Hey map nerds, geo geeks, and the spatially curious: MaptimePDX is having a November meetup, and we want you to come hack with us!

MaptimePDX is a monthly/bi-weekly hack and learn event for the geographically inclined. November's event will be a hack night! Come out and work on your map project, or work on one of the exercises we will have for you to do. If you're brand new to maps and code, we will also have a group of people working on building their first web maps, with lots of people there to help!

Beginners are very welcome and encouraged to attend! Please bring a laptop if you can. If you're at all interested in casual mentoring at the event (a.k.a. answering questions or sharing what you do), please shoot us a message on Twitter.

We all use maps every day. Let's learn how to make them even better... together.

Come hangout, drink coffee, and chat with other geonerds. Just look for the mappy people. This Friday we're at Ristretto Roasters on N. Williams Ave.

And don't forget April's evening meetup: http://calagator.org/events/1250465867

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MaptimePDX is the Portland, OR offshoot of MaptimeSF, a weekly meetup of mappers in San Francisco hacking on maps and doing mappy things. In the same tradition, we're aiming to provide meetups for hacking on map projects of all sorts. There's no board or leadership - just some people who are enthusiastic about maps and sharing knowledge. We'll post upcoming events here and summaries of things we learn along the way. Join us!

MaptimePDX is excited to welcome John Gravois from Esri for November's meetup!

Come and check out some of Esri's free resources for publishing data, performing spatial analysis and creating websites to share your work.

We'll focus on:

• Introducing Esri Leaflet

• Fundamentals of JavaScript (variables, methods, events etc.)

• Q/A

This is a beginner friendly. Bring your laptop and questions.

Come hungry! Pizza provided by Esri.

Thank you to WeWork for providing the space!

Please RSVP

Grant Humphries of Trimet will start your 2016 right with an OpenStreetMap 101 session! Come learn the basics of the "Wikipedia of maps" and get started mapping the places you love.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license.

Please bring a computer as this will be a beginner friendly and hands-on Maptime.

Pizza and drinks will be provided by Esri and the space has been provided by WeWork.

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Agenda:

• 6:00-6:15: Social time

• 6:15-6:30: Intro/grab pizza

• 6:30-7:30: OSM Tutorial

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Maaaappy New Year!

We will be joining forces with the Tableau User Meetup group this month to talk about mapping in Tableau!

Tableau is business intelligence software that allows anyone to easily connect to data, then visualize and create interactive, sharable dashboards. It's easy enough that any Excel user can learn it, but powerful enough to satisfy even the most complex analytical problems. Securely sharing your findings with others only takes seconds.

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Our presenters:

Brittany Brannon of Slalom Consulting and PK Kase of Oregon Department of Transportation. Brit and PK will lead us in a hands-on knowledge-share of their work with Tableau mapping.

What to bring:

1. Laptop

2. Free version of Tableau Public

3. Free Mapbox Account

Agenda

6:00 – Gather and settle in

6:10 – A few words from our groups and sponsor

6:20 – Mapping with Tableau – hands-on so bring your laptop

Tableau mapping 101

Introduction to using Mapbox with Tableau

Brief overview of using ArcGIS and Tableau

Tableau map examples

7:20 – Tableau Doctor

Great opportunity to ask any questions about mapping with Tableau!

7:40 – The best part – meet other Tableau users and map makers!

Stick around to continue the conversations started by our presentations.

We'll be heading to Pints Brewing (412 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97209) afterwards for anyone that is interested.

Lots to cover so RSVP and get there early!

Get your Monday started on the good foot with our Maptime Social on Monday, April 4. We're joining up with ORURISA's Young Professionals and GIS In Action attendees for a conference happy hour(s).

Doors open at 6:30p and light snacks, pizza, and beers provided. We'll do quick round of demos and lightning talks starting around 7pm so please contact the organizer(s) if you want a time slot!

Maptime is a literally a time to chat about maps. Whether you're a beginner getting your bearings with GIS or building apps for the web, Maptime is for anyone and everyone curious about the latest in mapping technologies.

Special thanks to our sponsors for helping us keep these events open and free for all:

• WeWork - The Community of Creators

• ORURISA's Young Professionals, ORURISA, and GIS in Action Conference

• Mapbox - Developer tools for custom web and mobile map applications

Hey Manny, get the conversation started!

Our rescheduled October meeting is Wednesday October 26th, from 6-8pm at PSU Cramer Hall Room 409.

The agenda is a hodgepodge of geo-happenings, "GeoPackages - Shapefiles of the future?", plans for PDX geo-Voltron, GIS Day sponsorship, countdown to the election, etc. As always, bring your own topics (and beer) are always welcome.

Come one, come all to Cramer Hall 409, Wednesday January 20th. 6 to 8:30pm. Did we say there will be Pizza? There will! And as always, BYOB...

Due to the Snow, we are cancelling tonight's meeting, and hope to reschedule the same speakers for our January meeting. Stay safe and happy holidays everyone!

Our December meeting is CANCELLED.

Our special guests this month are Robert Eriksen and Aaron Evans of Paidtogo, a startup with a goal to incentivize alternative commuting

Paidtogo is an app and web based platform that empowers governments, businesses and other organizations to incentivize commuters to take alternative forms of transportation. With this platform we can track, verify and pay commuters by the mile to walk, bike, take public transportation and carpool. We are currently in beta and looking to start a test pool in portland for IOS. We will have the android version ready in early 2017. We are looking for beta testers as well as people interested in getting involved in the project.

Come one, come all to Cramer Hall 409, Wednesday December 14th. 6 to 8:00pm. Did we say there will be Pizza? There will! And as always, BYOB...