gt; The mind, alas, boggles.
>
> (But maybe I'm reading more into your proposal than you meant, or I'm taking
> your example too literally?)
>
> -mpg
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo
A talk at the recent Location Business Summit and some reading I've done
about the semantic web and microformats lately got me to thinking about
a standard way to represent places, place names, place data on the web.
(I must admit I'm a desktop software guy, not a web programmer.)
I thought it wou
Nice work Tyler and the Journal team.
Landon
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:33 PM, "Tyler Mitchell" wrote:
> The OSGeo Journal editorial team is happy to announce that the most recent
> issue of the Journal is now released. You can access the index of the past
> and current issu
I appreciate the concerns on the part of those that submit articles.
However, the OSGeo Journal, for example, is put together by a team of
volunteer editors.
It is hard to make publication commitments when you are working with a
team of volunteers.
Maybe we need to make this aspect of the OSGeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are Ari Jolma and Howard Butler standing
forre-election to the OSGeo Board?
Landon Blake wrote:
>
> I'm just curious, because I didn't see there names listed on the
> nominations list.
>
Landon,
AFAIK, nobody have submitted nominations for me
I'm just curious, because I didn't see there names listed on the
nominations list.
Landon Blake
Project Surveyor
California PLS 8489
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Message-
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:16 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS vs OpenJump
Faheed:
I'm involved in the development of OpenJUMP and will t
Faheed:
I'm involved in the development of OpenJUMP and will try to answer a couple of
your questions.
Faheed wrote: "I also want to know why OpenJump was not accepted by osgeo."
There isn't any blame to place on OSGeo. There are a couple of reasons why
OpenJUMP isn't an OSGeo project, but the
Simon,
Thank you for the hard work you have put into summarizing the copyright
issues related to OSGeo content. I have a personal goal of preparing
some articles and tutorials related to FOSS geospatial software. I
didn't give enough consideration to the licensing of the (1) tutorial
text, (2) scr
Bill,
The 2005 and 2009 NAIP imagery is still available for California
Counties from Cal-Atlas. I'm not sure if that helps you, but they
haven't removed the data from that source yet.
Landon
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_
Good work Cameron. It is great to see more cooperation between the OGC and the
OSGeo.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf
I subscribed too.
I'm the "board rep" for the California Chapter. I'm really just filling
in for the rest of 2010 until we can find someone to do the job well. :]
Two of my biggest challenges with the California Chapter have been:
(1) Dealing with a large geographic area.
(2) Getting people wit
Leith,
I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds.
You might be able to create some type of "live CD" that they use to demo
Linux distributions, but otherwise your map viewing software needs to be
installed on the target computer.
There are a few good open source
Point of Beginning Magazine has a news story about a recent California
Court Case that strikes down the requirement for Orange County to
release its GIS parcel layer to the public for only data reproduction
costs. This conflicts with an earlier decision from a higher court in
California. If you are
This recent court decision may interest some of you.
http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=129029542&gid=142675
&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elexology%2Ecom%2Flibrary%2Fdetail%2Easpx%
3Fg%3D97df70d2-af3c-4438-a1aa-bb2026124e10&urlhash=duRV&trk=news_discuss
Landon
Warning:
Inform
Thanks for the quote Joel.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Schlagel, Joel D IWR
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:20 AM
To: OSGeo Dis
ProPublica has a story from yesterday about a review of plans on
government transparency from United States federal agencies. It looks
like the agencies that deal with a lot of geospatial data scored the
best. This includes NASA, Department of Housing and Urban Development,
and the EPA:
http://
As a surveyor, I really enjoyed this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8iQN04tOo&feature=player_embedded
Glad to see "non surveyor" folks starting to communicate the importance
of considering spatial data accuracy. Good job Paul!
Landon
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I'm not a web developer, but it seemed like the tech could be used for
browsing high-resolution map images.
http://www.seadragon.com/
Landon
Warning:
Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects
including translation and transmission errors. If the r
I haven't made a cent. :] Just a hobby for me.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian Turton
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 3:01 PM
To
How about an interview with Tyler Mitchell? :] I can help with that.
Might be a good article for the journal.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] O
am looking for a paid internship in order to be able to cover my
living expenses. What would be a good time to call?
Kind regards,
Johannes Bolz
Am 02.04.2010 00:30, schrieb Landon Blake:
> Mr. Bolz:
>
> Are you looking for a paid internship?
>
> Landon
> Office Phone Numb
Tyler,
Thanks for taking the initiative on this problem domain. I am certainly
interested and will subscribe to the carto mailing list.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss
Mr. Bolz:
Are you looking for a paid internship?
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Bolz
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:12
my
presentation.
Please send it through.
I'm expecting I'll get a chuckle from the audience when mentioning you
as "The Sunburned Surveyor".
Landon Blake wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> I recently gave a presentation entitled "introduction to vector GIS
for
> land su
Cameron,
I recently gave a presentation entitled "introduction to vector GIS for
land surveyors" at the joint California Land Surveyor Association/Nevada
Association of Land Surveyors Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada. It
included demonstrations of how to use OpenJUMP in a land surveying
practice.
I'm curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps.
Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its adoption?
I know that Adobe PDF has become a fairly common way to share 2D maps
digitally, but I didn't see a lot on the web about a PDF solution for 3D
maps. If you build 3D
John,
Thanks for telling us about Whitebox. I'm going to download the program
today and give it a spin. It is good to see more open source development
in DotNet languages.
Landon
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From: discuss-bo
It looks like I am getting to this late. Maybe too late to help.
Question 1:
In what areas/topics/information do we teach to new users or educate the
public in general? Basically, what is the 'content' of our education
endeavours?
Answer:
- How to install and use open source geospatial applicat
Salih,
This question really needs to go the the mapguide user list, not the
Osgeo Discussion mailing list.
http://www.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
Landon
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From: d
Tomas,
This type of question would be better for the Geotools user or developer
mailing list:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Mailing+Lists
I don't remember Geotools having direct support for DXF. Perhaps one of the
Geotools programmers can respond. Otherwise, I would ask on
o.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:57 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: t...@wildintellect.com
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Summer of Code
Landon Blake wrote:
> Do we have some one that is going to take the lead on SOC f
Do we have some one that is going to take the lead on SOC for OSGeo this
year? I've been quite busy with the Journal this year, but I would like
to assist the lead as I have in years past.
Landon
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Frans,
I will try to provide an intelligent answer to your question based on my
own experience.
Here is my observation of the main difference between Deegree and
Geotools:
Degree seems to be a more closely knit group of developers, coming from
just a couple of organizations, while Geotools draws
esday, February 09, 2010 5:53 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - Results
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:
> T
Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - Results
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 vector conversion program used by
the SCS, BLM and Forest S
f the public
domain source code.
The GRASS source code and Linux Binaries are available at
http://grass.itc.it/oldprojects/ltplus/
David had a page up at ltplus.org, but it seems to be dead today.
Craig
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
Is anyone aware of a raster tr
Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released
under an open source license? I'm looking for something similar to:
http://www.vextrasoft.com/vextractor.htm
I found the Autotrace program (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/), but
it seems to be a little more limited, an
I've got to review an article for Volume 6 of the OSGeo Journal on using
GPU processing for work with the GDAL programming library for Volume 6.
I'll be the first to admit I'm not an expert at C, C++, or GDAL. I have
used the library a little via FW Tools.
I will review the article, but was won
Dave,
I know I had some problems getting Python 3.X to work on my Windows XP
computer a couple of weeks ago. I had no problems with the previous
release of Python.
Landon
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-Original Message-
From: discuss-boun...@lis
Robert,
You wrote: "I'll see if I can come up with any cases where proper process state
management is truly dependent on geometry. Any one else?"
I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about. But I will shoot this over
your bow:
Road maintenance department of City paves a section of road
One example of the restrictions Luis is talking about is the prohibition
against distributing certain cryptographic software outside of the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography
Don't know that OSGeo would bump into that, but it is one example of a
US specific restriction on org
Andrea,
You wrote: "This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more people that
can find fundi
eases/bul1352218.pdf
2.
http://www.apesma.asn.au/women/maternity_leave_around_the_world.asp#Amer
icas
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Agustin Diez Castillo
wrote:
There are tons of articles about women and science since more than 20
years ago I will recomend a look to Longino (1987) [1].
[1]
Miles,
I think your questions about the day jobs of OSGeo contributors would
make a great online poll or survey. It would be interesting to get a
look at that data.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@l
r: (209) 946-0268
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-Original Message-
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tmitchell.os...@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Landon Blake
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
> Maybe my sta
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed what we
might do to encourage the participation of more women in the project. I
think there was recognition across the board that the project would have
benefited from more diversity.
I'm
Anne,
I hope things work out with the new mailing list. I know at least one of
the open source software projects I am involved with has discussed the
problem of encouraging the participation of more women.
Landon
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-Orig
Padmini,
I don't use Microstation or QGIS, but you might be better off exporting
your data to a DXF file.
Also, I would post your question on the QGIS mailing list. This isn't
the best place for questions on specific software.
Landon
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Is there a topic-specific mailing list on which it would be best to
discuss aspects of an agreement put out by a local government agency in
relation to their publicly funded GIS data?
Maybe the geodata list is the best place?
If there is no topic-specific mailing list for this topic, I will
Miles,
That sounds like a positive development for FOSS in the United States. I
would imagine the military is a large customer of software. If they are
giving open source software more serious consideration, that should be a
good thing for our community in the long run.
Landon
Office Phone Number
We could use a couple articles for the December Volume of the OSGeo
Journal in the following sections:
Topical Studies
Programming Tutorials
Case Studies
Integration Studies
Developer Announcements
Sponsor Perspectives
Local Community Reports
Peer Reviewed Articles
Let me know if you
Matthew,
It doesn't look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some
brief comments. I don't think it likely that you will find a job focused
specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo
Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our curr
Stephen,
I'm a land surveyor and a desktop application programmer. So the
interests at OSGeo may be more varied that you suspect.
Tell me more about your application. What exactly is its current
functionality?
I wish I had time to contribute to another project. Your program sounds
like it is rig
I'm interested in working with professional associations for land surveyors. I
would want to start with my local state association, of course.
I'm not sure how much interest there is in this type of cross-organization
collaboration.
Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number:
David,
Sorry for the delayed response.
I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not
anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from
Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first
name was Joe?) Most of the activity in
FYI:
In some states professionals are restricted from forming LLCs or
corporations. The law requires that you are personally liable for your
work.
In some states professionals are only allowed to form special LLCs or
corporations.
This may only apply to licensed professionals at this time, but
+1 on the development of local chapters. Strong local chapters will make
for a strong organization.
Question: As local chapters become a more important part of the
organization, how do we encourage collaboration among chapters, so as to
avoid duplicated effort?
Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 9
Rene wrote: "If we
were to produce a comprehensive suite of tools offering the standard
analytical tools as well as some more advanced ones, then these
proprietary offerings wouldn't look as appealing. Moreover, if we had a
consolidated toolset which could be used on a multitude of project we
Thank you for the summary MPG. The logic described in the example
response seems quite sensible.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of M
I wonder if it would be helpful to send a quick e-mail to the list with
the following information:
How many board members we need to have next year.
How many board members will be voluntarily stepping down (it looks like
at least one.)
How many spots on the board we will need to fill due to volunt
iscuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
> Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2009 5:48 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Documenting GIS Data Models (Again):
> Using DXF
>
> I posted a few weeks back I posted about possible ways to
> document and s
missed the earlier post(s)... Is there a reason why
traditional OO diagrams such as UML Class diagrams won't work for the
GIS data you are modeling?
Craig
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, September 09
I posted a few weeks back I posted about possible ways to document and
share GIS data models. I decided to move forward with a graphical
approach.
I started building diagrams to document my GIS data model for the Public
Land Survey System in the United States. I am drawing these diagrams in
a
A couple of weeks ago I was fishing around for any interest in AutoLISP,
a LISP based programming language used to customize Autodesk and
IntelliCAD CAD programs. I didn't find enough interest to release the
code as an OSGeo labs project, but I did promise to let the list know
when I released the c
Michael,
I've been toying with the idea of doing some side work in the GIS arena
as a sole-proprietor or an S-Corp. In either case, if I move forward
with this, I would carry some basic business insurance.
Having said that, I can tell you I found it difficult to find a
professional liability insu
sor"
stack would/could have it's own rules associated with data resolution vs
files sizes, etc.
bobb
>>> "Landon Blake" wrote:
Bobb wrote: "Here's my reasoning, we're never (ever?) going to hit the
top end on how big files ever get, resol
yone to have to build a whole new jp2
library from scratch, if that's what you meant. I'd really only be
interested in C++ (or possibly mono-safe C#).
-mpg
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Lando
hat the work
they do internally needs to come out :-) But that is a topic for another
day ...
Cheers,
Jody
On 22/08/2009, at 4:55 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered
among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) c
MPG:
When you say "effort" do you mean some sort of library to support JP2
geo side of things?
What programming language would you be most interested in? C++?
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.
Bobb wrote: "Here's my reasoning, we're never (ever?) going to hit the
top end on how big files ever get, resolution just keeps going up and
up, so there is always going to be some upper limit that will need to be
breached somehow. Working out a proper method for segregating the data
up front (dar
Thank you for all the comments over the weekend on "open source lurkers"
and proprietary file formats/algorithms. The feedback was very
insightful and gave me a lot to think about.
Landon
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including tr
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:49 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers
Landon Blake wrote:
> What do you think? Send an e-mail to the project list with an
> invitation to contact me privately about getting more in
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55:30AM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
> Is OpenJUMP the only community with these open source lurkers?
No.
> How many of these companies do you think there are? (I'm not talking
about
> one guy who downloads
her than byte in JPG. Can you do that in
JP2K?
> ---Original Message---
> From: Landon Blake
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open
> FileFormatsandProprietaryAlgorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Sent: Aug 21 '09 12:42
>
> Paul,
>
> I was wondering the sam
ork and bandwidth speeds
> available for publishing.
>
>
> bobb
>
>
> >>> "Lucena, Ivan" wrote:
>
>
> But you can't compress data types other than byte in JPG. Can you do
> that in JP2K?
>
>
> > ---Original
I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered
among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) company that
maintains a separate fork of OpenJUMP, but which monitors our mailing
list and likely grabs patches form our source code repository. They
never participate in th
t; ---Original Message---
> From: Landon Blake
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open
FileFormatsandProprietaryAlgorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Sent: Aug 21 '09 12:42
>
> Paul,
>
> I was wondering the same thing.
>
> It seems a little like choosing to drive a
Paul,
I was wondering the same thing.
It seems a little like choosing to drive a Honda Accord, or a Ferrari.
The Ferrari is a lot faster and comes with a better looking trophy wife
(or husband), but the Honda is a lot easier to fix. (Try finding an
affordable Ferrari mechanic in Stockton, Califor
an
ours have spent a lot of energy on this problem -- a literature search
would reveal a number of PhD theses and patents.
-mpg
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:45 AM
To: O
according to this page: http://jpeg2000.epfl.ch/ v.5.1, courtesy
in part Eastman Kodak, provides "complete JP2 support at the decoding
side" - not sure whether that covers the tiling or other geo needs, but
doesn't it sound worth investigating?
Chris
- "Christopher Schmidt&
Thanks for the information Michael. I am downloading Opticks right now.
:]
I also found this Java library for JP2, thought I'm not sure how
complete/up-to-date it is:
http://jj2000.epfl.ch/
Maybe we need a JPEG 2000 page on the OSGeo wiki.
Landon
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Cell Phone N
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Schmidt
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:50 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary
Algorithms
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:57:16PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
> MPG:
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
MPG:
Thanks for the clarification.
When you said "there is today no open source implementation of JP2 that
is suitable for geo work" do you mean that there is no open source
library that can read and write JP2? If so, who is using the format?
Do you know why there hasn't been a broader
eap disks and fat pipes.
-Eric
-=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=-
Eric B. WolfNew! 720-334-7734
USGS Geographer
Center of Excellence in GIScience
PhD Student
CU-Boulder - Geography
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Landon Blake
wrote:
I realized that publi
I realized that publishing a spec for a file format like MRSID isn't as
clear cut as I had at first thought. If the MRSID software uses a fancy
top-secret compression/decompression algorithm to move data to and from
the file format knowing only the structure of the format would do no
good. You'd ha
dely adopted open format that can compete with MrSID but for
today the MrSID option provides for the best access for the largest
number of people.
Regards, Richard
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
MPG,
I didn't mean to shine a spotlight on the USDA's use of MRSID.
open
standards and open source
software -- and it gets better every year. However, adoption of new
technologies (when done
right!) requires evaluation of a myriad of criteria, only one of which
is open access.
-mpg (not speaking officially for LizardTech)
-Original Message-
From: discu
It looks like I might have ruffled a few feathers with my earlier post
about the lack of support for open source software in the United States.
I was making a generalization, and didn't mean to criticize or downplay
the efforts of advocates and government employees that are promoting
open source so
Great comments Andrew. We need a model where we have Europe's support of
open source with the United State's open data policies.
Landon
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun..
992-0658
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of P Kishor
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:53 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at
Cameron wrote:
" Canada looks preferable to the US. I wonder how much the Canadian
GeoConnections program is responsible for Canada's strong OSGeo
industry."
I believe governments in Canada are much more supportive of open source
software than governments in the United States. In my experience, t
The latest issue of the ACSM Bulletin had an interesting article about a
map matrix that wraps around the edge of a paper map. It seems the
company that is using this feature of hard copy map design is applying
for a patent. I didn't even think you could get a patent a feature of a
paper map. It go
s easy to justify
for the all day user, the use of AutoCAD as an AutoMation tools (which
I've been doing for years) is starting to become much less cost
effective for us. Our code may swap out with Intellicad with very
little effort and may be something were interested in pursuing
development
AutoDesk rep's, when the opportunity arises,
that these interoperability things need to work across the product line.
bobb
>>> "Landon Blake" wrote:
I'm a regular CAD user at my day job. I've been working for the last few
weeks on cleaning and packagi
I'm a regular CAD user at my day job. I've been working for the last few
weeks on cleaning and packaging some of my AutoLISP code, which can be
used to customize Autodesk's AutoCAD and IntelliCAD programs. I'm
getting ready to make my first release of the code.
My focus with the AutoLISP code i
There are a couple of GIS related patent applications online at
peer-to-patent. I have a hard time understanding patent applications,
but the first seems to deal with using an algorithm to calculate
neighborhood boundaries. The second seems to deal with using GIS
analysis to study damage (or potent
ation,
licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and
statutory changes."
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]on Behalf Of Landon Blake
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:15 AM
> To: OS
geospatial software in
acommercial application.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:12:14PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
> I'm working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD and AutoCAD
> that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS
> software. (For example: One set of my
I'm working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD and AutoCAD
that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS
software. (For example: One set of my scripts allows CAD users to export
drawing geometry in OGC WKT format.)
I'd like to release these scripts under Version 3
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