Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using an OSGeo membership to work at the OGC

2011-04-15 Thread Jody Garnett
a research capacity, or strictly as a volunteer, perhaps you could make use of one of the OSGeo memberships. I don't think we had any restrictions on their use; but it would be nice to discuss anything interesting on the standa...@osgeo.org email list. All the best, Jody Garnett On Frida

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoTools 8

2011-04-10 Thread Jody Garnett
-SNAPSHOT org.geotools gt-main ${geotools.version} org.geotools gt-epsg-hsql ${geotools.version} -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] shortestpath in openjump

2011-03-15 Thread Jody Garnett
You may wish to try on the open jump email list. GeoTools has an excellent graph package for finding the shortest path; that was originally ported from JUMP. So I would expect OpenJump to have something. -- Jody Garnett On Monday, 14 March 2011 at 4:56 PM, subbu sravan wrote: > G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do youXXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Jody Garnett
Hey Mike: I am not sure about other projects; but for uDig we have a "tasks" section; and we depend on our contributors to populate it. You will find that many of the contributors have not used ArcMap and are not in a position to write a from this perspective. For uDig the tasks section is in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-02 Thread Jody Garnett
This request comes up yearly; and was one of the ideas for content for the osgeo website. The difficulty is finding resources to produce the content. The trouble is just because a request is common, and makes perfect sense from a marketing open source geospatial point of view, does not imply the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Jody Garnett
Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > You can often export the bug database out into excel for analysis. You > may need to play with the results to focus on problem reporting. > > Why? Often open source projects end up with "wish list" bugs that do >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Jody Garnett
You can often export the bug database out into excel for analysis. You may need to play with the results to focus on problem reporting. Why? Often open source projects end up with "wish list" bugs that do not fall within anyone's funding or mandate. Personally I would love to see the difference n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Incubator] Defining the Marketing requirements for OSGeo Incubation

2010-11-09 Thread Jody Garnett
use everything invariably falls >>> apart. Let us for now stick with whatever projets are used to and wait a >>> bit more for HTML5. >>> >>> To me "nudging" feels a lot more like OSGeo than the threat of "imposing >>> rules". But this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G rpm packaging

2010-11-08 Thread Jody Garnett
You are welcome to drop by the geotools and geoserver projects; if you can give us a script to package the rpm we may be able to make it part of our release process :-) Jody On 08/11/2010, at 8:38 PM, Ralph Apel wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have been a contributor/committer at www.jpackage.or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] contacting project officers

2010-11-05 Thread Jody Garnett
On November 5, 2010 10:50:41 pm Jody Garnett wrote: >> Could we set up a mailing list containing project officers to help >> committees make contact? Even if it is just to invite project >> representatives to an IRC meeting or other activity; a contact mailing >> list would pe

[OSGeo-Discuss] contacting project officers

2010-11-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Here is an idea: On the website[1] publish a list of "project officers" who can be contacted as representatives by the various committees (education, marketing and incubation). Currently this list is perhaps incomplete? VP, FDO: Greg Boone VP, GDAL/OGR: Frank Warmerdam VP, GeoNetwork opensource:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Incubator] Defining the Marketing requirements for OSGeo Incubation

2010-11-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Bit confused here cameron. The incubation committee is focused to helping projects into the foundation; the marketing committee needs to sort out what is required to facilitate involvement with any promotional activities OSGeo undertakes. So please don't respond to the incubation list; not real

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geopaparazzi released

2010-09-26 Thread Jody Garnett
Congrats on your release; glad to see more open players in the mobile space. Jody On 25/09/2010, at 7:45 PM, andrea antonello wrote: > Dear colleagues, > today we finally released the first version of Geopaparazzi on the > android market. The project is released under GPLv3 an available on > the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Please give me advice on how to check the substitionGroup attribute?

2010-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
I am not sure there is an easy answer to this one. There is one approach here: - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/0+Parsing+Overview It involves checking the schema and looking at what is intended as you are parsing. Jody On 22/09/2010, at 1:41 PM, eros wrote: > > anybody in the grou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ZOO-Project WPS Validity report

2010-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
out this, > best regards, > > [1] > http://3liz.com/blog/rldhont/index.php/2010/09/20/344-zoo-project-wps-validity-report > > Le 20 sept. 2010 à 11:09, Jody Garnett a écrit : > >> With respect to your testing of zoo - you may wish to pass this information >> o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ZOO-Project WPS Validity report

2010-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for following up on what was an excellent series of WPS presentations at foss4g this year. I was amazed to see so many presentations devoted to WPS. One that really stood out as a usage report was the EnviModel presentation. Using WPS, R stats, and numerous other components to get the jo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Translating OSGeo-Live's marketing material - Who is interested?

2010-09-09 Thread Jody Garnett
So code sprint is tomorrow (in 8.5 hours). Can we have any chance of getting the directory instruction in place before hand? I would much rather use the smaller iso code names (en, es, fr, ko, etc...) than type out each language. Jody___ Discuss mai

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Translating OSGeo-Live's marketing material - Who is interested?

2010-09-08 Thread Jody Garnett
So far we have German and Japanese volunteers at the conference for Friday. One thing that would really help is to set up the project directory structure for de and jp prior to the code sprint so we can just get going. I will stop in at the code sprint but expect I will mostly be hanging with the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: case-studies reminder

2010-08-19 Thread Jody Garnett
If you reply with tales of GeoServer failure it will just go into my presentation :-) (The case-studies page is thus far for success stories). Jody On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > Any corrections welcome; and if you reply to this message with tales > of GeoServer s

[OSGeo-Discuss] case-studies reminder

2010-08-19 Thread Jody Garnett
I was trying to update a geoserver presentation today ... and did not find much on the case studies page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies). As a temporary measure I have added a link to the GeoServer Gallery: - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/gallery And in the interest an equal opportu

[OSGeo-Discuss] uDig 1.2.0 Released

2010-08-17 Thread Jody Garnett
The uDig 1.2 release process is complete and we are pleased to offer uDig 1.2.0 for download. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 2.6.5. The uDig 1.2.0 release is available from the main download page. INSTALLATION Download the package appropriate to your platform, unzip and run: Win

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Added a couple more entries to the testing page. - thinkpad worked fine (and was a *great* experience off USB) - macbook has no chance of working It seems the workaround for booting a macbook off USB is to add an entry to the menu.lst of your DVD. - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-boot-cd-for-xub

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: How to enable Geoserver to server outside localhost

2010-08-13 Thread Jody Garnett
You will want to ask on the geoserver-users list here: - https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users The osgeo discussions email list is a bit more general in scope and not devoted to specific software. Jody On 13/08/2010, at 2:15 AM, gustavofarina wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Atlas Styler glitches on OSGeo-Live

2010-08-06 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Stegan; it was a bit funny. The application window appeared under the panel at the top of the gnome desktop. I eventually worked around it by finding the entry in the task manager and asking the window to maximise. Other than that I was unable to create a style using the natural earth countr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Jody Garnett
The idea of geometry is the same for each system from national GIS datasets; to small datasets used to track each fire hydrant for a city. You are correct you need a bit of information about each data set (units, projection, when the data when collected and what accuracy). You may consider look

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 39 out of 43 excellent project overview docs, ready for the OSGeo-Live DVD - 3 days left

2010-08-01 Thread Jody Garnett
Ping me when done and I can review for you; just grabbed an update myself. Jody On 01/08/2010, at 6:05 AM, Ian Turton wrote: > Just to let people know that I've agreed to write some GeoServer docs > for the liveDVD - unless someone else jumps in and beats me to it. > > Ian > -- > Ian Turton >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Aust-NZ] Your Online Resources - what license is it published under and have you not released information due to licensing issues

2010-07-27 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Simon: We get hit with survey requests a couple of times a year (both as open source projects and as spatial projects). In future please send a separate email to each list (otherwise each reply to all will bounce). You may wish to look into other research (hopefully the surveys we fill in are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for input on field enabled desktop / internet project

2010-07-27 Thread Jody Garnett
You may want to look at beegis; it is for field data collection. Jody On 27/07/2010, at 11:05 PM, karsten vennemann wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on a project that deals with storing, retrieving and displaying > field collected data about plant species. Data will often be entered on > lap

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-22 Thread Jody Garnett
y On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > Sounds like we have adobe illustrator and inkscape copies of the flyer. >  That is a starting point I could work from; the only difficulty would be > font use. > And thanks for the reminder about ODF being a standard :-) > J

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Jody Garnett
Your comments on specific logos for specific items is good; and amounts to a very light feature comparison. GeoTools ran into the limits of our own 5 star system; we ended up needing a different set of "stars" depending on the the kind of module being described. The "limit" was when we entered

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Sounds like we have adobe illustrator and inkscape copies of the flyer. That is a starting point I could work from; the only difficulty would be font use. And thanks for the reminder about ODF being a standard :-) Jody On 07/06/2010, at 9:23 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > You are going to have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Jody Garnett
OSGeo has a mandate to support open source spatial; one of the ways it does so is by helping projects go through an incubation process (resulting a nice logo and some assurance that the project is in fact open source and spatial). The live dvd is another part of promoting open source spatial. J

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-06 Thread Jody Garnett
: > Jody, > > Is that under http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/ or is there another > source for it? > > Jason > > On 5 June 2010 19:40, Jody Garnett wrote: > You should find that an official marketing template is already available as > part of the work

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Cameron: You should find that an official marketing template is already available as part of the work the graphics designed has done. My trouble is that I have not seen it in open office yet. Jody On 04/06/2010, at 9:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > For the OSGeo Live DVD that we are develo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Agreed on it being a hassle. However the OSGeo foundation also has a responsibility to users - who *really* want to see a feature list and to be able to compare projects. The foundation can take steps to help projects communicate - and this is the task/mandate of the marketing committee. Compe

[OSGeo-Discuss] sac services slow

2010-05-27 Thread Jody Garnett
I know this is an (apparently recurring theme) during the wake up period in europe the various services hosted by osgeo grind to a halt. Including svn. I have been asked, as an osgeo officer, to raise an issue - and cannot right now because the website is slow/down! Can we gather up a descriptio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server

2010-05-11 Thread Jody Garnett
It is a common need; however servers are not always up (especially the JPL one as it has a great load placed on it). For the project I work on we keep a wiki page of demo servers; in the hopes that some of them are up at any point in time: - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DATA/Ho

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: postgis vs osx sleep

2010-05-09 Thread Jody Garnett
I was unable to get the indicated installer working; will report back if I learn anything :-( On 09/05/2010, at 5:01 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > I just tried cooking my laptop after working with postgis for a bit. After > throwing it into a laptop bag I was surprised to find the bag chirp

[OSGeo-Discuss] postgis vs osx sleep

2010-05-09 Thread Jody Garnett
I just tried cooking my laptop after working with postgis for a bit. After throwing it into a laptop bag I was surprised to find the bag chirp at me; after 30mins. Turns out postgres was keeping it running; and running in a confined space is not the best idea. After a bit of a cool down I found

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-24 Thread Jody Garnett
I echo your thoughts on passion Andrea; most open source project work is done way outside of business hours. It is a continued effort to include the cost of open source participation and feedback in any work done for customers; feedback to the community is something that often be performed afte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Degree vs GeoTools API

2010-02-17 Thread Jody Garnett
We have also trying to set up some collaborations between the projects (but such unfunded work is of course very hard to set up). Have a look at the GeoTools documentation; and if you have any questions the user list is open for action. - http://geotools.org/documentation.html - http://docs.code

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - Results

2010-02-09 Thread Jody Garnett
GeoTools has a port of the Grass code backed onto JAI: - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Process+Plugin Jody On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > Thank you for all of the responses. I will summarize here for everyone's > benefit: > > - Line Trace Plugs was a raster to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

2010-01-26 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Cameron: You will also find that most of the projects maintain a list of organisations able to offer assistance. As an example geoserver.org has the following page: - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support Jody On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Hel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?

2010-01-07 Thread Jody Garnett
Germany right now (Xmas) > stefan > > PS: I know also of this comparison by T. Hengl et al. on Grass vs. SAGA > for Geomorphologic Analysis > http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/downloads/Hengl_etal_2009_gmorph.pdf > > > Paul Ramsey schrieb: > > Interested in a differen

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] role of foundation with regard to licensing

2009-11-18 Thread Jody Garnett
We went through this discussion for the GeoTools project; as I understand it the geotools project management committee "runs" the project and OSGeo foundation maintains the (c). If we choose to change the license we would ask the OSGeo board to do so. In most cases no assignment of (c) is neede

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-04 Thread Jody Garnett
> The above makes sense, but honestly, I had never heard of this until > now, and I have been tinkering with open source for almost a decade > now. Most open source projects seemed organic to me. Someone had an > itch, they scratched it, they put it out, and the project either > gathered traction,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-01 Thread Jody Garnett
Indeed I talked to LISAsoft a couple years ago about adding OpenLS to GeoTools; we got stuck on GeoAPI interfaces as I remember. Cameron if LISAsoft is still interested we have reduced the amount of effort required to take part in GeoTools with a policy change introducing "unsupported" modu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-30 Thread Jody Garnett
You may wish to look at some of the materials coming out of the the FOSS4G conference; I think the "making maps pretty" workshop will be up shortly as a PDF for example and it has an overview of the cartography/communication side of maps. Jody On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Best API for accessing map/geospatial server

2009-10-29 Thread Jody Garnett
interpretation of the standard. In other > words, there is usually some ambiguity/grey area in the standards. > > Not to knock on certification, but its not a silver bullet. Bottom > line is testing is needed if interoperability is a mission > requirement. > > On 1

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Best API for accessing map/geospatial server

2009-10-29 Thread Jody Garnett
> i want to reverse, > > which one of those map servers in the world have fully certified by > OGC for WMS implementation, so we know, all our apps that connect to > those geospatial server no need modification Certification costs money :-) You also mentioned WMS again - and for your use case you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Best API for accessing map/geospatial server

2009-10-29 Thread Jody Garnett
> so all geospatial server is database, this API is look like ODBC or JDBC If you were really keen you could write a JDBC "bridge" to the GeoTools DataStore API; it would be a great contribution (and hurt everyones brain). Jody ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Best API for accessing map/geospatial server

2009-10-29 Thread Jody Garnett
> hi all > > i just got Java Geotools as an Java API to access the geospatial server based > on WMS (OGC) Correct. > any one have experience with this kind of things? Some :-) > i just want to treat the server as database. You want the Web Feature Server then. > so all geospatial server is d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] code sprint before or after the conference

2009-10-25 Thread Jody Garnett
After for sure; I was up late most nights getting presentation or tutorial material sorted. We actually had a bit of learning on this one; last year many people in our code sprint where apparently a bit hung over from staying up late and saying good bye to those leaving before the code spri

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs invitation

2009-10-14 Thread Jody Garnett
There is already http://www.freegis.org/ providing a list. Jody On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to invite every FOSS4G presenters to register their projects in > the OSGeo Labs page. OSGeo Labs aims to gather together all geospatial > related

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] desktop gis comparison at code sprint foss4g

2009-10-07 Thread Jody Garnett
there has been no feedback. > > Andrea > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: >> Hi Andrea: >> >> That may be a good topic for a BOF session; I would recommend the code >> sprint stays focused on you know ... coding :-) >> >> Jody >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] desktop gis comparison at code sprint foss4g

2009-10-04 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Andrea: That may be a good topic for a BOF session; I would recommend the code sprint stays focused on you know ... coding :-) Jody On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, andrea antonello wrote: > Hi all, but mainly QGis-sers and gvSig-gers (I am now speaking as uDig-ger). > In Italy in November we

[OSGeo-Discuss] internet is not my friend

2009-09-16 Thread Jody Garnett
Evening: Today I asked a bunch of community leaders to remind their mailing list about the opportunity to do a demo at FOSS4G (ie http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Demonstration_Theatre ). The fates have conspired against me and the fibre optic cable to LISAsoft was cut; so any email

[OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

2009-09-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Reminder to those requesting demo theatre slots this week - please review the schedule: - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Demonstration_Theatre And indicate a time preference (you may be committed to the poster session; or have a presentation right after to get ready for etc...). Jody

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone working on OGC WMTS (draft) client implementations ?

2009-09-02 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi will talk to our crew who worked on the OWS-6. They did some conformance testing of WMSTS and may be able to run GeoWebCache past a test suite or something. They did submit a patch to TileCache but I have not heard if it is going to show up any time soon. On the uDig project we had a SoC stude

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-25 Thread Jody Garnett
Evening Landon: As you have gathered from the responses thus far that lurkers are actually the larger part of the user community - and do not really represent an opportunity to acquire new developers for your project. The point is that they are part of the user community; and are probably

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Options for sharing geodata symbology along with WFS?

2009-08-14 Thread Jody Garnett
I will also point out that SLD 1.0 has been split into two in order to make this more clear .. SLD 1.1 really focuses on the WMS intergration SE 1.1 isolates the information you need about styling and is much more clearly applicable to defining *just* styles The link for Symbology Encoding

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Options for sharing geodata symbology along with WFS?

2009-08-14 Thread Jody Garnett
Register your SymbologyEncoding documents in an OGC catalog and search for them by FeatureType name (make sure to use the FeatureType hierarchy so your styles can be arranged from general to specific). Or go low tech and set up an ftp site with a directory of styles for each featuretype...

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Versioning of spatial data - Query

2009-07-30 Thread Jody Garnett
Okay I feel stupid; Justin already supplied you with better links. Jody On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > There is versioned data model for GeoServer and a WFS extension that > supports it. There is a crowdsourcing demo wrapping it up on open > layers if you are w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Versioning of spatial data - Query

2009-07-30 Thread Jody Garnett
There is versioned data model for GeoServer and a WFS extension that supports it. There is a crowdsourcing demo wrapping it up on open layers if you are wanting to try it out. I cannot find the link for you at the moment (site is under maintenance). For the java developer there is an API available

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend

2009-07-29 Thread Jody Garnett
These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from FOSS4G2008 etc... Jody On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, wrote: > > Hi All, > FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication of > mater

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Dimities: I have helped a number of customers build fleet management and tracking systems on top of http://udig.refractions.net/ I am pleased to see you have gathered quite a response; it does look like there is interest in this area. Jody On 16/07/2009, at 12:06 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-26 Thread Jody Garnett
A couple more suggestions: - make sure to include either tile server or geowebcache in the mix to minimize hardware costs - try and cost for a three year window in order to capture the respective difference in license costs - where ESRI is already used I normally do not suggest open source as an al

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Custom GIS App

2009-05-03 Thread Jody Garnett
I am not sure you are sending this email to the correct list; OSGeo is a foundation dedicated to open source geospatial software. Are you using a specific piece of software? Jody On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Simphiwe Twala wrote: > > Our company currently makes use of the city's GIS Applicat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generic Geometry Library (ggl)

2009-04-13 Thread Jody Garnett
> It is a pleasure for us to announce the Generic Geometry Library (ggl). Welcome. I think the questions have already been asked about the relationship with GEOS and JTS; sounds like you are going after increased performance? > Because of this the library is following OGC conventions loosely, not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] link broken for CLA template f'rom GeoTools

2009-03-31 Thread Jody Garnett
There is a url in our wiki that point to: - http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/9765352/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf?version=1 I have updated the page; but do not know why the original link was broken. Jody On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Yves Jacolin (free) wrote: > Hello, > > The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on FOSS Geo for local governance

2009-03-14 Thread Jody Garnett
mentioned on that page can you kindly update the wiki page? It is very helpful for the next person with the same question. In particular the links to government open source policies on that page may be of interest. Jody Garnett On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, maning sambale wrote: > This

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009: One week extension to Workshops and Tutorial abstract submissions

2009-03-01 Thread Jody Garnett
> > Submission instructions and templates are available at > http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/ and http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/. > > The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 2, 2009. > I assume you mean March 2+7, 2009. I will go post this on the udig and geotools news feeds

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2009-01-22 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Steven; I have added the uDig Imagery page as a reference here. It will be interesting to see what can be done. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Steven M. Ottens wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created a wiki-page on the OSGeo wiki to both explain the purpose of > the OSGeo Icon Set and give d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Symbology/styles exchange

2009-01-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Could we start with a simple content management system (or wiki that supports attachments?) Jody Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Not sure where I can help but I think this exchange concept is a great idea! If anyone finds some tools that could help run such an exchange, and if there is suffici

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The state of WMS tile caching

2008-11-25 Thread Jody Garnett
> Can WMS tiles be cached by the server for any WMS client and still serve > WMS according to the standard? It should be possible; indeed that is my reading of how it should work. The difference is in the all important tiled=true part of the GetMap request; which would control if it is dispatched

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project stats from ohloh.net

2008-11-09 Thread Jody Garnett
Interesting stuff; there were a couple projects before ohloh - the one I remember is here http://cia.vc/stats/project/geotools Jody Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Project statistics are a common part of many presentations, since ohloh.net no longer allows you to get summaries of a "stack", I ma

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-07 Thread Jody Garnett
I was not in Africa for FOSS4G but i understand. Your point was actually part of my assumptions - let me try again. I have a Java API (very simple String + Extent) that I have backed on to that http://geocoder.us/ and then onto customers shape files as uDig based projects require. You are welcome

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Jody Garnett
about even getting good toolsets out there. However, I would say there is at least "good enough" data to start with to seed and engine and once there is a need, the available data will get better. Andrew On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Jody Garnett
I always find data is the difficulty when starting a geocoder... am I missing something? You will find a good graph module in geotools with route finding etc. Jody Andrew Ross wrote: Hi Everyone, A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to try and start projects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] defining a Geospatial Integration Showcase to be launched at FOSS4G 2009

2008-10-22 Thread Jody Garnett
Cameron Shorter wrote: The OGC, a likely supporter, will be talking with our FOSS4G organising committee early next week, and I'd like to table ideas from you, the OSGeo community, to the meeting. So please speak up: * Is it acceptable for standards compliant Proprietary products to be part o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009 Code sprint

2008-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Tim Sutton wrote: code sprint. Another option to consider could be to start the sprint on the day before the core conf. starts and then to provide a code sprint space (we could have used the speaker prep room this year since it was underutilised) and allow for ad hoc coding get togethers during t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts

2008-10-09 Thread Jody Garnett
Landon Blake wrote: Jody wrote: "The original post talked about minimizing expense; breaking into several venues actually updates the expense from where I am sitting." How do you figure? The projects I work on are international; it is hard enough for developers to get enough money together t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts

2008-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Jody Garnett wrote: In Canada we go to the pub. Jody Although that said; a regional conference would be fun ... we are still struggling to have any kind of meetings for the bc chapter. I am amazed at all these other groups that have had yearly conferences since rocks were beginning to cool

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts

2008-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
In Canada we go to the pub. Jody Paolo Cavallini 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/ All th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code Sprint: How Much?

2008-10-07 Thread Jody Garnett
I would go for 3 days - it worked out well for the GeoTools community. Three days is enough time to effect change; but not so much time you get bogged down. I did find timing of a sprint right after FOSS4G to be a bit of a trouble for some (in addition to being tired ) reports this year indic

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] projects overview?

2008-09-18 Thread Jody Garnett
The quick answer is they are all related by being open source and by being spatial :-) In general we try and encourage the use of standards (to share data between running systems) or even just the use of common file formats etc... but this is not a requirement. There are overlaps in functional

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubator Sponsor idea.

2008-09-12 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Bob; you will find that a few of the open source projects nurture new talent this way. The GeoTools library has the facilities in place to allow new developers to come online and start an "unsupported" module with the support of the community. Each module in GeoTools is an entire project (o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Jody Garnett
Landon Blake wrote: I've messed around with Maven a little bit, and I'm afraid I'll mess around with it some more if I get more involved in GeoTools. There are several ant plugins that will make use of a maven repository to download jars as needed. That is what I end up using for uDig. Jody

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Jody Garnett
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Perhaps you could provide some more general information on what role Maven plays, and what sort of resources and complexity would be involved in OSGeo doing what you suggest. Maven is a build tool that takes a different approach than Ant (or Make). Rather than document a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: studies / comparisons of software that serves OGC standards

2008-06-11 Thread Jody Garnett
For reference a lot of open source leaders get hit with a couple 20 minuet survey requests a month; often from business grad students (ranging from phone interview to web forms to fill in). I personally recommend trying out the software; with a specific need in mind; producing a document and p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] a question for my search

2008-06-09 Thread Jody Garnett
fabri wrote: Hello, excuse my English, but I am Italian. I think you will find a couple of good Italian email lists. I am doing a search on webgis open source software. can someone tell me what are the advantages and disadvantages in using mapserver, mapguide or others? It is hard for us to r

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [udig-devel] SoC Digital elevation model for uDig

2008-06-06 Thread Jody Garnett
That is great news; is there any wiki page with instructions on how I can try out this stuff :-) And I agree Jan Jezek is fun to work with. Jody Josef Bezděk wrote: Greetings Status Report for Week Ending on 6th of June, 2008 Till now I had tried to implement RCP/plug-in for uDig. Modul Incr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Voting for new OSGeo Charter Members open until 6th June 2008

2008-05-30 Thread Jody Garnett
P Kishor wrote: This is a great list. Each one of those listed would be (well, already is) a great asset to the OSGeo cause and community. There are only 18 on that list, so that means 3 will be left out. My vote? Charter-ify all 18 of them. Somehow I think we get to stick to the program; alth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] South African safety situation

2008-05-30 Thread Jody Garnett
Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I'm informed, both from the newspapers and from South African friends, that there are serious concerns about safety in South Africa. Of course this will not affect FOSS4G directly, but I'm sure many of us are planning to have some holidays before or after the con

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source development metrics

2008-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
The following one is also useful: - http://cia.vc/stats/project/geotools For projects going through incubation these tools are a valuable resource in figuring out who changed what when. Jody Jody Garnett wrote: Try for a couple of the metrics you use when evaluating open source projects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source development metrics

2008-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Just a word of warning; those sites get tripped up; you can see the "history" for geotools is missing because we just cleaned up our subversion repository a bit. Jody Bruno Lowagie wrote: Jody Garnett wrote: Try for a couple of the metrics you use when evaluating open source proje

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source development metrics

2008-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However this is probably unrealistic as to do this the developer will have to have existing credibility within the community and there may be good reasons why the community does not want to have 'product X' included. So start slow with some metrics reflecting getting i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project Documentation

2008-05-23 Thread Jody Garnett
Could we put these entries in the summary pages for each project? ie when the table is complete. I filled in the tables for GeoTools; but the categories don't quite line up what I have. Jody Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Has anyone started compiling a single list of pointers (or done a survey

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-06 Thread Jody Garnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful open source projects now need serious organisational backing. They can't be built by a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors alone. The other way is to do something so obviously "correct" that a comm

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Research For Shared Java CRS Library

2008-05-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Landon Blake wrote: I agree simplicity (and the broad adoption that results from simplicity) is a primary goal. We shouldn't let GeoAPI stand in the way of that. Even just taking the abstractions as defined by GeoAPI and turning them into classes would remove one level of complexity. I view

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