[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software
Como, 26 February 2007 The Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera / GFOSS.IT (Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software) has been founded in Palermo, Italy. GFOSS.IT has been founded by specialists with a consolidated international experience in the field of geographic information systems and of free/open-source technologies. GFOSS.IT was established in the context of the eighth Italian GRASS and GFOSS users meeting, held in Palermo, Italy (14-16 February 2007). The aims of the association are to: - foster the development, the diffusion, and the protection of exclusively free and open-source software for geographic information; - promote open standards for geographic information and free access to geographic data; - promote contacts within the geographic free/open-source software developer and user community, as well as contacts between this community and other subjects; - encourage and co-ordinate the translation and/or the localisation of geographic information software and documentation; - promote relationships with other national and international associations, and with public and private organisations. What's next: During the coming month the association will formalise its constitution, finalise the activities to be conducted during 2007, and will be open to applications for membership. -- Info: info a gfoss.it Web: http://www.gfoss.it ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Grants - Free Advertising for Open Source Non-profits
On 4/5/07, Michael P. Gerlek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey wow, this sounds like something we could do...? http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-grants-free-adver tising-for-open.html This looks very good, but we have to check: From the FAQ Can I apply for a Google Grants award if I have not yet received 501(c)(3) status from the IRS? No. Please do not apply for a Google Grant until we are able to verify your 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Probably we are far enough with it now. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Product survey MySQL, Oracle, PostGIS
... available here: Product Survey on Geo-databases Geo-databases: May 2007, Volume 21, Issue 5 http://www.gim-international.com/productsurvey/id21-Geodatabases_May_,_Volume_,_Issue.html Regards, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available
Congrats to all contributors! On 5/15/07, Allan Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tyler - this is fantastic! I'm learning a lot already, reading through it. It would be good to clarify the copyright on the journal. Right now, on page 70, it says all articles are copyrighted by the respective authors, and that's probably as it should be. But it's unclear how anyone could reproduce copies of the journal. For instance, is it ok to post a copy on another web site? Is it ok to print 5 copies for a small office? Could the UN print and mail copies to a number of field offices? Can copies be distributed on a CD? etc. etc. I think this could be solved with a CC-Attribution-NoDerivs or maybe the non-commercial version of that license that covers the entire journal issue. (I can't look up the real CC license version, their site seems to be suffering some malady right now). This should be the link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported I wonder if this is permissive for translations. We need to select a licence (and urgently add it to the site, better also in the PDF) which supports translations. Here is the shopping list of license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Markus Then people could print entire copies but would have to get permission from the authors to make copies of individual articles. Allan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available
On 5/16/07, Daniel Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal. I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what others think of this. Would anyone else find it useful to have a FOSS4G oriented peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested in this idea?) - Dan Something like Source Code for Biology and Medicine http://www.scfbm.org/ comes to mind which is an Open Access Journal. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?
Hi Brent, with GRASS' ps.map you can do that rather easily: - define the raster and vector map names - define (optionally) legend stuff - activate geogrid to overlay a geographic grid onto the output map - define paper size It generated a Postscript file (use ps2pdf to make PDF) which can be printed then. See http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass63/ps.map.html Example screenshot (a bit low-res, sorry): http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2/img35.png Code for that map: http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2_en/node78.html Markus On 9/6/07, Brent Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for an Open Source desktop application that will: 1. Combine raster and vector spatial data, and (re)project them 2. Render a graticule (lines and labels showing latitude and longitude) (and no, I don't want to create a shapefile to do that) 3. Print to a large format plotter (paper 24 inches wide or greater) So far I've looked at uDig, Quantum GIS, and gvSig. As far as I can tell, none of them can do Step 2, and only gvSig does Step 3 successfully. Any pointers would be appreciated! Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://osgeo.org/grass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application thatwill draw a graticule on a map?
On 9/7/07, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent, I am not sure ArcView or its open source replacement can produce the kind of stuff Markus has been producing (maybe it can, just that I haven't seen any). Most, really, really good cartographic output, the kind you can print at 1500 dpi on a Scitex printer at 8 feet by 20 feet requires a helluva lot of work, and lots of planning. If you pick up ESRI's map book, almost none of that stuff is produced with ArcView and home laser printer. It is likely, however, that when you say high quality cartography, you are not referring to this kind of stuff. Markus Neteler's stuff seemed to me of such beauty (raster software does make for wonderful output) that it is something worth trying to recreate. I am sure though that it is not point and click. Best is to let Markus opine on this. I have a nice (complex) paper map done with ps.map by Municipality of Trento (Italy) on my office desk. About A1 or A0 size. I will try to make a photograph of it on Monday so that you get an impression. What you can do with GRASS/ps.map: - raster maps - vector maps, with all line thinkness, (rotated) labels, even optionally with optimized placement etc. - grids, graticules - symbols (EPS etc, incl rotation) - hatching - legends, titles, frame, etc - right res output as PostScript permits What's missing: - graphical point-and-click interface What's expected: - graphical point-and-click interface :) We are having it on the agenda to be developed for the Municipality of Trento. They are funding a series of GRASS improvements (financing from 2005-2009). It will be most likely done as part of the new Python based GRASS GUI which is available from GRASS-SVN. Certainly: the more people contribute the faster it goes. Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal Software Translation Portal
Hi, as you may know, some of the OSGeo software projects come with translated messages. E.g. GRASS has been translated (partially) into more than 10 languages. We (GRASS) have a dedicated mailing list for this and a translation manager who takes care of synchronization, update and message standardization. So far - so nice. But. We could gain more translators with a Web based solution (think rainy day and you just want to translate 10 messages and don't want to mess around with .po files from CVS and so forth). Our suggestion is to set up a Web based solution for all interested OSGeo projects (e.g. using pootle). To better brainstorm on that, we have made a Wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Software_Translation_Portal Comments welcome, Markus Neteler Stefano Costa -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://osgeo.org/grass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?
Hi Brent, (remembering this thread...) some new cartography screenshots arrived: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php Cheers Markus On 9/7/07, Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brent, with GRASS' ps.map you can do that rather easily: - define the raster and vector map names - define (optionally) legend stuff - activate geogrid to overlay a geographic grid onto the output map - define paper size It generated a Postscript file (use ps2pdf to make PDF) which can be printed then. See http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass63/ps.map.html Example screenshot (a bit low-res, sorry): http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2/img35.png Code for that map: http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2_en/node78.html Markus On 9/6/07, Brent Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for an Open Source desktop application that will: 1. Combine raster and vector spatial data, and (re)project them 2. Render a graticule (lines and labels showing latitude and longitude) (and no, I don't want to create a shapefile to do that) 3. Print to a large format plotter (paper 24 inches wide or greater) So far I've looked at uDig, Quantum GIS, and gvSig. As far as I can tell, none of them can do Step 2, and only gvSig does Step 3 successfully. Any pointers would be appreciated! Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?
On 10/31/07, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Neteler ha scritto: Hi Brent, (remembering this thread...) some new cartography screenshots arrived: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php a couple of pages are missing: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/images/lake_mimac.jpg http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/images/lake_charles.jpg We are working on this slowly... please stay tuned... Markus nice shots! all the best. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] time in gis
On Dec 16, 2007 2:22 AM, Ralston, Bruce A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drs. Shih-Lung Shaw (University of Tennessee) and Hongbo Yu (Oklahoma State) have done some interesting work that extends a linear referencing approach to events in temporal gis. While their application does use ESRI software, one should be able to extend the concept of linear referencing on time paths to any spatial database that supports linear referencing. PostGIS offers this as well as GRASS: * http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id3060376 * http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/vectorintro.html - Linear reference system (LRS) Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia
On Dec 20, 2007 12:19 AM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and there was some other discussion about a multi-language GIS dictionary. Here the link to my proposal: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Events on your calendar
Hi Tyler, please add (I tried but cannot) IX Meeting degli Utenti Italiani di GRASS - GFOSS 21-22 Feb 2008, Perugia, Italy http://www.grassmeeting2008.unipg.it/ FOSSGIS 2008 1.-3. April 2008 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page thanks markus On Jan 9, 2008 11:15 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Starting into 2008 makes it a good time to update our event calendar. You can see events listed on the front page of osgeo.org - but there isn't much in there right now: http://www.osgeo.org/event/2008/01/10/list/all/all Keeping events in this list will help keep them on the radar for potential marketing, speaking and promotion opportunities as well. If you have an event that you think is important to OSGeo members to know about, attend or that open source will be presented at, please drop me a note with details and I'll add them to the site. Details should include: - Start/end date time (with timezone) - Title of event - Detailed text - you can supply it with urls and other markup using simple wikimedia syntax if you wish We can also handle multiple languages for each event - so feel free to include those as well. Take care, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://www.grassbook.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for education
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Helena Mitasova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the wiki below the best we currently have for Linux and MS Windows? http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Binary_Package_Listing A related note: Recently a new native winGRASS package with Installer was prepared by Marco Pasetti: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/ ... now linked on the relevant pages. Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Python Library
Hi OSGeo, I would like to propose another idea which might be a (long term) goal of OSGeo software development: OSGeo Python Library http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Python_Library Currently it is quite complex to set up a Python based OSGeo software environment without knowing well the individual projects. It would be great to have a common abstraction layer/API which contains binding to several relevant OSGeo and related software projects with Python bindings to simplify programming. Hacks to the Wiki page and comments welcome, Markus -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://www.grassbook.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: I'm still very much interested in this. Cairo would provide a single API to render to an image buffer, on PDF and others. It has good support for rendering text with various fonts and there are high-level language APIs. Currently Cairo can be used in Geoinformatica to render geodata, legends, etc. on a map. I'm already using that a bit and will use it much more in the future. I think that for the task you've described, looking into Mapnik might be a good idea. Some more is here: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/cairodriver.html Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Ari Jolma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second thing would be to have a free OSGeo map symbol set, which the map description file would refer to and the software use when creating the map. Do I make any sense? Absolutely. I have created a wiki page for this, too: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set First symbol sets are already available (see there for links). Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FAQ update needed?
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Helena Mitasova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at the Projects joining the foundation part of FAQ but it looks like FAQ answers need an update? Also, have all projects listed as OSGeo projects on the OSGeo web site passed incubation ? No. I have added (as discussed months ago) indication to the list of OSGeo projects - a star for those yet in incubation, see right block: http://www.osgeo.org (changed in https://www.osgeo.org/admin/build/block/configure/block/3 based on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee) I am working on a presentation for a USGS workshop and I am trying to make sure I provide information that is up to date and accurate and I am not sure how safe it is to use the info on the web site, Now it should be safe. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Java Collaboration...Again
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO: Hi Frank, I would also like to bring to your attention the MetaCRS project, an effort to confederate some other existing coordinate system related projects (particularly Proj4JS, CS-MAP and PROJ.4) and to work towards some shared test data and coordinate system dictionaries. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS Its good to see another project listed. I hadn't see this project referenced before on the OSGeo Web site at: - http://www.osgeo.org/ I have added indication in the OSGeo projects box to show which projects are yet in incubation. - http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/foundation_faq.html Updated. - http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/index.html Points to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee I'm probably missing the obvious, but do we have a full listing of OSGeo projects that are in incubation or have graduated? It is essentially the (updated) box on the main site as well as the Wiki page indicated above. I agree that a couple (?) of projects aren't listed. I have added new new section Queuing requests to the Wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Queuing_requests which is possibly yet incomplete. Would leave that to the InCom chair... Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:13 PM, ChrisWebster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The biggest problem with OS - nobody seems to have mentioned it yet - is the lack of user-friendly or coherent documentation, even for mature tools like GRASS (yes, I know there's a GRASS book, but getting hold of it is like one of the more arduous treks in Lord Of The Rings...). Just as hint (with links to Amazon, BarnesNoble, whatever): http://www.grassbook.org/ It was reprinted in April, so it should be available. In general I think that OSGeo should promote better their authors, we have this hidden Wiki template in the Library: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Library#GFOSS_Books This should be prominently advertised on the mail site as OSGeo Bookshelf. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of color palettes with vector data
Hi Stéphanie, (this is best asked on the GRASS user list). Last Saturday I have added in d.vect: support for z height (geometry) colors, so no more need to add an attribute table and such: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-May/037911.html You can easily colorize 3D points/lines/polygons: d.mon x0 d.vect -z lidar1map3d zcol=gyr (the r.colors color tables apply; use the GUI instead of CMD line of course). The update is in GRASS-SVN. (second try, small screenshot was rejected by this list) Best Markus On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Stéphanie Faroux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if it's possible to use color palettes with vector data. I have point vector data (for example, altitude), and i'd like to apply a palette automatically, on the symbols representing the value points (like circles). I saw i can define a new column GRASSRBG in the dbf table associated to my vector layer. But it's not very easy, because i have 1 points in my area. I could set values of the palette with rules on the z column, but it would be nicer if existing palettes could be chosen. Thank you ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of color palettes with vector data
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Stéphanie Faroux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Markus, Now I will use the grass user list as you suggest. Thank you for your answer; as i'm a recent grass user, could you confirm this is what to do to get your update: svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons grass-addons #Subsequent updates: svn up No, that's the GRASS Addons only. You need GRASS 6.4.svn: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/develbranch_6 grass6_devel #Subsequent updates: svn up Best regards Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: on Google Code and export restrictions
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/08, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Would mirroring to several neutral countries entirely solve the problem? It could, but I would suggest consulting an export control lawyer. If the software is considered published by a US entity, Question: If copyright was not assigned to OSGeo (like for GRASS), is it still officially published by OSGeo? ... Only a lawyer can tell. I tend to agree (maybe also valid for my question above). Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Free Cartographic Symbol Library
Landon, yes. Please check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set and add ideas! cheers Markus On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on GeoTools support for the GPX format. Part of the GPX format allows a user/program to specify a Symbol as a string/text value. We've been having a discussion on the GPX mailing list about a standard mapping of symbol names to symbol graphics, either in Raster or Vector (SVG) format. The basic idea is to allow a program like OpenJUMP to import a GPX file and then display the appropriate symbol at the waypoint location based on the information in the GPX file. There is at least one person on the GPX mailing list that would be interested in putting together such a cartographic symbol library. Does something like this already exist? Is it something the OSGeo would be interested in? I was thinking we might put something together and release it under a creative commons license… Landon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] URL
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jason Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that it was specifically dropped, it just wasn't made a requirement for new projects coming into OSGeo. There are project pages on the OSGeo site (like http://www.osgeo.org/grass - just product info fliers) but from there the project URL can be anything from external host-based (like http://grass.osgeo.org/ - which is non-canonical, this seems to be the same as grass.itc.it) Jason, grass.itc.it and others are the mirror sites of http://grass.osgeo.org/ (which is the master site). @All: I would appreciate to see all projects using the project.osgeo.org scheme, even only with a redirection. Just to apply a generic scheme and provide transparency to our users... Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Manage translation in OSGeo project
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yves, We have to think about hosting pages, but also all the translation process: who is doing what, when do we need what modify, who change what, etc. I believe there are really two (2) areas in which OSGeo projects can focus on translation: (1) Easing the translation of the GUI of FOSS GIS projects. (3) Writing program documentation in a way that makes translation as easy as possible. (2) Understanding how internationalization can impact non-GUI design decisions. Here to (un)related drafts in the Wiki: * OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary (Education): http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary * Software Translation Portal (Software stack): http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Software_Translation_Portal The first list item above is the most obvious. How many OSGeo projects currently support internationalization? I know that OpenJUMP does, and that this involves a serious investment in programmer time and energy. But I think the end result is worth the effort. I oftentimes wonder if internationalization is one of the reasons why JUMP foundered and OpenJUMP blossomed... Also GRASS does it: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics And it's rather easy to set up with gettext() macros in C land (to not pollute the source code). Likewise there will be solutions for other programming languages. Yet is is hard to easily translate *small* chunks (think rainy day). Hence the second proposal above. Best Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) I was hoping some other OSGeo members have done similar presentations. If anyone has material on the basics of the OSGeo (the organizations history, its goals, its structure) they would let me use in my own presentation I would really appreciate it. You may take a look here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Cascadoss_Symposium_2008 It contains material and the links to the presentations. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD
Hi Cameron, all, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very excited to hear Markus and Lorenzo correct me and tell me that GeoFOSS packaging is live and well. And yes, we would be delighted to work with you, building upon your work rather than starting again from scratch. The success of a packaging project will come from a strong community. We have been planning to create a simple live CD (based upon Debian or Ubuntu) for the Java stack - something that we think we could achieve. But if there are others working on this as well, together we could make something more ambitious for foss4g2008. Who is interested and what timezones are we in? LISAsoft is in Sydney, Australia. Markus and Lorenzo are in Europe? Yes. I'll be in Cape Town but have to take the plane on 4 Oct. How about we meet on IRC #osgeo on Friday: 5pm Sydney, 9am in Europe? Not sure if I am already operative then :) but no problem, I have never made a LiveCD myself... So please keep this timing if it suites most. Ah, I now see the 4th suggested: me = plane, but n.prob. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have clearly stated that local conferences could be an alternative to FOSS4G, not a REPLACEMENT. This is what I also brought up a few days ago on the conference list. Half a years after/before the main event. This would enable more people to participate (since travel matters) and would be of even wider media impact. Obviously, the main FOSS4G remains the most important conference as meeting of the tribes. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Successful FOSS4G use case needed especially in government sector
Therefore I'm writting a letter to you to request your help. Please let me know any successful case of FOSS4G in your country. Web site, implementation history, your experiences... and kinds of materials will be useful to me. Here one more (absolutely incomplete): http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/index.php - Who is using GRASS? Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Warmerdam ha scritto: I would suggest that local/regional conference In Italy, GRASS meetings (now GFOSS meeting) have been organized regularly since 2000. Next year it will be in Sardinia: http://gfoss2009.crs4.it/ In Germany, there is the FOSSGIS series (since 2006): http://fossgis.osgeo.net/wiki/Main_Page Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] defining a Geospatial Integration Showcase to be launched at FOSS4G 2009
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Data is indeed where it all starts. There is a very good demo dataset included with the GeoMoose package, it's aimed primarily at a state (of Minnesota) perspective currently. There are also some municipal datasets in there as well. The interface (GeoMoose) actually scales very well between these types of business needs even in combining the two into a single interface. There is another dataset, the OSGeo education data set: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina It contains all kind of data/maps in original formats and preprocessed, covering a wide range of potential applications. The Geospatial Integration Showcase should make use of OSGeo data sets (so, perhaps we can get in more data sets through the showcase preparations!). Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit, now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Judit Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pyroGIS schrieb: Fellow listers, Where I'm wondering about going next is down the whole Web Mapping road. What are your opinions on GeoServer vs. MapServer vs. OpenLayers? Those seem to get the most love from the OS community ... should I skip worldKit? what about deegree? Hello Joe, if you are interested in a large community you might find MapServer and GeoServer more appealing than deegree. I can't say much more about the first two, as I've never used either. But there has been a presentation comparing GeoServer and MapServer at the last FOSS4G. You will probably find the slides online. Suggestion - what about getting this page updated with comments from this thread: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Choosing_a_Web_Mapping_Platform Don't hesitate to modify the Wiki page! Cheers, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit, now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G
Bob, all, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus, What's all that stuff in there about managed and un-managed supposed to describe? Seems to be somewhat out of date. I think I would start over with the whole bottom section. sounds good! :) In general, it's neither my field nor my document - so I would leave it to others. I consider myself as future consumer of such a guide. In general, as Frank says, it is hard to write comparative studies. As user, I would hope to receive some guidance to navigate in our software offers - see our logo motto! That's all. Best Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best Place For My OSGeo Presentation
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've finished with my OSGeo presentation at the Gold Country GIS Users Group. (Thanks for all of those that provided reference material and copies of their own presentations.) I was wondering where the best place would be to archive this presentation. Who should I speak to about this? (I can make the presentation available on my own website, but I thought it might be helpful to include it with an archive of other presentations.) A couple of OSGeo presentations are tagged osgeo here: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/osgeo (maybe there are more, just missing the osgeo tag) Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to set up a beijing54 region in grass?
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, xjzheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i selected the transmoctor projection ,but no correct datum for beijing54,thank u You can find them here: http://www.epsg-registry.org/ - Name: beijing - projection parameters There is a note Replaced by Xian 1980, though. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile's dfb editing
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Silvia Franceschi silvia.frances...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, do some of you know how to edit a shapefile's dbf file? I tried with OpenOffice Calc but I have the following error: Connection to file could not be established I have to add some attribute that I have in an other file and they are a lot of data. I have written up a small help text here: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Openoffice.org_with_SQL_Databases#DBF_files_.28OpenOffice.org_2.x.29 Hope it helps, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Hello, Is there a set of icons already available to start from? Yes, see links in http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w stack building notes: maybe a dedicated wiki?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com wrote: ... To some extent this will depend on those who are doing the builds now to describe details - in this case Jurgen. We are looking forward to this. Also for the aspect of a potential maintenance transition to someone else (since Juergen seeks another maintainer). We need to enable more people to make builds, please document the instructions in OSGeo4W-trac. Then it will be much easier to find a new maintainer. Congratulations for the hard work so far. Thanks for this, Markus (selling OSGeo4W currently at the Italian GRASS/GFOSS meeting http://gfoss2009.crs4.it/ ) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] experience using FOSS4G live-dvd in teaching FOSS GIS
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Charlie Schweik cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote: One other follow-up comment to Maning's post: Does the OSGeo data group have any inventory of data online that we should be linking to on the educational pages? This page should be linked: http://flightgear.telascience.org/ and also this: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository#On_Offer_.21 Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: Microdonations for OSGeo
Hi, (ealier posted to board list, now here for wider discussion) I would like to bring up the idea of accepting microdonations as general donations to OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations Given the success of OSM, Wikipedia and others in that area of fund-rising I don't see a reason why OSGeo does not accept small donations from community members and likeminded people to keep OSGeo running. Best Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Watching the trolls go by...
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jacolin Yves yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Le Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:16:30 Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses, vous avez écrit : It just came to my attention... http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Between_a_Rock It seems whe have some Runescape[1] players between our contributors... Hi, Just for your information, I created a category called TO_DELETE [1]. This category lists wiki page to delete (ouaouh ;) ) as only sysop can delete page ! Done. If you find a wiki page to delete, just add it in this category. I hope sysop can follow this category and delete the page. Sure, just ping me or others... Markus Hope it helps, Y. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:To_delete -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] List of FOSS GIS Implementations
Hi Chris, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: ... http://gallery.osgeo.org/ would it be possible to link the screenshot to a higher res version of the uploaded photo instead of the same link as the title? Best Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] List of FOSS GIS Implementations
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote: Hi Chris, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: ... http://gallery.osgeo.org/ would it be possible to link the screenshot to a higher res version of the uploaded photo instead of the same link as the title? The 'permalink' (small link, under the title) has the full res of the uploaded screenshot: Bingo - the only link which I didn't try (thought is was ... anyway). http://gallery.osgeo.org/item/12/ When I made the image go to this page, people complained on the OpenLayers gallery, which is why it doesn't anymore. I see. Conflicting perceptions as always :) Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki Upkeep - Orphaned Pages
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: So looking around there a few things that could use some work on the wiki and are easy enough for any community member to help with. 1. We have 327 Orphaned Pages, these are pages that exist but that no other page links to. Which means no one is likely to ever find them or their useful content. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPageslimit=500offset=0 Alex, not sure how this works, e.g. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Cascadoss_Symposium_2008 is indexed like that but that's a legal page about a past event (where we participated). I consider it a bug if a valid category isn't sufficient to get a page not be marked as orphaned. Making artificial links elsewhere doesn't make sense to me - any opinion how to deal with this phenomenon? ... Cleaning up these to aspects will yield a more usable and navigable wiki. Please if you have 5 minutes cleanup a couple of links. With care :) please don't remove good content! Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: TOP 20 OSGeo Mailman subscriber statistics - GeoNetwork stats
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: 2009/4/27 Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:00:15PM +0200, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Here are the GeoNetwork opensource mailing list subscribers statistics, running on sourceforge: User mailing list: 430 User mailing list in French: 21 (new mailing list) Developer list: 249 Commit mailing list: 44 OpenLayers: dev - 494 users - 1081 trac - 31 commit - 24 -- Chris Hi, for gvSIG mailing lists are: User mailing list in Spanish: 1325 User mailing list in Italian: 178 Developer list: 646 International list: 558 Hint: Please keep in mind to only count the active accounts, not all bounced or otherwise blocked subscriptions. For mailman, use list_members --nomail=enabled listname Otherwise we get totally skewed numbers... Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Unique number of OSGeo mailing lists subscribers
Interested to know how many unique users we have in the OSGeo mailing list system...? Here we are: 02_May_2009: 9791 So we'll possibly hit 10.000 later this year! For now added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VisibilityStats#Mailing_list_subscribers Markus PS: I would be happy to (auto-)post these numbers to an OSGeo marketing member as we should work out some more concrete stats for our sponsors. Similar to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Unique number of OSGeo mailing lists subscribers
Cameron, all, (cc'ing Marketing for info) My part is already script'ed, so I can make it a monthly cronjob, emailing out results (or loading up to a dedicated directory). Let me know, Markus On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Markus, These sorts of statistics are gold for marketing OSGeo to potential sponsors. (I base this upon my recent experience chasing FOSS4G sponsors). I'd love to see these metrics collected monthly, and piped into a table of some sort, then built into a graph. We could then start see how the number of users in projects increases over time. Does anyone have ideas about how this could be set up? Markus Neteler wrote: Interested to know how many unique users we have in the OSGeo mailing list system...? Here we are: 02_May_2009: 9791 So we'll possibly hit 10.000 later this year! For now added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VisibilityStats#Mailing_list_subscribers Markus PS: I would be happy to (auto-)post these numbers to an OSGeo marketing member as we should work out some more concrete stats for our sponsors. Similar to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect 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] The first (in)formal meeting of Poland OSGeo Chapter
Hi Tyler, I think it is this site: http://wogis.org/konferencja/?command=pagecommand_e=13 Markus On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi Tomasz, do you happen to have an information on a web page or wiki I can point people to? Just having a wiki page on wiki.osgeo.org would be a good help. Tyler On 18-May-09, at 2:44 PM, Tomasz.Kubik wrote: Dear All, Just to let you know I would like to announce the first (in)formal meeting of Poland OSGeo Chapter. The meeting will take place on the 22nd June 2009, starting from 18:30 CET at Zakład Klimatologii i Ochrony Atmosfery, Instytut Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego, Uniwersytet Wrocławski ul. Kosiby 6/8, Wrocław The meeting will precede one-day conference: Wolne oprogramowanie dla wykonawstwa i administracji geodezyjnej (Open-source for geodetic execution and administration). Tomasz Kubik ___ 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] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers andESRI ArcIMS
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:54 PM, sampe...@gmail.com wrote: Eventualy some can point out that ESRI ships open source libraries and tools. Then you ask the decision makers why you can't use other open source software if ESRI ships it already. Right - see for example Frank W's recent posting: [gdal-dev] 1.6-esri to Trunk Merge http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2009-May/020769.html ... I have created a personal branch of GDAL 1.6 in /sandbox/warmerdam/1.6-esri which includes a large variety of ESRI local changes and that I plan to back port various 1.7 features needed by ESRI for an upcoming release. ... Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Military OSS
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Michael P. Gerlekm...@lizardtech.com wrote: (sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the whole list - still getting used to the iPhone...) No - the problem is the odd setup of this list (unique in OSGeo?) which changes replies to the list instead of the poster as most other lists do. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html We should follow also here the Principle of Least Surprise and change the list settings. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Anne Ghislaa.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patton ha scritto: ... There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1] http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ [1] http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA It is already active on new user registration, so maybe part of the spam comes from human beings :S, then another way to limitate such spam is ConfirmAccout extension [0], that requires sysops to confirm new users one by one. This is extra load - but removing spam is extra load as well. One am one of them - please don't :) I am dealing with Wikis for many years. These human spammers always went away so far after a period. The overhead to manually delete a page from time to time is much less than confirming manually new users (which is also a non-incentive since they cannot start to hack the Wiki right away...). I don't mind to continue to delete those spam pages manually. Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Please feed the OSGeo Gallery
Hi, (reminder) if you have nice examples with screenshots and a short description of applications of OSGeo software, please post them here: http://gallery.osgeo.org/ thanks Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please feed the OSGeo Gallery
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Dave McIlhaggadmcilha...@dmsolutions.ca wrote: Hi Markus, It seems to be down right now? Hi Dave, yes, it is on the currently unreachable xblade14. Hope someone has a backup in case of disk loss. Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D visualization
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Alex Mandeltech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: Am looking for suggestions on how to take raster-style data (values per grid) and create 3D surfaces out of it. This would be not just for terrain but for anything... for example, a 3D surface of income, or age or any other parameter. ... NVIZ in Grass might work too, just skip the projection stuff. Yes, see here for examples: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/viz.php and http://www.grassbook.org/gallery/ Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Helena Mitasova
I wish to nominate Helena Mitasova for the board of directors. She is member of several OSGeo committees and she is continuously active and visible in the OSGeo community. Helena has been developing Open Source GIS since 1990 with even earlier efforts to lay out the mathematical foundations. She published a series of sophisticated algorithms in scientific publications and implemented them in the OSGeo software stack. This includes extremely valuable contributions to GRASS GIS and other projects. She is mentoring students for many years, and is developing publicly accessible courseware for teaching Open Source GIS. Her activities in the education committee of OSGeo are fundamental to render OSGeo visible in academia and elsewhere. She also contributed a first public geodata set to the community, showing once more her engagement in various OSGeo activities. Best, Markus Neteler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Markus Neteler
Dear charter members and community, I feel honored to be renominated again for the upcoming board election - this election is important to continue the work done for OSGeo and to meet the new challenges. This year we have a great choice between many new nominees and two board member standing for re-election. For those not knowing me: I am one of the founding members of OSGeo and involved in FOSS4G since 1993 (as user) and since 1998 (as developer) with most activities dedicated to the GRASS GIS project. I am very community oriented which means that I try to avoid making OSGeo any kind of elite group or the like. Moreover I work on integration, trying to connect people not knowing each other and trying to lower the barriers to contribute to OSGeo projects, be as ordinary user, be as power user or even more. Growing developers was the motto of one of the FOSS4G conferences which I like very much. If you are interested, you can find the collection of proposals I made in OSGeo, here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler ... some done, some in progress, some more to come :) Important for me is also the fact that most folks here are not native English speakers. Local chapters are important (I was involved in the establishment of the German and the Italian FOSS4G associations which later became OSGeo chapters) and need to be partially better connected to OSGeo-international. Furthermore, software needs to be translated to different languages. Here good progress was done but it needs to become easier to contribute. We'll work on that. Finally, I am interested (and contributed) to OSGeo-Edu and OSGeo-Geodata which I pushed a lot in the very beginning of OSGeo in 2006 to avoid a pure software foundation. I am sure that we could deliver a great portal to the existing community and especially newcomers with a good material collection. For OSGeo-Edu it has been started, for OSGeo-Geodata we may have a catalog in future. In this sense I'll continue to contribute! Best, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Companies using FOSS GIS in India
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, the OSGeo India is preparing for a meeting with Indian policy makers, and wish to gather information (before the meeting )on 1. Indian Universities / Educational institutions using FOSS GIS 2. Indian Companies using FOSS GIS, providing services for FOSS GIS,and undertaking contracts / projects using FOSS GIS. Please remember to register FOSS4G companies in the searchable OSGeo Service Providers list: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile thanks Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Companies using FOSS GIS in India
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 PM, blammo bo...@gritechnologies.com wrote: All, I wonder, can some short one line reminders be added to the footers of the Mail servers that hand out these types of reminders to folks. Or . . . even a one line link to a OSGEO Services page or something like that, that act as a jump-to for OSGEO user services. Might be a good idea. While we are at it: Please also feed the OSGeo gallery with new impressive screenshots: http://gallery.osgeo.org/ cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Licensing
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: Ravi wrote: Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or Ossim or any other Open GIS as well Example: I love Qgis and I have added some code to Qgis as a C++ programmer, thus giving the necessary customization for my specific client. I compile it and distribute the Executable, as part of my package deal. Does this violate any license of Qgis. Yes, it does. I recommend to read this: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/public-license-explained Here another recommendation: http://producingoss.com/ - Read it in English - On the web - 2. Getting Started - Starting From What You Have - Choosing a License and Applying It Best, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:36:11AM +1100, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: Hi, *** Sorry for cross-posting for those people on both lists *** Does anyone have or know of some high resolution vector and raster data that can be used in tutorials? MassGIS. http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm Even more: OSGeo Edu Data Package North Carolina http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina Data download: http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php - in GRASS GIS format - in SHAPE, GeoTIFF, KML formats Best, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de wrote: Hi, does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas? I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's no funtion to patch a bunch of aerial photos by detecting similarities in overlapping areas, I guess. Hopefully, I'm wrong. Yep :) Well, to be honest, the module need (severe?) updating: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Image_processing#Image_matching - i.points.auto Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison
2010/2/18 Andrea Aime aa...@opengeo.org: ... Checking open source software against its documentation ... depends on the project... also remember this: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Library#GFOSS_Books Plenty of books :) Markus is like evaluating commercial software against the help you can get on community driven forums (if there are any). Anyways, I agree this discussion would not take us anywhere and I won't comment any further. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ 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] Using v.overlay to crop 3D vector contour map - I can only get 2D output
(Perhaps this is better posted to a GRASS list) On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Mark msca...@mac.com wrote: I've tried using this feature but the only way I can make it work is to use the vector as ainput , type line and the region mask as binput type area. The resulting vector is only 2D. Is there a way of keeping 3D vectors over a specified 2D area? I see in main.c of v.overlay (GRASS 6.4.svn): 137 Vect_open_new(Out, out_opt-answer, WITHOUT_Z); To open a new file in 3D, WITH_Z needs to be used. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2010 Workshops ready for inscriptions
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Oscar Fonts oscar.fonts.li...@gmail.com wrote: [FOSS4G 2010 press release 5 - please promote] Link correction ahead: Barcelona, Spain. 26 February 2010. ... Following is a breaf description for each workshop. For more detailed information and registration, please visit FOSS4G 2010 web page: http://2010.fos4g.org. it is: http://2010.foss4g.org Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A FOSS Geo Project in India
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, freedomgis.worpress.com shows little. Pl give specifically Try (note the d): http://freedomgis.wordpress.com/ Markus -- http://gis.fem-environment.eu/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector menu - analysis tools - distance matrix ... and respectively for GRASS: - how to start it: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/helptext.html - Geonames.org import (into lat-long location): http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.in.geonames.html - Distance matrix (use Print output there) http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.distance.html - Examples, Print distance matrix (in lat-long, it calculates them as geodesic distances on a sphere) cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [book] GIS Primer
2010/3/19 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Folks, I've come across an interesting e-book: GIS Primer by David J. Buckley http://bgis.sanbi.org/GIS-primer/ Seems to be valuable edu material. Perhaps it is partially a bit dated (the preface indicates February 1997) and there is no license indication of the text... thanks for signalling of course! Best regards, Markus -- http://gis.fem-environment.eu/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS USER DOUBT
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Gangadhar A annamredd...@gmail.com wrote: HOW TO DIGITIZE A RASTER LAYER IN GRASS GIS # Classical digitizer: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.digit.html # New advanced digitizer: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/wxGUI.Vector_Digitizing_Tool.html Please consider to post further questions to the dedicated list (GRASS-user): http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php as this is the general OSGeo-Discuss list. hope this helps, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
And also Ratman: http://ratman.sourceforge.net/ which even includes the data streaming server software. Markus On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Brian Russo br...@beruna.org wrote: World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Brent Fraser bfra...@geoanalytic.com wrote: Landon, We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?
Cameron, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Marina, (small correction: Maria) That is a good example. To be complete, could you also answer: * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use? I'll leave that to Maria. * Why did you decide to use GRASS instead of proprietary software? (Hopefully more than it was cheaper) ... note that she actually *author* of the code. She and her team have developed it over the last years. * It seems you are officiated with a University? She is professor there. Industry is more convinced by case studies that come out of industry, as universities are often associated with smart geeks, who have a high tollerance to things going wrong because they can fix it themselves. Is there a non-education affilition you can draw upon? Did you do this work for a governement department or similar? I leave this again to Maria. Best Markus maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote: Dear Cameron if you are interested also in LiDAR data filtering (to obtain from the LiDAR point cloud the digital terrain model), we developed commands into GRASS. They have to be used in sequence. http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.edgedetection.html http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.growing.html http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.correction.html http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.surf.bspline.html A detailed description is available here: http://www.foss4g2006.org/getFile.py/access?contribId=48sessionId=59resId=7materialId=slidesconfId=1 a more recent and summarised version can be found here: http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/remote_sensing/LiDAR_filtering_with_GRASS-lab4.pdf We worked also on calibration of the filtering parameters (around 20 parameters) by integrating the USGS UCODE and GRASS. Details are available here: http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/1_4_7-W5/paper/Brovelli-126.pdf I hope it helps. Cheers. Maria - Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm giving a presentation on GeoSpatial Open Source at the international Surveyors conference here in Sydney. http://www.fig2010.com/ I'd like advice on what use cases and Open Source packages I should focus on during the presentation. Feedback from Surveyors welcomed. -- 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 -- Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ 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] are there any unpaid developers?
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote: - Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I can't think of any successful (wide adoption, long-term sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love. Well, maybe Bacula? Another one is GRASS GIS (out of governmental contracts since 1996): http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html ..if 14 years already count :) There is no continuous funding agency. Some developers may be allowed to use work time when programming. For other project candidates, see also Open Source GIS History http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO project based Web app for watershed land use?
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use information calculated for the upstream area. It is based on some OSGEO projects and is quite a cool app. As backbone, GRASS will do that (r.watershed, now faster by a magnitude in GRASS 6.4+). I have found and lost the URL to this app several times. If this sounds familiar, I would appreciate it if you could point me back there again... Perhaps here? http://gallery.osgeo.org/ Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial Support for OSGeo / FOSS4G applications [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: I need to respond quickly to an international / intergovernmental group, where I'd like to cite examples of: - Proprietary companies using FOSS4G software (e.g. ESRI using GDAL); Here a GDAL related list: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoftwareUsingGdal (hope there are more lists like that) - Examples of sizable organisations that provide support for FOSS4G applications, development and customisation. - studies showing the take up of FOSS4G within Government organisations. For some, see here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, cruise...@comcast.net wrote: am in a quandry, have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a datset. 1. have tried GVsig and quantumGIS, but neither seems to like the ascii tab-delimited format. 2. Quantum does not like the Mid-mif files i have, and it appears GVsig does not take the format Everything open-source GIS seems to want CSV or shapefiles. Find here a dedicated Wiki page for the GRASS software: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Import_XYZ GRASS 6.4+ can meanwhile deal with extremely large data sets. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo list of programmers?
Hi all, I was recently asked by a company which was originally focused on proprietary software development and gradually opens up to OSGeo related development, how to deal with the problem of (quickly) finding software developers specialized in OSGeo related software. Their problem is that they are not much familiar with our community style of development and that they need to sometimes find quick solutions for tight deadlines. Perhaps we need something similar to Service Provider Directory at http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile which is better supporting the many individuals in our communities in the style of rent an OSGeo programmer? This could even stimulate the market and contradict the still existing opinion that FOSS is less supported with contracts and such. Note: a company, say, from my current home town will unlikely call in India or US or ... to find an OSGeo programmer. They prefer a person who speaks Italian and is ideally not too far away for practical reasons. But how to find such people? Here OSGeo could help and offer a dedicated list where individuals could register to showcase their skills. Best seen with direct links to OSGeo SVN record of course...! Opinions? Markus -- http://gis.ambiente.fmach.it/ http://grass.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo list of programmers?
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com wrote: Markus Neteler wrote: Perhaps we need something similar to Service Provider Directory at http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile which is better supporting the many individuals in our communities in the style of rent an OSGeo programmer? ... Opinions? Markus, I think the service provider directory is the correct vehicle for this purpose, and that instead of making something distinct we ought to just promote amoung the rent an OSGeo programmer crowd more. Fine with that but currently it is not that obvious that the service provider directory is the correct vehicle, at least to me. But perhaps it is just a marketing problem (plus some cosmetics to the pages). Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: I am working on a presentation focused on, What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in OpenSource. My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories including software, databases, community, and open data. Feel free to recycle material from http://www.slideshare.net/markusN/presentations There is even more at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/osgeo Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Timmie timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: Hello, I have piled up quite some data for a current project. In order to keep track of the data I would like to use some automatic indexing to create a data catalog. Important issue! Time ago I put together this Wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Metadata_software Please add all new findings to it, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released http://grass.osgeo.org We are pleased to announce the new stable version of GRASS GIS. As a stable release GRASS 6.4 will enjoy long term support. While active development has continued in the background, due to our highly conservative stabilization policy this is the first official release of GRASS to introduce new features since October 2006. It supersedes the previous stable GRASS 6.2 line while remaining backward-compatible with all previous releases since 6.0. As such there are a host of new features to explore and it incorporates many structural improvements. GRASS 6.4 debuts our new and improved wxPython graphical user interface (wxGUI); Python is now a fully supported scripting language; and for the first time since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS now runs natively on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. GRASS has been translated into twenty languages and supports a wide array of popular data formats. GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the academic and professional worlds in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free. The source code is also freely available, allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new features, and faster patching of bugs. Full story at http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass640.html ___ 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
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote: Markus, You're making it harder to choose between Ubuntu and Centos for the home computer :-) Doug Well, I am happy Mandriva user :) All is there, too. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for dedicated server recommendations
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl wrote: Hi Mateusz, I have been using multiple (Root) servers from Hetzner http://www.hetzner.de the last 5 years and am very happy with their price/quality. best regards, Another happy Hetzner client (7+ years)... Markus -- http://gis.ambiente.fmach.it/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for dedicated server recommendations
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: On 03/10/10 19:51, Markus Neteler wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl wrote: Hi Mateusz, I have been using multiple (Root) servers from Hetzner http://www.hetzner.de the last 5 years and am very happy with their price/quality. best regards, Another happy Hetzner client (7+ years)... Hetzner looks interesting to me. I'm just wondering if and how much optional features I will need to buy to have full access to the machine resources :-) I didn't buy anything else than a standard package. They even offer 100GB backup space included. Do you guys access the systems through SSH or VNC? Yes and yes. And you can order for free a temporary console if you mess up the boot sequence :) They have 1+ Gbit/s connection etc. So it behaves like an own server, just in a different place. cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there Charter Member elections on?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: On 10/21/2010 01:18 PM, Jo Walsh wrote: don't see a news item on http://osgeo.org/ ... Nominations are open according to the recent email from Paul Ramsey http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Can-charter-members-be-nominated-any-time-td5659108.html#a5659108 Jo meant that there is no news entry for that. I have now submitted Paul's message to news_i...@osgeo.org which may be approved asap by Tyler or FrankW who to my knowledge manage this account. cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS not in demand, says PennState
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.com wrote: Directions Magazine just published a QA about the state of geospatial jobs and occupations with some folks from Penn State in which this question appeared: Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as GRASS? Two of the panelists answered. One said More generally, the ability to create custom software solutions - whether proprietary or open source or a combination of the two - is in high demand. which is a good, healthy response. But the other said Not seeing positions posted with GRASS. which is disappointing of course, but probably not surprising. Would have been interesting to see if any other open source keywords (qgis? mapserver? Osm?) ever got any hits with them. Maybe they should subscribe to OSGeo-Jobs :) There are such job postings. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tools and approaches for the cartography of archaeological excavation sites
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: Hello, I have been asked to analyze how FLOSS software could help to support an archaeological program that would take place in remote mountainous corners of Central Asia. I pretty much see which sensors and software to use for the small scale part, where standard GPS precision is enough. But the most important part is a large scale work, where they need a much higher precision in order to position their findings and draw very precise maps of the excavation sites. When they work in Europe they have sensors and are in a context which give them a precision of the millimeter. For this project they know that they won't have access to the same tooling and they could live with a precision of the centimeter. My questions to the list therefore are: - is it relevant to use our usual FOSS4G software (GRASS, QGIS, etc.) for such tasks? or do only CAD tools make sense? ... Here a LiveCD pointer: ArcheOS: http://www.archeos.eu Screenshots 1: http://www.arc-team.com/archeos/wiki/doku.php?id=screenshots Screenshots 2: http://www.archeos.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=screenshots Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Greek Inspire Metadata Editor (gimed)
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: Those software you mention are far more advanced and mature, I agree with you. I can also add MDWeb to the list as a great metadata/catalog software (http://www.mdweb-project.org/) I have added the links to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Metadata_software Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Charter Member Selection
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Ramsey pram...@cleverelephant.ca wrote: OSGeo members, The 2010 process is complete, and the new charter members are, in alphabetical order: • Alex Mandel • Andreas Hocevar • Anne Ghisla • Astrid Emde • Danilo Furtado • Gavin Fleming • Hirofumi Hayashi • Jo Cook • Maria Brovelli • Milena Nowotarska Congratulations - I am very happy that the global distribution of OSGeo + gender is now better represented also in the charter membership. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: ... I prefer concrete examples when highlighting bug response time. For example, during one of our training, a participant noticed a simple bug in QGIS. I promised to report them to the devs which was fixed in less than 24 hours. An (impressive) statistics could be how *many* bugs have been resolved in 24-48 hs. As a first pick one could start with that since it is a great advertisement for the Open Source development model. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Iteration and supercomputing with GRASS GIS
Hi Johannes, On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Johannes Radinger jradin...@gmx.at wrote: Hello, I am very new to GRASS GIS! welcome! Please note that this is the general OSGeo list but see for some answers below. Perhaps we switch to the GRASS users list for further discussion: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user More below: At the moment I am working with ArcGIS10 to develop a dispersal model (raster based) which involves single calculations for each raster cell (around 20 000 calculations) conducted by an iteration process over the cells of the input raster. As this takes quite long, a change to a Linux based software and the use of a supercomputer (mulitcore) is considered. Therefore especially GRASS GIS sounds interesting to me for the soltution. Yes, it should offer what you need. How are iterations (like in the ArcGIS10 modelbuilder) solved in GRASS GIS? You can use for example (besides other module), the raster map algebra calculator for this: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.mapcalc.html Especially the eval() function may be of interest to simplify the coding. See for example the script of http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/scripts/r.shaded.relief/ for an example. Is that possible? I would say yes. Again, best discussed in the GRASS list. Is it possible to perform the single calculation in parallel mode and use a multicore Linux supercomputer e.g.? Also yes. I have processed 11.000 MODIS Land Surface Temperature maps using a 128 node Linux cluster. See for references * http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs - Grid Engine * Neteler, M. (2010): Estimating daily Land Surface Temperatures in mountainous environments by reconstructed MODIS LST data. Remote Sensing 2(1), 333-351. Abstract + free PDF: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/2/1/333 I can give you more indications if you need. Best Markus -- Markus Neteler, PhD Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) - IASMA Research and Innovation Centre Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology Head of GIS and Remote Sensing Unit Via E. Mach, 1 - 38010 S. Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy Web: http://gis.cri.fmach.it - http://grass.osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GWF Hyderabad 2011
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, GWF turned to be a great event for OSGeo and OSGeo India. http://www.geospatialworld. net/index.php?option=com_ contentview=articleid=21391% 3Aopen-source-initiatives-so- far-catid=75%3Amiscellaneous- eventsItemid=1 http://yfrog.com/h4qvijj congrats - hope you had a lot of audience in the OSGeo session. will blog soon. We all Missed Markus very much. Let's hope for the next time that I'll get the visa before departure :) Markus -- http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Jobs list
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net wrote: Hi! Maybe a good opportunity to discuss this :-) Traffic on the OSGeo Discuss list is not very high these days, but it has by far the largest number of subscribers. When posting a job opportunity you want to have a large crowd reading it. Maybe we should reconsider if it is indeed a problem for the community to receive job postings on the discuss list or not? I personally don't have problems with jobs posted on the discuss list. I also think that people will immediately respond when someone abuses the list for inappropriate posts, so there will be a community moderation effect also. (I can't immediately think of inappropriate postings for jobs). Here there visibility would be definitely higher! I would be fine to read the postings in this discuss list. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] mapguide download problem
(cc SAC) On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, olek plewa ool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, has anyone heard about downlaod problem of all mapguide OpenSource staff, form the official website. I can not download anything form about 3 days :/ Please do something The download.osgeo.org server no more reachable from all providers worldwide, apparently due to a routing problem. Here in Italy esp. Telecom clients are affected, in other countries also other providers (but never all). The problem affects also the OSGeo4W project and others. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Posters and Flyers
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: On 2011-04-03, at 12:13 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: can you please do a svn propset svn:mime-type application/pdf *.pdf to let our browsers detect the good stuff??? Done :) Still trying to make it do automatically :( That's easy. Just borrow this script from the GRASS GIS project: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/tools/module_svn_propset.sh It accepts file name(s) and wildcards. Cheers Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project donations
Hi Tim, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Tim Schaub tsch...@opengeo.org wrote: Hello- I see a proposal for having OSGeo accept microdonations on behalf of projects. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations I also see that MapGuide has a Donate button that brings users to a PayPal page for OSGeo. Is there an updated resource on how project can get set up to accept small donations? I have written this page long time ago. Various OSGeo projects have found own solutions which I have started to add at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations#What.27s_already_there Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.pt wrote: Have there been any discussions about ways of raising funds for projects under the OSGeo umbrella? For instance, annual fund raising campaigns like Wikipedia does? Or letters/emails asking for donations to known “significant” users as associations sometimes do? Or using sites specialized in linking users requests to developers? I suppose this is to be done by each project individually… A relevant group are the institutional sponsors (companies, agencies and so on). To better address the small donations I once started http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations which is based on ideas from Paolo Cavallini. Recently it has been picked up again. Several OSGeo projects have their own donation page (see above WIki page) but for sure more could be done. Markus -- http://gis.cri.fmach.it/neteler/ http://grass.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Now - Geostat 2011 Livestream
FYI - right now Roger Bivand speaking... best Markus - Von: Ralf Schäfer schaefer-r...@uni-landau.de Datum: 13. Juli 2011 22:17:05 MESZ An: grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: LIivestreaming during GEOSTAT summer school - Free analysis of spatio-temporal data including GRASS GIS Dear all, the GEOSTAT Summer school 2011 in Landau will run from the 24th to the 31st of July in Landau and focuses on important aspects of statistical analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data using open source / free GIS tools: R, SAGA GIS,GRASS GIS, FWTools, Google Earth and similar. The course participants learn how to move data back and forth between the different environments; how to produce scripts and automate analysis. The summer school will include a 1 day course of GRASS GIS by Markus Neteler and Markus Metz. The complete summer school will be broadcasted live over Ustream and this will give you the opportunity to follow the seminars for free. See here for details http://www.geostat-course.org/Live and here http://www.geostat-course.org/Landau_2011 for more information on the summer school and the exact program. Please distribute this information to all people who may be interested in following this summer school. Thank you very much for your attention. Best regards, Ralf Schäfer Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Bernhard Schäfer Juniorprofessor for Quantitative Landscape Ecology Environmental Scientist (M.Sc.) Institute for Environmental Sciences University Koblenz-Landau Fortstrasse 7 76829 Landau Germany Mail: schaefer-r...@uni-landau.de Phone: ++49 (0) 6341 280-31536 Web: http://tinyurl.com/6dnpxna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Alex Borrell borrella...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like OSGeo to increase its presence in not-developed areas in LatinAmerica (where I am :)), Asia and Africa. Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board should be representative in terms of global coverage, software project diversity, educational efforts and fresh geodata management ideas. Best Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Paper of interest: Evaluating Open Source GIS for Libraries
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Schweik cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote: I stumbled across this article today and thought others might be interested to know it exists. The citation is: Francis P. Donnelly, (2010) Evaluating open source GIS for libraries, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.131 - 151 Stefan commented a bit on this in the Edu list - esp. to keep in mind that the study is based on the state of 2008: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Stefan Steiniger sst...@geo.uzh.ch wrote: Hei all, I just read the article below and found it really interesting. It compares uDig, MapWindow, gvSIG, GRASS, QGIS, OpenJUMP with ArcGIS, having a focus on basic use (i.e. creating a thematic map from existing data: http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf Title: Evaluating open source GIS for libraries Author(s): Francis P. Donnelly Journal: Library Hi Tech Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 131 – 151 ISSN: 0737-8831 DOI: 10.1108/07378831011026742 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited I think the article shows quite well where is still room for improvements to be more attractive to GIS beginners, or people from other (non-earth) sciences. Though.. some of the issues may be resolved by now as I think he did the evaluation in 2008 - see his blog entry: http://gothos.info/?p=458 cheers, stefan ___ Edu_discuss mailing list edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss So some things may look better nowadays :) Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
