Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
Hi Folks, Hi Guys, I agree totally with everything that has been said. I don't have a problem with using multiple applications to conduct my GIS work. I do all the time. I suppose the issue is what the purpose of the Atlas will be. To promote fosGIS or promote Open Source. I was under the impression it was the former and so I suggested not using Inkscape. I presumed, the Atlas would illustrate what most mere mortals could do with fosGIS rather than show what some creative genius can achieve. If however the task is to create beautiful maps using whatever open source package comes to hand then by all means incorporate Inkscape manipulated images -- it seems to be the preferred tool for manipulating maps generated by a whole raft of fosGIS packages. -- Cheers Simon I view this exercise as a Howto on creating great maps with open source geospatial software. As part of the effort, I would assume that there would be text included that walked one through the map creation process, including steps where tools such as Inkscape were used to enhance the visual impact. To me, telling how it was done with open source geospatial tools is as important as that it was done with open source geospatial tools. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto: GPL is dying, of natural causes. http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards, is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon? Well, if you do a quick search for GPL on github, https://github.com/search?q=GPLrepo=langOverride=start_value=1type=Everythinglanguage= , you have about 1572 repositories that match. Searching for MIT or GPL dual license ,https://github.com/search?q=MIT+or+GPLrepo=langOverride=start_value=1type=Everythinglanguage=, turns up 3475 repositories. It's interesting that the most active projects on github are not GPL, but I don't think that signals the death of the GPL license. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
I would have to echo that. I do not see using code at work that does not have any licensing information attached. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 07/27/2012 02:01 PM Please respond to m...@flaxen.com To 'Mr. Puneet Kishor' punk.k...@gmail.com, discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license I hesitate to get into this discussion, but... Puneet wrote: [...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to encumber with these complications. Do you literally mean no license at all? That might be a mistake, if you're looking for others to adopt your code. Having no license documentation in the code raises all sorts of red flags. In my commercial or government work, I'd not allow use of any code whose provenance, author, and/or copyright status is at all unclear. -mpg ___ 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] New charter members!
Thank you. I am honored to be included with such gifted and passionate individuals. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 07/09/2012 12:19 PM Please respond to m...@flaxen.com To OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] New charter members! We received 22 nominations for the 2012 Charter Members. There were 20 membership positions available, but the board acted over the weekend to increase that number to 22. Therefore, on behalf of the OSGeo Board and the entire OSGeo community, I am pleased to welcome the following people as OSGeo Charter Members for 2012: Barend KobbenNetherlands Angelos Tzotsos Greece Anita Graser Austria Victor Olaya Spain Pedro-Juan FerrerSpain Andrea Aimee Italy Jean-Roc MorrealeFrance Serena Coetzee South Africa Michael SmithUSA Karel CharvatCzech Republic Jan JezekCzech Republic Vasile Craciunescu Romania Thomas Bonfort France Mauricio Miranda Argentina Peter Löwe Germany Massimiliano Cannata Italy P.K.SinhaIndia Brian Hamlin USA Ragi Yaser BurhumPeru Dimitris KotzinosGreece César Medina Chile Doug Newcomb USA Congratulations to all! _mpg ___ 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] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0
Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN Java JRE to be installed. I'm not sure you can distribute the JRE on a live DVD, since Oracle retired the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. http://jdk-distros.java.net/ Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 04/22/2012 04:46 PM To John Lindsay jlind...@uoguelph.ca, OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0 John, Congratulations on your release. I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live, http://live.osgeo.org. In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were not obvious to me. What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks would they be performing? Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from this project. Who is currently using Whitebox GAT? You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your website home page. On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Hello, Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source GIS Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on it, and now we're are excited to announce that the new version of Whitebox GAT has finally arrived. Please visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html for more information. Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this was to allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well on MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking and as such there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox 1.0.7 that need to be translated over to the new version. We're looking for volunteers to help with the work yet to be done (including working on the help documentation, testing and reporting bugs). Whitebox is now written using Java, the world's most popular multi-platform programming language. I know there are a lot of you out there with Java programming skills who could contribute to the project. There have also been many additions to version 2.0, including support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new tools, new image processing functionality, and an improved user interface ( http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html ). As always, we welcome any feedback to help improve the software. Please contact John Lindsay with any comments you may have. John Lindsay, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Geography, University of Guelph Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1 CANADA Phone: (519) 824-4120 x56074 Fax: (519) 837-2940 Email: jlind...@uoguelph.ca Department Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/lindsay.shtml Whitebox GAT Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ 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] Fwd: DGPS with software for Linux
Crossover office gives you a 30 day trial of their version of Wine http://www.codeweavers.com/ . Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 05/05/2011 03:43 PM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To 'ra...@iiit.ac.in' ra...@iiit.ac.in, 'OSGeo Discussions' discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: DGPS with software for Linux What about the Windows Emulator “Wine” for Linux? -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of K S Rajan Sent: Thursday, 2011-05-05 10:43 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: H. S. Rai Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: DGPS with software for Linux Can anyone help on this? Original Message Subject: DGPS with software for Linux Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 22:43:49 +0530 From: H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com Dear All Greetings, We are in the process to buy Differential GPS, and found Promark 100 L1 from Ashtech SAS, France is quite cost effective and can be use for static as well kinematic survey, but post processing software in case of static survey is only for MS Windows. Detail of product is: http://www.ashtech.com/promark-100-4567.kjsp?RH=PRO-ENRF=1284571071254 Do you know any similar product, with software which cam run on Linux? Please pass on to any other person, who you feel can help me in this regards. -- Prof. (Dr.) H.S.Rai Dean Testing and Consultancy http://gndec.ac.in/tcc/ Guru Nanak Dev Engg. College http://gndec.ac.in/ Ludhiana (Pb) India http://gndec.ac.in/~hsrai/ http://hs.raiandrai.com = = = = = = = = = = = = Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail - Save paper ___ 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] FOSS GIS Clients for ArcGIS server
For web mapping - openlayers http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/ Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 04/07/2011 10:33 AM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To 'OSGeo Discussions' discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS Clients for ArcGIS server I am a FOSS GIS advocate trapped in a proprietary GIS world. My organization manages several ArcGIS servers and we provide a Flash based map viewer (http://geonb.snb.ca/geonb/). We are exposing the ArcGIS REST services (http://geonb.snb.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services), however we are not providing any OGC services. Are there any FOSS map clients that can consume the ESRI ArcGIS REST services? Thanks, Bernie. -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ ___ 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] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements
Mayank, I'm a bit confused. Do you want to run a desktop gis through a web interface, or be able to perform some GIS functions similar to a desktop gis through a web interface ? It sounds like you want to be able to run a specific GIS software remotely as a thin client, but though a web interface. I believe that you can accomplish remote access via Citrix through a web interface. The upcoming NX 4.0 software should also offer this web based thin client access. You can thin client into windows computers via rdesktop ( available on most linux distributions) or via the NX client, http://www.nomachine.com/documents.php. You can also set up one of the various flavors of VNC services on windows or linux. you can alos set up NXserver on linux and access it from Windows, Mac, or Linux. ( Supposedly there is a version of nxserver for windows in the works) . If you are going linux to linux, you can use ssh with X forwarding on and have the program execute remotely but display locally. If you want to make a web interface look and act like a desktop gis with access to all of the commands in say, GRASS, then I think you've got a fair bit of web programming ahead of you. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. mayank_agarwal mayank_agar...@persistent.co.in Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 09/09/2010 08:01 AM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements Thanks a lot Doug, But will it help Desktop GIS to act as a web based GIS? -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Best-GIS-with-below-listed-requirements-tp5513454p5514164.html Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5
Bill, The EPEL repository has older versions of postgis (1.3.2)/mapserver (4.10) and gdal (1.42). If you want newer versions you will need to look elsewhere. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Bill Thoen bth...@gisnet.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 09/09/2010 03:10 PM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5 I hope this is the appropriate place for this general-GIS software question. Apologies if this isn't it. I'm looking for a yum repo or an rpm download site for the following set of GIS packages for a machine running Centos 5.5: PostgreSQL Proj4 GDAL / OGR tools GEOS PostGIS MapServer PHP Mapscript Open Layers Quantum GIS I'd like to have PostGIS compiled with at least these switches or their equivalent built in: --with-pgsql=... --with-geos=... --with-proj=... --with-proj-libdir=... GDAL should have at least these switches set: --with-pg=... --with-geos=yes MapServer --with-proj=/usr/local/ \ --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \ --with-ogr=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \ --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \ --with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \ --with-wfs \ --with-wcs \ --with-wmsclient \ --with-wfsclient \ --with-curl-config=/usr/bin/curl-config \ --with-agg=/usr/local/src/agg --with-freetype \ --with-php= I used to just compile these from source, but my sysAdminis recommends that whenever possible, to use rpms to take advantage of yum's or rpm's file management. and inventory capabilities. Since this is a brand new machine, I'd like to follow the recommendations of people who know more than I do, whenever I can. So, does any know if there's a one-stop yum repository or rpm site where I can get everything as integrated, compatible rpms ? TIA, - Bil Thoen -- *Bill Thoen* GISnet - www.gisnet.com http://www.gisnet.com/ 1401 Walnut St., Suite C Boulder, CO 80302 303-786-9961 tel 303-443-4856 fax bth...@gisnet.com ___ 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] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5
Markus, You're making it harder to choose between Ubuntu and Centos for the home computer :-) Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 09/10/2010 12:12 PM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote: Bill, The EPEL repository has older versions of postgis (1.3.2)/mapserver (4.10) and gdal (1.42). If you want newer versions you will need to look elsewhere. See here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS Markus ___ 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] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements
Mayank, You can use php to call GRASS, postgis, gdal, etc. to do all you ask. See http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_PHP Example. http://www.gapserve.ncsu.edu/prgap/prgap/. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. mayank_agarwal mayank_agar...@persistent.co.in Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 09/09/2010 04:25 AM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org To discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements Thanks Simon, But I need a web based GIS. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Best-GIS-with-below-listed-requirements-tp5513454p5513611.html Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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] U.S. Department of Interior soliciting Ideas on improving business practices
Hi Folks, The U.S Department of Interior has a website up soliciting ideas for improvement. Each idea gives registered users options to comment and vote on suggestions. There is a suggestion posted for the use of open source software, and I have just posted a suggestion for regular benchmarking of software ( commercial and open source) for OGC services and processing large datasets ( comments welcome!) . For those who might be interested in making suggestions or commenting on the existing suggestions, the website is: http://openinterior.ideascale.com/ Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] U.S. Department of Interior soliciting Ideas on improving business practices
Arnulf, Mind if I copy/paste your comments below into the comments section for that entry ? Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arn...@osgeo.org To OSGeo Discussions Sent by: discuss@lists.osgeo.org discuss-boun...@l cc ists.osgeo.org Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] U.S. Department 03/10/2010 09:34 of Interior soliciting Ideas on AMimproving business practices Please respond to arn...@osgeo.org; Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Hi Folks, The U.S Department of Interior has a website up soliciting ideas for improvement. Each idea gives registered users options to comment and vote on suggestions. There is a suggestion posted for the use of open source software, and I have just posted a suggestion for regular benchmarking of software ( commercial and open source) for OGC services and processing large datasets ( comments welcome!) . Doug, thank you for this information. One minor clarification on terminology (I will never tire): Using the wording commercial and open source to differentiate proprietary form free/open license models is misguiding as all Open Source software can also be used in commercial contexts and is thus also commercial software. This has recently been clarified by the US Department of Defense available in a document [1], attachment 2 on page 5, §2 a): In almost all cases, OSS meets the definition of “commercial computer software” and shall be given appropriate statutory preference in accordance with 10 USC 2377 (reference (b)) (see also FAR 2.101(b), 12.000, 12.101 (reference (c)); and DFARS 212.212, and 252.227-7014(a)(1) (reference (d))). (I love to cite those guys, they manage to make everything look dead serious :-) The correct term to differentiate free and open source license models from proprietary license is models is proprietary, and nothing but. Best regards, Arnulf. [1] http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/2009OSS.pdf For those who might be interested in making suggestions or commenting on the existing suggestions, the website is: http://openinterior.ideascale.com/ Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- President OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss inline: graycol.gifinline: pic01924.gifinline: ecblank.gif___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - What Is Available?
I've not had a chance to use these, but these do what you want? http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.thin.html http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.to.vect.html Not spatial, but may also be of interest. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tools http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Potrace Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.co m To Sent by: OSGeo Discussions discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 02/04/2010 02:40 [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster PMTracing - What Is Available? Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released under an open source license? I’m looking for something similar to: http://www.vextrasoft.com/vextractor.htm I found the Autotrace program (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/), but it seems to be a little more limited, and not geared to the GIS user. Vextractor allows you to georeference your tracing output and supports export of the traced vectors to SHP and DXF. The price for a single license of Vextractor isn’t bad ($99 US), but I’d love to find a similar open source project. I’ve thought about trying to write something up using JTS, but I know it would be a very challenging project. I’d like to know if any of you have worked on open source projects in this area. Thanks for any info. Landon Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss inline: graycol.gifinline: pic08611.gifinline: ecblank.gif___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AGU in December (Volunteers)
I'm planning on being there. I can help out. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. -discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: - To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org From: Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Date: 11/11/2009 06:47PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] AGU in December (Volunteers) All, Tyler is speaking at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec 14-18(Booth is 15-18) in San Fransisco. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AGU_2009 I'm interested to know who is already planning to go to the AGU and could help at the booth occasionally? Several members of the California chapter have volunteered to run the booth, we're just looking to make sure we have some additional help before we commit the funds. We need to know before the marketing meeting tonight, 11pm PST if we have enough people to do the booth or not. Thanks, 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] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results
http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/12/12/tip-from-an-rhce-memory-storage-on-postgresql/ Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Randy George rkgeo...@cadmaps .com To Sent by: 'OSGeo Discussions' discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 10/28/2009 01:42 RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance PMShootout presentation/results Please respond to rkgeo...@cadmaps. com; Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Great to see the shootout results. Also interesting to see the Amazon RDS announcement (MySQL based) with possibility of using quadruple extra large EC2 instances: db.m2.4xlarge - 68 GB of RAM http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazon-relational-database-service-.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/two-new-ec2-instance-types-additional-memory.html Maybe next shootout the DB layer could look at Amazon RDS(mySQL) and PostgreSQL/PostGIS using a quadruple extra large instance 68Gb RAM. After reading Todd Hoff’s blog I’d be curious to see if PostGIS could be configured to make use of large memory capacities and how it affects performance: http://highscalability.com/are-cloud-based-memory-architectures-next-big-thing Thanks Randy From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Craig Miller Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:38 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results I agree wholeheartedly. It looks like the bottleneck was the database. I’ve been privy to some MapServer tests done by testing teams over several months and the result there was always deploying the data with long update cycles to the middle tier disks instead of using the database. Only then could the performance of the actual map servers be evaluated. Performance shootouts/testing take time to do correctly as each run teaches you more and more about how your deployment architecture affects the results. Craig Geospatial Software Engineer Spatial Minds, LLC From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of antti roppola Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:34 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results It was really interesting. The very close results suggests to me that the bottlenecks were external to the WMS and more related to external limitations like the ability to supply things like I/O. It would be interesting to have profiling data on where the response time was spent. For Mapserver it'd be a simple case of running Valgrinf and KCacheGrind: http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi/KcacheGrindIndex Case point. We had an in house app for crunching big raster and KCacheGrind showed us that an external library was the biggest bottleneck. A. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: For those that did not make it to Sydney, here is the WMS Performance Shootout presentation with results (GeoServer vs MapServer): http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout MapServer: power users who manage MapServer sites with high loads/map draws should take note of the results of MapServer CGI vs MapServer FastCGI, even in the case of
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Perhaps this is related to Helena's OSGeo Edu posting , but more efforts towards outreach to the Elementary, Middle, and High School ( pre-college) educational communities. Working with them to set up pre-packaged lessons involving geographic concepts in which you can give the student a CD/DVD with project data and software that they could use at home on their Windows/Mac/Linux box. Not just basic viewing, but some analysis as well. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Helena Mitasova hmit...@unity.nc su.eduTo Sent by: OSGeo Discussions discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 09/14/2009 11:47 Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years PMfor OSGeo Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board. It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in the next 3-5 years are the following three items: - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't. - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we start to use it our central fundraising piece. - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter development and consolidation of the conference. +1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of cross- project collaboration Helena Howard ___ 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 inline: graycol.gifinline: pic02306.gifinline: ecblank.gif___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government
Mark, Irony abounds. We at Dept of Interior are blocked from accessing YouTube. I'll try to watch it at home. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Mark Lucas mluca...@mac.com To Sent by: OSGeo Discussions discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 08/08/2009 10:31 [OSGeo-Discuss] Applying Open AMSource Principles to Federal Government Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org The Open Technology Development Roadmap that we wrote for Ms Sue Payton is highlighted as well as Open Source for America (RadiantBlue is one of the founders) Good talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0C9T7h01o ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss inline: graycol.gifinline: pic13977.gifinline: ecblank.gif___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government
Hi folks, Sorry my last message got garbled. I was just remarking on the irony that the video was on Youtube, which I am blocked from viewing at my agency. :-) Doug The Open Technology Development Roadmap that we wrote for Ms Sue Payton is highlighted as well as Open Source for America (RadiantBlue is one of the founders) Good talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0C9T7h01o Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on FOSS Geo for local governance
Mecklenburg County , NC, USA. Geospatial portal . Source code availabe to site. http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/ft/?p=307 http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/gp/ Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. maning sambale emmanuel.sambale @gmail.comTo Sent by: OSGeo Discussions discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 03/12/2009 03:28 [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on AMFOSS Geo for local governance Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Hi, We are looking for case studies/success stories in deploying FOSS Geo for local government. I earnestly believe that FOSS tools are available for adoption in local government. Critical is how to integrated them to a provincial/city wide government IT infrastructure. In the Philippines, geospatial technologies are often used in: property/parcel tax mapping zoning development planning However, in most cases these domains are loosely integrated. Sometimes the GIS in the planning division doesn't communicate with the assesor's office in terms of data management. What we are looking for are stories that integrate FOSS GEO tools in the overall IT infrastructure. I know some of the strategies maybe institutional rather than technical in nature. What technologies do we need (dbase managment, server, desktop apps)? How do we provide capacity to local government staff? How do we integrate the data into planning? Any ideas? -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ 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] Where 2.0 Topics
Paul, How about: Integrating my (customers') personal data spatially into the world and making my (customers') life better. Probably not buzzword-compliant, but it's a start. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Paul Ramsey pram...@cleverel ephant.ca To Sent by: OSGeo Discussions discuss-boun...@l discuss@lists.osgeo.org ists.osgeo.org cc Subject 01/30/2009 03:17 [OSGeo-Discuss] Where 2.0 Topics PM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Question: What is the one thing from the open source world that the hipsters, venture capitalists and other black-clad denizens of Where 2.0 absolutely *must* hear this year? Looking for the golden topic, Paul -- Paul Ramsey pram...@cleverelephant.ca +1 250 885 0632 ___ 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] Top ten myths for open source in geo?
1) It doesn't scale as well. 2) No commercial support Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.c To om OSGeo Discussions Sent by: discuss@lists.osgeo.org discuss-boun...@l cc ists.osgeo.org Subject [OSGeo-Discuss] Top ten myths for 01/22/2009 11:53 open source in geo? AM Please respond to OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.os geo.org Gentlepersons: I'm doing an article addressing the top ~10 myths/misperceptions about open source for geo. There are a number of such pieces already out there about open source in general, from which I'll borrow heavily, but I'd like to have half the list be myths specific to the geo and GIS world we're playing in. Do you have any nominations? Which issues are not well understood? What questions do you most frequently get asked? Thanks in advance - -mpg ___ 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
