Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Norman Vine wrote: Mateusz Loskot writes Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?) George Silva wrote: Hello lists, As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web (im sorry if thats a problem).

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Norman Vine
Mateusz Loskot writes > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?) > > George Silva wrote: > > Hello lists, > > > > As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web > > (im sorry if thats a problem). >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Lucena, Ivan
George, > I am using to build this system PostgreSQL + PostGIS, QGis and PHP. In > advance i would like to thank David Bitner who helped me alot by letting > me use his geocoding function for PostGIS. I guess you should also find support from a native FOSS project in your country, terralib.or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Mateusz Loskot
George Silva wrote: Hello lists, As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web (im sorry if thats a problem). At the moment i am writing my BSc thesis (Geography) focusing the development of a open source software and database for logging and analysing traffic accide

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Paulo Marcondes
> I am dedicating a chapter in my thesis to explaining Open Source Software, > and OSS for GIS. i searched the web for some history of OSS in general, but > i found too many different sources. So i come to you, developers of GIS OSS, > to see if you can give me references of where to search for the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread George Silva
Hello lists, As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web (im sorry if thats a problem). At the moment i am writing my BSc thesis (Geography) focusing the development of a open source software and database for logging and analysing traffic accidents in Uberlândia, MG

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement- Fall 2008 AGU session: Open Source Remote Sensing for Environmental Mapping and Analysis

2008-08-20 Thread M J
FYI - http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/ I will forward the announcement onto the department there - this was a great tool in grad school. Freeware not open source thought. Nif On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:03 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Open Source Remote Sensing and Geosp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-20 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Arnulf Christl wrote: > On Tue, August 19, 2008 06:55, Dave Patton wrote: >> 2) >> Has the OSGeo foundation, or any of the OSGeo projects, >> done the Group Registration with freenode? >> http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml > > The Mapbender project has contacted Freenode through that shee

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Tue, August 19, 2008 17:12, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > On 18-Aug-08, at 9:55 PM, Dave Patton wrote: > > >> Has the OSGeo foundation, or any of the OSGeo projects, >> done the Group Registration with freenode? >> http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml >> > > Yes, I did this a long tim

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Tue, August 19, 2008 06:55, Dave Patton wrote: > OSGeo makes use of freenode for IRC, including both > 'general OSGeo channels' such as #osgeo and project- > specific channels. > > 1) > Has the OSGeo board considered contributing to the > Peer-Directed Projects Center? > http://freenode.net/how

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Fee vs Free]

2008-08-20 Thread Bruce Bannerman
There is a slide that I've seen relating to the Canadian SDI and the dramatic increase in downloads of data in the twelve month period after data was made free for download. http://www.thinkwell.ca/cgdi-icdg/libraryDocs/FeevsFree.pdf It shows an increase from around 96,000 to > 5.4 Million do