Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Hey Tyler, I understood from some people/discussions that the individual membership can only be used when the individual owns their IP (intellectual property). So people working in a company, where the company owns the persons IP, would not be able to use this membership. Is this true, are you able to shed some light on this? What will be OsGeo's policy for selecting the 6 people? Best regards, Bart Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: From: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/944 Wayland, Mass., January 7, 2009 - In Valencia, Spain, at the December Technical Committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the OGC and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards (OGC's mission) and open source geospatial software and data (OSGeo's mission). Mark Reichardt, CEO and President of the OGC, explained that, Openness benefits markets. Vendors of proprietary software have found that today's more open and complex business ecosystem, which includes both open source software and open standards, is good for their businesses. It's also good for technology users. It makes sense for the OGC to work with the OSGeo. Open source software is software that has been designed and developed in an open, community process. The OGC's open standards are similarly developed in an open, community process, but they are specifications (for interfaces, encodings and best practices), not software. Arnulf Christl, President of OSGeo, said, We look forward to collaborating with the OGC to identify open source technologies that can be used as reference implementations for OGC standards and to identify standards requirements that result from our open source geospatial software development programs. The MOU provides for the assignment of up to six one-year Individual Memberships in the OGC. Memberships will be selected by OSGeo and are subject to OGC qualifications for Individual Membership. The OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/. Contact: Sam Bacharach Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc tel: +1-703-352-3938 sbachar...@opengeospatial.org___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS, Open Source GIS bart...@osgis.nl http://www.osgis.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generating html clickable image maps from polygons
Thanks to all who replied. This is great to learn many open source software can do it. We'll definitely use one of them. For the benefits of the community, I published a short summary of the findings on Slashgeo: http://slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/07/1828208 Slashgeo regularly covers OSGeo software, with 35,000 daily hits and thousands of unique IP addresses reached every day, it can only help open source geospatial software get even more publicity. Cheers, Alex -- Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing. Environnement Canada / Environment Canada Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre Section de la réponse aux urgences environnementales / Environmental Emergency Response Section alexandre.ler...@ec.gc.ca On 01/05/09 16:26, Steve Lime wrote: For completeness, MapServer can generate them two ways, using the image map driver David mentions and using templated query outputs. Here's an example that has 3 of 'em... http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ecs/index.html Steve On 1/5/2009 at 3:13 PM, in message 6246727221874a4fb8d3f9bbc37d9bd5056da...@s-sp22.pca.state.mn.us, Fawcett, David david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: Alex, You can use MapServer to generate imagemaps. See http://mapserver.org/output/imagemaps.html David. -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Leroux Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:37 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generating html clickable image maps from polygons Hi list, A rather technical question. I was able to find a potential solution with GRASS GIS, but want to know if there are other solutions involving FOSS4G software. Which other FOSS4G software can generate html clickable image maps out of polygons? The challenge is simple: a colleague has many polygons that must be exported to several clickable PNGs like the example on this page: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/sqc_e.html (A webmap tool such as OpenLayers would be much more powerful, but in some cases we do need clickable PNGs.) I found out it seems GRASS GIS 6.3+ can do it via its HTMLMAP driver: http://www.phygeo.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass63/manuals/html63_user/htmlmapdri ver.html Can any other OSGeo software do the same? Thanks for any reply! Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Hey Tyler, I understood from some people/discussions that the individual membership can only be used when the individual owns their IP (intellectual property). So people working in a company, where the company owns the persons IP, would not be able to use this membership. Is this true, are you able to shed some light on this? Bart, I believe the individual members via OSGeo are bound by the normal limitations on such memberships. I believe you question about IP belonging to a company as opposed to the individual roughly describes the main criteria. So the individual memberships are primarily useful for hobbiests, and other independent folks. What will be OsGeo's policy for selecting the 6 people? This isn't worked out in detail, but I believe Arnulf has been selected as the primary liaison and for the time being would be making the decision if there are more candidates than slots available. It may be that this isn't much of a problem. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
