RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Hi Noli, I am working full-time on the UO OSCAR software and am working towards making it available this year - its really a PhD reserach project. The original OSCAR prototype developed as part of the FAO project was built on top of UDig as a set of plug-ins - and these will eventually be rebuilt. The prototype was really just a proof of concept and screen shots are available in a couple of the reports/papers but not very interesting - see FIG. I have spent a lot of time since then working with OWL, Jena, and Pellet and happy to say that part is mostly complete. Currently I am working on web services for OSCAR and integration with WMS/WFS/GeoServer - since OSCAR does not use a database (for thematic data) this aspect is a little less straigh forward since these things tend to require 'up front' schemas. I do apologise for the out of date web site and the other delays but it's just me and my supervisors at the moment and funding is an issue. I will of course post to this list as things progress and am happy to answer questions. regards Geoff From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Noli Sicad [nsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:25 a.m. To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ 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] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Hi Geoff, Thanks for updating us on status of UO OSCAR project. Are you still using uDig to rebuild UO OSCAR? Would this software available for public download and use? I am very interested on thematic mapping. What are the main features of UO OSCAR? Would UO OSCAR be useful to small tree farmers in NZ, keeping records on the agro forest management? I am interested in forestry carbon estate modelling + GIS for REDD and NZ ETS. I am using glpk/mathprog to implement the estate model using FOLPI-based formulation - LOG http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/courseinfo/msci/msci480/ I managed to run LOG using glpk/mathprog (http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/), not AMPL. I have forest management model example included in the official glpk tarball, in ...glpk-4.44/examples/dbf folder. This is reading shapefile - areas for the LP model. Regards, Noli On 7/26/10, Geoff Hay geoffrey@otago.ac.nz wrote: Hi Noli, I am working full-time on the UO OSCAR software and am working towards making it available this year - its really a PhD reserach project. The original OSCAR prototype developed as part of the FAO project was built on top of UDig as a set of plug-ins - and these will eventually be rebuilt. The prototype was really just a proof of concept and screen shots are available in a couple of the reports/papers but not very interesting - see FIG. I have spent a lot of time since then working with OWL, Jena, and Pellet and happy to say that part is mostly complete. Currently I am working on web services for OSCAR and integration with WMS/WFS/GeoServer - since OSCAR does not use a database (for thematic data) this aspect is a little less straigh forward since these things tend to require 'up front' schemas. I do apologise for the out of date web site and the other delays but it's just me and my supervisors at the moment and funding is an issue. I will of course post to this list as things progress and am happy to answer questions. regards Geoff From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Noli Sicad [nsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:25 a.m. To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ 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] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 21/07/2010 00:35, Joseph Reeves ha scritto: Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data: http://www.africover.org/ Well, not really, it seems: === Your request is of a public resource, approval for this resource shall be considered. Please use the user panel at: http://www.africover.org/system/user/ to monitor the status of your request and to download the data sets if approved. Your request will be processed within 14 days. Should you not receive a response to this request in due time, please contact the administrator through the control panel for assistance. Please note that your request will be rejected if you belong to a private/commercial organization or if you are an individual user. As stated in the Africover website within the Data Dissemination section, Africover is not allowed to release data to individuals or private and commercial organizations. === Quite strange, for data classified as Public domain, isn't it? heh, heh... In FAO's worldview, it seems, Public Domain means Don't give it to public. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science === ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data: http://www.africover.org/ This has made its way into OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Africover/DEPHA Cheers, Joseph On 20 July 2010 23:25, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ 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] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Hi Joseph, Thanks. Nice to know about OSGeo in Africa. Correction to my earlier posting, the project below is of course LGPL. uDig is LGPL. I am just thinking where we can download it. It seems that everybody is clamoring for Mobile GIS System, yet this is one developed already by Reflaction and FAO but not available for public download based on the information below. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ Noli On 7/21/10, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data: http://www.africover.org/ This has made its way into OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Africover/DEPHA Cheers, Joseph On 20 July 2010 23:25, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ 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] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Geonetwork OpenSource is FAO sponsored http://geonetwork-opensource.org/documentation/articles Noli Sicad schrieb: Hi Joseph, Thanks. Nice to know about OSGeo in Africa. Correction to my earlier posting, the project below is of course LGPL. uDig is LGPL. I am just thinking where we can download it. It seems that everybody is clamoring for Mobile GIS System, yet this is one developed already by Reflaction and FAO but not available for public download based on the information below. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ Noli On 7/21/10, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data: http://www.africover.org/ This has made its way into OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Africover/DEPHA Cheers, Joseph On 20 July 2010 23:25, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am googling on the topic in GIS / mobile GIS for farming, forestry, forest management and forestry carbon applications I found out that Refractions did a UN FAO Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring. Mobile GIS System for Agriculture Monitoring – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.refractions.net/expertise/casestudies/2005-12-unfao/ There is no screenshot of the software and no proper web link to the actual project which you can download the software. It is just www.fao.org. is this LGPL project? UN FAO probably sponsored some FOSS projects. I know that FAO sponsored the VB bindings for GDAL but I never saw the FAO project that uses this VB bindings - the actual FAO software / application. OSCAR is also sponsored by FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1447e/i1447e.pdf http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home Geoff, could we see a screenshot of OSCAR. http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg05931.html I hope we can download OSCAR soon. Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Thanks. Regards, Noli ___ 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
