Next Meeting:

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

FREE Admission, Parking, Pizza, Soft drinks & two raffle tickets.

TOPIC:  

SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data 101

James Lin is involved in a large scale land surveying operation using a high precision GPS network with real time correction and the project has taken advantage of SQL Server 2008's new spatial data support. In this session he will introduce spatial data types, geometry vs. geography, well-known text (WKT), well-known binary (WKB), geography markup language (GML), keyhole markup language (KML), ring orientation, static and instance spatial methods, visualization, spatial index, etc. A quick comparison of spatial data support between SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL will be provided. Importing common spatial data formats such as ESRI's ShapeFile will also be discussed.

James will demonstrate the use of Google Maps mashup in the front end for displaying and interacting with the spatial data, connecting the Google Maps front end to the SQL Server 2008 back end. The maps will display stored data as well as interactively generate spatial data to be stored.

   

SPEAKER: 

James Lin

James Lin is the founder and president of Chase Computing International Corp., and provides IT, management, and software development services to clients large and small. His clients include NASA/JPL for which he has provided software services to for the past 11 years--twice receiving NASA awards for projects he designed and implemented for NASA's Deep Space Network. A Raytheon-certified Six Sigma Specialist, he and his team won an ITSS Team Award for their contributions to JPL's SDSIO contract. Years ago, in 1993 he personally signed a contract directly with Microsoft's Steve Balmer. You can reach James at james@chasecom.com

LOCATION: 

American Honda Motors
Bldg 100, # 100-1E-13
1919 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, CA 90501
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