Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Aust-NZ] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Allan Doyle
There's another at http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index_Calendar.html I thought setting up a calendar would be a good idea at one point, too. Then I saw how many are out there already, and the enormity of the task sunk in. Not only are there a lot of calendars out there, but many events are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
2007/10/15, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar? Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar. It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't clash. Hi, I maintain that calendar:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess rendering quality?

2007-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Gilles Bassière wrote: Hi list, I'm doing a comparative study of OpenSource cartographic servers (Mapserver, Geoserver and Mapnik). Beside raw performance and features, I'd like to assess the rendering quality, say how pretty produced maps are. Precisely, I'm interested in the quality of the

[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post about starting a California Chapter. Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
I have also been testing having a common/shared (via webdav) .ics file that we could use. Would that help? I was envisioning having one for tracking OSGeo meetings, but we could also use one for events in general. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
I've contacted the administrative staff for the conference about requirements and costs for a booth. I'll report to the list when I have learned more. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Putler Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Cameron Shorter
Mmm, I hadn't through the complexity of my request for this deceptively simple problem. Agreed, standardized structured data is part of the ultimate solution. Do you enter every event and swamp the user with noise? I guess a user would want to subscribe to a number of domain or geography

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Chris Whitney
Unfortunately, I will not be able to go to CalGIS. The requirements for a new chapter are available at http:// www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html: -- In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken: OSGeo Chapter should