://spatialsciences.org.au and click on the Events tab.
