[...]
There is this cultural pressure on standards to be marketing tools.
Because of the government and military context for GIS, this pressure
is particularly intense for us. It starts to loop back on itself somewhat
like this, http://frot.org/on_standards/statements.html
Jo,
Thanks for
of terminology that is
compatible with Open Source.
Best regards,
Arnulf.
[1]
http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/portal/article_show?article=osjb2007-01-02-freyermuth.pdf
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Software
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andrea antonello wrote:
Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
are a table join, a spatial join
I'm not sure what you mean with spatial join, but if you mean overlay, and
raster combination GRASS can do, and it can also do table joins, while it
overlays two
On Fri, April 25, 2008 20:51, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some
strange reason all that I do starts with an http://...
A Desktop GIS is what you switch to when you
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Markus Neteler wrote:
Dear OSGeo,
I would like to launch the idea of an OSGeo Cartographic Library to
share concepts, source code and regression tests:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library
GRASS, QGIS and others are in the need of own map printing
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IMO:
[...]
I am probably too vector oriented to understand the problems
involved here but my experience is that there should be no issue if
you have your services configured all right.
I don't agree. But then my requirements are for spatial data that covers a
Randy George wrote:
Hi Bruce,
What approaches are people using with large Lidar datasets?
You might take a look at the WeoGeo group. They are a commercial operation,
not FOSS,
BEEP!
The opposite to FOSS is proprietary! Some related information can be found
here:
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IMO:
Hi Tyler,
Thanks for the reply.
Am I correct in believing that the two things people desire with
images in an RDB, is having an abstract 1) storage framework
(tables) and
2) a common access language (SQL) for managing the
framework. You could have the
Lucena, Ivan wrote:
Hi Bruce,
Here I am again...
Randy suggestion are pretty valuable and very well based but I have a
especial interest on storing raster on databases so that is why I asked
about it.
Yes, raster is chunky and not very fluid but I love to hear from
successful experience
has already reported to the board at the last meeting and
implementation is more or less under way. So if you have cool ideas, then
now is the time to share them.
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Arnulf.
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Mike Adair wrote:
I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in
Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under
the OSGeo umbrella. Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the
idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a
Howard Butler wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
If you were to lead the development of this material and put it into
the Open Source (with your name attached) this would give you extra
credibility and marketing reach.
Why? Why must OTG put their hard earned
Tim Bowden wrote:
In putting together some words for the Aust-NZ chapters bid to host the
2009 FOSS4G conf, I went looking at what OSGeo stands for and how we
could answer that mission in our conf hosting bid. I looked at
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html and got the distinct
Jo Walsh wrote:
dear all,
I got a lot out of the Jornadas gvSIG 3-day user/developer meeting
last week, and wanted to share a few notes with la comunidad
ingles-hablante.
One thing that jumped out is the strength of positive language about
software libre amongst the user community; not just
Cameron Shorter wrote:
Good processes + no money is an acceptable strategy so long as we have
consciously made this decision and everyone is aware of the strategy.
Hello,
keeping budgets low already is a corporate strategy of OSGeo as far as I am concerned. I am eager to extend this strategy
Hi,
good thread.
On Wed, October 3, 2007 03:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bruce
IMO:
I'd caution against watering down the OSGeo 'brand' as a source of
'quality' products, particularly if we want the products accepted as a
viable alternative within larger organisations.
Ack!
While it is
the mouse to reference points in the
image (I don't know whether it is in the current release, check back with
the qgis mailing list to be sure).
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On Wed, October 3, 2007 17:18, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
On 10/3/07, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
What's the turn around supposed to be on incubation submittals? I sent
in an application last Friday and never got any sort of reply. Even
a confirmation of receipt would be
Our 2ct for the Integration Showcase:
PS. I am really hoping that anyone good at MapServer will take a run at
the problem.
We are interested in consuming WMS and WFS services in our application Mapbender. We do not need the Online Resources or FeatureTypes of the services now because we want
1,73 Euro-Cent
Dearest all non-Directors,
this interesting thread is void of relevance as long as we have no better understanding of what the title OSGeo director is good for.
Let me share my experience as a director over the past 1,5 years and maybe you can help me to understand what this
and don't find it on OSGeo feel free to
contact me directly. Maybe I can help.
Best regards,
Arnulf.
Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
Hi All,
I have started a new page in a tentative try at defining Advocacy for OSGeo.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Advocacy
Please feel free to add, remove
[...]
Although my University has a large Unix system also and while it runs
many debian-based systems, my experience is that it is even more
difficult to set up a free GIS environment (the Geoinformatica for
example) there - so in fact the Windows solution is not so bad after
all. And as
On Sat, May 12, 2007 20:29, Jason Birch wrote:
Hmm. That sounds like an oxymoron, but:
http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007-article.html
Jason
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron:
An oxymoron (plural oxymora) is a figure of speech that combines two
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I note the same Autodesk funding OSGEO is also the creator of .DXF,
which one must jump thru HOOPS and turn purple even thinking of
converting to other formats here
on GNU/Linux.
Hi Dan,
Autodesk is a fairly old and large corporation with a straight forward
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this year
.
http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations
Yours,
The FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee
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On Wed, March 7, 2007 15:37, Josef Assad wrote:
Hello OSGeo community,
I am a little new in here, so a quick two line introduction; Ive been
involved with free software for something like 8 years now in almost
all capacities except programming it (much to the fortune of code
quality
On Mon, March 5, 2007 19:26, Allan Doyle wrote:
On Mar 5, 2007, at 13:26, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
ross s wrote:
Just to add a bit more spice to the discussion. I think the root
problem here is a definition amoung open source purists. Jeff
Thurston has added some interesting points to his
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