[OSGeo-Discuss] CASCADOSS regional workshops. Benelux.

2008-11-03 Thread Rafal Wawer
Dear All, CASCADOSS project organizes several regional events, targeted to disseminate project's output, extended with demonstrations, case studies and training. In general there will be 5 regional workshops, held in: Benelux, Poland, Czech Rep., Slovakia and Hungary, organized idependently

[OSGeo-Discuss] Benefits raster data on RDBMS

2008-11-03 Thread Gilberto Camara
Dear all Concerning the benefits of having raster data stored together with vector data in a spatial database, let me first quote from an excellent paper from the late Jim Gray (Scientific Data Management in the Coming Decade): What’s wrong with files? Everything builds from files as a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo The China event

2008-11-03 Thread Gao Ang
Ravi: It's nice to know that you pay close attention to our activities. We organize this activity to let students get know of the whole GIS software stack, and let them to realize the benefit of using the open source GIS. However, we won't fight against the commercial software. We'd like to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Benefits raster data on RDBMS

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:13:49AM -0200, Gilberto Camara wrote: Dear all Concerning the benefits of having raster data stored together with vector data in a spatial database, let me first quote from an excellent paper from the late Jim Gray (Scientific Data Management in the Coming

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo The China event

2008-11-03 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi All, the OSGeo China event going to be held going to be held may please be explained on the following points as this will certainly add to info for others. 1. What are the Open GIS lectures proposed 2. The ARC??? software mentioned, is this an exercise to bridge between     Prop-Com

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2008 conference materials

2008-11-03 Thread Joe Larson
Gavin Fleming ha scritto: Perfect timing Eduardo There was a permissions bug on the FOSS4G website hosted by OSGeo that was fixed only last week. Many presentations have since been uploaded and we hope to have all of them available soon, along with some of the materials from workshops and

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: [GRASS-user] Tips for setting up annew FOSS-GEO-linux-box]

2008-11-03 Thread Landon Blake
I've added some of my own comments about operating systems to this wiki page. I'm no expert on Linux distributions, and the comments are based solely on my own experiences as a Linux user. I hope that this is helpful to others. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2008 conference materials

2008-11-03 Thread Eduardo Kanegae
Thanks Gavin, I´m gonna wait for that. best, Eduardo Kanegae http://anthologis.com On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Gavin Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect timing Eduardo There was a permissions bug on the FOSS4G website hosted by OSGeo that was fixed only last week. Many

[OSGeo-Discuss] Does the OSGeo have a historian?

2008-11-03 Thread Landon Blake
While preparing my recent proposal for the OSGeo I realized there wasn't a lot of information on the history of the organization. I realize part of this is because the OSGeo is pretty young as far as organizations go. However, most of the information I could find about the OSGeo was related to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software to test a WCS server?

2008-11-03 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hi Alexandre, There is a CITE (Compliance and Interoperability Test Engine) which is used to test reference implementations for OGC specs, including WCS. You can get the engine from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamengine To get the tests for wcs you need to sign up for an account on

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does the OSGeo have a historian?

2008-11-03 Thread Landon Blake
I'll wait for others to respond. If we don't already have this information on the wiki I will create a page. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:50 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster data on a DBMS

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:57:53PM -0200, Gilberto Camara wrote: Jim Gray´s paper and much more on this issue is on his site at MS Research. Gray has hundreds of papers listed on his Microsoft Research page. As I said, I'm not claiming that Gray's paper said or did not say something, merely

[OSGeo-Discuss] Are United States RD Tax Credits Applicable to Open Source Software Development?

2008-11-03 Thread Landon Blake
I'm currently working on a proposal to secure some corporate funding for development of OpenJUMP, an open source desktop GIS viewer. I'd like to know if any of you have experience with applying research and development tax credits to the development of open source software (in the United States).

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster data on a DBMS

2008-11-03 Thread P Kishor
On 11/3/08, Gilberto Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Allow me to reiterate my earlier argument, which is that FOSS4G should **allow** users the option of storing raster data in a database. Storing images in a database is not recommended in each and every situation. The user should

[OSGeo-Discuss] A new version of GeoKettle released!

2008-11-03 Thread Thierry Badard
suite designed by Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com). This special distribution of Kettle includes extensions which enable the use of geospatial (GIS) data. Like Kettle, GeoKettle is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). GeoKettle v3.1.0-20081103 is still in alpha version

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best Place For My OSGeo Presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Markus Neteler
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