Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

2010-09-14 Thread Bill Thoen
Thanks! I've still got to finish getting the machine built and the RAID system set up and get PostgreSQL sorted out. Then I should be in position to start loading up on GIS tools. I'll probably be asking plenty of questions then. - Bill Thoen . On 9/14/2010 5:41 AM, Mathieu Bau

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-14 Thread Bill Thoen
I'm not saying it isn't worth doing, I'm just saying you'll need to qualify the precision of your results before you can say much about applying this to any real-world problems. - Bill Thoen On 9/13/2010 5:28 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Bill, Thanks for the ideas. I mi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Thoen
gery, articles and examples that you might want to check out for ideas or inspiration There's a particularly good demonstration of using fog instead of shadow to create a visual representation of ridge lines, if your 're using those to determine a topographic index (see http://ctm

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

2010-09-10 Thread Bill Thoen
Bill Thoen wrote: I hope this is the appropriate place for this general-GIS software question. Apologies if this isn't it. I'm looking for a yum repo or an rpm download site for the following set of GIS packages for a machine running Centos 5.5: PostgreSQL Proj4 GDAL / OGR tools GE

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Thoen
ect choice for a GIS database server, but for desktop use, let’s wait for CentOS 6." -- *Bill Thoen* GISnet - www.gisnet.com <http://www.gisnet.com/> 1401 Walnut St., Suite C Boulder, CO 80302 303-786-9961 tel 303-443-4856 fax bth...@gisnet.com _

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Thoen
a brand new machine, I'd like to follow the recommendations of people who know more than I do, whenever I can. So, does any know if there's a one-stop yum repository or rpm site where I can get everything as integrated, compatible rpms ? TIA, - Bil Thoen -- *Bill Thoen* GISnet - ww

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP

2010-08-29 Thread Bill Thoen
sing_, hence does nice raster renders. The API is pretty much all MapServer does too. Just use the AGG driver in the OUTPUTFORMAT object in the mapfile to get nice-looking antialiasing over the entire map. -- *Bill Thoen* GISnet - www.gisnet.com 303-786

[OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone Know What's Happened to All the NAIP Servers?

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Thoen
ing concerned that something bigger might be happening to US govt. spatial data resources. - Bill Thoen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata as Public Record in U.S.

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Thoen
Richard Greenwood wrote: A friend of my prepared this analysis of geodata distribution and fees at the county government level in the US: http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS Data as Public Record.pdf

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Bill Thoen
he environment in which it operates, then you're sort of stepping on your own air hose. - Bill Thoen Landon Blake wrote: I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) company that maintains a separate fork of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
Christopher Schmidt wrote: Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst. http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html Oops! Sorry about that. Too many windows open at the same time, I guess I lost track. Probably explains the double post too. Thanks for catching that. ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
arl Reed's 2004 article, "Intellectual Property, Patents, and Web Mapping: Historical Perspective" at http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=28360. - Bill Thoen And I believe there actually was a patent issued for René A. Enguehard wrote: I suspect they might be ap

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
Carl Reed's 2004 article, "Intellectual Property, Patents, and Web Mapping: Historical Perspective" at http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=28360. - Bill Thoen GISnet - www.gisnet.com Brian Russo wrote: I've seen legends similar to that before; afraid I can

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Geodata] GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.0 released

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Thoen
o find any mirror information for the "GeoNetwork%20opensource/GeoNetwork%20opensource%202.4.0/geonetwork-install-2.4.0-0.jar" file. Please select another file." Did I do something wrong or is this an installation malfunction? Regards, - Bill Thoen __

[OSGeo-Discuss] This Thread is Dead (was Re: Comparison between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS)

2009-06-01 Thread Bill Thoen
Message subjects, like diapers, need to be changed once in a while. Usually for the same reasons, too. Traian Stanev wrote: However, they (the US govt.) don’t even need a specific legal provision to spy on data that is hosted outside the US, and they’ve been doing that since forever…

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-27 Thread Bill Thoen
gined. I'm very impressed with ESRI's marketing -- if they can sell this, they could sell snow to Santa Claus! Regards, - Bill Thoen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Thoen
e facts. As it stands I can put those questions out for consideration, but I'd like to know the answers too. Thanks, - Bill Thoen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss