Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) wrote: > I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource > Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar > with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and > interest in OpenSource. > > My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting > events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories > including software, databases, community, and open data. Feel free to recycle material from http://www.slideshare.net/markusN/presentations There is even more at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/osgeo Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL Raster Band setting
Hello GEOpartners, How may I set the proprieties of GeoTiff Raster Bands using some GDAL utility program? I would like to change the band name and color interpretation. Best regards, Gustavo Ortiz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Ah, sorry, I scanned the first couple too quickly then jumped to the end too fast. But, still, there's little or nothing there from too many of the candidates. By this metric, so far Daniel and Paolo get my votes... Michael, I certainly think this would be a great opportunity for folks to also suggest some issues of interest to them. Things that they would like a reaction to from potential board members. I did struggle a bit with what to put in my statement. As an incumbent it was not obvious to me that I have particular new issues to spearhead in the coming years, though obviously I hope to continue with many existing initiatives. I am pleased to see a strong slate of candidates. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
Ah, sorry, I scanned the first couple too quickly then jumped to the end too fast. But, still, there's little or nothing there from too many of the candidates. By this metric, so far Daniel and Paolo get my votes... -mpg > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:23 AM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010 > > Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > > Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any > statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past > years, and I think it has been helpful to some of us. > > > > The statements from the others who provided one are *after* the > nomination text in the same Wiki page at > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2010 > > -- > Daniel Morissette > http://www.mapgears.com/ > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any > statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and > I think it has been helpful to some of us. > The statements from the others who provided one are *after* the nomination text in the same Wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2010 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and I think it has been helpful to some of us. -mpg > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 1:13 PM > To: c...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-Board > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010 > > OSGeo Charter Members, > > The board election for 2010 has begun. The 2010 nominee list is > available here: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2010 > > Please take the time to read the full list, then send your votes to > c...@osgeo.org. > > * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote > * Choose four names from Board Member Nominations 2010 list > > Arnulf Christl > Frank Warmerdam > Venkatesh Raghavan > Tim Schaub > Lorenzo Becchi > Daniel Morissette > Paolo Cavallini > > * Email c...@osgeo.org with a list of up to 4 names > * You can cast up to 4 votes, for 4 different people. Multiple votes > for one person will be counted as one vote. > * Voting closes midnight (your timezone) 25-August-2010 > * Results will be posted at Board Election 2010 Results > * Contact c...@osgeo.org with questions > > Thanks, > > Paul Ramsey > OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 2010 > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
To add one of the strongest Ability of Open GIS.. Translation of front end into Local languages.. In India it is Indic translation.. No proprietary GIS can compete. --- On Tue, 17/8/10, Bob Basques wrote: From: Bob Basques Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial? To: "OSGeo Discussions" Date: Tuesday, 17 August, 2010, 8:58 PM David, I've been working on something (I think is interesting) with Linux Phones. I have GeoMoose/Mapserver running on a phone as a standalone server, and can even print over bluetooth/wifi from the phone. It's a little research project, but it's interesting to see that most things are simply a configuration exercise. Very little coding so far. I may play around with some OL interfaces as well, and/or add some gesture controls to GeoMoose. The general idea is to run the mapping locally (and in the background as much as possible) if the phone network goes away, and to sync with the home service if/when the network is available. I'm about 70% done, but it's a filler project and doesn't get a lot of dedicated focus, but I'm overdue on a report about it, so it needs to move along. bobb >>> "Fawcett, David (MPCA)" wrote: I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in OpenSource. My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories including software, databases, community, and open data. I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy developments in OpenSource geospatial. Think about new projects, new features, optimizations, events, use cases, etc. Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message. Thank you very much, David Fawcett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
David, I've been working on something (I think is interesting) with Linux Phones. I have GeoMoose/Mapserver running on a phone as a standalone server, and can even print over bluetooth/wifi from the phone. It's a little research project, but it's interesting to see that most things are simply a configuration exercise. Very little coding so far. I may play around with some OL interfaces as well, and/or add some gesture controls to GeoMoose. The general idea is to run the mapping locally (and in the background as much as possible) if the phone network goes away, and to sync with the home service if/when the network is available. I'm about 70% done, but it's a filler project and doesn't get a lot of dedicated focus, but I'm overdue on a report about it, so it needs to move along. bobb >>> "Fawcett, David (MPCA)" wrote: I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in OpenSource. My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories including software, databases, community, and open data. I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy developments in OpenSource geospatial. Think about new projects, new features, optimizations, events, use cases, etc. Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message. Thank you very much, David Fawcett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Code Sprint
If you are a geek or something very similar, the Code Sprint is one of the classical activities around the FOSS4G you should not miss. Subscribe your project to the wiki page of the event: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint if you want to participate, add your name under one of the project, it is important for us to understand how many people will come and calculate the right ammount of services. We don't want you to fight for a cup of coffee!! Lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in OpenSource. My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories including software, databases, community, and open data. I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy developments in OpenSource geospatial. Think about new projects, new features, optimizations, events, use cases, etc. Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message. Thank you very much, David Fawcett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web
All, Well, one could go old school, and just store the SHP files as the sourced data. Have mapserver read them directly, either via a dynamically modified index file, or via dynamically built MAPFILE. This would be just about the least amount of moving parts and still get you what you are looking for. I would still suggest moving to a DB a some point, but this would get things organized for a DB move at a later date. bobb >>> Peter wrote: > There is lots of documentation[2] and even a book[3]. Definition of a heavy app: one that requires a book. ;-) Honestly it sounds scalable, robust, all round good, and ill take the thing to bed with me for the next month, really, im a map freak. > MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI > executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to [...] > and it sends you the image file back. So, my web app is going to have to?: - write a map file to the filesystem, something we dont do much anymore in a word of dbs. - open a http socket to a CGI eg http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map, really? a socket to our own machine... ok. - which writes my png to the filesystem, where i can get at it later. Ive used web gis apps and i know how long they take to render. Thus the app needs to render the pngs either upon shapefile upload or overnite via cron, and store them for subsequent user consumption. I dont require (or want) the users to access the mapserver, hence the whole idea of running it as a cgi is pointless. Is there a way to run it as a binary system call? > You can also use it with MapScript for PHP or Python. This sounds promising. Only the documentation for it comprises this: http://mapserver.org/mapscript/introduction.html If i committed to put this together as a php class, and GPL it, would anybody be willing to give me a bit of a road map through the documentation. Regards ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] uDig 1.2.0 Released
The uDig 1.2 release process is complete and we are pleased to offer uDig 1.2.0 for download. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 2.6.5. The uDig 1.2.0 release is available from the main download page. INSTALLATION Download the package appropriate to your platform, unzip and run: Windows Linux Mac SDK: For use with SDK Quickstart instructions Windows and Linux packages includes a Java Runtime so you really can unzip and run without making any configuration changes to your Machine. On Mac OSX uDig is able to check for Java Advanced Imaging and install if needed. There is also a windows installer. To get started with uDig: Help Menu provides a Quickstart Walkthrough 1 Walkthrough 2 ABOUT UDIG 1.2 SERIES The uDig 1.2 series highlights a lot really great ideas the developer community has been working on. We have migrated to a modern version of the GeoTools library - bringing in five years of new developments in standard support, and a host of new raster and vector formats. An exciting addition is the use of the ImageIO-ext project allowing the use of raster formats supported by GDAL. New and capabilities of uDig 1.2 include: ImageIO-EXT rendering enabling additional raster formats and working with images larger then memory On select platforms MRSID and ECW raster support Tiled rendering (as an option in preferences) with a new flicker free panning tool. Support for GeoWebCache and TileCache via WMS-C WFS 1.1.0 support (read-only) Greatly improved ArcSDE support; multithreaded and faster Advanced Symbology including Hatches and True Type Font support ABOUT UDIG 1.2.0 Features and capabilities of this release: Access to GeoTools DataStores via a generic wizard allowing users to connect to many additional data formats and access all connection parameters. One long standing difficulty with using large datasets is uDig wanting to know the bounds of the data (so it can efficiently search, zoom). For common spatial file formats this data is known and available; for large databases such as DB2 and PostgreSQL this can take some time to calculate. For the generic GeoTools DataStore wizard above we are experimenting with using bounds based simply on the valid area for coordinate reference system provided by the data. The valid area of the coordinate reference system is also used when "clipping" WFS requests resolving some long standing issues when editing WFS services that do not update their Capabilities document. Advanced: Control what features are requested for a layer using a Common Query Language (CQL) expression. The expression builder offers command completion with the full GeoTools function list available as you type Advanced: Cache support added allowing you to cache Raster layers in memory (please be working with large datasets as this is the first time uDig is allowing users to cache information in memory). Please note that raster file formats on disk are optimised and in may cases perform better than caching in memory. Caching in memory is recommended for formats such as jpeg (where the entire image must be loaded to display even a small section) and when working with data from a slow device such as the network or DVD. Experimental: Cache support added allowing you to cache WFS layers in memory for increased performance (please be careful when working with large datasets as this is the first time uDig is allowing users to cache data in memory) Enhanced Vector Editing Revamped printing support, standard paper sizes are supported when printing Import multiple layers into the catalog at once switch between common map scales Improved Drag and Drop support allowing multiple layers to be manipulated at once Drag and Drop treats URL as a distinct content type across browser implementations Notes and documentation for developers: Service and GeoResource Interceptors Docs Interceptors Docs Review of the dependencies used by the uDig SDK with license and build advice We have transitioned to a modern version of GeoTools allowing for a more productive relationship with the larger community Support for the "JDBC-NG" rewrite of GeoTools Database access Uses the latest Eclipse 3.6.0 "Helios" release for an industrial strength plug-in system Uses the latest "Babel" project translations RELEASE NOTES The following release notes are applicable to this release: UDIG 1.2.0 Release Notes, August 9, 2010 (23 Issues) UDIG 1.2.RC3 Release Notes, May 17th, 2010 (25 Issues) UDIG 1.2.RC2 Release Notes, March 21, 2010 (7 Issues) UDIG 1.2.RC1 Release Notes, March 10, 2010 (4 issues) UDIG 1.2.M9 Release Notes, January 8, 2010 (2 issues) UDIG 1.2.M8 Release Notes, December 8, 2009 (1 issue) UDIG 1.2.M7 Release Notes, September 9, 2009 (13 issues) UDIG 1.2.M6 Release Notes, August 5, 2009 (53 issues) UDIG 1.2.M5 Release Notes, June 10, 2009 (4 issues) UDIG 1.2.M4 Release Notes, May 23, 2009 (12 Issues) UDIG 1.2.M3 Release Notes, March 30, 2009 (74 Issues) UDIG 1.2.M2 Release Notes, February 5, 2
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web
Peter, If all you want to do is render a shapefile to a png image using a command line (once? twice? many times?) then mapserver's shp2img is a good solution, or even GDAL's gdal_rasterize (http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html). But if you need a web mapping framework (html, javascript, etc) to provide the end-user with pan/zoom, layer selection and other tools, have a look at GeoMoose (http://www.geomoose.org). If you're using Windows, the MS4W package (http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/) can supply the server-side components, including mapserver. With MS4W, you can install Geomoose and start viewing the demo data within minutes. And if you're looking to maximize performance of web mapping apps by pre-rendering, you're talking about Tiling. One of the best explanation of this I've found is at http://www.maptiler.org/. But it doesn't cover how to create tiles of vector data. I've just started to look into this myself by reading the Mapnik doc (http://mapnik.org/)... Best Regards, Brent Fraser Peter wrote: There is lots of documentation[2] and even a book[3]. Definition of a heavy app: one that requires a book. ;-) Honestly it sounds scalable, robust, all round good, and ill take the thing to bed with me for the next month, really, im a map freak. MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to [...] and it sends you the image file back. So, my web app is going to have to?: - write a map file to the filesystem, something we dont do much anymore in a word of dbs. - open a http socket to a CGI eg http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map, really? a socket to our own machine... ok. - which writes my png to the filesystem, where i can get at it later. Ive used web gis apps and i know how long they take to render. Thus the app needs to render the pngs either upon shapefile upload or overnite via cron, and store them for subsequent user consumption. I dont require (or want) the users to access the mapserver, hence the whole idea of running it as a cgi is pointless. Is there a way to run it as a binary system call? You can also use it with MapScript for PHP or Python. This sounds promising. Only the documentation for it comprises this: http://mapserver.org/mapscript/introduction.html If i committed to put this together as a php class, and GPL it, would anybody be willing to give me a bit of a road map through the documentation. Regards ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Bed and Breakfast room available in Barcelona to take over
Hi all, I have a surplus reservation for a bed and breakfast place in Barcelona. Someone can take it from me, I did a small downpayment for the room already. Booking is from 5 to12 september and the room has a double and a single bed. Details: http://www.guesthousejardinets.com/ The room is the Sand triple/double room First come first served. Cheers, Jeroen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] AUTO: Martin Bunch is out of the office. (returning Mon 08/23/2010)
I am out of the office from Mon 08/16/2010 until Mon 08/23/2010. I will not have access to email, so your mail will not be read until I return. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web" sent on 8/16/2010 11:41:41 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
