[OSGeo-Discuss] The amicus curiae brief in the Orange County, California public records / geo data court case

2011-12-16 Thread Dan Putler
Hi all, I've been in contact with Bruce Joffe who has been working on an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief associated with two court decisions that have gone in completely opposite directions in California, one involving Santa Clara County and the other involving Orange County. The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] main annual rainfall map of Alps

2011-11-22 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Markus, The animation is really impressive, but there isn't a lot on the page in terms of hints other than the animation showing it can be done. Was this exclusively done in GRASS, or is R lurking in the background? Dan On 11/22/2011 04:00 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Woodbridge

2011-11-14 Thread Dan Putler
Hi all, We, Dan Putler and Daniel Kastl, are nominating Stephen Woodbridge to be a Charter Member of OSGeo. We have both worked with Steve as part of a project team, Daniel Kastl on pgRouting and Dan Putler on PAGC. We have both found him to be an outstanding colleague and important

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Random Forest Classification

2011-10-26 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Mohammed, This seems to be an R topic rather than an OSGeo topic. The R-Geo mailing list is probably the best choice (look at the mailing list page on the http://www.r-project.org site). Random forest models can be used with data acquired by remote sensing, but the method is really

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Online shapefile Viewer

2011-04-03 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Rashad, Is the viewer open source software? I've gone to the site, and response is fairly slow. Although, given the likely interest in this, you may be getting a *lot* of hits at the moment. Dan On 04/03/2011 11:08 AM, Mohammed Rashad wrote: Hi, I am posting here because gis users may

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Online shapefile Viewer

2011-04-03 Thread Dan Putler
, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Dan Putler dan.put...@sauder.ubc.ca mailto:dan.put...@sauder.ubc.ca wrote: Hi Rashad, Is the viewer open source software? I've gone to the site, and response is fairly slow. Although, given the likely interest in this, you may be getting a *lot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CommonMap in Canada

2011-03-14 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Tony, Very unlikely. Statistics Canada releases some data for free, but not data from the Census of Population. Moreover, a postal code is typically at a finer level (often for one side of a street in a single block) than a Designation Area (the lowest level for which they report data).

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries

2011-03-02 Thread Dan Putler
, you're welcome to it. Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/2/2011 12:31 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Paolo, Your point is well taken. What seem to be the best solutions involve reading in a shapefile and then writing out a new one. I was starting to lean toward either PostGIS or Spatialite by using a SQL

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries

2011-03-01 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Paolo, Simon, and Noli, Thanks for this. It both answered my question as to whether there was an existing command line tool I had just overlooked (the answer is no), and what were my choices for something that could fairly easily be implemented if there wasn't an existing tool (the answer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries

2011-03-01 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Paolo, Your point is well taken. What seem to be the best solutions involve reading in a shapefile and then writing out a new one. I was starting to lean toward either PostGIS or Spatialite by using a SQL script sourced within the relevant cli shell since my guess was that they would scale

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating *.shp.xml files with open source tools

2011-02-18 Thread Dan Putler
Thanks Tom and Alex. Both of your comments were very helpful. Looking at the link that Tom sent, it seems that GeoNetwork is the solution to the problem. Dan On 02/18/2011 11:55 AM, Kralidis,Tom [Ontario] wrote: Also check out http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/iso-metadata-editor-review. It also

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geopaparazzi released

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Putler
After having hit the send button, I decided to make sure whether or not I was missing something, and ran into the screen shots of the former geopaparazzi compass screen (complete with the OSGEO compass), my apologies to Alex. Dan On 09/26/2010 08:59 PM, Dan Putler wrote: I'm more than a bit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Dan, PAGC has its documentation written in text files with markdown markup, which is then converted into various formats (html and PDF via LaTeX in particular) using pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ I know gdal uses restructured text in a similar way. Dan On 06/01/2010 10:00

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any thoughts on the potential for using Seadragon as a map browsing interface?

2010-04-27 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch database geocoding

2010-04-26 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Putler
It is always good not to paste the URL twice, so a second shot at Openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:09 -0800, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Charlie, Something to look at is Openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/http://code.google.com/p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Comparison between Proprietary and OS

2008-04-26 Thread Dan Putler
. Proprietary software vendors have surrounded us with distorting mirrors. Once you step away, things look quite different. Regards, Micha ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Dan

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Dan, It is an interesting idea. Although, I think some thought would need to be put into the scope of the articles that would be a fit for this outlet. Would the focus be on scientific analysis that happened to be carried out using FOSS4G products, or would it be about software tools