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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata as Public Record in U.S.

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Thoen
Richard Greenwood wrote: A friend of my prepared this analysis of geodata distribution and fees at the county government level in the US: http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS Data as Public Record.pdf

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata as Public Record in U.S.

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Greenwood
My first post had a space at the end of the URL. Try: http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS Data as Public Record.pdfhttp://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS%20Data%20as%20Public%20Record.pdf On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Bill Thoenbth...@gisnet.com wrote: Richard

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata as Public Record in U.S.

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Basques
Take the space off the end of the link %20, It works if you paste in this link: http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS%20Data%20as%20Public%20Record.pdf ( http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS%20Data%20as%20Public%20Record.pdf ) bobb Bill Thoen

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-25 Thread Landon Blake
Jody, Thank you for all of your comments. They were insightful. I should point out that I don't get really bothered by the private contacts, which aren't that frequent, and was more interested in finding a way to get lurkers more involved. It seems this is more challenging than I first

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Landon Blake
OK. I'm not an expert on images, but I'd be interested in working with you. However, I avoid C++ like a lethal strain of the Swine Flu. :] I may give some more thought to some of Bob's ideas about making it easier to work with image tiles. Thanks. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Landon Blake
Bob, What did you have in mind when you said pre-processing. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent:

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Basques
Landon, Rather than sput off about something theoretical, I'll relate our use of MRSID deliverables. This is our Typical publishing process for MRSID format data that we receive, which happens fairly regularly. Our use case in this instance is for visual inspection of aerial photography. *

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
To be clear, it's not an effort I have the bandwidth for personally. But if there were qualified developers interested in taking it on, I might be in a position to offer project guidance and a small amount of funding. -mpg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Ted Habermann
Lots of discussions on standardization of data formats, lots of challenges there. One thing that has not been mentioned (I think) is the idea of standardizing responses from users about 1) uses of data and 2) limitations of data (files too big fits in here). Both of these are included in the