Meeting Minutes 2018-12-01
Updates
December 15th:
- going to discuss how to support projects
- hearing different things
- still some lack of clarity
- need to further define goals of the overall group
- not likely to be getting a lot of work done
- looks like we won’t be presenting anything here
- more team representation would be good
- Project discussion is on the agenda but not defined
Meeting with Zach:
- Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 11 am
- to go over judges’ feedback from Datapalooza
Humanitarian Mapping event:
- Mapathon collaboration with NC State
- Thursday, Jan 31 10am-12pm at DH Hill Library
- “The general format of our workshops is a presentation at the beginning followed by a hands-on activity, which takes up the bulk of the time. I’d love to have you give a brief overview of your project and then map NC sidewalks and other important features as our hands-on activity. I’ll also present on the concept of humanitarian mapping and the open source mapping community more generally.”
- still concerned about the value of mapathons before we figure out the .shp import process
- more valuable to focus on areas outside of cities?
- main goal is to get people exposed to mapping
Catching up
- Crystal - still planning to work on figuring out that process for importing shapefiles
- Melanie - trying to understand the tile server; reading docs
- Leila - coordinating mapathon event with NC State
Plans for next week
- We still need to set up a meeting to talk to Nick; we started a questions document but haven’t added much to this.
- Aim for meeting with Nick in early to mid January
- We’ll plan to fill out the documents list with questions by Dec. 15th
- Melanie - try to write some documentation about how the servers work for Nick to confirm
- Crystal will also be creating documentation on the import process in the Google Drive folder
- Leila - meeting with Mia from NSCU Libraries to discuss the mapathon on Monday