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

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Basques
Jody, Data is indeed where it all starts. There is a very good demo dataset included with the GeoMoose package, it's aimed primarily at a state (of Minnesota) perspective currently. There are also some municipal datasets in there as well. The interface (GeoMoose) actually scales very well

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

2008-10-22 Thread Cameron Shorter
Re Data: I'm expecting to get data. In fact, we might have more than we can handle. I've talked with some Australian and New Zealand government data custodians and all of them have been excited about getting their data on line. From the data custodians point of view, FOSS4G is a great opportuni

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

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

2008-10-22 Thread Cameron Shorter
OSGeo, A key attractor we would like to launch at FOSS4G 2009 is a Geospatial Integration Showcase. "The Geospatial Integration Showcase provides an easily deployable, practical demonstration of standards based interoperability between geospatial applications. After FOSS4G, the showcase sh