[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: do you already feel as an ambassador for FOSS4G?!?

2010-03-15 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
btw, has your site already a banner that links FOSS4G 2010? here's the banner: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Marketing :) lorenzo ps: thanks! On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Lorenzo Becchi wrote: > I'm sure I don't need long sentences to convince you: > - FOSS4G is fundamental to OS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, maybe the manuscript below helps to get an overview of software out there but unfortunately there has been no space for examples in that: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/publications/sstein/sstein_hunter_fosgis4sdi_v6_short.pdd (note, this is a submitted manuscript... not a paper, but I am going

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Rafal Wawer
Dear All, I recall seeing a nice paper on the desk of my colleage working on th INSPIRE SoP project - a Spanish paper on SDI and Open Source - implementation in La Palma Island. >From the research I did within NESIS - few samples: Hungary: http://okir.kvvm.hu the technologic background of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Just van den Broecke
Hi Jo, Here in the Netherlands a national metadata portal for INSPIRE has been realized with GeoNetwork: http://www.nationaalgeoregister.nl . Jeroen Ticheler may fill in on this. For the Dutch Kadaster I am working on INSPIRE (data) services, using OSGeo packages like PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, GeoS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Ari Jolma
Jo Walsh wrote: dear all, Next month I've been asked to give a talk about the OSGeo stack to a group responsible for planning Scotland's Spatial Data Infrastructure. I'm keen to hear of examples of use of OSGeo software packages in SDI projects, especially with an INSPIRE focus. For instance

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Pieter De Graef
In Flander/Belgium, there was the geGIS (generic GIS) back in 2006, which lead to the creation of the Geomajas project. The idea was to have a generic platform for the creation what was called "editable SDI nodes". Although it fell a bit short of reaching that goal, it dfinitely was a step in th

[OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Jo Walsh
dear all, Next month I've been asked to give a talk about the OSGeo stack to a group responsible for planning Scotland's Spatial Data Infrastructure. I'm keen to hear of examples of use of OSGeo software packages in SDI projects, especially with an INSPIRE focus. For instance I have heard th