US Presidential Election 08
Some months ago I was lucky enough to secure a couple of small contracts with the Obama for America Campaign 
to support their general effort and the work of the field organizers by implementing some web mapping capabilities. After some phone discussions with the Obama Technology team it actually was not hard to convince them to go the open source route and setup a server on Amazon EC2. We took an existing Ubuntu-based server image that included most of the Open Source GIS stack already (many thanks to Josh Livni of Umbrella Consulting who created the public image and who also has instructions on his website on how to set this up quickly: http://os.umbrellaconsulting.com/wiki/AmazonEC2). Continue reading “Obama Campaign – Mapping voters with Mapserver, PostGIS and Openlayers”