The 6th QGIS UK user group meeting in Scotland is happening on the 3rd November 2016.  It is being hosted by the EDINA University of Edinburgh at the Informatics Forum and is sponsored by thinkWhere, Ordnance Survey, Angus Council and Cawdor Forestry.  Tickets are available through Eventbrite.

The almost final programme of presentations and lightning talks is as follows:

• Phil Taylor (CEH) – How deep is your loch?
• Fiona Hemsley-Flint – QGIS server
• University of Edinburgh – packaging and deploying QGIS
• Anouk Lang – Mapping narrative: QGIS in the humanities classroom
• Art Lembo (Salisbury University, MD) – terrain analysis with massively parallel processing techniques (embarrasingly so)
• Neil Benny (thinkWhere) – finding the heart of Scotland / viewshed analysis
• Tom Chadwin – qgis2web and coding a QGIS plugin
• Pete Wells (Lutra) – WMTS previews and XYZ support
• Stephen Bathgate – decision support system in Forestry
• Tim Manners (Ordnance Survey) – Creating an indoor routable network with QGIS and pgRouting
• Andrew Whitelee – QGIS in forestry/ecology
• Ross McDonald (Angus Council) – Them thar hills: shaded, textured and blended
• Michal Michalski (The Origins of Doha and Qatar Project) – DOHA: Doha Online Historical Atlas
• eeGeo – Using QGIS to create 3D indoor maps

Doors open from 9:00. Registration shortly thereafter. Start and welcome at 9:45 and a planned finish at 16:30. Geobeers to follow.

Registration is open now for the Scottish QGIS user group.  You can register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qgis-uk-scottish-user-group-tickets-13092023595

The planned agenda for the day is as follows:

• arrive for coffee 9.00
• welcome and intro 9.30
• workshops 10.00 – 12.00
• lightning talks 12.00 – 12.30
• lunch 12.30 – 13.30
• afternoon presentations 13.30 – 16.00
• close
• geobeers

There is a great line up of talks and after feedback from the last user group there are now two workshops in the morning for you to choose from.

• Workshop 1: QGIS plugin development with Python
• Workshop 2: Using the QGIS Processing module
• Michael Spencer – Raster time series analysis using FOSS4G
• Heikki Versanto – Visualising population demographics in 3D
• Simon Willcocks – Using PgRouting with OS ITN in QGIS
• Ross McDonald – Cartographic experiments in QGIS
• Mag Low – Rendering OS MasterMap buildings using QGIS2threeJS
• Paul Weedon – PostGIS, QGIS and Associated Street Data
• Lightning talks – a few minutes to tell us about, well, anything really.

Thanks to EDINA, thinkWhere and Ordnance Survey for helping to make the day happen!

The next QGIS user group meeting in Scotland is happening on 21st October 2014.
It is being held in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University.  For more info about the venue: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/about/location

This is your chance to offer a short talk or presentation or workshop so we can build an exciting programme for the day.  The final programme and agenda will be released closer to the date.  Please let me know through the contact form or comments or twitter (@mixedbredie) if you have a presentation or talk you would like to share.

Ross