Agenda

• With the advent of new geographic/mapping modules and tools, Drupal is increasingly effective at allowing users to associate their content with specific geographic locations and create compelling maps that display this association. We will discuss what types of problems can be solved by talking about information in terms of geography.
• The Geo-Drupal contrib space is fragmented, with a lot of modules that partially address geographic needs. How do existing modules fulfill the expectations for geographic capabilities? What needs are not addressed? Which concepts would be more useful as a unified framework?
• In practice: what are the technical barriers to talking about geographic data? How can we take advantage of shared data, and share our own? We will talk practically about using geodata in our Drupal applications, and discuss a variety of approaches to building Drupal applications that utilize geodata.

Goals

The goal of this session is to present methods for utilising geodata in with existing tools. We also want to provide fuel for a discussion about building a geo- contrib space that is both more coherent and more powerful. We're eager to co-present with other community members working on GIS related modules.

Speakers

• Rebecca White, developer and Drupal GIS evangelist at the Chicago Technology Cooperative
• Allie Micka, primary developer of the Geo module at Advantage Labs
• Brandon Bergren (aka Bdragon), primary developer of the Location and GMap modules
• Jim Craner, managing partner and mapping visionary at the Chicago Technology Cooperative