Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open vs Closed LiDAR format story hitting mass media

2015-04-21 Thread Cameron Shorter
In case you have missed it, this story has hit the front page of slashdot, the very popular IT news aggregator. Feel free to log to add comments to the comment trail: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/04/21/1624219/osgeo-foundation-up-in-arms-over-esri-las-lock-in-plans On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Wladimir Szczerban
This is not traditional addressing/geocoding, but serves to locate places http://what3words.com 2015-04-21 17:54 GMT+02:00 Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) < bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us>: > Serena, > > You should definite mention US National Grid (or from the World > Perspective, I think Universal Grid

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Serena, You should definite mention US National Grid (or from the World Perspective, I think Universal Grid is the pertinent label). It has already been demonstrated to work very well as an addressing method. You can find more info at these links: http://usngcenter.org/ http://www.usngstore

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Earth View

2015-04-21 Thread Clément Igonet
Yes, I like the idea of vector tiles web service! Thank you. Clément. On 2015-04-21 16:53, Eli Adam wrote: Hi Clement, That looks like some cool stuff! On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Iván Sánchez wrote: El Lunes 20. abril 2015 08.44.03 Jachym Cepicky escribió: looks nice, keep pushing.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes 21. abril 2015 07.59.55 Eli Adam escribió: > > Alas, I've been unable to > > locate a video recording of the intro (before the first keynote). > > Do you mean, https://vimeo.com/album/3039586/video/106862980? I stand corrected :-) -- Iván Sánchez Ortega ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/21/2015 01:10 AM, Serena Coetzee wrote: > Dear all, > > on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the > Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with > 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source softwa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Eli Adam
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Iván Sánchez wrote: > El Martes 21. abril 2015 10.10.13 Serena Coetzee escribió: >> Dear all, >> >> on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to >> the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization >> with 192

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Earth View

2015-04-21 Thread Eli Adam
Hi Clement, That looks like some cool stuff! On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Iván Sánchez wrote: > El Lunes 20. abril 2015 08.44.03 Jachym Cepicky escribió: >> looks nice, keep pushing. Maybe you could integrate it with some already in >> place tool, like OL, Leaflet? > > Yeah, I'd be intereste

[OSGeo-Discuss] square vs. polar grids

2015-04-21 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
The abundance of ideas for location codes proves the demand for simple answers to the simple question "where?", see www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere. Street names, lat/lon and post codes aren't simple. The cities Mannheim, Brasilia etc. begun to answer the question without street names but the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Universal Post Code

2015-04-21 Thread Sylvain Lesage
El 21/04/15 a las 05:03, Munich Orientation Convention escribió: > > > Hello Serena, > > > > the 192 UPU member countries have (192?) different post codes and I > don’t believe that a completely open code will ever change this > disorder. What costs little is worth less, what costs nothing…

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Clément Igonet
Hi! Here is the new open project: "Open Earth View". It relies mainly on X3D format exploitation. An example is here: http://www.openarthview.net OSM wiki: - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Earth_View - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2x3d This project already

[OSGeo-Discuss] Universal Post Code

2015-04-21 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hello Serena, the 192 UPU member countries have (192?) different post codes and I don't believe that a completely open code will ever change this disorder. What costs little is worth less, what costs nothing. Please be so kind to mention there that "r100" as OpenStandard www.volksnav.de/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes 21. abril 2015 10.10.13 Serena Coetzee escribió: > Dear all, > > on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to > the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization > with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open sou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Ari Jolma
21.04.2015, 11:10, Serena Coetzee kirjoitti: Dear all, on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source software or ope

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Serena Coetzee
Dear all, on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source software or open data related to addressing and/or geocoding,