Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-12 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/01/10 01:19, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: > Bruce, > > I have been looking at the GeoScience Australia Downloads but all these > are too broad for most of what I do. Need something at 1:25,000 or better. > > I suppose the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Bruce, Yes I have DSE/CALP contacts. Although data can be extracted from land.vic.gov.au under data supply agreements, these contracts do not extend to third parties. I would need to get special permission to allow a dataset to be downloaded by whomever would visit my website. I could put up

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-12 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Simon, IMO: After the recent Victorian Government Inquiry into public sector information, the outcome was that Vic Govt data should also be provided via Creative Commons. You should be able to see most of their VicMap datasets via the ASDD. There will be a lot of other more detailed data via D

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?

2010-01-12 Thread Christopher Schmidt
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Bruce, I have been looking at the GeoScience Australia Downloads but all these are too broad for most of what I do. Need something at 1:25,000 or better. I suppose the biggest problem is aerial photography. What little is out there is very broad scale regional stuff. Nothing showing just one

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-12 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Simon, Check out the Australian Spatial Data Directory [1]. Geoscience Australia also have a wide range of datasets that I understand are now available via Creative Commons. Bruce Bannerman [1] http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/tech/zap/basic.html > -Original Message- > From: discu

[OSGeo-Discuss] [conference] ACCU 2010

2010-01-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, I'm forwarding announcement about ACCU 2010 conference http://www.accu.org/conference April 14-17, 2010. Barcelo Oxford Hotel, Oxford, UK This is not a GIS or any kind of geospatial conference, but it's related to OSGeo activities. It's a pure programming and software development conferen

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?

2010-01-12 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi Simon, I can't help with everything, but I'll make a couple of suggestions. For road data, CloudMade produce shapefile exports from OpenStreetMap: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/oceania/australia OSM is pretty exciting in Oz at the moment as there's a lot of users tracing data from some super

[OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
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? The datasets need to be unfetted by intellectual property constraints. Essentially I want to build a set of tutorials arou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MIL-OSS Conference

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Lucas
Note, the venue has been changed to Washington DC in the July / August time frame. Mark On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Mark Lucas wrote: > If anyone is interested in speaking, please fill out the form for the next > Military Open Source Software conference in Portland Oregon > > Initial confer

[OSGeo-Discuss] MIL-OSS Conference

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Lucas
If anyone is interested in speaking, please fill out the form for the next Military Open Source Software conference in Portland OregonInitial conference info:  http://mil-oss.org/Speakers form:http://mil-oss.org/speaker_form.htm  Mark LucasDivision Manager516 E New Haven AvenueMelbourne Fl 32901(32

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Support for '@' field type in a Shapefile.

2010-01-12 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:32:33PM +0100, Sylvain Maillard wrote: > There is a function like this for raster in GRASS : "*r.timestamp* - > Print/add/remove a timestamp for a raster map" > http://grass.osgeo.org/grass65/manuals/html65_user/r.timestamp.html > > I don't know if it's using "@", but it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Support for '@' field type in a Shapefile.

2010-01-12 Thread Sylvain Maillard
There is a function like this for raster in GRASS : "*r.timestamp* - Print/add/remove a timestamp for a raster map" http://grass.osgeo.org/grass65/manuals/html65_user/r.timestamp.html I don't know if it's using "@", but it should be visible in the source ... @+ Sylvain 2010/1/12 Ariel Nunez