11-07, 13:40– (Australia/Hobart), Anglesea Room
As spatial data enthusiasts we frequently treat "data" as our goal, and consider it a success when we deliver data to our clients. In this talk I'll draw on experiences from working within Victoria Police and explore how we can better satisfy our users by going beyond just data.
As cartographers and spatial data enthusiasts we frequently treat "data" as the end goal of our spatial analysis and consider our work a success when we've delivered data to our clients. But raw data should only be our starting point, and often isn't what our clients actually need! So what does this mean for our lovely maps, spatial data portals, dashboards and APIs? In this talk I'll be exploring how we can better satisfy our users by going beyond just data. I'll be drawing on my experience from working within the State Intelligence Division at Victoria Police, and will deliver practical tips on how we can improve our maps (and other spatial products) by not treating raw data as our ultimate goal!
Nyall has been a developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 additions to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall’s contributions cover a wide range of areas – from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labeling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. Nyall is the proprietor of North Road Consulting, an Australian based spatial development consultancy which predominantly utilises international co-funding and crowd-funding campaigns to finance development into open source GIS applications.