2023-08-09: Smart Maps Meetup Quarterly

[hfu]

As suggested by Kyoung-Soo and Ki-Joune in #101 :

Possible topics

1. What is the challenges, or what is the limitation
2. Introduction of the basic idea, pros and cons
3. Demos (point cloud, city models, vector tiles, and imagery) with a little bit more technical details.
4. Possible practical scenarios.
5. What is the advantage of using Smart Maps Bazaar?
6. Next steps

Possible participants

• UN Open GIS Initiative
• UN Geospatial Network
• Smart Maps Bazaar contributors

[hfu]

Draft

Challenges

• Server admin learning curve
• Cloud storage cost
• Server resource

Limitations

• Need to know about IPFS
• Not a magic - you need disk and bandwidth
• Need to handle CIDs

Pros

• Relatively secure than doing everything.

Cons

• Careless information leak possible.

[albertkun]

Is there a planned time and date for the Smart Maps Bazaar? I'd love to learn more and also volunteer help out with it!

[hfu]

@albertkun Thank you! The date and time of the event is not decided. Below is the timeline I see:

• 2023-05-04T09:00 (New York time): propose the event concept in UN Open GIS Monthly VTC (delayed April).
• 2023-05-xx Propose schedule and agenda in UN Open GIS Monthly VTC (May)
• 2023-xx-xx The event

The earliest timing would be some weeks before FOSS4G 2023. Other possibilities would be Summer/Autumn 2023.

[albertkun]

Thank you for sharing the timeline! I could see value in having the Smart Maps Bazaar close to FOSS4G either as a lead up or a follow up from that event!

Since I am still new, maybe I can help out with marketing and outreach for the event ? I'd love to post about it on places like the Documentation website, Twitter, etc.!

[hfu]

I am developing CONCEPT.md at https://github.com/UNopenGIS/smb/blob/main/docs/CONCEPT.md.

I finished writing in my local language. I am upgrading the content by rewriting in English.

[albertkun]

@hfu thank you for sharing the document! I would like to include this in the documentation under a "Events" section! Let me know if that would be OK!

[hfu]

@albertkun Thank you! I appreciate if you kindly include this in the documentation.

[albertkun]

@hfu You are welcome! I think including events like these with the Documentation will get more people interested, so thank you for having both the Japanese and English versions ready! I'll have this up on the site by #140 !

[albertkun]

@hfu I added both the English and Japanese versions to the documentation website! Let me know if you'd like any changes!

English:

• https://unopengis.github.io/7-docs/get-involved/events/smart-maps-bazaar

Japanese:

• https://unopengis.github.io/7-docs/ja/get-involved/events/smart-maps-bazaar/

For the Japanese I wasn't sure if I should translate Smart Maps Bazaar to スマートマップバザール so, I just left it as is. Feel free to make any edits directly in the markdown files:

• English: https://github.com/UNopenGIS/7-docs/blob/main/docs/get-involved/events/smart-maps-bazaar.md
• Japanese: https://github.com/UNopenGIS/7-docs/blob/main/i18n/ja/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/get-involved/events/smart-maps-bazaar.md

Or comment in the issue here:

• Smart Bazaar Walking Tour event page smartmaps#8

[hfu]

Date and Time

Let's think about the date and time first, so that we can introduce it on #125 and FOSS4G 2023.

How about 2023-07-12T22:00/23:00+09:00? It is Wednesday.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Smart Maps Walking Tour&iso=20230712T22+09&p1=1440&ah=1

It would not be so easy in California, but this time looks like a standard for the UN geospatial professionals most of whom work in the zones between New York and Mogadishu.

@albertkun, @yuiseki What do you think?

[albertkun]

@hfu, I think that time is good, but I cannot attend, as you correctly stated it is not a good time for California.

Hopefully we can record it! 😅

[hfu]

@albertkun Yes, Pacific or Atlantic, that is the problem. We do both :-)

Ah, missing you means we cannot rely on UCLA zoom. No problem, I think we rely on UN Teams in this case.

[albertkun]

@hfu Haha, yes, that is the problem of being globally focused- which is a good issue to have! I think the more we can bring other people involved the better we can grow the community, so it's good to get the Atlantic folks onboard!

[hfu]

No confirmation from New York yet, but let's say the tentative date/time is 2023-07-12T22:00/23:00+09:00.

[albertkun]

@hfu OK! Is that good enough to confirm on the website, or should we wait?

[hfu]

@albertkun Thanks! It is good to update the web site with tentative date/time.

[hfu]

We may be rebranding this to Smart Maps Meetup Atlantic. See #168.

[hfu]

Draft Agenda

1. Introduction of participants (20 min, led by UN Open GIS Secretariat)
2. Smart Maps Bazaar - low cost distributed data sharing (20 min, Hidenori)
3. Smart Maps Assistant - large language model for human-map interface (20 min, Yuiseki)
4. Initial proposal for potential pilot project (10 min, Hidenori)
5. Discussion (up to 30 min, led by UN Open GIS Secretariat)

What do you think? @yuiseki

[hfu]

After internal discussion, I am consulting with the UN Open GIS Bureau about postponing the meetup in August. Below is our message to the Bureau.

Smart Maps Meetup Quarterly - new date in August

Dear all,
After internal discussion within UN Smart Maps Group, we would like to propose postponing the first Smart Maps Meetup Quarterly, which was planned to be held on 2023-07-12, to August.

By postponing we will be able to:

have more concrete draft pilot project proposal
have more realistic usecase ideas based on additional experiment
seek collaboration with potential new participants we found in FOSS4G

We would like to suggest following options for the new date:

2023-08-09 Wed. 09:00/10:30-04:00
2023-08-11 Fri. 09:00/10:30-04:00
2023-08-15 Tue. 09:00/10:30-04:00

We needed to skip the week of UN-GGIM in the begining of August.

Please let me know if you have any request or preference about the date.

Best regards,

Hidenori

[hfu]

Please see #214 for the last steps preparing for the event. We have moved to #214. I close this issue for clarity.