On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Alain Foehn <alain.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey ! > Sorry for the delay of my answer. > I will study a bit more the package I found and then contact the owner to > see if we can integrate it under GPL compatible licence to future Octave > versions. > I'll keep you informed when there is something new. > Thanks for your support ! > Alain > > > Le 04.10.2012 22:35, Juan Pablo Carbajal a écrit : > >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal >> <carba...@ifi.uzh.ch> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Alain Foehn <alain.fo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> Thanks for your support and your quick answers this afternoon. >>>> With further investigations, I found a package of functions for Matlab >>>> working also under Octave having a function m_shaperead that does almost >>>> what I am looking for. Just outputs are slightly different, but this >>>> function is of great help. The package is available on >>>> >>>> http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html >>>> >>>> I think it would be a good thing to have such a function available in a >>>> "official" package for octave. I don't know the procedure for such an >>>> addition, mostly with a function written by someone else. I think some >>>> other >>>> functions could also be added to the mapping package of octave and would >>>> reinforce Octave strength in GIS field (I am a new engineer in a Alpine >>>> environment research centre and trying to show how Octave could be a >>>> good >>>> replacement to Matlab, so such arguments are welcome...). >>>> I will probably work on it next week a bit. Would you be interested by >>>> the >>>> modified version (I had some warnings of "matlab-looking syntax" or >>>> something like when I did tests today). >>>> Thanks a lot again and greetings, >>>> Alain >>> >>> Hi Alain, >>> >>> Great job! Sadly the code is proprietary and cannot be distributed >>> with GNU Octave unless we get the owner to release under a GPL >>> compatible license. >>> >>> The procedure is as follows. Just write an e-mail to the owner of the >>> package explaining our needs. Read these examples that I have send in >>> the past: >>> >>> http://wiki.octave.org/Asking_for_package_to_be_release_under_GPL:_exmaples >>> >>> Use them as templates if you want. I particularly like the ones I sent >>> to the Non-negative matrix factorization people. Do not forget to add >>> the OctaveForge mailing list (octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net) in the >>> CC. >>> >>> Once we have the package under GPL we can start the port. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> -- >>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal >>> ----- >>> PhD Student >>> University of Zürich >>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ >> >> I am adding José to the list of e-mails. He is our mapping expert ;) >> >> @José: What do you think of this package? >> http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html Does it complement octPROJ >> nicely? >> >> >
Alain, Excellent news! Please do hesitate to ask for questions/help (well... asking for it wont hurt anybody ;) ) Please, send future e-mails on this subject to octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net -- M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal ----- PhD Student University of Zürich http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
