[Vancouver GIS UG] Vancouver GIS Users Group: Talk Tomorrow Evening
- From: doug.hrynyk@xxxxxxxxx
- To: vangisug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:21:59 -0700
Hello everyone,
Tomorrow evening Yosri Diab will be returning to speak about what he
describes as a mixed bag of Google Map technologies. A detailed
announcement for Yosri's talk in March and for Ryan Prox's talk in April is
listed below.
Also, it is time to start signing up for our annual Poster and Show-n-tell
Session in May. We already have the first participants lined up. For
those not yet familiar with our popular season-ending event, details are
provided below. If you have questions, ask myself or another steering
committee member at tomorrow's meeting.
Regards,
Doug Hrynyk
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March 14, 2012
Speaker:, Yosri Diab, Géographs Systems, Inc.
Topic: Google Map Technologies
This presentation is a mixing Bag of a new Technologies and a crash course
in Google Map Technology. Census By Map is a new Product of Yosri that
links more than a half terra byte of US Census2010 dataBase to a Map and
permits a user to click anywhere on a Map to get a report of the latest
Census Data (Census Canada 2011 will be available soon) . It also permits a
user with a Google Application to incorporate the Census Data to his
Application. The Technology behind Census By Map will be explained in the
first part of the presentation.
The second half is a crash course for the fundamentals of Google Map. More
than a dozen Tutorials are explained briefly, Each example can be run or
tested in addition to downloading for the person interested in learning
about Map creations using Google Technology.
The items below will be explored:
• Building a Large Data Base (600 GB of SQL DataBase)
• Linking the Census DataBase with Demographic Boundaries
• Thematic Maps
• Creating a simple Map
• Geocoding Simple and Advanced
• Map events
• Map Tiling
• Thematic Maps
• Cross Domain Communications Jquery, JSON
A detailed description of this presentation will be available online soon
at
http://geographs.com/VancouverGisUsersPresentation/
Bio: Yosri Diab graduated from McMaster University (M. Eng. In
Engineering), and Concordia University (Computer Science M. Sc.)
Update January 2012 After two years of serious health Problems, Yosri is
now back in Software Development for the Mapping Industry, the CensusTrax
Mashup has been enhanced to display Maps faster, and a sub product has been
developed to permit users with Google Technology Applications to add Census
Data to their Applications, he is working now on the just released Data of
Census Canada 2011. He is now a Software Developer and Consultant in the
Mapping Application.
After several years with S.M.A. Société de Mathématique Appliques in
Montreal, and Canadian National Railways, as a Computer Analyst, and
Project Leader Yosri Diab founded in Montreal Micro-Logic Applications,
(MLA). MLA started as Software Development firm, then expanded to Hardware,
and turnkey system for CAD (Computer Assisted Design), and then to G.I.S.
(Geographic Information System. The company had grown to 25 employees.
During this period, Yosri developed different Software mainly as an add-on
to AutoCAD, and other CAD Software.
In 2001 Yosri Diab moved to Vancouver. He is the Founder and Chief
Technical Officer of Géographs Systems, Inc. a GIS and Internet Mapping
Software Development Enterprise. Mr. Diab has over 30 years of experience
designing new GIS systems, programming and leading highly qualified
professionals in the field of GIS/Mapping software development. He has
extensive experience in Geographic Information Systems, Street Routing,
Internet Mapping, Google and Flash Mashup, Computer Graphics, Geocoding and
Driving Directions. Most recently, Géographs Corporation has created a new
and highly innovative platform called “GeoFlash Explorer” and an innovative
Mashup called “CensusTrax” that combines this platform with Google Maps,
the US Census, and Yahoo’s Geocoding service.
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April 11, 2012
Speaker:, Ryan Prox, Special Constable, Vancouver Police Department
Topic: Transforming Your Agency to Intelligence-led Using Analysis: From
Incident to Analysis to Action
It's not uncommon for police agencies to promote an intelligence-led
policing model, but how many are able to overcome some of the challenges
that stand in the way of realizing these goals? It's simply not enough to
hire good analysts and put them to work. Police organizations must change
in fundamental ways in order to successfully embrace this model of
policing. This session will provide a case study of the 2010 Vancouver
Winter Olympics from a security and critical incident management
perspective. Unlike previous major events in Vancouver, where analytics
provided post-event feedback and analysis of a predictive nature, the 2010
Olympics saw analytics (specifically GIS analytics) propelled to the
forefront of operational decision-making and relevance. The session will
provide a unique insight into how information was data-mined from various
records management and dispatch systems, and successfully adapted for
specialized applications such as major event management, critical
infrastructure analysis and the development of an integrated
counter-terrorism response capability. This session will also provide the
audience with an overview of how GIS recently played a significant role in
the Vancouver Police Department's apprehension of a serial sex offender,
and will finish with next steps in the evolution of the department's use of
GIS technology
Bio: Ryan Prox, Special Constable, Vancouver Police Department
As the Analytics Services Coordinator for the Vancouver Police Department
(VPD), Special Constable Ryan Prox has firsthand experience in pioneering
and implementing analytic programs, training and technology that addresses
the operational, tactical and strategic needs of the organization. S/Cst.
Prox has over twenty years experience in law enforcement. He began his
career with the Department of Defence as an intelligence officer, where he
worked overseas on a number of NATO and United Nations missions, with the
most notable being Bosnia-Herzegovina. Following that he embarked on a law
enforcement career as an intelligence officer working Eastern European
organized crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs with the Coordinated Law
Enforcement Agency (CLEU), a provincial organized crime taskforce. He then
transferred to the Vancouver Police Department where he created and moved
into the newly formed Department Security Office responsible for internal
security. During his career, S/Cst Prox was seconded to the Organized Crime
Agency BC (OCABC) to work on a long-term intelligence probe of Asian
organized crime and the City-wide Enforcement Team (CET), a beat-unit
assigned to police Canada’s most extensive and prolific open drug market.
He was also assigned to the Missing Women Investigation Review. This was a
probe of the investigation of the worse serial killer in Canadian history,
Robert Pickton, who is suspected of killing upwards of 49 women. S/Cst Prox
has also worked in the VPD Counter-Terrorism Unit, where his duties
included national security threat assessments and the development of a
critical infrastructure analysis system. Most recently, S/Cst Prox was
responsible for overseeing the VPD’s analytic contribution to the 2010
Winter Olympics. He holds a graduate degree with a focus on police resource
efficiency and evaluative practices, and he serves as a sessional
instructor at Simon Fraser University, instructing in the School of
Criminology. S/Cst. Prox has lectured nationally and internationally on a
host of topics including the development of an analytic capacity within
police organizations. In 2010, he was the recipient of the International
Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) Award of
Excellence and one of the recipients of the Webber Seavey Award from the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
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May 9, 2012
Topic: Vancouver GIS Users' Group May 2010 Show-and-Tell:
Our annual networking event is coming up soon. This is a great opportunity
to showcase your recent projects, learn about your colleagues' work, and
catch up with friends and meet new ones in a casual, friendly environment.
You are invited to present your projects in a variety of ways: a poster, a
map you made earlier this year, leaflets from a recent public information
campaign, printouts from a web site, a sideshow on your laptop....
Anything you can think of that will catch people's attention and help start
a conversation about your work. It doesn't need to be fancy, it's okay if
it only took you ten minutes to assemble, and it doesn't matter if you
already presented it elsewhere (but please credit the original event, if
that's the case). Please, we request that presentations are project-based
rather than vendor presentations -- there are other forums for those.
The Show-And-Tell will take place 5:30 PM Wednesday, May 9 in the Dunsmuir
Auditorium, BC Hydro office tower, 333 Dunsmuir Street. There will be wall
space and tables. There may be one or two internet connection(s), which
can be reserved. Please contact Doug Hrynyk through the web site to
express your interest in presenting your work.
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