Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS
On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. Short answer1 -- this is not easy. Short answer2 -- look at Open 311 Medium long answer -- I hand-coded a system a couple of years back which required fiddling with the incoming messages, parsing the loc, then doing a point-in-poly analysis to determine where and who was responsible. -- Puneet Kishor Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:31 +0200 Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Also would like to add my big thanks to Arnulf, Michael and Jakob for their work, we definitely need automatic system for next time. I support the move to automated election process too. Thank you Arnulf, Michael and Jakob for your work. New Board members, welcome aboard! I look forward for productive collaboration with all of you. See you in Nottingham very soon! Outgoing Board members, thank you for your dedication. You are welcome to stay in touch with the current Board: your inputs are valuable as they have always been. Thank you to nominees and Charter members - let's meet in person in FOSS4G, and of course anytime online. All the best! Anne Dne 8.9.2013 09:19, Fenoy Gerald napsal(a): Hello everyone, I would like to add my thanks to Arnulf for his dedication to OSGeo. I would like to thanks every charter members and congratulate all participants in this election, being nominated by such a great community is already a win. Now the work begin, Best regards, Gérald Fenoy Le 8 sept. 2013 à 02:03, Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp a écrit : Congratulations and welcome to all the new Board Members. Thanks to outgoing Board members, nominees and Arnulf for managing the elections. Best Venka On 2013/09/08 7:15, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Great job! Thank you Arnulf, the election MC, and all the CM's for votes. Great board we've got. Mateusz Loskot (Sent from mobile, apology for top-posting and broken quotes) On 7 Sep 2013 17:51, Arnulf Christl arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net wrote: Dear OSGeo Members, the election 2013 has been completed and we are happy to announce the new board of directors [1]. Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were four seats open and they have been filled by (no particular order): * Jáchym Čepický * Jorge Sanz * Bart van den Eijnden * Gérald Fenoy Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing themselves. All six candidates received excellent support with more then 60 votes each. Overall voting participation was 71% (128 out of 180) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted! Your complete resulting Board is: * Anne Ghisla * Bart van den Eijnden * Cameron Shorter * Daniel Morissette * Frank Warmerdam * Gérald Fenoy * Jáchym Čepický * Jeff McKenna * Jorge Sanz With the election results published the new board of directors becomes effective as of now. Congratulations and please welcome the new and and re-elected OSGeo directors! We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Best regards, Michael, Jakob and Arnulf [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update
About this time next week an old blue Land Rover will roll smokily into the car park at the EMCC in Nottingham. I will have arrived at FOSS4G. Steven instigated these update emails in order to keep the OSGeo community up-to-date with conference planning after the disconnect between the local organisation and the central OSGeo people was an issue for the ill-fated Beijing FOSS4G-that-never-was. I like to think the lack of communication from OSGeo central back to the local committee saying are you doing this? is a measure of the success of these updates, and of our communications strategy in general. To my final update. Some last minute purchasing and arrangement for the GeoCamp is going on. This week we should get delivery of all the branded items such as signage and the all-important t-shirts. Some last-minute programme changes are happening due to people having to pull out, we are arranging replacements, and the change list is on the web site to serve as errata from the printed programme. So, I hope everyone coming has a safe journey and a great conference. Don't forget your Robin Hood hats. Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: WAP SMS in GIS
sorry discuss-list was not in CC -- Forwarded message -- From: Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Cc: panwarnave...@gmail.com, varunsara...@gmail.com Hi, sorry for the delay. 1. All open source. there is a web interface for NGO to login and create a project eg: livestock here they create the project with attribute info they are sending along with a code to identify location. Here is the list of packages used PHP - server side scripting PostgreSQL - database Apache - web server A GSM modem - connected with a system (we used Linux) smstools - read sms from a GSM modem VRParser - A custom parser developed to parse the SMS and push the data to VRGeo database. NGO's can later login to vrgeo hosted on lsi server and view gis data. Each project comes as a seperate layer and each sms comes as feature on the corresponding layer. a sample sms would look like gac500032.ls.gt.sp.10 the first code is for the location its tied with pincode + three letter from the place, Gachibowli here in example. ls - live stock gt - goat sp - small pox 10 - affected number but for some cases you can specify decimals using comma 10,5 - 10.5 used for mapping in borewells we use . (dot) as seperator for fields which is easily accessible on phone with keypad. and , (comma) is used in decimal numbers This is a very simple explanation but I can give you a document explaining everything in detail. I am putting Naveen and Varun in CC who has been in charge of the implementation of the web interface. 2) Interface is automatic. As soon as an SMS is received it is passed to VRParser which parses and pushes the data to an internal database. (we sync these database with the one hosted on server on a periodic basis. (this can be automated using some cron job. But as we are not getting too much data for now, we are doing this sync manually.) On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi Rashad, I was sure to get this mail of yours. Tell me 1. OS software used / integrated 2. Interface with GIS.. is this automatic ?? Is there a blog explaining all this.. Are you in France.. Cheers Ravi Kumar -- *From:* Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com *To:* Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com *Cc:* K S Rajan ra...@iiit.ac.in *Sent:* Monday, September 9, 2013 7:17 PM *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS SMS part of VRGeo (VRGeo-SMS) has been doing this for some NGO's in Hyderabad. They used to send sms to map borewells, animal disease etc. But basically it can be used in other scenarios. The good thing is it doesnt need a smartphone. Any phone which can send sms is the only requirement. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear all, As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. Cheers Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS
Hi, you dont need internet to do this. Web mapping can be detached from the whole thing. But we dont want to do that because primary users of this need to be accessed on web. Since we are not pushing everything from local db to server db as the last step. A net connection is not required as long as the parser and database is running on the same system where the Modem is connected. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.comwrote: sorry discuss-list was not in CC -- Forwarded message -- From: Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Cc: panwarnave...@gmail.com, varunsara...@gmail.com Hi, sorry for the delay. 1. All open source. there is a web interface for NGO to login and create a project eg: livestock here they create the project with attribute info they are sending along with a code to identify location. Here is the list of packages used PHP - server side scripting PostgreSQL - database Apache - web server A GSM modem - connected with a system (we used Linux) smstools - read sms from a GSM modem VRParser - A custom parser developed to parse the SMS and push the data to VRGeo database. NGO's can later login to vrgeo hosted on lsi server and view gis data. Each project comes as a seperate layer and each sms comes as feature on the corresponding layer. a sample sms would look like gac500032.ls.gt.sp.10 the first code is for the location its tied with pincode + three letter from the place, Gachibowli here in example. ls - live stock gt - goat sp - small pox 10 - affected number but for some cases you can specify decimals using comma 10,5 - 10.5 used for mapping in borewells we use . (dot) as seperator for fields which is easily accessible on phone with keypad. and , (comma) is used in decimal numbers This is a very simple explanation but I can give you a document explaining everything in detail. I am putting Naveen and Varun in CC who has been in charge of the implementation of the web interface. 2) Interface is automatic. As soon as an SMS is received it is passed to VRParser which parses and pushes the data to an internal database. (we sync these database with the one hosted on server on a periodic basis. (this can be automated using some cron job. But as we are not getting too much data for now, we are doing this sync manually.) On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi Rashad, I was sure to get this mail of yours. Tell me 1. OS software used / integrated 2. Interface with GIS.. is this automatic ?? Is there a blog explaining all this.. Are you in France.. Cheers Ravi Kumar -- *From:* Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com *To:* Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com *Cc:* K S Rajan ra...@iiit.ac.in *Sent:* Monday, September 9, 2013 7:17 PM *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS SMS part of VRGeo (VRGeo-SMS) has been doing this for some NGO's in Hyderabad. They used to send sms to map borewells, animal disease etc. But basically it can be used in other scenarios. The good thing is it doesnt need a smartphone. Any phone which can send sms is the only requirement. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear all, As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. Cheers Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update
Thanks Barry, indeed this local committee has done an excellent job in keeping the community and the Board uptodate with progress. I also love the image of your smoky old blue Land Rover arriving: if it wasn't for the ocean, I would drive my old black Dodge Dakota into the EMCC car park, and you could hear the rumble as I arrive (loud exhaust ha). I'd park right beside your Land Rover. Looking forward to seeing you. -jeff On 2013-09-10 8:03 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: About this time next week an old blue Land Rover will roll smokily into the car park at the EMCC in Nottingham. I will have arrived at FOSS4G. Steven instigated these update emails in order to keep the OSGeo community up-to-date with conference planning after the disconnect between the local organisation and the central OSGeo people was an issue for the ill-fated Beijing FOSS4G-that-never-was. I like to think the lack of communication from OSGeo central back to the local committee saying are you doing this? is a measure of the success of these updates, and of our communications strategy in general. To my final update. Some last minute purchasing and arrangement for the GeoCamp is going on. This week we should get delivery of all the branded items such as signage and the all-important t-shirts. Some last-minute programme changes are happening due to people having to pull out, we are arranging replacements, and the change list is on the web site to serve as errata from the printed programme. So, I hope everyone coming has a safe journey and a great conference. Don't forget your Robin Hood hats. Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Has PostGIS in Action gone free?
I bought the printed version of this great book and its website generate a PDF access but it's clearly for the book owner. Haven't heard about any changes on this pdf licensing. Eduardo Patto Kanegae http://www.webmapit.com | @webmapit 2013/9/6 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Folks, I've just stumbled across this curious encounter while searching the Web for some PostGIS-related keywords: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/9684613809/ The complete book published here: http://gvsig-argentina.org.ar/curso/ It doesn't feel legally straight, so shouldn't we OSGeo be more considerate? Best regards -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Participation in this whole process is a form of torture ~~ Szalony ___ 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] Has PostGIS in Action gone free?
On 10 September 2013 13:54, Eduardo Kanegae eduardo.kane...@gmail.com wrote: I bought the printed version of this great book and its website generate a PDF access but it's clearly for the book owner. Haven't heard about any changes on this pdf licensing. Indeed. The book has been removed from the server now. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Participation in this whole process is a form of torture ~~ Szalony ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update
In addition to Barry's FOSS4G update on the Discuss list (see below), I'm happy to report that 1,000 copies of OSGeo Live DVD arrived safely this afternoon and that they test out okay... Many thanks to all of the Live community for their relentless work on this great product, we're very pleased to be able to place a copy in the hands of every delegate at FOSS4G next week. On 2013-09-10 8:03 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: About this time next week an old blue Land Rover will roll smokily into the car park at the EMCC in Nottingham. I will have arrived at FOSS4G. Steven instigated these update emails in order to keep the OSGeo community up-to-date with conference planning after the disconnect between the local organisation and the central OSGeo people was an issue for the ill-fated Beijing FOSS4G-that-never-was. I like to think the lack of communication from OSGeo central back to the local committee saying are you doing this? is a measure of the success of these updates, and of our communications strategy in general. To my final update. Some last minute purchasing and arrangement for the GeoCamp is going on. This week we should get delivery of all the branded items such as signage and the all-important t-shirts. Some last-minute programme changes are happening due to people having to pull out, we are arranging replacements, and the change list is on the web site to serve as errata from the printed programme. So, I hope everyone coming has a safe journey and a great conference. Don't forget your Robin Hood hats. Barry ___ 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] FOSS4G 2013 Codesrint
Hi We are in overdrive/panic mode getting ready for FOSS4G which starts in less than 7 days It would really help us gauge the facilities needed for codesprints on Sunday 22nd September if those of you planning to attend could pop along to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint and add your details. See you in Mappingham next week __ Steven ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS
Dear Mr. Ravi This concept we had implemented for event reporting, which includes any epidemic outbreak or any other problem. We authorised the register mobile users to report the event as sms, which we geolocate for visualization and query from database. A paper on this is also presented in healthGIS 2011 international conf. you may like to refer for further details. We had used open source technologies to implement it. This concept is demonstrated to NDMA and assam as pilot study for Disaster event reporting. --With Regards Vinod Kumar Sharma From: Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS Hi,you dont need internet to do this. Web mapping can be detached from the whole thing. But we dont want to do that because primary users of this need to be accessed on web. Since we are not pushing everything from local db to server db as the last step. A net connection is not required as long as the parser and database is running on the same system where the Modem is connected. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com wrote: sorry discuss-list was not in CC -- Forwarded message -- From: Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Cc: panwarnave...@gmail.com, varunsara...@gmail.com Hi, sorry for the delay. 1. All open source. there is a web interface for NGO to login and create a project eg: livestock here they create the project with attribute info they are sending along with a code to identify location. Here is the list of packages used PHP - server side scripting PostgreSQL - database Apache - web server A GSM modem - connected with a system (we used Linux) smstools - read sms from a GSM modem VRParser - A custom parser developed to parse the SMS and push the data to VRGeo database. NGO's can later login to vrgeo hosted on lsi server and view gis data. Each project comes as a seperate layer and each sms comes as feature on the corresponding layer. a sample sms would look like gac500032.ls.gt.sp.10 the first code is for the location its tied with pincode + three letter from the place, Gachibowli here in example. ls - live stock gt - goat sp - small pox 10 - affected number but for some cases you can specify decimals using comma 10,5 - 10.5 used for mapping in borewells we use . (dot) as seperator for fields which is easily accessible on phone with keypad. and , (comma) is used in decimal numbers This is a very simple explanation but I can give you a document explaining everything in detail. I am putting Naveen and Varun in CC who has been in charge of the implementation of the web interface. 2) Interface is automatic. As soon as an SMS is received it is passed to VRParser which parses and pushes the data to an internal database. (we sync these database with the one hosted on server on a periodic basis. (this can be automated using some cron job. But as we are not getting too much data for now, we are doing this sync manually.) On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rashad, I was sure to get this mail of yours. Tell me 1. OS software used / integrated 2. Interface with GIS.. is this automatic ?? Is there a blog explaining all this.. Are you in France.. CheersRavi Kumar From: Rashad M mohammedrasha...@gmail.com To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Cc: K S Rajan ra...@iiit.ac.in Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS SMS part of VRGeo (VRGeo-SMS) has been doing this for some NGO's in Hyderabad. They used to send sms to map borewells, animal disease etc. But basically it can be used in other scenarios. The good thing is it doesnt need a smartphone. Any phone which can send sms is the only requirement. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. CheersRavi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad -- Regards, Rashad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
