Sign-Up

Anyone can follow a course on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.

Standard Set

This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Public Custom Set

This set of signup questions is particular to this course. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Answers

• 
  Petterson   Dec. 17, 2014, 5:05 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  - online mapping

  - basic knowledge in leafletjs

  Public Set Answer:
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  aysha   July 31, 2014, 7:25 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  Journalism student looking to expand my data and web development skill set. My coding skills are embarrassingly non-existent, but I'm trying to jump right into mapping, etc. nonetheless. 

  Public Set Answer:

  1. Both small things on campus –– local businesses, etc –– and international issues.

  2. I fumble with pre-made Tumblr and Wordpress themes...can't do much beyond that. I'm proud of my self for figuring out @font-face.

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  J. Albert Bowden II   July 4, 2014, 12:05 a.m.

  Bio:

  fronteer, standardista, prone to rampant fits of viewing source, defender of net neutrality, open source or die...

  Location: Virginia Beach, VA

  Standard Set Answer:

  i love maps and i love data and i love web.

   

  learn more about apis, specific libraries/functionalities i'm unaware of.

   

  introductions to gis/cartography are also always welcomed with high regard!!!

   

  i am interestedd, but what does that entail exactly?

   

  i'm not "too busy", and certainly should help out, do i sm open to it.

  Public Set Answer:

  i would like to map out sav grass in the chesapeake bay: that would be my end goal, rather.

  primarily i would like to be versed in gis/cartography from a professional(s)/peers.

   

  i'm very well-versed in the art of pixel pushing.

   

• 
  coso   March 5, 2014, 8:13 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  im a cartography student

  learning leaflet of course

  why not

  Public Set Answer:

  everything

  semi-pro

• 
  Rich Butler   Nov. 19, 2013, 9:31 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Adelaide

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am an experienced user of GIS (MapInfo, QGIS) but am looking to learn more about creating and publishing maps online.  I hope to achive the basics of this through the topic. 

  Public Set Answer:

  I would like to map some survey data that my organisation gathered earlier in 2013.

  I have little experience in making websites, but i am hopeful of creating a webmap that can be embedded into others.

• 
  haileypate   Oct. 27, 2013, 6:20 p.m.

  Bio:

  i know just enough about things to get myself into trouble. my apologies in advance 0=)

  Location: Sacramento, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  Hoping to learn more about retrieving and visualizing OSM data. Also want to get local Sacramento folks excited about becoming OSM contributors =)

  Public Set Answer:

  1. 'd like to start out by mapping food-related features across the Sacramento region

  2. My level of experience with making websites is pretty basic. I understand basic html tags, attributes, CSS rules, and can sort of understand what I'm looking at when I see javascript... but I don't code regularly enough to remember details :P

• 
  mcm3   Sept. 24, 2013, 3:09 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  Setting up a blog.

  Make interactive maps that people will use and help my traffic.

  I don't know enouph to help with the orginazation.

  Public Set Answer:

  demographic data, transporation data,

   

  I can program but have very little experence with websites

• 
  Silviu-Ionut   Sept. 8, 2013, 11:36 a.m.

  Bio:

  GIS guru wanna be

  Location: Bucharest Romania

  Standard Set Answer:

  • My passion for the domain and my wish to find a common point for all my interests
  • More knowledge in the sense of being able to better understand the way to fulfill different objectives
  • If I can be of any assistance, it would be my pleasure

  Public Set Answer:

  1) Especially social media data (twitter, facebook, tumblr, flickr...) and also large data from databases

  2) Made my own web mapping apps and intercative mapping websites experiments and projects using Leaflet, OpenLayers, GeoServer... according to the level of complexity and final use of the website. Not allways by my own, this being the level that I want to achieve. Personal capabilities to manage any kind of project no matter the size, complexity or destination.

• 
  expangea   Sept. 7, 2013, 3:49 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am interested in mapping items from a database and show them in the a webpage.

  Eventually I would like to use the map interface to georreference database items which do not currently contain geographic coordinates; perhaps also use map clicks to create new georreferenced database items.

  Public Set Answer:
• 
  Dhi Aurrahman   Aug. 4, 2013, 5:40 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  I want to make a simple editable map

  Public Set Answer:

  1. Publi facilities in Indonesia

  2. Intemediate

• 
  copystar   June 14, 2013, 9:05 p.m.

  Bio:

  I'm a librarian who is getting back into mapping after a long hiatus

  Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am interested in leaflet because I understand that it makes web mapping more integrated into a webpage and as such, it brings maps out of their embedded box.

  I am dedicated to learning more about web mapping and I have been documenting my learning process so that others might learn from my journey: http://theplaceisnow.aedileworks.com/

  As a librarian, organizing is something I can do well, so I would willing to help with the course organization.

  Public Set Answer:

  I have made many websites, usually with the help of WordPress but I have worked within Drupal as well.  I'm teaching myself JavaScript and trying to do it right!

• 
  Gordan Savicic   May 21, 2013, 8:55 a.m.

  Bio:

  Gordan Savicic is media artist and researcher who investigates software algorithms, experimental media and speculative hardware. His works often include game cultures, urban interventions and open source technologies. He is fascinated by new issues of our contemporary existence, such as the creation of mega-cities or the effects of new media on subjectivity and its deep social implications. Virtual is not the non-real, but actually the more-real.

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  mapping, cartography, artistic use of maps

  Public Set Answer:

  web developer

• 
  Timotius   April 19, 2013, 4:44 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  Learning new 

  Public Set Answer:
• 
  pao   April 3, 2013, 10:16 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: usa

  Standard Set Answer:

  np[e

  Public Set Answer:
• 
  Indu Reghunath   March 9, 2013, 6:32 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: trivandrum

  Standard Set Answer:

  I need to develop a custom mapping , neatly categorised

  I hope to get a thorough knowlege of mapping and geoserver and leaflet

  Public Set Answer:

  A local street vendors map

  I am a web developer with 4 years of experience

• 
  Ryan Ornelas   Nov. 13, 2012, 6:08 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: San Francisco, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  1. the Leaflet.js capablities
  2. learning the leaflet language to speak to a developer.
  3. Would love to showcase an example.

  Public Set Answer:

   

  1.  Wineries and Vineyards

  2.  OpenLayers and Drupal intergrations

• 
  bresson   Oct. 7, 2012, 12:46 p.m.

  Bio:

  Front end developer (JS/CSS/HTML5, Mobile) with backend experience (PHP, Scala, Java, soon Python)

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  Learn more about mapping and adapting learned tools/techniques professionally and contribute to open source mapping projects

  Public Set Answer:

  Advanced to expert depending on the platform/stack. 

• 
  vetrichelvan   Sept. 4, 2012, 6:54 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Bangalore

  Standard Set Answer:

  As JS developer, am inetrested to know abt leaflets api

  Public Set Answer:
• 
  Tac   Aug. 12, 2012, 1:43 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Washington, DC

  Standard Set Answer:

  I'm a programmer integrating maps and GIS into my web applications.

  Public Set Answer:

  I have data about FDA inspections that I'd like to map. 

  I've been programming websites for several years, and am currently using Symfony2 for my PHP framework.

• 
  Amos Jangles   July 17, 2012, 12:38 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: UK

  Standard Set Answer:

  I enjoy tinkering with QGIS and drawing maps

   

  I hope to be able to combine my annotations and drawings with OSM to display my pretentious psychogeographic twaddle.

  Public Set Answer:

  I plan to map drawings, annotations and local urban planning issues (not all on the same map),

   

  Made some websites in the old geocities days (old-school table soup) and recently brushed up a bit on codeacademy - profile here