[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO/QGIS Meetup at Georgia Geospatial Conference 2014 in Athens Georgia
On Monday October 6th (workshop day) 2014, I'm teaching a OpenStreetMap for GIS People formatted workshop at the Georgia Geospatial Conference . At 5:30 p.m. EST I plan on having a meetup in the room in which I'm teaching the class (in the Classic Center - Room Athena C). 10 Minutes into the meeting we will most likely relocate to a local eating and drinking establishment to solve the world's problems and come up with a plan for the group. I will leave as much of a trail as to where we are going that is allowed by the local litter/sign ordinance. If you're interested in FOSS4G/QGIS and you are going to be at the conference - please attend. If you can't but are still interested - http://www.meetup.com/qgis_us/Atlanta-QGIS-Users-Group/ We plan on covering all sorts of topics from QGIS to PostGIS to anything else that in which the group is interested. * What is QGIS? * Have no clue what Free and Open Source Software is for GIS? * Will it work with the Commercial stuff? * Why is OpenStreetMap? * When does PostGIS Day happen? * This stuff is Free - it can't be that good...Can it? * Map Server Serves Maps? * Leaflet? Because it's fall? * Make GIS Fun again? WHAT? Everyone is welcome from companies to casual enthusiasts to the person that didn't wish to sit in their rooms on Monday night. Once we get through October 6th plan on a bigger meeting within Atlanta. Thanks for your time, Randy -- - Randal Hale North River Geographic Systems, Inc http://www.northrivergeographic.com 423.653.3611rjh...@northrivergeographic.com twitter:rjhalehttp://about.me/rjhale http://www.northrivergeographic.com/spatial-connect *Intro to QGIS Class - October 9th 2014 - Athens Georgia* ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] On the subject of tilecache
Dear List, A while ago I reached out to the tilecache mailing list to try and understand what's happening with the project. The company that I work for has a few minor fixes that we would like to contribute back to the main code, and I also noticed that there are some broken links on the website (and in the example config) as the metacarta tile server is no longer in operation, so beginners are going to find it quite tough to set up. A quick look on github suggests a number of people have forked it and are doing their own thing, but ideally it would be good to know if the core team are still doing any work on it, or have any plans to take it forward. Github's great, but it would also be nice to have a canonical version of the package that we can all contribute to rather than many versions, all slightly different. As I said, I asked this question on the tilecache mailing list and got no answer, so I thought I'd ask here but if anyone wants to chat about it off list then please do get in touch. All the best Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the 2014 LocationTech Tour
Dear Everyone, For those that might be interested in speaking about their project, initiative, or just attending to meet others with common interest, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2014 Tour http://tour.locationtech.org/2014/. It is a federated series of global events featuring presentations on open source software and open data. Nearly all of the events are free, and the tour is open to everyone. We would like to extend an especially warm invitation to people from OSGeo. We encourage people that wish to speak to propose their talk via. the Propose a talk https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uqqHpHjtiGCf5WGeNzn_oZWCh-fpAoO1h5s-VfF31sA/viewform link on the site. There's a local team in each city assembling the program and they'll get back to you. Kind regards, and I hope to meet see many of you again along the way. Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Philippines 2014
Dear Jeff, Thanks for your support. So I'll take this as an approval that we can use the FOSS4G name? As to the official recognition of the local chapter, we will add this as one of the agenda during the event. I'm watching this talk [0] as I think about moving forward to official recognition. :) [0] https://vimeo.com/106232256 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Maning, Please also consider sending the OSGeo Board a request to become an Official local chapter (see the guidelines[1]). This might be nice news for your FOSS4G event! :) [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines#Chapter_Formation -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2014-09-24 12:32 PM, maning sambale wrote: Dear everyone, We are in the planning stage again for the FOSS4G track in the philgeos 2014 this coming November. We have been hitching with the PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already [0, 1]. Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost (to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops. One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to brand this as FOSS4G Philippines? Are there official channels to toalk and disuss? [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the 2014 LocationTech Tour
We have had very good representation of OSGeo projects thus far, indeed I am speaking on GeoServer this evening at the Victoria tour stop. Jody Garnett On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote: Dear Everyone, For those that might be interested in speaking about their project, initiative, or just attending to meet others with common interest, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2014 Tour http://tour.locationtech.org/2014/. It is a federated series of global events featuring presentations on open source software and open data. Nearly all of the events are free, and the tour is open to everyone. We would like to extend an especially warm invitation to people from OSGeo. We encourage people that wish to speak to propose their talk via. the Propose a talk https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uqqHpHjtiGCf5WGeNzn_oZWCh-fpAoO1h5s-VfF31sA/viewform link on the site. There's a local team in each city assembling the program and they'll get back to you. Kind regards, and I hope to meet see many of you again along the way. Andrew ___ 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] FOSS4G Philippines 2014
Hi Maning, The FOSS4G name is a hot topic lately, but I feel you properly brought this up on the list for everyone, until someday if/when we have more of a formal process. So yes, share the FOSS4G passion in your local region! :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2014-09-25 12:58 PM, maning sambale wrote: Dear Jeff, Thanks for your support. So I'll take this as an approval that we can use the FOSS4G name? As to the official recognition of the local chapter, we will add this as one of the agenda during the event. I'm watching this talk [0] as I think about moving forward to official recognition. :) [0] https://vimeo.com/106232256 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Maning, Please also consider sending the OSGeo Board a request to become an Official local chapter (see the guidelines[1]). This might be nice news for your FOSS4G event! :) [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines#Chapter_Formation -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2014-09-24 12:32 PM, maning sambale wrote: Dear everyone, We are in the planning stage again for the FOSS4G track in the philgeos 2014 this coming November. We have been hitching with the PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already [0, 1]. Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost (to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops. One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to brand this as FOSS4G Philippines? Are there official channels to toalk and disuss? [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the 2014 LocationTech Tour
I'll also take this opportunity to re-extend an invitation to OSGeo developers to the Code Sprint that will be held in Philadelphia on Fri, Nov 21, the day after the Philadelphia tour stop. We are inviting both OSGeo and LocationTech projects to hack together at the Azavea offices. You can register for the code sprint at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/locationtech-code-sprint-2014-tickets-12628794063 Best, Robert -- Robert Cheetham Azavea | 340 N 12th St, Ste 402, Philadelphia, PA cheet...@azavea.com | T 215.701.7713 | F 215.925.2663 Web azavea.com http://www.azavea.com/ | Blog azavea.com/blogs | Twitter @ http://goog_858212415rcheetham http://twitter.com/rcheetham and @azavea http://twitter.com/azavea *Azavea is a B Corporation http://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps - we apply geospatial technology for civic and social impact* *while advancing the state-of-the-art through research. Join us http://jobs.azavea.com/.* On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote: Dear Everyone, For those that might be interested in speaking about their project, initiative, or just attending to meet others with common interest, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2014 Tour http://tour.locationtech.org/2014/. It is a federated series of global events featuring presentations on open source software and open data. Nearly all of the events are free, and the tour is open to everyone. We would like to extend an especially warm invitation to people from OSGeo. We encourage people that wish to speak to propose their talk via. the Propose a talk https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uqqHpHjtiGCf5WGeNzn_oZWCh-fpAoO1h5s-VfF31sA/viewform link on the site. There's a local team in each city assembling the program and they'll get back to you. Kind regards, and I hope to meet see many of you again along the way. Andrew ___ 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] On the subject of tilecache
On 09/25/2014 06:53 AM, Jo Cook wrote: Dear List, A while ago I reached out to the tilecache mailing list to try and understand what's happening with the project. The company that I work for has a few minor fixes that we would like to contribute back to the main code, and I also noticed that there are some broken links on the website (and in the example config) as the metacarta tile server is no longer in operation, so beginners are going to find it quite tough to set up. A quick look on github suggests a number of people have forked it and are doing their own thing, but ideally it would be good to know if the core team are still doing any work on it, or have any plans to take it forward. Github's great, but it would also be nice to have a canonical version of the package that we can all contribute to rather than many versions, all slightly different. As I said, I asked this question on the tilecache mailing list and got no answer, so I thought I'd ask here but if anyone wants to chat about it off list then please do get in touch. All the best Jo Apparently it's been lurking quietly. There were only 3 people with commit access to the svn, which has been up all this time, just unknown since the trac instance was down (spammed to death). Today I helped Brian resurrect it's public face, website in progress, but code as it stands is now available on github in anticipation of merges, pull requests and contributors. https://github.com/OSGeo/tilecache To all those with forks, it would be great to bring it all back together if possible - or at least make it easier to figure out what's different between the forks. Thanks, Alex OSGeo Sys Admin Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
