Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management
There you go, The wonders of open minded collaboration in the making. If some kind of organization is needed, one should open an account in, for exemple, http://www.deskaway.com/ and create the guidelines for a project like this, create dates for major landmarks, share whatever information is relevent to the project and keep all the information in one place. For one, i'm interesed in some form of opensource fleet management/control because I have several kinds of fleet in my workplace ranging from simple work vehicles to emergency crews. The ideia is to Keep It Simple, people. Thanks Carlos Sousa On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com wrote: Arnie Shore wrote: Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that problem. Right now, our CAD is gathering position data via connection to a remote repository, like APRS, Instamapper, and - coming - Latitude and Locatea. Which works, but that's a long way around. So I'm interested in hearing re what particular problems you folks want to solve, within the realm of AVL. Possibly 'just' an Open Source version of what those folks do, implemented as a daemon or web service? AS PS: I'm with you in a lack of interest in a Java-based solution. Arnie, I think that we should look at the whole value chain from end to end and break it into some logical chunks and adopt or define some well defined API/interface/protocols/whatever between them. This would allow these modules to develop somewhat independently and interact when the interfaces needed to be updated to handle new technology or devices or backends. It seems like a lot of the basic pieces might already exist and need to be glued together, and some of the pieces need to be defined and built out. It would probably help if someone started with an outline of the major components and what data needs to flow between them. With that as a straw dog, we can build on that or change it, and get a better definition and see where we have agreement and/or disagreement. Then build on those ideas. -Steve ___ 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] Webcasts of OSGIS 2009
We are pleased to make available the webcasts of presentations (Stream 1) of The First Open Source GIS UK Conference at Centre for Geospatial Science at http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/for the benefit of the wider GIS community. Great to hear Suchith! If anyone finds a way to play these on Linux, I'm sure a few of us would be interested. Tyler Suchith Anand wrote: Dear All, The key aims of OSGIS conference series is to: * act as a focus for open source GIS research * to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS * to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies * to understand current developments in open source GIS We also congratulate the winners of the Open Source GIS UK Conference Awards 2009. CGS Best Presentation winner for OSGIS 2009 is Mapping Future Climate : A Case Study for the Deployment of the Open Source Geo-stack in Scalable Web-based Applications Philip James, Simon Abele, David Alderson,Stephen Pascoe, Ag Stephens Newcastle University, and British Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Labs, UK CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 SEXTANTE - The free geoprocessing library Victor Olaya, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 An introduction to Mapwindow Dr Daniel Ames, Idaho State University, USA The Wiley BlackWell prizes for best full paper prizes are awarded to the following papers Development of Sensor Web Applications with Open Source Software Arne Broring,Eike Hinderk Jurrens, and Simon Jirka from 52 North and Christoph Stasch from the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster. The SDIlight OSGEO stack at ITC Barend Kobben, Rob Lemmens, Javier Morales, Rolf de By, Theodor Foerster International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),Enschede, The Netherlands. Visualising Alternative Futures using Open Source technologies William Cartwright , RMIT University, Australia Congratulations to all winners... Well Done... Once again we thank the GIS Community for the fantastic support provided to us on this initiative and we look forward to your active participation for OSGIS 2010. Please email me if you or your organisation are interested in being involved in OSGIS Conference Series. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ 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] FYI - US Cong. Hearing on Geospatial Information
(I'm not sure why, but I actually have a sad desire to get up early to watch this next week...) -mpg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Julia Harrell Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:03 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] FYI - US Cong. Hearing on Geospatial Information Might be of interest to some on the list This U.S. Congressional Oversight Hearing on the Management of Geospatial Information will be webcast live on Thursday, July 23rd at 10 AM EDT, as well as archived for later viewing. http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalproItemid=27extmode=viewextid=278 Many thanks to Dave Smith for finding the link. Now who would have ever thought that an oversight hearing on Geospatial Information Governance should be buried down in a Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources ... ___ 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2009)
- CALL FOR PAPERS: OneSpace2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2009) http://onespace.ace.ed.ac.uk/2009/ In conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS2009) http://www.fis2009.org/ September 1, 2009, Berlin (Germany) ++ Deadline for submission: Aug 07, 2009 ++ ++ Full papers and position papers invited ++ The Second International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2009) will be held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS2009) in Berlin on 1 September 2009. We welcome technical papers and shorter position papers addressing the identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet with space, place, geography and distance, whether physical or virtual. Technologies as well as novel ideas, experiments, and insights originating from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, including internet, computer and GI sciences, humanities, digital media, and social sciences are welcome. from diverse research fields: Important dates --- * Submission deadline: Aug 07, 2009 * Acceptance Notification: Aug 17, 2009 * Camera-ready paper: Aug 24, 2009 * Workshop date:Sep 01, 2009 Description OneSpace proposes to contribute to the cross-domain exploration of how Internet technologies and spatial notions co-exist and evolve. One of the most important effects of the Internet and of the Web has been to relax spatial and temporal constraints on human activities --- the so called space-time collapse --- allowing fast global access to information as well as to physical resources and services. Recently this movement accelerated, due to the success of mobile devices such as the iPhone allowing almost ubiquitous mobile access to the Internet, to the generalisation of digital social interaction through platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to the virtual environments provided on gaming platforms enabled by the Internet, instant communication supported by popular VOIP providers such as Skype, and an emerging web of things. Many now spend as much time involved in digital spaces over the Internet than in real ones, and continuously update the digital with elements of their physical life in lifestreaming process. Moreover reality itself is augmented by information collected from the Internet, through the increasing availability of GPS devices that ease location based search, or through magic-lense based applications that add information to recognized physical elements, or reconstruct them in digital space from various media collected on the Web. While allowing users to experience a profound modification of their interaction space, the Internet has familiarised us with new topologies --- alongside the prominent hyperlinked topology exhibited by the Web, Deleuze and Guattaris's rhizome, which has become the model of many new forms of organization --- leading to the creation of new virtual spaces and communities. Indeed, P2P networks of devices create semi-private sharing environments; (micro-) blogging and lifestreaming induces new notions of spatiotemporal as well as social proximity, while sensor and controller networks enable ubiquitous access, sensing and interaction with the real world. Furthermore, Virtual globes and GIS technologies continue to improve and to blur the boundaries between spatial representation and perception by providing mashup opportunities, photorealistic visual navigation, and three-dimensional representations. Many agree with what came to be known as Waldo Toblerís first law of Geography: Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. The Internet, by establishing new connections between geographically distant entities cannot but provide us with a radically new image of Space and Time that this workshop is aiming to explore in an interdisciplinary way. OneSpace proposes to take the measure of the aforementioned developments and their repercussion as well as to identify trends and directions for a new future blended Internet. Topics of interest -- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Representation of physical/virtual spaces and topologies * Spatiotemporal knowledge representation (ontologies and reasoning) * The 3D and 4D Web * Location-based services * The Web of sensors * New-generation Web mapping frameworks and applications * Mobility and ubiquity * Application of Linked Data for physical and digital spaces * Digital Sense of Place and Presence * Visibility and privacy in the Internet of people and things Submissions --- The following types of contributions are welcomed: * Position papers, 4 pages max. * Technical papers, 4-10 pages. Workshop Organizers --- *
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webcasts of OSGIS 2009
Hi, Thanks to a WinXP VM, I got out the URLs of the video streams. :-) They are as follows: OSGIS 2009 Introduction: http://uiwapmds01.nottingham.ac.uk:8000/ondemand/Events09/90ebea4940bf4a868de6d6bbda/video1.wmv Conference Welcome http://uiwapmds01.nottingham.ac.uk/qcsplace/ondemand/events09/65905b4efbaa8b5e2951dfdfa8/video1.wmv Ordnance Survey and its Open Source developments http://uiwapmds01.nottingham.ac.uk/qcsplace/ondemand/events09/d796104b47a15e0385799bdd3e/video1.wmv and so on... The trick is, it is the URL of the PopUp Window (opened after clicking the 'Launch' button), but substitude 'player.HTM' by 'video1.wmv'. The video stream can be played for example with Kaffeine (at least on my Ubuntu Jaunty Box). regards, Christian Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) schrieb: We are pleased to make available the webcasts of presentations (Stream 1) of The First Open Source GIS UK Conference at Centre for Geospatial Science at http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/for the benefit of the wider GIS community. Great to hear Suchith! If anyone finds a way to play these on Linux, I'm sure a few of us would be interested. Tyler Suchith Anand wrote: Dear All, The key aims of OSGIS conference series is to: *act as a focus for open source GIS research *to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS *to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies *to understand current developments in open source GIS We also congratulate the winners of the Open Source GIS UK Conference Awards 2009. CGS Best Presentation winner for OSGIS 2009 is Mapping Future Climate : A Case Study for the Deployment of the Open Source Geo-stack in Scalable Web-based Applications Philip James, Simon Abele, David Alderson,Stephen Pascoe, Ag Stephens Newcastle University, and British Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Labs, UK CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 SEXTANTE - The free geoprocessing library Victor Olaya, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 An introduction to Mapwindow Dr Daniel Ames, Idaho State University, USA The Wiley BlackWell prizes for best full paper prizes are awarded to the following papers Development of Sensor Web Applications with Open Source Software Arne Broring,Eike Hinderk Jurrens, and Simon Jirka from 52 North and Christoph Stasch from the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster. The SDIlight OSGEO stack at ITC Barend Kobben, Rob Lemmens, Javier Morales, Rolf de By, Theodor Foerster International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),Enschede, The Netherlands. Visualising Alternative Futures using Open Source technologies William Cartwright , RMIT University, Australia Congratulations to all winners... Well Done... Once again we thank the GIS Community for the fantastic support provided to us on this initiative and we look forward to your active participation for OSGIS 2010. Please email me if you or your organisation are interested in being involved in OSGIS Conference Series. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
