Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado
Just realized I forgot to reply to this, but that's a great idea. I'll be in Orleans for the OGC meetings, so will be on the same time zone. And there's definitely some STAC collaborators who will be in Bonn. Note also that we're organizing a remote participation option for next week. GeoSolutions is going to be working on implementing WFS 3 in GeoServer and Even Rouault is going to be looking in to GDAL bindings for WFS 3.0 and STAC. Would be great for others in Europe to work on OSGeo projects while we're working away in Ft. Collins. Obviously any WFS 3 / STAC implementation & spec feedback in the next few weeks would be great, but we're hoping to be able to show lots of diverse progress next week. For more info see https://medium.com/@cholmes/participate-remotely-in-the-wfs-hackathon-next-week-d11a99eb510b and please sign up to participate at https://goo.gl/forms/v8hyeJvd2yudYvZS2 best regards, Chris On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Chris for organizing this event and for reaching out to this > mailing list. > > I feel there is strong interest from our community to participate on the > development of these new standards, and I know that there is ongoing work > towards this from some OSGeo members, so I am sure you will see some of us > in Ft Collins. > > Let's make an OGC/WFS/STAC Catalog session during the Bonn Code Sprint: I > realized that the Orleans OGC TC meeting is on the same week as the Bonn > code sprint. Perhaps we could all join a video call session during that > week? > > Best, > Angelos > > > > On 02/13/2018 03:34 AM, Chris Holmes wrote: > > Hello OSGeo-ers! > > I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping > organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS > 3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and > sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC > event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs, > but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to > actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard, > and to have any feedback incorporated. > > I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0, > but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an > open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues > and pull requests. And it's JSON and RESTful at the core, aiming to be much > easier to implement than existing OGC specs. For more backstory on it and > my take on its potential see my blog posts [3]. > > I'd love to see a number of OSGeo people come, it's on March 6 & 7th in Ft. > Collins, Colorado. Contributing I believe will help show OGC that there is > interest in the wider developer and open source world if they do things > differently, and help evolve how they create standards to be more > compatible with how developers work. I'm also organizing a day on March 8th > on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog[4] [5], an open spec a group of us started > working on to search satellite imagery archives, that I'm hoping we can > align with the WFS specification. If you're interested in WFS and/or STAC > just email me and I can give you more details, or just fill out the form > athttps://goo.gl/forms/RqQtNbfdEOHuLE272 - there are some limited travel > grants if that helps get there. > > I know travel may be tough for those also going to Bonn, as the OSGeo > sprint there is two weeks later. I am figuring out if we will do a remote > participation option for Colorado, so email me if you're interested in > that. And Angelos had a great idea[6], of organizing a session on WFS/STAC > at Bonn, which I'd love to see. Drop me a line if you are attending the > OSGeo code sprint and interested in attending (or leading :) a session > there. > > best regards, > > Chris > > > [1]https://medium.com/@cholmes/wfs-3-0-and-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-in-person-collaboration-609e10d7f714 > [2] https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES > [3] https://medium.com/tag/wfs-3/latest > [4] https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/ > [5] https://medium.com/tag/stac-spec/latest > [6] https://twitter.com/tzotsos/status/963081024187060225 > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing > listDiscuss@lists.osgeo.orghttps://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > -- > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > Charter Member > Open Source Geospatial Foundationhttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado
Hello OSGeo-ers! I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS 3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs, but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard, and to have any feedback incorporated. I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0, but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues and pull requests. And it's JSON and RESTful at the core, aiming to be much easier to implement than existing OGC specs. For more backstory on it and my take on its potential see my blog posts [3]. I'd love to see a number of OSGeo people come, it's on March 6 & 7th in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Contributing I believe will help show OGC that there is interest in the wider developer and open source world if they do things differently, and help evolve how they create standards to be more compatible with how developers work. I'm also organizing a day on March 8th on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog[4] [5], an open spec a group of us started working on to search satellite imagery archives, that I'm hoping we can align with the WFS specification. If you're interested in WFS and/or STAC just email me and I can give you more details, or just fill out the form at https://goo.gl/forms/RqQtNbfdEOHuLE272 - there are some limited travel grants if that helps get there. I know travel may be tough for those also going to Bonn, as the OSGeo sprint there is two weeks later. I am figuring out if we will do a remote participation option for Colorado, so email me if you're interested in that. And Angelos had a great idea[6], of organizing a session on WFS/STAC at Bonn, which I'd love to see. Drop me a line if you are attending the OSGeo code sprint and interested in attending (or leading :) a session there. best regards, Chris [1] https://medium.com/@cholmes/wfs-3-0-and-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-in-person-collaboration-609e10d7f714 [2] https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES [3] https://medium.com/tag/wfs-3/latest [4] https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/ [5] https://medium.com/tag/stac-spec/latest [6] https://twitter.com/tzotsos/status/963081024187060225 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?
GeoWebCache supports some basic statistics, see like http://maps.opengeo.org:9090/geowebcache/home Better statistics should move forward as we just got a monitoring framework in GeoServer, see http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Monitoring We'll start with also monitoring GWC requests, and it shouldn't be too hard to also port that to standalone. Should be able to cluster that as well, to gather stats in to one database. I think we've done some work distributing tiles over redundant servers, but didn't build anything specific in GWC for it. Would be interested to hear on that list or add to the roadmap exactly how you'd like that to work. The other recent GWC work has been to be more transaction aware, using Etags to keep clients more up to date, and subscribing to GeoRSS feeds or direct to GeoServer transactions. Oh, and Gabriel also recently added LFU and LRU caching, so you can just set your max cache size and GWC will delete the least frequently used if it hits that limit. Hrm, looks like both of those need more documentation though. But I think both TileCache, GeoWebCache and others are open to going to the next level of tile management, just need contributors or funders. C On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Steven Ottens ste...@minst.net wrote: I'm also interested in new developments in tiling. I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their capabilities to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling empty-tiles) vast amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented functions like statistics and being able to distribute the tiles over redundant servers. GWC does have several things in its roadmap: http://geowebcache.org/trac/wiki/roadmap but development seems pretty much non-existent since the last release (although it seems to pick up again). Since tiling is becoming more accepted by dataproviders I think it is time to work on next level tile management Steven On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:06 PM, John Callahan wrote: I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the same question. It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released back in Jan 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007. It would also need to update the use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a while ago. I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS. And packages like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data into tiles. Great for overlays. Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider? - John On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl wrote: Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/ Best regards, Bart -- Looking for flexible support on OpenLayers or GeoExt? Please check out http://www.osgis.nl/support.html Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS bart...@osgis.nl On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote: Hi Guys, from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see mails up to April. Is TileCache project alive ? thanks -- Sebastian E. Ovide ___ 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 ___ 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] Best tool, shapefile to png, web
Thanks for the OpenGeo Suite shout out, but at 250 megs for the download, installing a full database and webserver, I think it's about the furthest thing from light on this list. Hoping to get it to the point where it's a cloud deployment and you could just make what you want to do a handful of api calls, but we're not quite there yet. C On 8/16/10 6:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: Peter, You want light and easy to start developing your WMS in Windows or in Linux. Get OpenGeo Suite. http://opengeo.org/ # PostGIS # GeoServer # GeoWebCache # OpenLayers # GeoExt Recent version of the Community Edition is 2.1.2. http://opengeo.org/community/suite/download/ Read the WMS Benchmarking - August 16, 2010 (Today's Blog) http://blog.opengeo.org/ You want beautiful maps - Mapnik. OpenStreetMap (OSM) use Mapnik. QuantunNik plugin in QGIS can render Mapnik in QGis can produce beautiful png. http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/wiki/Home Noli On 8/17/10, Mike Toewsmwto...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2010 13:41, Peterweb...@pl.net wrote: And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete service. Sounds heavy. MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to craft a MAP file, which is a tricky text file telling the layer source and how it is stylized. You can connect to most things, including MySQL[1] and Shapefiles. To get a PNG, you only need to POST a few parameters to the executable, and it sends you the image file back. You can also use it with MapScript for PHP or Python. There is lots of documentation[2] and even a book[3]. -Mike [1] http://mapserver.org/input/vector/mysql.html [2] http://mapserver.org/introduction.html [3] http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594908 ___ 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] GSDI 12 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers and Workshops
If anybody can make it I highly recommend this conference. The past few years there has been at least one workshop on OSGeo software. Would be great to have several workshops and a number of papers/presentations. And I imagine I'll try to organize an OSGeo birds of feather type session. --- PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information about this announcement, contact: GSDI Association Harlan Onsrud 207-581-2175 ons...@spatial.maine.edu --- Needham, Mass., 15 February 2010 - The GSDI 12 World Conference will take place in the garden city of Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010. The Partners in organizing this conference include the GSDI Association ( http://www.gsdi.org/ ), Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia the Pacific ( http://www.sbsm.gov.cn/pcgiap/index.htm ) (PCGIAP) and Singapore Land Authority ( http://www.sla.gov.sg/htm/hom/index.htm ) (SLA). The theme for GSDI 12 is Realising Spatially Enabled Societies. This conference will explore the complementary roles of government, private industry and the academic community in realizing better means for sharing geographic data and technologies and developing improved location-based services for meeting real world needs. Santiago Borrero, the Secretary General of the Pan American Institute for Geography and History said: The GSDI Conference is an excellent forum for networking and learning about spatial data infrastructures with experts from around the globe. Each year the conference emphasizes the latest advancements and challenges in leveraging the power of geospatial information and technologies for decision makers worldwide to enhance decision making related to important social, environmental and economic issues. The 12 th GSDI Conference will also host the annual meeting of the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia the Pacific (PCGIAP), represented by 56 nations in the region. The GSDI Association is accepting paper abstracts until 1 April 2010. The deadline for workshop proposals is 22 February 2010. Click on Call for Papers and Workshops at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi12 for submission guidelines. Please also visit the GSDI 12 conference website to review information on speakers, the full conference program, and registration and accommodations in Singapore. The GSDI Association is an inclusive group of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world. The purpose of the organization is to promote international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions
We've actually also just kicked off an open source routing engine project, attempting to collaborate with all the open source trip planners we knew about at the time. See http://opentripplanner.org/ We're working with Brandon of GraphServer, as well as the developers of Five Points (see http://new.atltransit.com/), One Bus Away (which has a trip planner) and ByCycle.org Focused on multi-modal, to replace the routing engine at http://ride.trimet.org/ (currently the only proprietary piece of their whole map). Though we might also have a bike routing use case soon. Steven - it'd be great to collaborate in some way: if it's too late to collaborate on code we could at least build a common API. In time we're hoping to establish a nice library of transit specific GeoExt type components. So people could easily use OpenLayers and Ext.js to compose a transit map like Portland's. It'd be great if those components could talk to the same routing API, and indeed could be the start of an improved open standard. best regards, Chris Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable, optionally usable, optionally effective, optionally robust solutions of remote routing services? The use case is very simple: 1) client is a non-Web thin client 2) client has access to the Internet 3) client knows two locations start and destination 4) client wants to know how to travel from start to destination What are available options to achieve that? Where if availability means: * accessible for public * free of charge * does not require to sign anything, Custom solutions built on OGC-enabled stack (e.g. PyWPS, etc.) is also an option to discuss. Any input greatly appreciated. Best regards, Mateusz, Is the client looking for a solution that runs somewhere on the net that they can make requests to, or are they looking to setup a server with data and a routing engine? So I'll plug my infant and immature routing engine project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengraphrouter/ Also pgRouting is an option. The big issues in most cases will be data. Some people are doing routing with OpenStreetMap and pgRouting. If they want accurate (ie: navigable routes then they will probably need something based on Navteq or TeleAtlas) or if they are look at a small county or state wide area then they might be able to get data from the local governments like http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm Because good data is expensive and licensed, in most cases by transactions, it is not likely that you will find services equivalent to Google that are free. -Steve W ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Chris Holmes OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] proposal of new mailing list - graphics
Note also that a bit ago we started 'geosilk', see http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk http://blog.opengeo.org/2009/05/01/geosilk/ These extend the 'silk' icon set which is widely used on the web, borrowing geospatial icons from the uDig icons: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Imagery We're using them in the GeoServer admin console and in GeoExt, and are definitely excited for more people to make use of them and for collaboration. It'd be great to sync up somehow with the gis icons, though it looks like ours are a bit more space constrained. Chris Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Hi Robert, This is a beautiful initiative! It could also serve the online applications I would think. Ciao, Jeroen On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote: Hi, My request for new mailing list 'graphics' is related to ongoing process of visual integration of few projects within OSGeo. At the moment GRASS and QGIS are involved, but gvSIG is also interested in cooperation. Present stage of icons development is at: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/gis-icons-0.1/ I found also that Symbol Registry is under development. But there is still missing one common place for discussion about graphics (symbols, icons, etc.). best regards, Robert Szczepanek ___ 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 -- Chris Holmes OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Nomination of Tim Schaub]
I nominate Tim Schaub for a position on the OSGeo Board. Tim has been committed to open source geospatial software for many years, and is an active developer on a number of different javascript projects. His leadership in these project has been recognized: he currently serves as the Chair of the Project Steering Committee of OpenLayers, and is a founding PSC member of GeoExt (which aspires to be a full OSGeo project). I believe he will be a great presence on the board, bringing the perspective of the javascript communities, and working tirelessly for the success of OSGeo. He is a great speaker and always represents OSGeo and its projects very well, and cares passionately about the communities of OSGeo. thanks, Chris -- Chris Holmes OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatial environment 'sizing')
- When you consider the complexities that Google must be facing with GE in trying to manage 256x256k tiles of imagery over the entire world, at multiple pyramid layers and with constant revision of imagery, you can soon see that a file based approach would lead to a major headache. He he, I think I'd write that same sentence but substitute 'database approach' for 'file based approach'. I'd be pretty shocked if Google were using any kind of database for their tiles. They certainly aren't paying oracle or arcsde license fees. They could have a custom mysql solution, but I'd guess it's all on the Google File System: http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html Also, I think it's still in pretty beta development, but Geomatys has been working on PostGRID - http://seagis.sourceforge.net/postgrid/index.html and http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=225 have some information. I believe is pretty attached to java, but I think does some of what you want, managing the metadata in the database. Though I could be wrong about if it's close to what you're thinking of, my understanding of the raster side of the fence has never been that strong. best regards, Chris begin:vcard fn:Chris Holmes n:Holmes;Chris org:The Open Planning Project adr:;;349 W. 12th Street, #3;New York;NY;10014;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Managing Director, Strategic Development x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://topp.openplans.org version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Oh shoot. We were discussing this internally for awhile (maybe too long...). I think TOPP can commit to funding at least 6 of our people to come. And potentially another 4-5 if things work out well and there's some other OpenLayers critical mass. And we're hoping to encourage some other GeoServer devs to come. Any chance there's another 6 people that could confirm participation? Or a chance that we could rent just half of the place? Chris Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Dear all, Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. Cheers, Jeroen Dear all, Further to my earlier email (below), I have now created a WIKI page and filled out the possible weeks that an event could be held. To make a final booking, I want to be sure to have at least 15 people that confirm their participation and an indication of at least another 20 people that the have an interest to join. Otherwise it may end up being an expensive experiment from my side ;-) You can sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Hacking_event Please sign up before 8 February, after which a decision will be made. Greetings, Jeroen Dear all, I've been thinking of getting an OSGeo hacking or code sprint event setup in an Italian monastry. Friends of mine take care of the place which is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . Its probably one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, although I wouldn't bet my hand on it if we all start to download satellite images. It should be perfect for SVN, IRC and mail. The cost would be about 200 Euro per person for the week (food not included, we can organize that separately). There's a large kitchen and large dining space. Obviously since the weather most likely permits, we would eat outside overlooking the lake. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery: http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Where: http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Are people interested in such a thing? Looking at availability of the place, best would be June or possibly in May (not always available!). If there's enough interest, I can start getting people to sign up and get a booking done. There would be 7 days time, so it can also be divided into smaller time chunks that are occupied by different projects. Let me know, greetings from Rome, Jeroen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss !DSPAM:4005,47b1bddd213671628642973! begin:vcard fn:Chris Holmes n:Holmes;Chris org:The Open Planning Project adr:;;349 W. 12th Street, #3;New York;NY;10014;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Managing Director, Strategic Development x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://topp.openplans.org version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A report on my recent trip to Brazil
4. After 5 days of meetings, I visited Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias (INPE) http://www.inpe.br/ingles/index.php/, the premier Brazilian National Institute for Space Research at the invitation of its Image Processing Division (DPI) in nearyby São José dos Campos. Researchers from DPI are also developing a project called TerraLib http://www.terralib.org/, an open source set of GIS classes and functions library written in C++. Of particular interest is a program called TerraView http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terraview/index.php based on TerraLib. Also open source (GPL), TerraView can be described as a more scientifically and analytically oriented ArcView. I promptly downloaded TerraView, and within minutes, with a little help from the TerraView Development Manager, I had it running under Parallels/WinXP on my MacBook Pro, and had imported Shapefiles into its own data format. A very quick program, TerraView not only works with PostGres, MySQL, and Oracle, it natively manages geographic data in a relational format using ADO. TerraLib/TerraView are successors to INPE's earlier free, but not open source, project called SPRING http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html. Because of historical reasons, SPRING is not open source, but is available to anyone and can be used on Windows or Linux. TerraLib/TerraView are currently under more active development, and are available as true open source programs. At my suggestion, INPE will be looking into joining OSGeo. The INPE researchers are doing amazing work, and the spirit of free access to data and software seemed to permeate everyone I met. Having active involvement and backing of an institute of INPE's prestige and caliber will be very beneficial to the open geospatial community. I heard about this project when Iwas in Brazil, and was really impressed by the amount of effort going in to it. I think at the time the government was employing something like over 40 people working on it. Not sure if that's still the case, but there's obviously a lot of effort. But it's frustrating because it's all parallel to the rest of our efforts. It'd be great to get them to be a part of OSGeo, but _really_ great if we get their work inter-operating with what we are doing and hopefully contributing to common software packages, and indeed having their stuff implement OGC standards. If you have contacts I'd be more than happy to help talk to them further. Chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Discuss] Letter of support for FGDC CAP grant
So it looks like we got this: http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/2007CAP/Category2/07HQAG-NY Thanks to everyone for your support, and for the letter from OSGeo, I'm sure it helped our application. It should be a fun project. We have some work to figure out exactly how we're going to handle it, but if anyone has a burning desire to help with testing and/or writing nice user guides, the plan is to use GISCorps volunteers, and if you're not already a member you can join: http://www.giscorps.org/our_volunteers.php best regards, Chris Chris Holmes wrote: As per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support I am writing to request a letter of support from OSGeo for a Cooperative Agreement Program grant from the Federal Geographic Data Committee. There is information at: http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/2007CAP/2007CAPschedule, we are going for category 2 'framework client development'. The main point of the grant is to add capabilities to access WFS servers that serve the 'Framework Data' - which are complex GML 3.1.1 application schemas for common data layers (transportation, hydrography, government units, ect.). A majority of the work will be at the GeoTools level, improving it's core feature model and parsers to handle complex GML 3.1.1. This work will be reusable by any Java project. The client targeted is uDig, which is built on GeoTools. My organization - The Open Planning Project (http://topp.openplans.org) - is taking the lead and partnering with CIESIN and GISCorps. It's a great chance to form closer bonds with GISCorps - our goal is to use the funding to make a desktop GIS that their volunteers will be able to use and to leave behind in resource poor communities. GISCorps volunteers will be helping us to refine the interface and to write training materials for others to use - not just about using the software but also teaching new people about GIS in general. We'd like a letter of support from OSGeo to help the potential funders see that we're working in the wider open source context. There wouldn't need to be much of a commitment, except for maybe a bit about helping to promote the final solution, if people were comfortable with that. If you'd like any more information let me know. best regards, Chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss !DSPAM:1003,45a8206754727731818748! -- Chris Holmes The Open Planning Project http://topp.openplans.org begin:vcard fn:Chris Holmes n:Holmes;Chris org:The Open Planning Project adr:;;349 W. 12th Street, #3;New York;NY;10014;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Managing Director, Strategic Development x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://topp.openplans.org version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
think. Tim Bowden I can report that the government in Queensland, Australia is considering the creative commons liscence for releasing publically- available geodata. It is not final, but close to it. nick Nick, this is great news. Can't wait for this idea to infect other govt's in our region. The idea that user pays /in every instance/ has taken hold much too firmly down here (especially when we have already paid through our taxes!). Regards, Tim Bowden Several states in Germany (we are federal, everybody runs in a different direction) are also considering to use a CC license to protect some of their data and publish it for Open and Free access. We are currently trying to convince them that the non-commercial-use clause might be more anti-commercial in its effect than it will help them to earn money but whichever way it goes, it is the right overall direction. This is one exmaple of what is there already: http://www.geoportal.rlp.de/ Btw: The portal is built on Open Source completely. Some 70+ services are already available, they come in all makes and colors. Most of the data is currently not protected by any license at all, some have a copyright tag somewhere. It is a pain, but it is getting better. Never stop talking to them, they need all the moral support they can get. :-) Regards, Arnulf Christl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- have fun, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Chris Holmes The Open Planning Project http://topp.openplans.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
