Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?
Cameron, What type of a document are you looking for? In other words how much detail and what focus? We might be able to find something that exists with respect to this EPA effort, or we could perhaps put it together. Dan On Jan 29, 2008 1:10 PM, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr Dan Ames, Gary suggested that you might be able to provide a case study or similar into the EPA's migration from ESRI to Open Source. Specifically I have some Australian Government Agencies who would be interested to use such work, and in general, such case studies would be very beneficial for the uptake of Open Source globally. Gary Watry wrote: Contact Dr. Dan Ames at Idaho State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Cameron Shorter Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 22:11 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS? To: OSGeo Discussions Yes Gary, that would be great. Do you know where we can find information about this? On Jan 29, 2008 2:07 PM, Gary Watry wrote: Would the U.S. EPA moving from ESRI to Open Source for their Watershed model help - Original Message - From: Cameron Shorter Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 21:39 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS? To: OSGeo Discussions After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, we were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to Geospatial Open Source. The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would be much easier to sell to upper management if they could draw upon experiences of other agencies who have done something similar. Can anyone point me to reports, or programs which have migrated from ESRI/Oracle applications (ArcGIS in particular) to Open Source equivalents? -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Gary Watry Applications Developer/Designer Florida State University Office of Telecommunications 644 West Call Street Tallahassee, Fl 32306 Phone: 645-6904 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Gary Watry Applications Developer/Designer Florida State University Office of Telecommunications 644 West Call Street Tallahassee, Fl 32306 Phone: 645-6904 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html -- Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE Geospatial Software lab Department of Geosciences Idaho State University - Idaho Falls [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hydromap.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] PGCon 2008 - anyone?
Folks: The submission deadline for PGCon 2008 has passed. I'm sad to report I didn't see anything geospatial-related. If any of you still wish to submit, please do so. If you didn't submit for a particular reason, please speak up. PGCon is pretty significant on the PostgreSQL calendar, well attended, and well sponsored. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted
Lorenzo Becchi ha scritto: Web Form - needs development - needs moderation too - doesn't offer public debate (can you please refine your offer?!?, I'm not sure what you want to say about..., ecc.) Using drupal webform extension, no development is needed (we used successfully for our GFOSS.it drupal site, 3 minutes of work). Public debate can be allowed through the use of comments, also available in drupal. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 29-Jan-08, at 9:36 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote: On the OSGeo home page there's the list of OSGeo projects, but no indication of which projects have finished the incubation and are OSGeo certified. To find out, you have to make your way to the Incubation Committee wiki page, and there is the only list (I could find) of which projects have graduated. We would like to highlight this information better on the main portal page but could not propose a good way on how to do this. Any idea? How about adding a simply asterisk * beside ones in incubation - with a footnote under the project list saying what the symbol represents. Should be easy enough to do. Tyler, This sounds good to me. So I'd suggest the asterisk be labelled as Incubating which ideally would be a link to /incubator for additional details. Incidentally, I really wish we could change GeoNetwork opensource to GeoNetwork or GeoNetwork OS, and likelwise for MapGuide Open Source. I think the long names end up being confusing on the side bar due to wrapping and this is likely to be worse when there is an asterisk involved. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?
Thank you Miguel, Please keep us informed of your progress, like any level of commitment or timeline an agency signs up for. Miguel Montesinos wrote: Hi Cameron, Regarding Valencian Regional Ministry, I can ask about it. Probably there may be some presentation, and it should not be hard to translate into English as part of the spreading of the project. I can do that task. Regarding the Hydrographic Confederation, I'll contact them. The responsible of that project has moved to another Government Agency, so finding time may be difficult. But I'll encourage him. Cheers - Miguel Montesinos Director Técnico PRODEVELOP C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10 46004 Valencia. Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodevelop.es Tlf: +34 963510612 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:34 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS? Miguel, Based upon my very limited Spanish, and skimming the titles, these look like excellent case studies. Do you think these would be any chance of encouraging the responsible departments to translate to English? The business case for a sponsor is that sponsoring a Case Study will greatly increase the chance that other agencies will also migrate to Open Source, which in turns means these agencies will invest in Open Source which is good for all Open Source users. Miguel Montesinos wrote: Hello Cameron, In Spain there are several case studies. Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating all systems to open-source software[1]. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build gvSIG[2]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, geoNetwork opensource).[2] Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir river (Spain). A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, Geonetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree [3] [1] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontisL=2 [2] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0L=2 [3] http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pd f Sorry [3] is in Spanish. I can provide more if you need. Regards - Miguel Montesinos Director Técnico PRODEVELOP C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10 46004 Valencia. Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodevelop.es Tlf: +34 963510612 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andrea giacomelli Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:10 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS? Hi, not sure about the time zones involved in Gary replying...I think he is referring to: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/fs-basins4.html Gary, please correct me if I am wrong ;) Regards, Andrea, aka pibinko http://pibinko.altervista.org 2008/1/29, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes Gary, that would be great. Do you know where we can find information about this? On Jan 29, 2008 2:07 PM, Gary Watry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the U.S. EPA moving from ESRI to Open Source for their Watershed model help - Original Message - From: Cameron Shorter Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 21:39 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS? To: OSGeo Discussions After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, weBR were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to Geospatial Open Source. The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would be much easier to sell to upper management if they could draw upon experiences of other agencies who have done something similar. Can anyone point me to reports, or programs which have migrated from ESRI/Oracle applications (ArcGIS in particular) to Open Source equivalents? -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
[OSGeo-Discuss] LizardTech Renews OSGeo Sponsorship
Just a brief note to mention that our 2008 sponsorship program is off to a great start! LizardTech, one of OSGeo's early 2007 sponsors, has renewed their Associate Sponsorship for 2008. Thank you to Michael Gerlek for his involvement in OSGeo and helping represent LizardTech in this way. Sincerely, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director Open Source Geospatial Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +1-250-277-1621 M: +1-250-303-1831 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Tile Cutter
Christopher Schmidt wrote: Depending on the size of your image, TileCache might do what you're thinking of: http://tilecache.org/ Regards, Yep, thought of that. But I've got to stay within what Tomcat can do for me. It's a requirement. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Tile Cutter
John Zastrow wrote: I don't think I dreamed this: Some time a go I swear I saw a method for cutting a static image (like a GeoTiff) into tiles which would then be served by some light-weight server that would respond to WMS requests. Period. I need to just send a small number of static tiles from Tomcat to OpenLayers. Did I dream this, or did someone in the OSgeo-sphere actually post a recipe for this? From the GDAL List: http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/ -Steve W ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Tile Cutter
Stephen Woodbridge wrote: John Zastrow wrote: I don't think I dreamed this: Some time a go I swear I saw a method for cutting a static image (like a GeoTiff) into tiles which would then be served by some light-weight server that would respond to WMS requests. Period. I need to just send a small number of static tiles from Tomcat to OpenLayers. Did I dream this, or did someone in the OSgeo-sphere actually post a recipe for this? From the GDAL List: http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/ -Steve W ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Yes! That's it. Thanks so much. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
