Re: Change in mailing list configuration

Well said Florian, I won’t be far behind you. …and we wonder why user engagement on the lists has dropped off. I have made some great friends within the OSGeo community over the years. Best wishes to you all. I’ll be decommissioning this email address in the near future. If you’d like to sta

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mailing lists to discourse migration

Apart from these few emails telling me that a move to something called Discourse is happening, I have not seen any discussion on our lists explaining the pros and cons of such a move. I find this lack of community engagement on this issue to be troubling.This does not seem to be a very open source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Poll: Change FOSS4G structure to have some continuity of organization and management

Well said Sanghee. As a former member of the LOC for FOSS4G-2009 I agree with the local community development argument, though in our case it led to a lot of burn-out. There is also the practicality of finding a conference organiser that can operate effectively anywhere in the world. Should th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference selection transparency (Was Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023)

Jonathan, Do you have a suggestion as to how the process can be improved? Kind regards, Bruce Disclosure: I was a member of the LOC for FOSS4G-2009. I personally don’t have a problem with the process as is, but it may be possible to improve things. That is, provided that we don’t make the jo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [TC-Announce] OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services

FYI > Begin forwarded message: > > From: announce--- via TC-Announce > Subject: [TC-Announce] OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance > Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services > Date: 15 July 2021 at 23:38:01 AEST > To: tc-annou...@lists.opengeospatial.org > Reply-To: "anno

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Statement on Community Standards

Agreed Jody. My preference is the Berlin Code of Conduct. It is short, succinct and says what we need to say in a number of languages. Bruce > On 1 Jun 2021, at 03:57, Jody Garnett via Discuss > wrote: > >  > Astrid: > > The page links to the code of conduct for several communities, but we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Parsing well-known text

Hello Pierre, It is dangerous to assume what the coordinates in a data set represent. It may not have implications for your particular use, but could have serious consequences for other uses downstream. A good approach is to consult the discovery metadata that describes the dataset that you ar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Spare OGC membership slot

*don’t* know, in particular about how OSGeo interacts with > OGC (hence a discovery mission to do) > > Regards > > Adam > > > >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 22:42, Bruce Bannerman >> wrote: >> I’ve had one more expression of interest, off list. &g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Spare OGC membership slot

. >> >> Contact me or visit >> "https://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/active"; if you're >> interested in learning more. Full observer privileges are available to all >> OGC members (including the OSGeo slot). >> >> Thanks.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the 2018 OSGeo Charter Member elections

I am also concerned at the lack of information and discussion that took place this year. I do not recall seeing anything through the Discuss lists and was not aware of the Wiki page listed below. Hence my votes were limited accordingly. At the least, it would have been useful to have the wiki p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G TGP experiences

Thanks Steve, This is great to read. It proves the point of the many people who argued for us to find a way to support a travel grant approach. Well done to the organisers who made this happen. Bruce > On 26 Sep 2018, at 04:19, Steven Feldman wrote: > > Here is a blog post summarising some o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

Hello everyone, It is good to see this discussion. We have a very good community, with talented people from many diverse ethnicities, cultures and gender. From my point of view, I would prefer to see a situation where we concentrate on getting the best representation for a particular event. We

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

Well said Cameron. Bruce > On 23 Jun 2018, at 07:35, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > Could each of us please be a bit more measured and forgiving when responding. > It seems a few words have been selected which caused more offense than > intended. > I remember Jeff McKenna once saying that he som

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

+1 Bravo Vicky! Very well said. Thank you. Kind regards, Bruce > On 22 Oct 2017, at 23:45, Vicky Vergara wrote: > > Open letter to Jeff McKenna. > > Dear Jeff: > > I am so sad about the situation that led you to ask about the withdrawal. > > All of us, OSGeo members, no matter the positi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

+1 Maxi. I’m very sorry to see this Jeff. As a community, we need to look closely at what we allowed to happen during this process. We cannot afford to chase away very talented and passionate people. Jeff is but one of them. I have not been impressed by our actions. Bruce > On 22 Oct 2017,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

Hello Ravi, I have not really been following this discussion closely, but I can see from this email that you are upset. I’m not sure what it is that you are upset over based on the few lines in your email. I suspect that the issue may be: "Is there a solution to OSGeo FOSS4G events, that are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hackathon: building fully open climatic monitoring system [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Massimiliano, I will be very interested to see how this initiative develops. It overlaps with a couple of the areas that I'm working in. One of the hats that I wear is as Co-chair of the Expert Team - Climate Data Management Systems (ET-CDMS). ET-CDMS is sponsored by the World Meteorologica

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

Several years ago, Cameron Shorter and I responded to an Australian Government Parliamentary Inquiry into opening up access to public sector data. (8 years now Cameron...) This was done on behalf of OSGeo AustNZ. See [1]. There is definitely a role for OSGeo in lobbying for access for open data.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

r guidance would be welcome. > > Best wishes, > Jon > > > [1] > https://github.com/covjson/specification/blob/master/spec.md#10-media-type-and-file-extension > > From: Jachym Cepicky > Date: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:15 > To: Jon Blower , OSGeo Discus

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

.eu > > -- > Dr Jon Blower, > MELODIES project coordinator, > University of Reading > j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk > > From: Massimiliano Cannata > Date: Thursday, 18 August 2016 09:47 > To: Bruce Bannerman > Cc: Jachym Cepicky , OSGeo Discussions > , Jon Blowe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

thinking about data compression too? For raster data, this > could be key issue IMHO. > > good luck > > Jachym > > čt 11. 8. 2016 v 0:47 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman > napsal: >> Hi, >> >> Are any projects doing any work with the emerging data

[OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

Hi, Are any projects doing any work with the emerging data format, CoverageJSON? See: - https://covjson.org/ - https://github.com/covjson/specification/blob/master/spec.md I understand that this is still a work in progress, but is in a fairly stable state at the moment. If anyone has looked

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FW: Some more stuff about coordinate reference systems

FYI, info on the Apache SIS library. Martin Desruisseaux of Geomatys has done a good job with his presentation at [2] that describes why spatial reference systems are important. Bruce -- Forwarded message -- On 5/08/2016, 19:59, "Jon Blower" wrote: >Hi all, > >I¹ve been talk

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does rasdaman CE solve an open source geospatial problem?

Hi Edzer, Thank you for your timely email. I agree that the functionality of the community version has been constrained and have noted your comments below on aa earlier thread on the Rasdaman lists that proceeded down a similar line with direct responses to issues avoided through diverting the d

[OSGeo-Discuss] Rasdaman has been in OSGeo Incubation for 4.5 years, not 6 years

This email is just to correct the public record. Several of us have stated that Rasdaman has been incubation for six years. This is not the case. I have just been going through the Incubation list archives. Rasdaman was accepted into OSGeo Incubation in November 2011: http://lists.osgeo.org/p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

GIS? Bruce > From: Discuss on behalf of Tom Roche > > Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2016 9:17 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image > processing capability? > > Bruce Bannerman [1] >>> Your spre

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

something that projects are doing currently? Bruce On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > > > On 13/05/2016, 16:08, "Discuss on behalf of Paolo Cavallini" > > wrote: > > >Il 12/05/2016 23:57, Bruce Bannerman ha scritto: > >> Has anyone

[OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

Has anyone done a recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability? It would be interesting to see where we stand now with FOSS4G software functionality. It appears that this is what ESRI is using to compare the functionality of their various license levels: https://esriaustra

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [rasdaman-dev] Re: [Incubator] Rasdaman and OSGeo Incubation: Proposed way forward

, and ideally surpass, the potential that it is showing. My challenge to the Rasdaman Community is to speak up on this issue. Do you want a project that values and facilitates meritocracy? Bruce Bannerman OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman -- > *From:* rasdaman-...@goo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Radaman relationships. [was: Re: [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?]

Hello Marc and Moritz, This is not just an issue relating to Academia and Open Source. In the interests of full disclosure, there is also a proprietary interest here: - Rasdaman Gmbh [1] offers a dual licensed [2] version of Rasdaman. This has been discussed previously on the Incubation list.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Rasdaman and OSGeo Incubation: Proposed way forward

respond. An email response to the Rasdaman Users list is all that is required. Bruce Bannerman OSGeo Mentor for the Rasdaman Project > On 8 May 2016, at 21:02, Peter Baumann wrote: > > Allow me to respectfully disagree. > > rasdaman is leading technology due to rigorous scienc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Rasdaman and OSGeo Incubation: Proposed way forward

is a credit to you all. Bruce Bannerman OSGeo Mentor to Rasdaman [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Rasdaman as a Research Project? [was: Re: Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo? ]

eeks prior to taking further action. Bruce Bannerman OSGeo Mentor to the Rasdaman Project From: Discuss on behalf of Peter Baumann < > p.baum...@jacobs-university.de> > Organization: Jacobs University Bremen > Date: Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 20:24 > To: Cameron Shorter

[OSGeo-Discuss] Request to OSGeo Board for more information on Jeff McKenna's resignation [was: Re: Board give us some infor About Board]

information being provided. I second Ravi's call to the OSGeo Board for more information on what actually occurred to arrive at this outcome. Bruce Bannerman From: Discuss on behalf of Ravi Kumar < > manarajahmundry2...@gmail.com> > Date: Sunday, 27 December 2015 15:03 &g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases and requirements for web maps

The joint working W3C/OGC group that Scott refers to may be found at: http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Main_Page Bruce > From: on behalf of Scott Simmons < > ssimm...@opengeospatial.org> > Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2015 07:04 > To: Cameron Shorter > Cc: Discuss OSGeo > Subject: Re:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: code of conduct: another real case

Hi Cameron, I was very surprised to see the email below. It seems to me that the issue may just be a simple misunderstanding by someone, not a deliberate act of sabotage. I'll add some comments as the OSGeo Incubation Mentor for the Rasdaman project: Thanks for digging out the reference at [1].

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Jody Garnett

ep 17, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > > > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu > Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 4:20:20 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations

beginning. I apologise if you had sent this out for review earlier. I have not been following this debate closely as this type of membership noise pops up on a regular basis. However, when this proceeds to a vote of the OSGeo Charter membership, I need to register a comment. For conside

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code of Conduct [was: OSGeo-Live adopts the OSGeo Code of Conduct]

Cameron, Well done on your research and on guiding this policy through to acceptance! Congratulations to all who participated in the creation of the Code of Conduct. It is something to be proud of! I will be happy to adopt the policy on projects that I'm involved with. Will it be possible to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Python framework for working with OWS services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

(Apologies for cross posting) Hello Colleagues, We’re looking around for a good, robust open source python framework for working with OGC Web Services. Our initial need is to automate the validation and testing of our internal services, though I expect that our need will grow from there. Can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

e can highlight how far along in the > checklist each project is. > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman < > bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure&#

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'. It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change to rules. >From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjectiv

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fixing FOSS4G [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Cameron, I just re-read this wiki page. Well done on collating this information in such a concise and thoughtful manner! Bruce From: Cameron Shorter mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> Date: Saturday, 20 September 2014 7:17 To: Discuss OSGeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Hacking OSGeo

IMO Hi Jeff, I don't believe that this public 'Mea Culpa' is warranted. You are a respected member of the community and are entitled to a personal view. I understood from what I read that your comments were personal. Perhaps using an 'official OSGeo email address' might make it clear when the em

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry: Help please! [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Sid, A search on the term photogrammetry may also help. This is a very specialised discipline. You will find that some photogrammetric software already exists. Bruce From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of P

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

IS support for PostGIS. I'm not sure if that's changed since then as it has been a couple of years. The team has disbanded since, but if there were interest in engaging any of them, I'd be happy to make introductions. I also know of companies that do work in this space. Andrew On 11

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

won't get you write access. And you can't get around it with WFS-T either. So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database connection or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or Enterprise ('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native Pos

[OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi, Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector spatial data source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client? I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being able to create, update and delete spatial data managed within a PostGIS environment, without the use of ArcSDE or sim

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Hi Cameron, I agree that on re-read the new wording covers this. Bruce From: Cameron Shorter mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> Date: Friday, 4 July 2014 9:01 am To: Bruce Bannerman mailto:b.banner...@bom.gov.au>> Cc: Discuss OSGeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>, &quo

[OSGeo-Discuss] What is sponsorship?: was Re: Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

a good contributing community member who is working towards a common goal. Therefore the sponsorship that I would like to contribute is expertise, time and effort: not dollars. Thank you for initiating this thread. We need more discussion on these types of issues. Bruce On 2/07/2014 9:57

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Cameron, There is perhaps one other aspect of the process that you may wish to review. This is the requirement for nominees to ‘beat their own chest’ saying how good they are. I think that this step is not required. What needs to be said, should be said by the person who is doing the nominatio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Hi Dirk, Well said. However as someone who fits in all four categories that you¹ve defined, I must point out that the sponsorship dollars may perhaps not be in these categories either. I find it easier to contribute time as **a member of the community** and definitely do not want to be seen as m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Alex, As a former nominee who was not accepted as a Foundation Member via the voting process, I have a somewhat biased view, particularly when I see that my first nomination did not even make it onto the wiki page used for the vote. I personally do not see what the class of member is really for

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FW: Possible CS-W Portal Opportunity

Paul, I noted your last paragraph below, which does ring alarm bells for me. What is the intent of this approach? Is it: - To potentially launch a piece of software as an open source project that DHS S&T will sponsor and support through the incubation process until the project becomes s

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [Meteo.DWG] Interested in Governing Earth Science Data Communities? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

fyi From: Ted Habermann mailto:thaberm...@hdfgroup.org>> Date: Friday, 3 January 2014 9:28 am To: "meteo@lists.opengeospatial.org" mailto:meteo@lists.opengeospatial.org>>, "hydro@lists.opengeospatial.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Mark Leslie [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

+1 Mark is a passionate advocate for OSGeo and FOSS4G. He delivers a good course too ;-) Bruce From: Cameron Shorter mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, 18 July 2013 10:52 AM To: Jody Garnett mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> Cc: OSGeo Discussions mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: End the vote!

Adrian, As a 'reject';-)I agree with your assessment. It did cause me to reassess my level of contribution, but did not stop me from working within the community. I also did not like the requirement to 'bang my own drum'. That left me in a very uncomfortable situation and I chose not to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events

Frank, I'm not involved in this year's conference, so I'll defer to the FOSS4G-2013 LOC to answer this question. Bruce On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Jachym / Bruce / Paolo, > > > > Bruce - in the past workshop presenters would get free entrance for the > conferen

[OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events: [was RE: FW: [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities]

(Wearing my former FOSS4G Conference organiser hat) Paolo and Jachym, This is an issue that comes up on a fairly regular basis. To be honest, as a person who has attended a number of spatial conferences, I must say that the costs for the average FOSS4G international conference are very reasonabl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: OSGeo Board Priorities

Cameron and 'The Board', Thanks for putting these thoughts together. This seems like a good strategic approach to take. Bruce *From: *Cameron Shorter *Date: *Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:44:42 +1100 *To: *OSGeo Discussions, OSGeo-Board List *Subject: *[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Priorities A pr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America - Blind voting [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Cameron, Agreed. As has been discussed in similar threads, and as we found for Sydney, it helps the LOC determine relative popularity of presentations for room allocation. However, perhaps the actual final results do not need to be published. Presenters are either accepted or they're not, aft

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Barry, These FOSS4G updates to the Discuss list are a good initiative. Well done to you and the team. Bruce On 18/01/13 1:48 AM, "Barry Rowlingson" wrote: Another of the irregular updates of the conference team! We have our first sponsors - Ordnance Survey (yes, another 'OS') Google, Edina,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Agreed. Well said Cameron, with the aside that there may be an interesting talk from a previously little known person. I suggest leaving this to the discretion of the LOC and interested parties who subscribe to that year's FOSS4G mailing list. A popularity campaign is not required or wanted.

[OSGeo-Discuss] NOAA's standards based Enterprise Spatial environment [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

In case you missed this: http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/1665 Bruce ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2012 Cancel Request

calibre of recent FOSS4G. If our professional organiser for FOSS4G-2009 had pulled out months before our event, I suspect that we would have had to do what you have done. @Jeff, well said. Bruce Bannerman -- Forwarded Message *From: *Jeff McKenna *Date: *Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:40:33 +1000

[OSGeo-Discuss] Xlink 1.1 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Please note Carl Reed's blog on OGC's policy and timeline to move to Xlink 1.1: http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/1597 Bruce Bannerman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

17:22:14 +1000 To: Bruce Bannerman Subject: Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections Bruce, I seem to remember that you created a map of osgeo-projects at one point? Original Message Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Landon, At [1] you'll find the report from the 'Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data' from Australia's Victorian Parliament. Their approach is to move towards a Creative Commons scheme. This allows the recognition of the data set creator's copyright. T

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [Meteo.DWG] NASA sponsored Hackathon at the Met Office, Exeter, UK and elsewhere on earth and in LEO [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

fyi -- Forwarded Message From: "Little, Chris" Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:50:50 +1100 Subject: [Meteo.DWG] NASA sponsored Hackathon at the Met Office, Exeter, UK and elsewhere on earth and in LEO Dear OGC colleagues, On 21-22 April 2012, here in the Met Office in Exeter, UK we are hosting o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping Tools for Real Estate Parcels [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Arnie, Is this data not available via your local government authority that is responsible for property related data? Bruce On 7/01/12 3:37 AM, "Arnie Shore" wrote: Hello all. We have a need for mapping a few hundred parcels, and I expect that will mean walking the property boundaries with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] question [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Tilottama, The three applications that you've mention are good. You can also add uDig. You'll find that most applications are starting to provide integration with Grass for more robust analysis. I suggest that you find a typical analysis work flow and try each one with the same tasks and data,

Nominee Self Promotion: [was [-Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominees -- where are you?] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dimitris, Ravi and Venkatesh, Well said! I agree that this is a counter productive approach. If the sponsor's comments on a nominee's past actions are not sufficient to sway a person's vote, then what will a nominee's statement achieve. Bruce On 26/11/11 10:26 PM, "Ravi Kumar" wrote: All t

[OSGeo-Discuss] Confusion in the FOSS4G brand [was Mapnik (GPX) vs MapServer/GeoServer (OGC)] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

iderable effort and devotion. By all means hold regional events. These are very important for spreading information. But please let's find a different name. Bruce Bannerman On 18/11/11 3:38 PM, "Frans Thamura" wrote: got another idea should we buy foss4g.or.id <http://

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [OGC Press Release] Take the 'Business Value of OGC Standards' Survey! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

For those who haven't seen this. If you have the time, please take this survey. The results will be very useful. Bruce Bannerman -- Forwarded Message From: OGC Press Release Reply-To: , Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:54:14 +1100 To: Subject: [OGC Press Release] Take the 'Busines

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geomajas Geometry Project [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

ng to work with Simple Features 1 (aka Complex Features). Some examples are WaterML 2.0 and GeoSciML. We will also be looking seriously at CSML 3.0. Bruce Bannerman On 13/07/11 10:52 PM, "Jody Garnett" wrote: It is the ISO 19107 specification; the same one that lurks behind GML Rea

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] weave release [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Percy, Fyi there is already a spatial intelligence framework on the market called Weave [1]. We've been using it with great effect recently. I'll be interested in looking at your product as well. Bruce Bannerman [1] http://www.cohga.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Meteo.DWG] multi-lingual WMS-legends [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

not invent another mechanism for this. Regards, Jeff DLB -- Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD NOAA Data Management Architect NESDIS/OSD/TPIO On 2011-05-24 18:14, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > An issue from OSGeo-Discuss that may be of relevance here as well. > > Do we have a proposed w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] F4G 2012 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

I’d love to go to Brazil too ;-) Seriously, I’m assuming that F4G refers to FOSS4G. If not, what is F4G? Bruce On 10/05/11 10:06 PM, "heikki" wrote: I second this : Brazil 2012 ! On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Edmar Moretti wrote: I would like to see f4gin Brazil. :) Em 09/05/2011

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fedora Geo/GIS Spin [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Do we really need two projects doing this work? To my perhaps naive thinking, wouldn't the results of both projects be essentially the same? Bruce On 18/11/10 6:36 AM, "Cameron Shorter" wrote: Hi Viji, This sounds very interesting. I suggest touch base with Mathieu from the Enterprise Linux

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Michael, I don't like beating my own drum... I'll let my actions stand on their merits. We are indeed fortunate to have such a wealth of talent in our community, as can be seen by the nominees. Bruce On 5/11/10 3:46 AM, "Michael P. Gerlek" wrote: Those of you who've been nominated, feel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Ragi, I agree. I think that we have a way to go yet to have something comparable to the ArcSDE / ArcGIS Multi-versioning and version conflict detection functionality. The advantage that the ArcSDE solution has is that edits are made directly within the database. This works well within an Enter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Staistical analysis support needed [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Mayank, You may wish to implement this functionality via an OGC Web Processing Service. That way, if your technology requirements change in the future, you can limit the impact of the change. Bruce On 14/09/10 1:40 AM, "Alex Mandel" wrote: On 09/13/2010 06:45 AM, mayank_agarwal wrote: > >

[OSGeo-Discuss] EU Guide on procurement of open source revised [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

fyi: For those who keep tabs on these issues: http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-guide-on-procurement-of-open-source-revised Bruce ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Fyi, Ben Searle from Australia's OSDM, asked me to forward this to the list. Bruce > -Original Message- > From: Ben.Searle > Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:38 AM > To: Bruce Bannerman; discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

a is stored and exchanged as part of the data (and data model), ideally via OGC GML Community Schema / Profiles. Bruce Bannerman (apologies Markus, I won't have time in the next few weeks to add this to the wiki...) [1] http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/default.aspx [2] http://www.osd

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source OGC Sensor Web Enablement implementations [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

o the list with urls to your documentation? Many thanks in advance. Bruce Bannerman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Install gvSIG 1.10 on Mac? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Can someone point me in the right direction here please? I'd like to install gvSIG 1.10 under Mac OSX 10.6. >From doco at OSGeo project listing and at gvSIG site, the project appears to support Macs. At the downloads page [1], I only see options for Windows and Linux. I'm assuming that the Linu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

In addition to Grass, there are several image processing apps that may be of assistance: ossim: http://www.osgeo.org/ossim mbsystem: http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/ rat: http://radartools.berlios.de/ Bruce On 18/07/10 7:15 AM, "Markus Neteler" wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial Support for OSGeo / FOSS4G applications [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

I need to respond quickly to an international / intergovernmental group, where I'd like to cite examples of: - Proprietary companies using FOSS4G software (e.g. ESRI using GDAL); - Examples of sizable organisations that provide support for FOSS4G applications, development and customisation. - st

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD? Bruce [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF On 1/07/10 2:53 AM, "Landon Blake" wrote: Leith, I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds. You might be able to create some type of "live CD" that they use to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

#x27;m not sure if it has been released under an Open Source license, though much of their work has been. Andrea, I think that you have contacts on this team via the GeoServer community. [1] http://portal.auscope.org/gmap.html Bruce Bannerman On 16/06/10 12:28 AM, "Raj Singh" wro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On 9/06/10 10:40 AM, "P Kishor" wrote: > The last thing that anyone wants is for a major player to implement a poor > quality application and have problems with the bad publicity that would > follow. > > We cannot expect that knowledgeable OS Spatial people will always be doing > product selecti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Cameron, Well stated. As an organisation that is implementing Open Source spatial, we are looking to applications that have graduated from OSGeo Incubation as an indication of quality. If this is not the case, as has been indicated in this thread, then IMHO, we as OSGeo need to devise an appr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Jason / Cameron, >From the potential utiliser / implementer viewpoint: I'd like to think that any project that has graduated OSGeo Incubation could be considered a quality project with all of the vectors described by Andrea. This proposed rating system implies that this may not be the case. Co

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster catalog ideas [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

b.org/index.php [4] http://www.terralib.org/docs/papers/TerraLib-OSBook-versionJanuary2008.pdf Bruce Bannerman From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mike Toews [mwto...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 May

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Standards] TMS and WMTS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Brian, There is nothing forcing *you* down the open standards path if that is a direction that you don't wish to go. To me, as I've said before on this list, it just makes plain sense. I would be doing my organisation a disservice by pursuing proprietary solutions that did not implement open s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership

Hi Arnulf, I'm just catching up on my email and noticed your renewal of this thread. If OSGeo is to go down the route of getting IP into one organisation, it would be good to see the IP protected in a regime that is not subject to software patents and can offer some protection against them. That

Re: FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practicesand how it help to foster collaboration. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

o the OSGeo-AustNZ submission made by Cameron Shorter and myself. The link to the OSGeo-AustNZ submission may be found at [2] if you're interested. Bruce Bannerman [1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic/inquiries/access_to_PSI/final_report.html [2] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

IMO: The Australian Federal Government's efforts currently appear to be focused on an initiative called 'Government 2.0'. See the blog at [1]. If you scroll down a bit you'll see a link to the final Taskforce Report. Bruce Bannerman [1] http://gov2.net.au/ >

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

mailto:scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au> > web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au > <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au> > > > > On 13/01/2010 11:07 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > > > Simon, > > Check out the Australia

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