Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS related tutorials on handling File Formats in GLCF's web-page -- 1st reply from GLCF

2013-01-28 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos Alexandris wrote: [..] >I've mailed them directly and asked if they will accept user- > submitted material. Will post here their reply. [..] 1st request (and 1st reply below) --%<--- From: n...@nikosalexandris.net [mailto:n...@nikosalexandris.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:03 A

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS related tutorials on handling File Formats in GLCF's web-page

2013-01-28 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos Alexandris wrote: [..] > I miss to see GFOSS-related tutorials (like GDAL, GRASS-GIS and, of course, > much more). I've mailed them directly and asked if they will accept user- > submitted material. Will post here their reply. [..] 2nd request (and 2nd reply below) --%<--- From: n...@n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-28 Thread Raj Singh
Oh one more note. It's a raw dump, in the custom data model I'm using for best performance. It's not in the draft standard available here, but that's my next task: http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/documents/Core/latest --- Raj On Jan 28, at 2:28 PM, Raj Singh wrote: > I've made a database dump of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-28 Thread Raj Singh
I've made a database dump of the OpenPOIs database available here: http://openpoi.ogcnetwork.net/dumps/ It's large -- 3Gb compressed, using pg_dump's custom dump format as described here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/backup-dump.html Let me know if you can use it. I'm sure there wil

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-28 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Hi all, I step back too. I don't want to rise problems or whatever, and I think that LOC can decide what they think is better, and after all its their conference ;-) I have already clearly stated my point of view, and I have just to add that in Denver the Journal was the same that is proposed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Jo, Indeed I fully agree with you. There seemed to be some confusion on past vs present. My goal was only to clear that up. I'll step back and let the Academic committee decide on all that. -jeff On 13-01-28 10:59 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > Hi Jeff and the rest of the list, > > I'm speaking f

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-28 Thread Jo Cook
Hi Jeff and the rest of the list, I'm speaking from a position of ignorance about this, but surely the academic track submission process will need to change from year to year depending on the journal that papers are to be submitted to? Surely the process is driven mainly by the demands and deadlin