[OSGeo-Discuss] good luck to the NY code sprinters!

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I would like to thank everyone attending the NY code sprint (from tomorrow - 
tuesday) for their time and hard work. This is one of the greatest initiatives, 
and it's a shame I cannot attend.

Good luck to everyone, and I look forward to the outcomes, and I will try and 
watch progress through the various systems (blog, Trac etc.).

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to use DXF and GeoTools?

[Landon Blake]

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 the Geotools 
mailing list.

 

I know that OpenJUMP has a couple of DXF import plug-ins, so you could look at 
that source code. You might also check out the open source Java library for DXF 
files named Kabeja:

 

http://kabeja.sourceforge.net/

 

Kabeja doesn't directly support conversion of DXF entities to a simple feature 
representation, but this could be done with some work. If you decide to use 
Kabeja to create simple GIS features, please let me know. This is something I 
am interested in implementing and we might be able to work together on a simple 
library. If Geotools doesn't already have something similar I would be willing 
to submit it for approval as a module.

 

Landon

Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268

Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658

 

 



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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to use DXF and GeoTools?

 

Hi folks!

i've been completed my subscription few minutes ago in order to ask about DXF 
and GeoTools.

I would like to develop a GIS which gets DXF and manage this with differents 
objects.
I would like to use GeoTools, but I don't know how to load a DXF into a Java 
Object.

Is that possible with GeoTools? How can I do that?

I'm grateful for some key or solution.

Thx

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[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoMOOSE 2.2 Released!

[Brian Fischer]

This version provides exciting new features that users have been requesting.  
Some new features to GeoMOOSE 2.2 include:

 *   New website with more documentation and a redesigned gallery
 *   Implementation of Trac to submit bug and enhancement tickets
 *   New layer types such as Bing Maps, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap 
tiles and ArcGIS Server Rest services
 *   A new demo application to highlight the additional layer types in a Web 
Mercator projection
 *   Enhancements to the selection/buffer services and ability to download 
selection results
 *   Bug fixes to the geocode and popup services
 *   Addition of a feature report service
 *   Addition of a query builder service
 *   Addition of a user extensions framework to add your own code to GM without 
modifying the core libraries, an example of this is a dynamic zoom service
 *   Addition of custom cursors and scale bars
 *   More catalog presentation options

Please visit the gallery http://www.geomoose.org/gallery oto see what users 
have been using GeoMOOSE for or to submit your own application.  You can also 
visit the live demo from the main website link at the top of the page. GeoMOOSE 
(www.geomoose.org) is an open source web application 
framework for displaying geographic data.  What makes GeoMOOSE unique is it 
provides an out-of-the-box solution that makes it easy for non-developers to 
create web-mapping applications with typical tools such as navigate, search, 
measure and print. Non-developers only need to be comfortable with 
configuration files.  GeoMOOSE has a number of strengths including modularity, 
configurability, and delivers a number of core functionalities in its packages. 
 The project has targeted local government business cases to distribute land 
records information, but many other users have used it for much more.  Since 
GeoMOOSE is open source project it built on other popular open source projects 
such as OpenLayers (www.openlayers.org) and 
MapServer (www.mapserver.org).  To get started with 
GeoMOOSE, simply go to the download page and install the software demo.

We are excited to see the inception of this project go from a an application 
developed by the City of St. Paul, MN to FGDC CAP grant to a robust open source 
software project used by hundreds of people across the world in the last 3 
years.  We hope you find the investment made by all the developers a resource 
to the GIS community.  We are excited to see this project grow and we envision 
continued growth as more and more users find it.  We welcome feedback on the 
GeoMOOSE project and hope you give the software a try.

Contact the project steering committee for more information:

 *   Dan "Ducky" Little: danlit...@yahoo.com
 *   Brian Fischer: bfisc...@houstoneng.com
 *   Bob Basques: bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us
 *   Jim Klassen: jim.klas...@ci.stpaul.mn.us
 *   Len Kne: l...@houstoneng.com
 *   Brent Fraser: bfra...@geoanalytic.com

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to get through to mailman-admin if mail...@lists.osgeo.org doesn't work

[Frank Warmerdam]

Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote:

Hi list,

I try to get through to the admin of the OSGeo listserver, but
mail...@lists.osgeo.org doesn't work.
Who is the admin and how to contact her/him?


Marco,

I am one of the admins for mailman.  I'll look into forwarding of the
mail...@lists.osgeo.org mailing address.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] How to get through to mailman-admin if mail...@lists.osgeo.org doesn't work

[Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.]

Hi list,

I try to get through to the admin of the OSGeo listserver, but
mail...@lists.osgeo.org doesn't work.
Who is the admin and how to contact her/him?

Marco Lechner

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is there a possibility to integrate our OSGeo-specific mailing lists at
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Because the OSGeo local chapter of the german language countries (OSGeo
D-A-CH/FOSSGIS) run there own listserver we are not listed at the
automatically generated http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo
Our lists are all OSGeo-specific but in German and connected to the
activities of lc D-A-CH. For a german speaking person it might be very
helpful to find those lists at the OSGeo listing and for me it doesn't
make sense to not have them listed there, just because they are not
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[OSGeo-Discuss] How to use DXF and GeoTools?

[Tomas Cea]

Hi folks!

i've been completed my subscription few minutes ago in order to ask about
DXF and GeoTools.

I would like to develop a GIS which gets DXF and manage this with differents
objects.
I would like to use GeoTools, but I don't know how to load a DXF into a Java
Object.

Is that possible with GeoTools? How can I do that?

I'm grateful for some key or solution.

Thx

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison

[Pablo Carreira]

Daniel wrote:

> Or we go the other way: you tell us what you're trying to achieve and we 
> tell you which one seems to be the best fit based on our experience.

Thank you very much for the interest. 
1)Here is the scenario:
I work with enviromental services.
I use GRASS+QGIS on windows. 
Small amount of data.
Over high resolution sat images I draw vectors for some planning, the vectors 
have a lot of atributes.
Those vectors have dayli updates.

2)What I want:
Make my work easily avaliable for my teanmates over the internet, so they can 
visualise and query the vectors for the atributes.

I look for a server that is easy to configure and that have some tools like 
zoom, pan and query. 
And the server must show always the latest updates made in the vectors (should 
I put the vectors in postgis?).

Thanks again.
Pablo.

  
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Erasmus IP GIS OPENSOURCE Summer School 2010 - 28th June to 9th July 2010 , Girona, Spain

[Suchith Anand]

We are pleased to announce details of Erasmus IP funded GIS OPENSOURCE
Summer School 2010 from 28th June to 9th July 2010 at Girona, Spain.

 

The Summer School in Open Source GIS is organized jointly by the
Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centre (SIGTE) of
the University of Girona (Spain), the Lahti Centre of Aalto University
School of Science and Technology of the Aalto University (Finland), the
Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) of the University of Nottingham (UK)
and the Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques (IRSTV)
from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France).

 

The key aims of the Open Source GIS Summer School are:

 

# To act as a platform for free and open source geospatial teaching,
learning and collaboration.

 

# To provide practical and hands on experience to the participants in
the use of free and open source geospatial software. 

 

# To enable participants to understand concepts of cartographic
representation, spatial data integration, spatial analysis, designing
spatial databases, web mapping, etc. 

 

# To demonstrate the development of the key stages of a GIS project
using free and open source software. 

 

# To enable the participants to implement a full GIS stack with free and
open source geospatial technologies. 

 

# To develop expertise in  multi-disciplinary theoretical and applied
research using Open Source Geospatial technologies.

 

The program also aims to have an impact beyond from the following:

 

- Transferable skills development in  project management, team working,
presentation skills  etc which will help the students  in the
development of their research and future career.

 

- To enable participants to gain relevant skills to undertake open
source geospatial research and development in collaboration with
international partners to ensure world-class and globally relevant
outcomes.

 

- Engage in outreach activities to ensure early and broad dissemination
of results and encourage wide engagement between Summer School outcomes
and community up-take.

 

The course is particularly aimed at postgraduate and doctoral students
from a wide range of disciplines such as civil engineering, regional
planning, geography, transportation studies, computer science,
management etc. We welcome applications from all interested students but
funding is only available for selected participants coming from the
organizing institutions.

 

More information on the summer school and application procedure can be
found on the web site  at http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010/ 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Suchith Anand

 

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http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/
 

 

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison

[Rafal Wawer]

Dear Stefan and Andrea,
The evaluation method was included in our training - both within CASCADOSS 
regional workshops and summer courses organized by SADL for the participants 
from developing countries. It aims at assessing ordinary - let's say 
"middle-level" users to find an Open Source alternative to proprietary tools 
they use. Our experiences proved that in case of technical potential that 
"middle-level" should be a bit higher, as both finding the detailed technical 
features of the software in the documentation or by hands-on is far more 
difficult.

As for the evaluation we performed in CASCADOSS. 
>From my experience in FOSS4G documentation and evaluation - some of the 
>projects were really poorly documented and sometimes looking for information 
>required quite extensive research. What we could not find, we tried to figure 
>out by hands-on experience or, in case of very incomplete documentation - 
>direct communication with project leaders or communities. 

In CASCADOSS we put a huge effort to document and evaluate the software in 
aspect of applications in environmental domain aiming at further teaching of 
environmental NGOs, administration and companies what are strengths and 
weaknesses and providing them with method of finding the tool they need.  None 
of the software tools was preferred - we had a general rule to remain 
objective. There was not much space for subjective interpretation anyway - the 
evaluation was based upon documentation of the SW project and hands-on 
experience, as well as secondary opinions or benchmarks. We all have put equal 
pressure on each of the software projects we evaluated, to assure the true 
comparability between them. IMO contacting the communities asking for a review 
of the result was in contradiction to the goal of the evaluation as designed to 
being performed by ordinary GIS users based on available (documentation) or 
discoverable (hands-on) information. On the other hand sending the evaluation 
results to projects' leaders or communities would certainly raised awareness 
about the method and results in the FOSS4G community... 

I exercised the evaluation with the students of our Summer School on FOSS4G in 
2008 and 2009 editions and the results for Quantum GIS throughout 2 years 
improved, but remained consistent with the previous evaluation from late 2007.  
We tested only technical potential, but I think during last 2 years the 
documentations of FOSS4G improved a lot, so also remaining two potentials will 
get higher scores for some of the projects. There are new standards addressing 
spatial web services appearing on the market, hence also the list of web 
mapping functions and desktop clients' features should certainly be extended.

The project was financed by the 6th Framework programme of the EU and only 
thanks' to this financing we were able to spend so much time and resources and 
eveluate so broad range of software projects. The project ended in April 2009 
and I guess much criticism may be drawn about financed projects here - what is 
happening with the deliverables after project's end? Maybe we did not put 
enough effort to disseminate the results: one paper on 4th gvSIG Conference, 
few posters on conferences and 1 paper to be published in vol. 6th of the OSGeo 
Journal - a short report from CASCADOSS International Workshop and Symposium 
held in June 2008 under the patronage of OSGeo Foundation. I bet other 
CASCADOSS partners can add much to the disseminaiton history.
I guess we rather focused on reaching end users in our regions to raise the 
awareness of the FOSS4G. CASCADOSS is currently continued by one of CASCADOSS 
partners - Adam Podolcsak and his company Compet-Terra who was very active in 
promoting the Open Source in Hungary. He initiated the CASSCADOSS Association 
and continues to produce the CASCADOSS LiveDVD, which we use in our trainings 
on FOSS4G and there is a possibility it will used in some testbeds in the 
future. We are looking for the opportunity for a follow-up project - I think 
there is no better place as OSGeo to create a consortium for that (-: but we d 
not see the opportunity within the calls that appear at the moment.

You can find more information on the CASCADOSS international website: 
www.cascadoss.eu, the website of CASCADOSS Association at Compet_Terra: 
http://cascadoss.competterra.com/cascadoss.php?home_en and upcoming paper 
containing a short report on CASCADOSS international events held in June 2008 
in Warsaw: discussions on license issues, business models, GMES as well as a 
SWAT analysis guided by Markus Neteler and Mateusz Loskot - Guys, again many 
thank's for your extremely valuable contribution in Warsaw!

I must say, that I got several mails asking why the particular software project 
got lower score. Noone from high ranks complained (-; In case of GeoServer I 
guess there is an eternal race to be the best in the market.(-;
I encourage you to make an evaluation using CASCADOSS form