Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Landon, others, A comment on the name OSGeo Labs. I just did a Google search with it and it brings up also the university laboratories that have been set up under the auspices of the ICA - OSGeo MoU. Thus it seems to mean two things, and it might be confusing - for example the Slashgeo.org tag OSGeo Labs is used for the university labs. The software stewardship (or how would you call it) is managed by the incubation committee and the university laboratory network is managed by, hm, the Board (no, it's not managed by the education committee as one would guess). This might be just a naming issue but I think it is worth noting. But I also think that there could and probably should be collaboration between these two initiatives. Regards, Ari (*) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs On 11/29/2012 02:31 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim? Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com het volgende: On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica I think these are more or less mine: - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter There is an OpenGeocoderRouter list that I started but there is no viable activity on it at this time. OpenRouter is a project related to internet routing. I started OpenGraphRouter using a GSoC project to get started. The goal was to create a routing solution that was MIT-X licensed instead of GPL. We have sine joined forces with pgRouting and are developing the code that is MIT-X algorithms, which can be bundled with pgRouting effectively making them dual licensed. OpenGeocoder.net appears to be Steve Coast @ Microsoft and not related to OSGeo stuff. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OpenGeocoderhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocodernever got off the ground, but I have been working with PAGC over the last few years. Our big issue at the moment is addressing some serious performance issues when you scale up from county level data sets to national data sets. Basically it is just me and Walter, the developer, working behind the scenes on these technical issues. Once these are resolved I hope to see if we can some activity going again with this. On a side note, I have take the address standardizer from PAGC, built it as a library and wrapped it into a postgresql stored procedure extension. Based on that I have prototyped up a Tiger geocoder that works very well and is very fast. I'm still work on various things so it is not ready for prime time but this might eventually become OpenSource also. I'm not sure what it means or how you get a project like these in labs but these are mostly orphaned except I have an interest in them and will respond to queries about them. Thanks, -Steve - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
HI Milo, There are various initiatives related to Geocoding and it would be good if could share insights and resources. Some of the projects are: http://www.pagcgeo.org/ http://www.postgis.org/ - has Tiger based geocoder http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder - list some of these and others http://geocoder.us/ http://www.opengeocoder.net/ - some Microsoft employee openstreetmap nominatim The big differences between the various projects are based primarily on three dimensions: 1. Sources data ie: Tiger only, OpenStreetMap data, any data 2. Language and Geocoding Strategy 3. Licensing Combining/collabation of efforts really depends a lot of the compatibility of these dimensions. Package DataSource(s) LanguageLicensing --- pagcMultiple C MIT-X Street segments parcels landmarks postgis Tiger pgpsql GPL2 geocoder.us Tiger Perl Perl nominatim OSM data??ODbl? - Pagc, postgis geocoder and geocoder.us all started out as Tiger data based geocoder and have expanded into other realms that use similar structured data. These projects have more in common with one another than any of them have with nominatim, unless I am terribly mistaken. That is not to say we should not collaborate only the data structures and strategies for querying them are very different. For example, I just wrote a custom geocoder taking a small amount of code from pagc and wrapping it into a pgpsql stored procedure and then wrote a query planner in pgsql to do geocoding. I was able to load 50M records derived from Tiger, and index them in 6 hrs on a slow 4GB linux box and can geocode a table 216K addresses in about 44 ms per record. This is conceptually similar to the processes imployed by the postgis geocoder and by geocoder.us and for that matter a 2-3 other geocoders that I have worked with in the past that were not open source, one of them being a geocoder I wrote that only worked with the old Tiger/Line data. I have looked at nominatim, a couple of times to try an understand the process, but it seems to be very tied to the OSM data structures and infrastructure. So if someone wants to setup a private nominatim service for a client, they basic need LOTS of iron, LOTS of disk, and need to mirror much/most?/all? of the OSM infrastructure. And the licensing needs to be approved by the client. If I want to create a geocoder that works with Navteq data for a client that has access to that data, it is pretty easy for me to load the data into PAGC, or the geocoder I just wrote, or even the postgis or geocoder.us code with a little massaging of the data. I'm not sure where I would start with the nominatim code. OK, I admit that the failure here is my knowledge about Nominatim and/or maybe that Nominatim/OpenStreetMap are not interested in solving the use cases that I presented. Sorry, I have gotten off on a rant. Back to your point about joining forces, I'm ok with, but I'm not sure where to start. I think I outlined the problem as I see it, but some additional information related to Nominatim could help me get beyond my biases if I can see how we can successfully collaborate. Best regards, -Steve On 12/8/2012 5:19 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote: Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim? Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com het volgende: On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica I think these are more or less mine: - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter There is an OpenGeocoderRouter list that I started but there is no viable activity on it at this time. OpenRouter is a project related to internet routing. I started OpenGraphRouter using a GSoC project to get started. The goal was to create a routing solution that was MIT-X licensed instead of GPL. We have sine joined forces with pgRouting and are developing the code that is MIT-X algorithms, which can be
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs? -- Geocoders
Steve, Add to your list this one: http://www.gisgraphy.com/ I think it's a mix of lots of things but uses OSM and Geonames for data source as far as I can tell and backend PostGIS and I think Java Servlets for application layer as far as I can tell. LGPL v3 licensed it seems. I came across this one when I saw this post: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/23113/comparison-of-geocoding-solutio ns-such-as-gisgraphy-postgis-2-0 Hope that helps, Regina -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 8:11 PM To: Milo van der Linden Cc: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs? HI Milo, There are various initiatives related to Geocoding and it would be good if could share insights and resources. Some of the projects are: http://www.pagcgeo.org/ http://www.postgis.org/ - has Tiger based geocoder http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder - list some of these and others http://geocoder.us/ http://www.opengeocoder.net/ - some Microsoft employee openstreetmap nominatim The big differences between the various projects are based primarily on three dimensions: 1. Sources data ie: Tiger only, OpenStreetMap data, any data 2. Language and Geocoding Strategy 3. Licensing Combining/collabation of efforts really depends a lot of the compatibility of these dimensions. Package DataSource(s) LanguageLicensing --- pagcMultiple C MIT-X Street segments parcels landmarks postgis Tiger pgpsql GPL2 geocoder.us Tiger Perl Perl nominatim OSM data??ODbl? - Pagc, postgis geocoder and geocoder.us all started out as Tiger data based geocoder and have expanded into other realms that use similar structured data. These projects have more in common with one another than any of them have with nominatim, unless I am terribly mistaken. That is not to say we should not collaborate only the data structures and strategies for querying them are very different. For example, I just wrote a custom geocoder taking a small amount of code from pagc and wrapping it into a pgpsql stored procedure and then wrote a query planner in pgsql to do geocoding. I was able to load 50M records derived from Tiger, and index them in 6 hrs on a slow 4GB linux box and can geocode a table 216K addresses in about 44 ms per record. This is conceptually similar to the processes imployed by the postgis geocoder and by geocoder.us and for that matter a 2-3 other geocoders that I have worked with in the past that were not open source, one of them being a geocoder I wrote that only worked with the old Tiger/Line data. I have looked at nominatim, a couple of times to try an understand the process, but it seems to be very tied to the OSM data structures and infrastructure. So if someone wants to setup a private nominatim service for a client, they basic need LOTS of iron, LOTS of disk, and need to mirror much/most?/all? of the OSM infrastructure. And the licensing needs to be approved by the client. If I want to create a geocoder that works with Navteq data for a client that has access to that data, it is pretty easy for me to load the data into PAGC, or the geocoder I just wrote, or even the postgis or geocoder.us code with a little massaging of the data. I'm not sure where I would start with the nominatim code. OK, I admit that the failure here is my knowledge about Nominatim and/or maybe that Nominatim/OpenStreetMap are not interested in solving the use cases that I presented. Sorry, I have gotten off on a rant. Back to your point about joining forces, I'm ok with, but I'm not sure where to start. I think I outlined the problem as I see it, but some additional information related to Nominatim could help me get beyond my biases if I can see how we can successfully collaborate. Best regards, -Steve On 12/8/2012 5:19 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote: Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim? Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com het volgende: On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Hi Landon, On 29.11.2012, at 01:31, Landon Blake wrote: Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. MapProxy is also a labs project. At least thats what we applied for ~2.5 years ago to get our mailing list hosted on osgeo.org. We applied for incubation but it is on hold till we get more regular (external) commiters to the project. MapProxy is now 4 years old, it's used for nation-wide services by companies and federal agencies, it's on OSGeo Live since a few releases,... so I would call it a stable project. Regards, Oliver -- Oliver Tonnhofer| Omniscale GmbH Co KG| http://omniscale.de http://mapproxy.org | https://github.com/olt| @oltonn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Ezra: I'm trying to do some clean-up of Labs this week. I'll be assembling a list of projects in labs shortly. I post back to discuss when this work is complete. Thanks. Landon On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ezra Boyd ebo...@tigers.lsu.edu wrote: Landon, Is there a webpage that has links to the projects? I was not aware that OSGeo Labs even existed until I read your email, but I am interested in the projects. I did a web search and found this page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs But, I don't see where it has links to the projects. Anyway, sounds like a great idea. Thanks for you effort!!! Ezra On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Ari: It sounds like Geoinformatica is a raster algebra and raster visualization library writtin in Perl with support for GTK. Is that a fair description? If you are interested, I can work the next couple of weeks to get Geoinformatica set up in Labs. Let me know, and we can move our conversation over to the incubation mailing list so we don't bore people on the discuss mailing list. Thanks for responding to my inquiry! Landon On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Ari Jolma ari.jo...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/29/2012 02:31 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica Geoinformatica is my project, it's not young, but it's experimental. It's made of a part in C, libral, and several Perl packages, which build on GDAL and GTK+ Perl bindings (I also maintain the GDAL Perl bindings). The oldest parts are in libral, which date at least 10 years back. libral was a simple raster algebra package, but I've added to it a simple visualization library to render GDAL rasters and vectors to a memory canvas (pixbuf), which can be given to GDK (a GTK+ subsystem). I've made an effort to separate this library into a library of its own (gvl - also a part of Geoinformatica), but it's not in use. Geoinformatica has a very small community, I guess one reason is because the Perl geospatial community is small(?) and distributed. Also, maybe it's the experimental or personal thing, but maintaining stable APIs or a reasonable development path in several interdependent libraries has been quite difficult for me. However, I regularly use Geoinformatica myself. I use the GUI a bit less because QGIS has become very good and because there is not yet useful WMS and WFS GUIs to use the GDAL WMS and WFS drivers in it. Lately I've written WxS servers (WMS and WFS are functional already) with it - Perl has traditionally very good web/CGI support so that's interesting. I think OSGeo Labs could be a good forum and platform for collaboration with academia, especially the OSGeo Academic Network and the emerging network of research labs collaborating with OSGeo and FOSS4G in general. One issue I have observed is that the developer community in academic FOSS4G (and other geospatial) users/members is still a small minority. Yes, I'm in academia too. This may be the best portal for Geoinformatica things in the web http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/en/software/ Cheers and thanks Landon for taking this up, Ari - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
Landon, Projects we are keeping an eye on for OSGeo-Live are listed at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Packages#Package_wishlist (along with the full OSGeo-Live list at http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html ) These are all either OSGeo projects, or candidates for osgeo labs. On 29/11/12 11:31, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica I think these are more or less mine: - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter There is an OpenGeocoderRouter list that I started but there is no viable activity on it at this time. OpenRouter is a project related to internet routing. I started OpenGraphRouter using a GSoC project to get started. The goal was to create a routing solution that was MIT-X licensed instead of GPL. We have sine joined forces with pgRouting and are developing the code that is MIT-X algorithms, which can be bundled with pgRouting effectively making them dual licensed. OpenGeocoder.net appears to be Steve Coast @ Microsoft and not related to OSGeo stuff. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder never got off the ground, but I have been working with PAGC over the last few years. Our big issue at the moment is addressing some serious performance issues when you scale up from county level data sets to national data sets. Basically it is just me and Walter, the developer, working behind the scenes on these technical issues. Once these are resolved I hope to see if we can some activity going again with this. On a side note, I have take the address standardizer from PAGC, built it as a library and wrapped it into a postgresql stored procedure extension. Based on that I have prototyped up a Tiger geocoder that works very well and is very fast. I'm still work on various things so it is not ready for prime time but this might eventually become OpenSource also. I'm not sure what it means or how you get a project like these in labs but these are mostly orphaned except I have an interest in them and will respond to queries about them. Thanks, -Steve - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?
On 11/29/2012 02:31 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and young and experimental projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page today, here is the list: Stable Projects: - GeoWebCache - pgRouting Young and Experimental Projects - GeoExt - GeoFunctions - Geoinformatica Geoinformatica is my project, it's not young, but it's experimental. It's made of a part in C, libral, and several Perl packages, which build on GDAL and GTK+ Perl bindings (I also maintain the GDAL Perl bindings). The oldest parts are in libral, which date at least 10 years back. libral was a simple raster algebra package, but I've added to it a simple visualization library to render GDAL rasters and vectors to a memory canvas (pixbuf), which can be given to GDK (a GTK+ subsystem). I've made an effort to separate this library into a library of its own (gvl - also a part of Geoinformatica), but it's not in use. Geoinformatica has a very small community, I guess one reason is because the Perl geospatial community is small(?) and distributed. Also, maybe it's the experimental or personal thing, but maintaining stable APIs or a reasonable development path in several interdependent libraries has been quite difficult for me. However, I regularly use Geoinformatica myself. I use the GUI a bit less because QGIS has become very good and because there is not yet useful WMS and WFS GUIs to use the GDAL WMS and WFS drivers in it. Lately I've written WxS servers (WMS and WFS are functional already) with it - Perl has traditionally very good web/CGI support so that's interesting. I think OSGeo Labs could be a good forum and platform for collaboration with academia, especially the OSGeo Academic Network and the emerging network of research labs collaborating with OSGeo and FOSS4G in general. One issue I have observed is that the developer community in academic FOSS4G (and other geospatial) users/members is still a small minority. Yes, I'm in academia too. This may be the best portal for Geoinformatica things in the web http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/en/software/ Cheers and thanks Landon for taking this up, Ari - OpenGeocoder - OpenRouter - Grids - OSGeo Graphics - pycsw - OWSLib - SemanticGeo - ZOO-Project Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are in labs, and then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them get ready for official incubation. Thanks. Landon P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs, please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback from other OSGeo members. ___ 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
