[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: adding scalebar to images to be downloaded

2009-06-08 Thread pere roca ristol
I see that MapServer has the scalebar utility which can be used in command line to generate a scalebar graphic. so I think problem solved. If someone knows of other tools please let me know. thanks, Pere 2009/6/5 pere roca ristol pero...@gmail.com hi all, I have a webmapping

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: adding scalebar to images to be downloaded

2009-06-08 Thread Fawcett, David
If you use MapServer to generate the map image, you can directly embed the scalebar in the map image at the time of creation. If not, you can just make a mode=legend call to MapServer CGI to get a legend image. http://mapserver.org/mapfile/legend.html David. -Original

[OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g2009 abstract submit

2009-06-08 Thread andrea antonello
I need a small info about the submission mechanism for the foss4g abstract submission. I find no proper way to supply more authors and institutions for a submission. Is the only way to add them to the abstract itself? Anyone with the same problem? Thanks, Andrea

[OSGeo-Discuss] Info about OSGEO community and OS GIS products

2009-06-08 Thread Sossio D'Isa
Hello to everybody, I need some info about OSGEO community and OS GIS products: 1 - Do specific OS GIS products for telco applications exist? 2 - Do you know some community meetings about OS GIS products for telco applications? 3 - How concurrency is generally managed? For example, if two

[OSGeo-Discuss] Desktop metadata management for FOSS4G

2009-06-08 Thread Sampson, David
Ahh.. Metadata I am learning about Qgis plugins lately and thought I would extend out to the OSGEO community at large. As I am going through creating some plugins and learning about OWS services and trying my hand at a catalogue plugin for QGIS I got to thinking, what does the open source world

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-user] Desktop metadata editing...

2009-06-08 Thread Alex Mandel
Sampson, David wrote: Ahh.. Metadata As I am going through creating some plugins and learning about OWS services and trying my hand at a catalogue plugin I got to thinking, what does the open source world do for managin their metadata on their desktop? I know and quite like projects like

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Desktop metadata management for FOSS4G

2009-06-08 Thread John Callahan
Yes. For us, this would help our work flow. A plugin for Quantum would work great. (I also just read Alex's email about qgismetaedit. Cool!) It would be great for a desktop GIS to update some basic metadata elements, like updated date, coordinate system, bounding box in projected and geo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Desktop metadata management for FOSS4G

2009-06-08 Thread Alex Mandel
The plugin aims to allow for ISO, FGDC and Dublin Core editing and saving to xml per the standard that CatMdEdit, ArcGIS, Geonetwork etc all use XML. Someone did file a ticket to add Geonetwork export, I'd welcome anyone from the Geonetwork side helping out with that. Auto, or Triggered updating

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g2009 abstract submit

2009-06-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
I added multiple author names to the abstract itself. Could not think of another way. Best Venka andrea antonello wrote: I need a small info about the submission mechanism for the foss4g abstract submission. I find no proper way to supply more authors and institutions for a submission. Is the