On 11/15/2010 12:24 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone planning to attend, or looking for an excuse to attend, the GITA [1]
> Geospatial Solutions Conference in 2011? OSGeo will have a booth and several
> SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (including conference discounts or free pass when
On 11/11/2010 02:12 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 11/11/10 09:43, Sjur Kolberg wrote:
>> I am trying to convince people that open source GIS is a better
>> solution than buying proprietary software. Such discussions follow a
>> well-known path (is it mature/stable? How about support? All our
>> cl
I'm more concerned about the lack of direct support for multi-platforms.
Of course that implies that MS does a good job of supporting it's
platform. Noted case, how many years it took Flash to really be usable
without crazy hacks on linux. (OT: Anyone know what's up with Novell
possibly selling its
On 11/09/2010 11:22 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:
> Hi all, I appreciate being nominated as an OSGeo Charter Member. I've been
> participating with OSGeo since the 2006 Lausanne conference and am regularly
> involved in the edu committee and newsletter/journal committee. I've funded
> sponsorship at Lausa
On 11/08/2010 06:53 AM, Bob Basques wrote:
> All,
>
> This little piece has been nagging at me during this whole thread. Rules
> based on a project that didn't use the rules. (so to speak :c)
>
> I mean, if I just need to start under the OSGEO umbrella, and then everything
> is all "incuba
On 11/05/2010 04:09 AM, Joanne Cook wrote:
> Charter Membership would mean a lot to me, personally, and would (I think)
> help me when I am trying to raise the profile of the foundation. Having more
> female charter members will help address the gender imbalance within the
> organisation that wa
On 10/27/2010 05:50 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote:
>>> Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as
> GRASS?
>>
>> Two of the panelists answered. One said
>>
>>> More generally, the ability to create custom software solutions - whether
> proprietary or open source or a
>>
On 10/21/2010 01:18 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:
>
> don't see a news item on http://osgeo.org/ ...
>
Nominations are open according to the recent email from Paul Ramsey
http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Can-charter-members-be-nominated-any-time-td5659108.html#a5659108
Thanks,
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On 09/28/2010 06:40 AM, Hernan Olivera wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is OsGeo live dvd installed to hard disk is ok for production? If not, what
> would be necessary to do that?
>
> Thanks
>
This is a good question for over on the osgeolive mailing list.
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
The
On 09/26/2010 01:25 PM, andrea antonello wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>> One minor comment looking at the screenshots of the app on your website.
>> It looks like you are using the OSGeo logo as the compass in your app.
>> While the nod towards OSGeo is appreciated I think it's an inappropriate
>> use of t
On 09/25/2010 02:45 AM, andrea antonello wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> today we finally released the first version of Geopaparazzi on the
> android market. The project is released under GPLv3 an available on
> the homepage of the project [0].
>
> Geopaparazzi is a tool developed to supprot very fast
On 09/25/2010 02:45 AM, andrea antonello wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> today we finally released the first version of Geopaparazzi on the
> android market. The project is released under GPLv3 an available on
> the homepage of the project [0].
>
> Geopaparazzi is a tool developed to supprot very fast
On 09/16/2010 03:31 PM, heikki wrote:
> This thread is turning into mainly discussing the T-shirts etc.
>
> My 6½ euros :
>
> the T-shirt this year seemed to be of awful quality -- I'm quite sure you
> should never wear it or wash it, if you'd want the logo to remain (I did not
> buy it though, s
On 09/13/2010 06:45 AM, mayank_agarwal wrote:
>
> Hello Christopher,
> Sorry for that, I didnt mean to be so harsh on GRASS, but as R can be
> bridged with JAVA using JRI library, that's why I prefer R, and then it is
> simpler in using, and I agree that both will have there pros and cons, no
> do
Bill,
The best place to check on the status of such rpms is the Enterprise
Linux mailing list (aka Redhat/Centos,SUSE etc)
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/el
Enjoy,
Alex
On 09/09/2010 12:10 PM, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I hope this is the appropriate place for this general-GIS software
> quest
That is indeed tricky. Since support includes both community and paid
but support is the more likely term used in searching we might need to
rethink the navigation strategy to have a page specific to "Support that
mentions both and links to the service providers and the other forms of
support.
Tha
Bobb,
The Marketing Committee has been working on a planned overhaul of the
homepage(Landing Page). Here's a preview of the idea
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/design/draft2a.jpg
I'll note the link in question is right in the middle of the page.
For the details you'll need to trawl
ves including the USB drive. I had to move it up to
> be booted before the main HDD. Then it worked.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> 2010/8/15 Alex Mandel
>
>> On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>>> Ideally we would have
On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
>> Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates
>> however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at
>> least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute
>> OSGeo-Live to all de
On 06/03/2010 12:29 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> Hi Micha,
>
> thanks for your feedback!
>
>> Second - Having said that, most users will probably wait till CentOS 6.x ...
>
> Could you please elaborate on that?
> Do you think of server or of desktops?
>
> I guess that desktops will switch prett
Jody Garnett wrote:
> I know this is an (apparently recurring theme) during the wake up period in
> europe the various services hosted by osgeo grind to a halt. Including svn.
> I have been asked, as an osgeo officer, to raise an issue - and cannot right
> now because the website is slow/down!
>
Norman Vine wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Brent Fraser wrote:
>>
>> Ossim (www.ossim.org) has OssimPlanet which DOES model a globe but it can
>> be an effort to set up (I've never tried it).
>
> FYI there are downloadable binary OSSIM packages for Windows and Mac at
>
> http://downloa
On 03/26/2010 09:10 AM, P Kishor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Michael P. Gerlek
> wrote:
>> I'm thinking there might be a reasonable number of .NET folks lurking around
>> here, and that it might be nice to have a mailing list for .NET-specific
>> open source geo work -- what proj
Just wanted to give a heads up and get people thinking and talking, Org
applications will be due March 8-12, 2010
http://socghop.appspot.com/
Alex
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Landon Blake wrote:
> Thank you for all of the responses. I will summarize here for everyone's
> benefit:
>
> - Line Trace Plugs was a raster to vector conversion program used by the SCS,
> BLM and Forest Service. It was historically distributed with GRASS. It may
> now be available at ltplus.o
I've been using Hugin in an attempt to do this process. While the
control point generation works out ok (note there are some licensing
restrictions due to patents in all the current algorithms) the stitching
never comes out quite right because of hugin's insistence on warping to
a projection that a
miblon wrote:
> Hi there folks,
>
> I am currently investigating the open source options for generating
> density maps. I currently have some php code that could form the bases
> to do this, but I would prefer to use more general available api's such
> as geotools if that would be possible.
>
> F
Just hit my radar, hadn't heard about it before. Anyone familiar with
this conference/org? - Alex
=
COM.Geo 2010
http://www.com-geo.org
1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing
Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
>
> Not sure if this is well understood or has been covered here before. I'm
> curious about the role of the foundation in licensing code for
> distribution.
>
> If an OSGeo project assigns copyright to OSGeo, I imagine it is OSGeo
> that ultimately makes the decision on
All,
Tyler is speaking at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec
14-18(Booth is 15-18) in San Fransisco.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AGU_2009
I'm interested to know who is already planning to go to the AGU and
could help at the booth occasionally?
Several members of the California chapter
The session mentioned was posted by Eric Wolf who took over organizing
it this year in my stead.
http://n2.nabble.com/CGP-AAG-2010-Open-Source-Tools-and-Standards-in-GISc-Research-and-Education-td3830239.html#a3830239
I would encourage the creation of a 2nd session or panel aimed at less
technical
Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
I think you meant posterity.
Alex
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P Kishor wrote:
> Am looking for suggestions on how to take raster-style data (values
> per grid) and create 3D surfaces out of it. This would be not just for
> terrain but for anything... for example, a 3D surface of income, or
> age or any other parameter.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
R would
Joe was asking on IRC about ways to boot with a fresh copy of a GIS
workstation every time, ie all changes made during the last use are gone.
Here are some ideas:
1.Install a live disc to a harddrive, it's read only by default so it
will reset every time you boot. See http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
Landon Blake wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on the
> metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I'm particularly interested
> in how if relates to the former FGDC metadata standard used in the
> United States, and the differences between the two standards.
The plugin aims to allow for ISO, FGDC and Dublin Core editing and
saving to xml per the standard that CatMdEdit, ArcGIS, Geonetwork etc
all use XML. Someone did file a ticket to add Geonetwork export, I'd
welcome anyone from the Geonetwork side helping out with that.
Auto, or Triggered updating f
Sampson, David wrote:
> Ahh.. Metadata
>
> As I am going through creating some plugins and learning about OWS
> services and trying my hand at a catalogue plugin I got to thinking,
> what does the open source world do for managin their metadata on their
> desktop?
>
> I know and quite like projec
Jacolin Yves wrote:
> Le Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:29:16 Alex Mandel, vous avez écrit :
>> I'll see about getting them linked in a more obvious place.
>
> Hi,
>
> here they are : http://www.osgeo.org/journal (english and french release).
>
> Regards,
>
>
Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're preparing a roundtable discussion on the topic of Opensource GIS
> to take place on rather big GIS event in Russia in about a week and I
> looking for some information that can attract more users and
> developers to geospatial opensource. The
Julia Harrell wrote:
>
>> Have you considered whether surplused hardware from within your organization
>> could be used for some of this?
>>
>> It may not suffice for a windows server, and i did not see if you already
>> have linux boxes.
>>
>
> Surplus would work for a dev/test box, if/when yo
I recently gave a talk at the California Geographical Society on
Spatialite. Several people have asked so here are my slides with notes.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15063620/Spatialite-CGS-2009
Enjoy,
Alex
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Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alex Mandel
> wrote:
>> So looking around there a few things that could use some work on the
>> wiki and are easy enough for any community member to help with.
>>
>> 1. We have 327 Orphaned Pages, these ar
So looking around there a few things that could use some work on the
wiki and are easy enough for any community member to help with.
1. We have 327 Orphaned Pages, these are pages that exist but that no
other page links to. Which means no one is likely to ever find them or
their useful content.
ht
Are you on facebook, or have a bunch of students who probably are?
OSGeo now has a facebook group, just one more way to network and
outreach to new people.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=155488650251
Alex
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To get you started, you'll want to get an Exhibition Pack, these are the
basic items to setup an exhibit.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exhibition_Pack
You'll also want to make a wiki page for your event like:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CGS_2008
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AAG_2009
These pages will al
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Subject: [CISG] ASPRS - Special Session: "Open Source Solutions for
Geographic Information Science and Systems"
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:03:42 -0600
From: Michael P Finn
To: c...@esg1.cos.gmu.edu
Hi All,
The GIS Division of ASPRS is planning a special sessio
Landon Blake wrote:
> I must shamefully admit that I forgot the password to the mailing list
> for the California Chapter:
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california
>
> Any idea who I would ask to get the password reset?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Landon
>
My guess is someone on the
Building an msi just adds complication. I also have not seen any open
source tools to do it either. In reality an msi is just a microsoft
compressed database format they invented. Because typical installers
write to registry using an msi prevents you from running more than one
at the same time. In
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:01:34AM -0300, Leonardo Mateo wrote:
>> Ok, here's my grain of sand. I don't know what geomajas is, so I don't
>> know how much Flex would impact on this.
>> I've been working with Flex from the past two years or so, now a days
>> a little les
ion, hardlines for
bandwith are not a problem.
Please feel free to forward,
Alex Mandel
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For those of you at the AGU 2008 conference right now, please consider
contributing some notes about the conference to help us plan for next year.
We're interested in the details of Open Source talks, Sessions(I know
there's one), socials and other general info about the conference and
your experi
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> I'm always looking for more ways to summarise statistics about OSGeo and
> was reminded recently about some of the good work shown here - a map and
> a member list based on wiki categories and properties:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member
>
> It'
I think I've seen some IRC traffic on this so someone in OSGeo probably
has an opinion on this. - Alex
Original Message
Subject: Re: [CISG] call for reviewers for editorial "introduction to
DGIP research" paper of the IJGIS special issue on DGIP
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:38:12 -0
Landon Blake wrote:
While preparing my recent proposal for the OSGeo I realized there wasn't
a lot of information on the history of the organization. I realize part
of this is because the OSGeo is pretty young as far as organizations go.
However, most of the information I could find about the OSG
Tyler Erickson wrote:
I am interested in approaches for adding a populated field to a shapefile
(for example, adding a new field named 'source_url' with the value
'http://somewebsite.com'). I would like to do this for several thousand
files.
At first I thought that I might be able to accomplish
wrote:
I'll have to run that by the boss. Since you are tied to CISG, it'll be
easier. I am supposed to be presenting in Ming Tsou's session "Internet
GIS, Virtual Globes, and related Cartographic Research".
-Eric
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PR
Eric Wolf wrote:
I'm about to submit my abstract to the AAG conference on comparing
available distributed geospatial technologies for the USGS National Map. Of
course, I haven't really even started the footwork...
I'd be very interested to see other people's benchmarks.
-Eric
Eric,
Would y
Miguel Montesinos wrote:
>> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Patton
>> Enviado el: sáb 18/10/2008 18:22
>> Para: OSGeo Discussions
>> Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident
>>
>>
>
>> On 2008/10/17 12:15 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
>>> Hi All, I resend this mail
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>
> On 19-Oct-08, at 5:30 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>
>> I have no skin in this game, but I would second the above sentiment.
>> While "not free as in beer" should not be as much of a problem as "not
>> free as in speech," ignoring Windows is perilous and foolish. Because
Bogdan Florin Paul wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a Geo newbie working on a weather project using a lot of epsg:900913
> country maps in GTiff format.
>
> These country maps will be converted to jpg and will be used as static
> background images for doing javascript-powered weather maps.
>
> I am
edge Free and
Open Source solutions in geographical research.
*Anticipated Attendance:* 25
Once again the wiki page is at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AAG_2009
Thanks,
Alex
Alex Mandel wrote:
> The Association of American Geographers 2009 conference is now open for
> paper abstracts
of Marine, Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, Campus Box 8208
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC 27695-8208
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/
On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
Was there any resolution on this proposal at the conference. We need
to move
ial Stack"
> http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/Company/Presentations.html
>
> Contact me if you are interested, and I'll give you the latest versions
> and abstracts as well.
>
> Alex Mandel wrote:
>> The Association of American Geographers 2009 conference is
The Association of American Geographers 2009 conference is now open for
paper abstracts. This year I'd like organize paper sessions for the
conference around FOSS.
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm
Depending on how many papers we get I am aiming for 2-3 sessions (12-15
papers).
I intend to due some refinements in October with GIS Day in November
being the next deadline. You can see my ideas on the wiki page.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc under Long Term Plan
Alex
Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
I'm a lazy european, sorry
;-)
Mark, why the name is still on Alpha?
do
Mark Leslie wrote:
> Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Mark Leslie wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> We at LISAsoft are in the process of setting up a Live CD. While the
>>> ultimate goal is a 'comprehensive' version by FOSS4G2009, we're starting
>&g
Mark Leslie wrote:
> Greetings,
> We at LISAsoft are in the process of setting up a Live CD. While the
> ultimate goal is a 'comprehensive' version by FOSS4G2009, we're starting
> with a fairly short java-centric stack of software in order to get the
> details worked out and get something out the
g,
coordinating GIS projects.
I'll try postgis versioning though. Thanks!
maning
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
maning sambale wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS projects. Are there any
you can recommend? I'm
maning sambale wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS projects. Are there any
you can recommend? I'm looking at trac, it's primarily for managinf
software projects. Is there anybody here who have used it for
managing GIS projects?
cheers,
maning
Trac/svn really isn't a good
Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
Folks,
Today, PyCon 2008 PL event was announced for the first time.
It will be a small version of PyCON for users in Poland
http://liwo.polsl.pl/pycon-pl
(website in Polish only)
So, call for papers has been opened.
I've got an idea about giving an overview use of Python
To be a little more constructive. I suggest you look into streaming with
VLC or embedding VLC in the browser as Google Video has done.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
I do see the current issue primarily is that the webcasting is being
outsourced so you have little control. Anyone
P Kishor wrote:
On 5/27/08, Chris Puttick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- "Frank Warmerdam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Patton wrote:
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> >> I agree that we ought to consider developing a similar policy to
> >> Apache's. I'll add an agenda item for the
Not yet, but I think there would be enough of us California OsGeos to do
an exhibit if booth, some gas and food was put into a marketing budget.
Space for an exhibit must be premium if they want $1000 for a
non-profit. We'd have to bring a wall of screens to match that kind of
bling.
A sessi
Anyone going to the Where 2.0 conference this coming week want some of
my leftover OsGeo project flyers from tabling at CGS. I realized I'll be
in the Bay Area over the weekend and can drop them off.
I guess no one's tabling otherwise they would have asked for the skirt
and banner. Speaking of
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] AAG Boston Socia
So any progress planning an OSGeo social next week for the AAG in
Boston. I know we've got at least 10 people to bring together (at least
5 from UC Davis). Even just picking a hang out for one night would be
cool, although you had mentioned MIT before...
What do the locals say?
Alex
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Cameron Shorter wrote:
After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, we
were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to
Geospatial Open Source.
The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would
be much easier to sell to upper management
Mateusz Loskot wrote:
Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Would it be acceptable to have job postings on this list?
not to me
Should we
try and setup a job postings / job wanted mailing list?
it would be the best solution to me.
everybody can subscribe just for time he/she's r
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
On 30-Oct-07, at 6:02 AM, Helena Mitasova wrote:
I am planning to attend and I will be willing to chair a session - I
planned to submit an abstract today
please let me know if we have enough people for the session so that I
can adjust the abstract accordingly.
I
or Introduction to GIS using QGIS(How to
teach an intro course in GIS with QGIS) based on some of the course
materials being uploaded by various members?
Alex Mandel
Helena Mitasova wrote:
Allan,
I am planning to submit a paper (and I will check with others in the
growing OSGeo community he
I think this is a great opportunity for OSGeo to reach a wider audience
of general users.
As and organization I think we should consider having a 'vendor' booth
in the exhibit hall, running a workshop, and maybe an organized session.
I'll volunteer to help with whatever we pick to do.
The mee
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