- Some of the biggest advantages though, come from the corporate IT
support that you come to rely on, e.g. regular backups, large disk
capacity on fast SAN devices, secure access to data by authorised
custodians, redundant databases for disaster recovery, point in time
restoration of
Kjell,
For ease of setup, I definitely recommend using William Kyngesburye's
binaries found at: http://www.kyngchaos.com/
http://www.kyngchaos.com/ with your system Python. It gives you a
lot of OS GIS tools, and they just work.
If you are looking for a python module to read the EXIF
For some of us who work in state (US) government, approval for out of
country travel can be essentially impossible. Even if the location is
only about 60 miles out of the country...
I would like to see annual gatherings that I could actually attend,
assuming that they didn't draw too many people
OpenLayers could consume the PostGIS data through MapServer, served
either as a WMS/WFS or as a direct MapServer call.
David.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:07 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Tyler,
Here is a link to some python code that I wrote to read a delimited text
file and write out a shapefile. It uses the ogr and osr python modules.
The code is not particularly clean or efficient, but it does include the
case of creating a shapefile, creating columns, and populating the
Alex,
You can use MapServer to generate imagemaps. See
http://mapserver.org/output/imagemaps.html
David.
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On Behalf Of Alexandre Leroux
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:37 PM
To: OSGeo
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:56 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Problems with OSGEO Trac (MapServer)
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Fawcett, David
david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote:
Not sure who to notify
Don't forget to include annual software maintenance payments to ESRI as
part of the total cost.
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:46 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
If you use MapServer to generate the map image, you can directly embed the
scalebar in the map image at the time of creation.
If not, you can just make a mode=legend call to MapServer CGI to get a legend
image.
http://mapserver.org/mapfile/legend.html
David.
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I wonder if Mirone allows you to create VRT files (or could be modified
to do it). http://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone/index.htm
David.
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brent Fraser
Sent: Tuesday, September 15,
Mateusz,
Thanks for posting this reference, I wasn't aware of it. It is a gold
mine!
Obviously, thanks to Chris for putting this course together and making
it available to the world too.
David.
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I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use
information calculated for the upstream area. It is based on some OSGEO
projects and is quite a cool app.
I have found and lost the URL to this app several times. If this sounds
familiar, I would appreciate it if you
project based Web app for watershed land use?
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA)
david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote:
I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use
information calculated for the upstream area. It is based on some OSGEO
projects
Essentially, yes. The .mxd does not store the actual geometry or attributes of
a spatial data set, it just stores a path (or database connection info) to the
data source.
So, the data that you are viewing in ArcMap may already be in a shapefile
format. To determine the source of the layer
I am working on a presentation focused on, What's New and Cool in OpenSource
Geospatial for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with
the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in
OpenSource.
My goal is to introduce people to cool projects
Thanks to the few of you who had comments.
Really, none of the rest of you want to brag about or promote your OSGEO
project?!
Come on, any new features, optimizations, data formats, case studies, etc.?
David.
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From: Fawcett, David (MPCA)
Sent: Tuesday, August 17
Micha Silver has a timely blog post: http://www.surfaces.co.il/?p=782 (via
Planet OSGeo)
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On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:11 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject:
Is there a central location with links to presentations and workshop materials
from FOSS4G 2010?
I understand that materials from every workshop won't be made available, but it
would be great to have a location to browse and see what is available.
Also, have the WMS Shootout results been
://www.sigte.udg.edu
En/na Fawcett, David (MPCA) ha escrit:
Is there a central location with links to presentations and workshop materials
from FOSS4G 2010?
I understand that materials from every workshop won't be made available, but it
would be great to have a location to browse and see what is available
I think that this kind of FAQ would be very valuable.
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:15 AM
To: live-d...@lists.osgeo.org; Frank Murphy; OSGeo Discussions
Have you seen the mind map that Bruce Bannerman put together a few years ago?
There is a link to it and more info on this page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bruce.bannerman
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On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent:
Bob,
You might want to look at the Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at
Austin.
Here is a link to their historical maps.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
There are actually a ton of WWII era maps of the Pacific.
According the the FAQ, most of the maps are
Bob,
To georeference your images, you could use an online app like
Map Warper: http://warper.geothings.net/
Or, you can use one of the georeferencing plugins for QGIS.
Here is a blog post that talks about using QGIS for georeferencing:
I don't know if 1:10,000,000 is a large enough scale for you, but if it is, you
might want to look at Natural Earth. Public Domain
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
You could also look at OpenStreetMap data. www.openstreetmap.org Most of the
coastline data was imported from the Prototype
I added a SpatiaLite section to the list of potential FOSS4G breakout sessions
on the OSGEO wiki to gauge whether there is enough interest to hold a session.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Breakout_Sessions#SpatiaLite
If you are going to be at FOSS4G and are interested, please add
I am working on a demo app to 'harness the crowd' to improve locational data
for features.
My goal is to improve the data, but also to test multiple validation
algorithms. If anyone is aware of some good research on the
evaluation/validation of crowd-sourced data, I would greatly appreciate
This page is a little more up to date. It includes Cascadia, New Mexico, and
Twin Cities (MN).
http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html
David.
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Razy Kased
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:29
Another related project is Geodict: https://github.com/petewarden/geodict
David.
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I don't know of any good summaries, but there has been considerable discussion
within the OpenStreetMap 'community' regarding licensing for spatial data. OSM
data was originally published under a CC-By license, but based on the decision
of the OSM Foundation, it has adopted a new license under
This could also likely be scripted using OGR’s Python bindings.
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Micha Silver
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 11:04 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a
+1
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On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:05 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Doug Newcomb
I would like to nominate Doug
And how detrimental the license change exercise has been to the project and its
community...
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On Behalf Of Lester Caine
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:46 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject:
I am completely with Howard on this. +1
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On Behalf Of Howard Butler
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:15 AM
To: Richard Greenwood
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol
The Program Committee had a healthy discussion about the pros and cons of
structuring the community review process so that presentations are evaluated
solely on the title and abstract description. We decided as a group that the
potential positives outweighed the potential negatives.
The
There are points for populated places and a few other cultural feature types in
Natural Earth. 1:10 million. Very liberal (public domain) license.
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On
Sounds like a great FOSS4G NA Lightning talk too. Consider submitting an
abstract, only one week to get them in!
http://foss4g-na.org/call-for-presentations/
David.
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On Behalf Of Steven Feldman
Sent: Tuesday,
I haven't been following this thread from the beginning, but as Program Chair
of FOSS4G NA 2013, I just want to add to what Peter said.
My experience has been that it is a tough job to put together a program that
appears both high-quality and balanced to everyone. Workshops are even more
I am happy to provide my perspective too. I definitely have some ideas on what
I would do differently if I was starting at the beginning again.
David.
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On Behalf Of David William Bitner
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013
I second Sara's nomination.
Sara is a great advocate for open source geospatial!
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Craciunescu
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 2:01 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter
Puneet,
You could definitely build a map app 'offline'. I assume that you are
developing with a locally installed web server. Just create a map that
displays features stored in a local json file. (or, if you really don't want to
see anything on the map, just don't include any layers in your
Congratulations Howard! Well Deserved!!
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