Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Howard Butler receives the 2023 Sol Katz Award at FOSS4G 2023 Prizren, Kosovo

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Congratulations Howard! Well Deserved!!

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See News Item 2023-07-01
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/howard-butler-receives-the-2023-sol-katz-award/

We are honoured to announce that Howard Butler is the recipient of the Sol Katz 
Award 2023.

The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
(FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated 
leadership in the FOSS4G community.

Howard Butler was honoured with the 2023 Sol Katz Award, presented on 30 June 
2023 at FOSS4G 2023 in Prizren, Kosovo.

This was the 19th year of the award.

Howard Butler has a long-standing history of involvement within our community. 
He was an OSGeo board member and was involved in the early years of the System 
Administration Committee.
Howard is also a member of the project steering committee of 4 different OSGeo 
projects.

You will meet him everytime a codesprint is organized.

Howard was part of the group which came with the GeoJSON specification.
He is an excellent leader, a mindful developer and a valued friend.

Howard Butler has organized the modernization of the documentation of GDAL and 
PROJ. He was the instigator of the GDAL Barn raising to enhance and refresh the 
geodetic capabilities of the projects.

Howard Butler leads the open source software consultancy Hobu which focuses on 
LiDAR, point clouds, and geospatial software. He is the proponent of COPC, the 
cloud optimized point cloud format.

On behalf of the OSGeo communities we congratulate and thank Howard Butler for 
his all his contributions.

Thank you Howard

About the award
The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
(FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated 
leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed 
significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the 
geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, 
and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.

Read more about Sol Katz at https://www.osgeo.org/community/awards/

The Sol Katz Award Ceremony will soon be online. It will be linked in the news 
item
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/howard-butler-receives-the-2023-sol-katz-award/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] developing a slippy maps app while offline

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

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 map...)

David.

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] developing a slippy maps app while offline

I will be offline (for mapping purposes) for a few weeks, but would like to 
continue working on my projects. Is there a way I can develop a leafletjs app 
while offline? I don’t want to create an offline map storage as I really don’t 
want to look at the maps. I just want leafletjs to not throw any errors while I 
code other (non-map) parts of the app.

Suggestions?

Puneet
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

I second Sara's nomination.  

Sara is a great advocate for open source geospatial!

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Forwarding Sara Safavi nomination by David Bitner.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


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Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2016 10:10:57 -0500
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Sara Safavi
OSGeo Advocate Profile: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sarasafavi
email: s...@sarasafavi.com 

I would like to nominate Sara Safavi for OSGeo Charter Membership. Sara has 
been a huge developer and advocate of open source in the Austin, TX area and 
beyond. Sara has been an organizer for PyLadiesATX, Austin Open Source GIS, and 
MaptimeATX as well as participating on the FOSS4G North America organizing 
committee in 2016.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting regional FOSS4G enthusiasts into the OSGeo Conference Committee

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

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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Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:58 AM
To: Cameron Shorter
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting regional FOSS4G enthusiasts into the 
OSGeo Conference Committee

Hey Cameron,

As indicated by Jeff, I am recovering after last week's North America event 
(which went awesome -- I'll provide a wrap up and final financial statement to 
the board once we close all the books out) but would certainly be willing to 
make sure our lessons learned get baked into the cookbook and would be willing 
to work with the conference committee to make sure we collaborate on the 
booming network of FOSS4G events.

David

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Cameron Shorter 
mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Jeff McKenna prodded me to invite someone involved in regional FOSS4G event 
into the OSGeo Conference Committee, and I'd like to extend that invitation to 
other regional events around the world.

I see our topical question at the moment is working out how to collate our 
collective knowledge to support future foss4g initiatives, which we can 
collectively weave into a FOSS4G Cookbook [1].

So if you are interested in FOSS4G regional and global events, please say hello 
on our conference email list [2] ("alive and listening from  region").

We can then update our current member list [3]

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Cookbook
[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

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 
difficult to select and balance due to the limited number of slots.

In doing all of the work as a volunteer on personal time, the final product is 
unfortunately not the same as it would have been if I was doing this full time. 
 There would definitely be better communication, marketing, and some additional 
polish.  This is the reality of a conference organized by a limited number of 
volunteers with finite resources.

David.

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Peter Batty
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:32 AM
To: Jeroen Ticheler
Cc: osgeo-discuss
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

Hi all,

As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on the 
organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time but I do 
know there was a high number of workshops that were submitted, so unfortunately 
half the submitters are going to be disappointed and think that the committee 
made the wrong the choice.

Barry also stated that he wasn't involved in workshop selection, so you really 
shouldn't all be reading lots into his side comment that the workshops present 
good value - my interpretation is that was just a general comment that was 
Barry's opinion and nothing to do with selection criteria.

Also the reality is that there are so many submissions that you can't give 
specific reasons to everyone who was rejected why they didn't make it - this 
would hugely increase the already large amount of time that all these 
volunteers are putting into creating a FOSS4G event, and make a difficult 
process even more difficult.

Just a few thoughts as a previous organizer :)

Cheers,
Peter.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Jeroen Ticheler 
mailto:jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net>> wrote:
I concur with Markus.
I was also surprised to see none of our GeoNetwork related workshops 
represented although they were always well received at previous conferences. It 
would have been nice if we'd had feedback on the reasoning behind that. 
Considering about half the national INSPIRE geospatial catalogs in Europe run 
on the product I consider it a relevant OSGeo product. Reading the thread, I 
note we should also put up a page with high GeoNetwork workshop fees instead of 
always providing them for free at FOSS4G conferences. I may actually start to 
consider that ;-)
Jeroen

On 10 mei 2013, at 10:12, Markus Neteler 
mailto:nete...@osgeo.org>> wrote:

> On 5/10/13, Barry Rowlingson 
> mailto:b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello
>> mailto:andrea.antone...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the
>>> workshops were chosen.
>>> I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of
>>> "double" or even "triple" workshops.
>
> Yes, surprising also for me.
>
>>> Given the few available slots, I would have expected more
>>> differentiation.
>>>
>>> Would be really keen to understand the process, if there is a simple
>>> way to do so.
>>
>> The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee
>> - I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list
>> and personally to you two if that's necessary.
>>
>> The balance looks quite good to me, where there is duplication it
>> seems to be different aspects of the same project - Postgis Intro and
>> Postgis 3d have different audiences, for example. Its possible that
>> other projects weren't represented in the proposals which would
>> explain their absence.
>
> While I submitted an advanced GRASS GIS 7 workshop, I didn't even
> receive a 'your proposal was not considered' notification.
> A bit sad for a cofounder of OSGeo and participant of the first ever
> FOSS4G Conf 2004 in Bangkok.
>
>> There are a few workshops from OpenGeo, but if
>> you go to their website and see how much they charge for commercial
>> training, you might see this as us giving people the opportunity to
>> get some great training cheaply from some great trainers.
>
> ... well, not a convincing argument.
>
>> Anyway, our Workshop Team will address these issues later.
>
> Better sooner :)
>
> Markus
> (FOSS4G trainer since 1996)
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discuss Happy birthday OSGeo!

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

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.

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Steven Feldman
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:20 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discuss Happy birthday OSGeo!

Jeff

Those are some awesome stats, we really ought to blowing our own trumpet a bit 
louder, maybe in the FOSS4G and FOSS4G-NA publicity?

Cheers

Steven

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On 4 Feb 2013, at 20:00, 
discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:


From: Jeff McKenna 
mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy birthday OSGeo!
Date: 4 February 2013 15:36:57 GMT
To: osgeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>


Hi everyone,

Seven years ago today our wonderful foundation was born.  It is good to
look back and read the notes about that first important meeting in
Chicago, and remember those that worked so hard to get it started
(http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html).
The entire community now deserves a pat on the back for all these years
of hard work.

Here are some interesting OSGeo stats pulled today:

- 195 mailing lists
- unique mailing list subscribers: 19160
- osgeo.org: 30487 unique visitors for month of January
- wiki.osgeo.org: 2720 pages, 12550 users, 17M views
- 1,350,000 google hits for "osgeo"

Happy birthday everyone!

-jeff
OSGeo President

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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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On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:12 AM
To: Dimitris Kotzinos
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

Dimitris,

Geonames.org has downloadable point data, licensed under CC-by-3.0:
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

Cheers,
Keith


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos  wrote:
> I am looking for a points of interest database (regardless of format, 
> I use database in a loose term here) that is licensed under one of the 
> open source/data/creative commons licenses.
> I know of course about open street maps and their layer of POIs and 
> the one from OGC (http://openpoidb.ogcnetwork.net/).
> Is there anything else available out there? :)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America - Blind voting [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 community review process is an important part of the selection of 
presenters, but it is not the only input.  The Program Committee will use that 
data along with their own review of the abstracts, knowledge of the speakers, 
the number of presentation slots, expected makeup of the registrants, and other 
factors to put together the best program that we can for FOSS4G NA 2013.

It would actually be interesting if we could test to see if this review 
methodology had any effect on who submitted abstracts.  That may best be 
accomplished by surveying the people who submit them.

We haven't discussed it as a committee, but I personally don't think that it is 
productive to publish the results of the community review and will push to not 
do that.  At the same time, if someone has concerns about how decisions are 
made, they should talk to us.  The Program Committee is made up of some great 
people who represent various parts of the FOSS4G community.

We are working hard, and our only agenda is to make this the best FOSS4G event 
ever.  If anyone feels that they have a perspective that is missing from the 
committee, we would be happy to have them join the committee.

David.


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On Behalf Of Bruce Bannerman
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:17 PM
To: Cameron Shorter; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: 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, after deliberation by the LOC.

There is no need to establish a popularity contest.

Bruce


On 18/01/13 6:24 AM, "Cameron Shorter"  wrote:
On 17/01/13 03:58, David William Bitner wrote:
> Additionally following advice from other events as well as many
> members of our community, we are making the community review process
> for presentation submission author anonymous as a concern with how we
> have done this in the past has been the fear that many folks have of
> feeling publicly shamed with critique and voting of their proposals.
> These are only two small steps that we are taking to addressing an
> environment in the overall open source world that by the numbers is
> very unwelcome to women and other groups (while there have not been
> any overt issues that I know of as part of any FOSS4G, if you look at
> the percentage of female conference goers or developers in our
> community, we do have a long ways to go).

David,
If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting blind voting on
abstracts without knowing who will be presenting it?
I've heard that blind auditions has been successfully applied to
recruitment for orchestras, (which makes sense), however I don't think
it is applicable for Open Source communities.

You see, in selecting Open Source presentations, I think it is very
important to know who will be presenting, almost as important as the
presentation content itself. This is because the presenters who will
have the most insightful content, and who will attract the most audience
are usually those who have built up a large, very public reputation, (as
leaders of open source communities, usually with a long history of
insightful emails, blogs, and IRC trails).

I appreciate the importance of being welcoming to all communities. In
fact, I think that successful Open Source communities are naturally
welcoming as they have managed to attract developers and community.
However, I don't think that blind voting is right for us.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OpenLayers WMS OSM is LonLat in water?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

I don't know what scale that you want to work at, or if you need inland water 
data also, but you might want to check out the Natural Earth data set.  The 
license is very liberal (PD).

Here is a link to the 1:10M scale oceans data:  
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-ocean/

David.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 1:27 PM
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OpenLayers WMS OSM is LonLat in water?

Hi,
could someone let me know how I could find out if a chosen LonLat is in water?  
I looked at the GetFeatureInfo example, but it only applies to Tasmania map.  I 
have not been able to  find a worldwide map to use GetFeatureInfo assuming this 
is the right way to go.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award Nomination procedure (was Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan)

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 Katz Award Nomination procedure (was 
Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan)


On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Richard Greenwood  
wrote:

> I agree that this is the first year that nominations have been 
> publicly discussed and it is a departure from previous years. I 
> followed Jeff's lead when I nominated Chris.
> 
> But hey, we're an open community, I think it's even in the name 
> somewhere. And spreading a little recognition around to hard working 
> members of our community surely doesn't hurt.

I disagree. The history of the award has been a cloistered deliberation of 
private nominations. The award is not a political exercise, or at least it 
hasn't been to this point, and public nominations tip things toward the 
lobbying direction. Every open source contributor wouldn't mind an award in the 
field of excellence, and every contributor deserves a pat on the back or two.

Open nominations opens up a more than few cans of worms:

- I won't say some stuff about a person in a public nomination that I would in 
a private one. First off, I don't want to embarrass them, as some people are 
embarrassed by public fawning.

- Not every activity and action needs to be billboarded. If you look at the 
list of past winners, a common trait they all share is they all have kept their 
heads down and done a lot for the community as whole without regard to 
recognition. 

- I might not want everyone to know who I'm nominating.

- Are we voting on the award? Lobbying the committee? What does a public 
nomination achieve other than to provide a (biased) public attaboy? There are 
plenty of opportunities for those that do not have to be conflated with a 
nomination process.

The award is selected by an exclusive group of individuals, and this act makes 
it an exclusive award. The Oscar or Peabody or Pulitzer of open source GIS is 
much more interesting than the People's Choice. Let's keep it that way.

Howard
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

And how detrimental the license change exercise has been to the project and its 
community...

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Markus Neteler wrote:
>> A project can decide what makes the most sense for them.
> Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult 
> to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer 
> traceable..).

Just check out how long it's taking on openstreetmap ...

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Doug Newcomb

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

+1

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On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:05 AM
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Doug Newcomb

 I would like to nominate Doug Newcomb, a GIS guru at the US Fish and Wildlife 
office in Raleigh, NC as OSGeo charter member.

For many years he has been a fantastic advocate of FOSS4G in the government 
agencies offering not only presentations, organization of sessions and meetings 
but also technical help with  Mapserver, GDAL/OGR tools and GRASS GIS.
His work with lidar data is famous for breaking records in the amount of data 
processed  and information extracted with minimal resources.
He has contributed to testing GRASS and other lidar tools and helped many 
people to get started with FOSS4G.

I believe that we need more people like Doug and Michael Smith (also nominated 
this year by Jeff McKenna) who can promote FOSS and OSGeo  in the government 
agencies not only by talking about it but also by using it and demonstrating 
how well it works for important agency tasks and cutting edge applications.

I believe Doug would be a great representative of OSGeo and provide a much 
needed connection to government agencies as an active charter member.

Helena


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Associate Professor
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 shapefile to 
create a relational table

On 03/16/2012 06:52 AM, Simon Cropper wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone know of a simple means to take a shapefile and create a either a 
SQLite or xBase table?

Essentially it is taking an attached attribute table, inserting the coordinates 
in a field and saving the new file in a designated format.

Most of the data being converted is point data or fixed area samples. Ideally 
the converter could record the centroid for grid cells with details of the 
furthest point.

I know of various tools that can do this 'manually' one step at a time but as I 
have many files that come regularly, I would like to somehow automate the 
process.
Since spatialite can be run with SQL commands as parameters on the command line 
(i.e. spatialite data.sqlite "SELECT * FROM table1;") you could pass the 
'.loaddbf' command to spatialite, and with some wildcard trickery loop thru all 
your shapefiles:
for f in *.shp; do spatialite data.sqlite ".loaddbf ${f}"; done
or so.



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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 ODBL.

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of mrunmayee sahoo
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:26 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

sir.can you please send me some free sites to download more papers related to 
papers related to grass gis.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Keith Jenkins 
mailto:k...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi, Landon.

You might want to look at Robert Goodspeed's recent article looking at
the response to GIS data requests that he sent to hundreds of local
governments across Massachusetts.  His article (open-acess!) has a
whole section discussing the various licensing restrictions and data
policies that he encountered:
   http://www.urisa.org/files/Goodspeed%2023_2_0.pdf

Cheers,
Keith


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Landon Blake
mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I haven't found much at all in the way of information about the
> licensing of geospatial data. If you have some references I can
> investigate, I would appreciate that.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

Another related project is Geodict:  https://github.com/petewarden/geodict

David.

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RE: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member 
nomination: Martin Landa)

Thanks Frank,

I appreciate the response, looking at the list I would be interest in the 
Education Committee, I'll join their mailing list first and get familiar with 
their network.

Also, I was looking at the local chapters, I'm in the United States in New 
York, is their no local chapter here? Just in California (Based on the link)
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Frank Warmerdam 
mailto:warmer...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Razy,

I also meant to emphasize that the local chapters are also always
looking for keen volunteers to give presentations, organize events
and lead/support local initiatives of various sorts.

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters

Best regards,

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Frank Warmerdam 
mailto:warmer...@pobox.com>> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Razy Kased 
> mailto:kas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Where can I learn more about each of the committees or other ways to
>> participate?
>
> Razy,
>
> There is a list of committees in the second box on the wiki:
>
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
>* Board of Directors
>* Conference Committee
>* Education and Curriculum Committee
>* Finance Committee
>* Incubation Committee
>* Marketing Committee
>* Project Steering Committees
>* Public Geospatial Data Committee
>* System Administration Committee (SAC)
>* Website Committee - Current WebCom tasks
>
> Of these I know that the Education, Marketing, Public Geodata,
> SAC and Website committees are all looking for volunteers and
> in some cases no specific experience is needed.
>
> Of course, the various projects also need help in various ways,
> so if you are interested in, or using some of the software then
> look into getting involved there.  Join the mailing lists, file bugs,
> fix bugs, write docs, write code, answer questions on the list, etc.
>
> Best regards,
> --
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> warmer...@pobox.com
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>



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Academic Research on CrowdSourced Data

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 it if 
you could point me to the source.

Thanks, 

David.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G SpatiaLite Breakout Session

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 your name to 
the list.  If SpatiaLite isn't your thing, there are several other session 
topics on that page.  

Currently (GeoMoose, Tiling, GeoNode, Python, Opengeoportal, Spatial Data 
Infrastructure, Mobile GIS, Education/Academic, Spatial Databases, SpatiaLite)

David.

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 Global Shoreline dataset  
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prototype_Global_Shoreline.  This data has 
been improved in some areas.

David.



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On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Peter wrote:

> 
> 4. Try to get an accurate vector layer of the same terrain, that has 
> recognizable locations that match your raster, load that up, and then use the 
> from map tool, itll be the easiest way.

Any suggestions where to find vector maps? All the ones I have found are 
somewhat squishy in their placement of islands and the details of coastlines. I 
have tried geological survey websites plus the general commercial web. I have 
some older maps I may scan in and trace the vectors myself. How do I determine 
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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:  
http://geo.distortions.net/2010/11/georeferencing-with-gdal-17-and-qgis-16.html

Here is a .pdf of a lab demo on georeferencing using QGIS.  http:// 
courses.umass.edu/nrc297s/PDFs/Lab_Georeferencing_with_QGIS.pdf

For specific help on georeferencing using QGIS, I would contact the QGIS-User 
list.  You can join here:  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

David.



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On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> On 03/28/2011 05:43 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 

How do you georeference a map? I have paper maps.


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 in the Public Domain.  
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html  (Of course, verify that the terms of 
use match your needs.)

You may have to georeference the maps yourself.  

David.

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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:28 PM
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On 03/28/2011 05:43 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is this the correct list for asking newbie questions?
> 
> For example, I am using the decklogs from a 1940s US Navy cruiser to trace 
> its journey's from 1942 through 1945. I know how to enter coordinates, draw 
> lines and load maps, but where do I obtain a specific map? I need one 
> covering the entire Pacific Ocean as it was defined during that era. I would 
> like the map to show the Pacific and all of its islands, including small 
> areas such as Yap and Ulithe, for example. I would also like to have a layer 
> showing the geographic structures on the Pacific floor, such as the IBM arc. 
> Do resources such as these exist, or do I need to create my own? I have 
> searched the Web for answers but really don't know enough to enter search 
> criteria correctly.
> 
> If this is not the correct list, please excuse me.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob


Hi Bob,

Yes, this is a great place for people new to Open Source Geospatial to
ask for some direction on where to find help. But no, this probably
isn't the right place to ask about a specific computer application.
However the direction we send you is going to be based on which software
you were referring to in your post, could you please clarify what
software you are using so we can direct you to the more appropriate list
on that?

Of the course the other approach is to more generally ask what software
should you be using for your particular use case? That sort of question
is very appropriate for this list.

I find the question of finding period accurate maps of WWII in a digital
form a very intriguing question, and would love to hear what others have
to say on the topic. Personally if you know where to access a paper
reproduction I would say digitize it, georeference it and use that as
your base map.

Enjoy,
Alex


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGL internship project - Study of collaboration networks in Open Source GIS

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:52 PM
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Cc: jer...@lists.osgeo.org; Jianhua Shao; George Kuk; Morley
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGL internship project - Study of collaboration 
networks in Open Source GIS

Dear All,

One of the internship projects at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at Centre for 
Geospatial Science aims to look into the links between the various open source 
GIS projects in the OSGeo umbrella to help us understand the connections 
between the various communities, developers, users etc. We are aiming to 
produce an academic paper with the results. Jianhua Shao is the internship 
student who will lead this project. Myself, George Kuk, Jeremy Morley ,Tyler 
Mitchell will also be involved in this project.

Title: Study of collaboration networks in Open Source GIS

Abstract:

Over the last few years there has been tremendous increase in the growth and 
maturity of Open Source geospatial software. The Open Source Geospatial 
Foundation (OSGeo) has been instrumental in bringing together the various open 
source geospatial communities and help sustain this growth. As part of this 
project we aim to look into the linkages between various open source GIS 
projects, communities, developers, users etc  with the aim to better understand 
the open source geospatial ecosystem. We will collect data such as maillist, 
svn commits, issue tracker etc for doing the analysis and building the model. 
The results of the work will be published as a paper.

We greatly welcoming input and suggestions on the best methods for this before 
5th March. Is there any previous literature or examples  of any studies  done 
before in this area? If so, please let us know. Please contact Jianhua for any 
information needed on this.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

I think that this kind of FAQ would be very valuable.

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On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:15 AM
To: live-d...@lists.osgeo.org; Frank Murphy; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX 
with Open Source GIS?"

Below, Frank has done a great job asking the exact sort of question that 
new GIS users ask, and which we as an OSGeo community should address to 
attract new users.

What has been done so far toward building a FAQ on "How to you XXX with 
Open Source GIS?"?


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Links to FOSS4G Presentations?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

Thank you Lluis!

David.

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Lluís Vicens
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Hi David,

All presentations and worshop materials will be available to download from the 
foss4g2010 website pretty soon. Thanks for your patience.

Best regards,
Lluís

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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.



Also, have the WMS Shootout results been posted anywhere?



David.



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Links to FOSS4G Presentations?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 posted anywhere?

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

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

Micha Silver has a timely blog post:  http://www.surfaces.co.il/?p=782  (via 
Planet OSGeo)
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 
5.5

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
GEOS
PostGIS
MapServer
PHP Mapscript
Open Layers
Quantum GIS

I'd like to have PostGIS compiled with at least these switches or their 
equivalent built in:
  --with-pgsql=...
  --with-geos=...
  --with-proj=...
  --with-proj-libdir=...

GDAL should have at least these switches set:
  --with-pg=...
  --with-geos=yes

MapServer
  --with-proj=/usr/local/ \
  --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
  --with-ogr=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
  --with-wfs \
  --with-wcs \
  --with-wmsclient \
  --with-wfsclient \
  --with-curl-config=/usr/bin/curl-config \
  --with-agg=/usr/local/src/agg --with-freetype \
  --with-php=

I used to just compile these from source, but my sysAdminis recommends 
that whenever possible, to use rpms to take advantage of yum's or rpm's 
file management. and inventory capabilities. Since this is 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
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[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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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Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:54 AM
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Subject: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

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 or features, highlighting 
events and improvements from the past year.  I am thinking of categories 
including software, databases, community, and open data.

I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy 
developments in OpenSource geospatial.  Think about new projects, new features, 
optimizations, events, use cases, etc.

Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message.

Thank you very much,

David Fawcett 
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[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 or features, highlighting 
events and improvements from the past year.  I am thinking of categories 
including software, databases, community, and open data.

I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy 
developments in OpenSource geospatial.  Think about new projects, new features, 
optimizations, events, use cases, etc.

Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message.

Thank you very much,

David Fawcett 
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 that you are viewing, 
double-click or right-click > properties on the layer.  On the 'general' tab, 
you should see the source for that data layer.  

If the data is local and it is not in a data format that you can use, you could 
likely use the gdal/ogr tools to convert it to shapefile  (unless it is in the 
ESRI  File Geodatabase proprietary data format).

It could be that you are viewing a data source that is being served to you as a 
Web Map Service (WMS).  In this case, the server is only exposing/sending 
pictures of the geometry data, so you would not be able to convert this easily 
to a vector format like shapefile.

David. 

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George,

To get this right, mxd are actually just a styling file similar to
Arcview's apr and avl?

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, George Silva  wrote:
> You must be confusing things here Maning,
>
> Mxd is the format that ArcGIS uses to store mapdocuments, while
> shapefiles/database geometry data/coverages/rasters are displayed on that
> map. If you only have the mxd you won't be able to convert anything to
> shapefile. You need the original data.
>
> A Mxd is much like an HTML. It provides information on how content is
> organized, but it's not content itself.
>
> George
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:21 PM, maning sambale 
> wrote:
>>
>> No luck so far looking for a converter.
>>
>> Basically, I want to export geometry and attributes without the
>> styling from an Arc's mxd format to shapefile.
>>
>> Any workaround here (other then looking for an ArcGIS installed machine)?
>> --
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO project based Web app for watershed land use?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

Thanks for the help, I figured it out.  

I was looking for Land Summary  http://landsummary.com/map/

I am exploring something similar with the addition of a watershed component.  
In my mind, I think that I had melded it a little bit with Pierce County's 
'Where does the water go?' app.

http://matterhorn11.co.pierce.wa.us/waterflow/

Thanks again, 

David.


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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO project based Web app for watershed land use?

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA)
 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 and is quite a cool app.

As backbone, GRASS will do that (r.watershed, now faster by a
magnitude in GRASS 6.4+).

> I have found and lost the URL to this app several times.  If this sounds 
> familiar, I would appreciate it if you could point me back there again...

Perhaps here?
http://gallery.osgeo.org/

Markus
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO project based Web app for watershed land use?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

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 could point me back there again...

David.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Appropriate place to discuss osgeo4w?

[Fawcett, David]

I don't see a 'users' list for osgeo4w.  What is the appropriate place
to ask questions about the installer?

David.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Fawcett, David]

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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Eric Wolf wrote:
> I surely don't need another project right now, but I've been trolling
to
> find a co-author to create a cookbook-style Python geoprocessing book
that
> uses GDAL/OGR and other FOSS libraries. This would be considered a
text for
> a fairly advanced GIS course.

Eric,

You may want to look at Chris Garrard's work:

"Geoprocessing with Python using Open Source GIS"

http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/2009/

The slides make a kind of cookbook-style book, I think.

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Fawcett, David]

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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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:06 PM
To: Julia Harrell; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Next 5 years for OSGeo


Julia,

   Two very good points.   The first, cartographic output, comes up a
few times 
a year and OSGEO has a wiki page on it:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library.  In my opinion
the 
solution described on the wiki is way too ambitious and instead should
focus on 
creating a library of helper functions to deal with only the map
surround 
components (leave the symbology and GUI up to the desktop app, etc).  My
current 
workflow calls for Mapserver to render the map portion in PDF (maybe
someday 
create a GeoPDF), and use Inkscape to interactively add most of the
surround 
(still have to figure out the graticule).

   On the second point, image catalogs, GDAL's VRT format may be a good 
replacement.  But I don't know of a GUI tool to create/edit a VRT file,
only a 
couple of command line tools to create them.  In theory, any desktop app
using 
the GDAL library should be able to use VRT files, but I haven't done any

performance testing...

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

Julia Harrell wrote:
> One thing I'll mention, in addition to all the other good comments 
> that have already been posted, is that I have a really difficult time
trying to get the GIS users in my organization to even consider making a
switch to one of the open GIS desktop applications instead of the
expensive proprietary commercial package they currently use, because
(more often than not) of the rather big gap in the "aesthetic quality"
of the cartographic products the open GIS packages can (easily) produce.
Despite continuing improvements over the last couple of years, the gap
will still need to close a good bit more in terms of "average GIS users"
being able to quickly and easily produce production quality map products
before there's much real hope of any significant numbers of them being
willing to migrate to open GIS desktop packages. Some of the open GIS
server packages can produce some really beautifully rendered map images
now, but the desktop packages don't seem to be quite there yet.  Eas
y map product templates (for unsophisticated end users) for placing all
the map marginalia/decorations (labeling, symbols, legends, titles,
charts, etc) and being able to produce a professional looking map
quickly is still missing. All that "off the map crap" (as someone - I
can't recall who - once called it)  really does matter to a lot of our
users, who often have to be able to compose and print (or render to PDF)
some really slick looking, high resolution maps for public hearings and
other meetings and presentations. 
> 
> Being able to use the "old style" Arcview DBF file raster image 
> catalogs in an open GIS desktop package  is another pain point for a
lot of our users. We still use those a lot because we have some people
who are tied to Arcview 3x (god help 'em) because of various extensions.
I also prefer not to switch to a proprietary "geodatabase" raster
catalog because the DBF-based ones can also do double duty (in complete
shapefile format) as raster catalog tile index layers for Mapserver. I
don't really want to have migrate a separate copy of our imagery to some
proprietary "geodatabase" raster catalog data structure that only a
single product can use. Also, with our "bandwidth issues" in remote
field offices, connecting to a web map service is not always feasible,
or even possible. We need to be able to have our imagery in a raster
catalog that resides a local network file server where multiple users
can all access it simultaneously in R-O mode, or even on a portable hard
drive for
 use out in the field.  This kind of raster catalog functionality seems
to still be missing in several open GIS desktop packages that might
otherwise be somewhat viable contenders as an Arcview replacement for
"average" or "casual"  desktop GIS users. If such functionality does
exists as a plugin somewhere, maybe I just haven't found it yet, or
maybe recent docs aren't fully available in English yet for some
packages. If anyone can point me to a link for an open GIS Desktop
package that has a plugin for Arcview "old style" DBF raster catalogs,
with English docs, that "just works" with minimal manual configuration
(no checking anything out of subversion or compiling any source code), a
few of our users will be very eager to give it a test.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

[Fawcett, David]

I realize that there are likely not a large number of people who have
the expertise and experience to write this kind of code.  

Is this a project that should be shopped around for funding?  Google
Summer of Code?  A grant from our ~benevolent overlord Google?  Some
other foundation or org interested in open data formats?  

David.
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Algorithms



> Do you know why there hasn't been a broader adoption of JP2?

Not through lack of trying on my part :-)

I think the two biggest reasons are:

(1) The algorithms for handling large images in memory really are rocket
science, and no one in the FOSS community has gotten the "itch"
sufficiently bad enough to go and do the work needed inside the existing
open source packages.  Hopefully someday someone will.


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: adding scalebar to images to be downloaded

[Fawcett, David]

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 see that MapServer has the scalebar utility which can be used in 
command line to generate a scalebar graphic. 
 
   so I think problem solved. If someone knows of other tools please 
let me know.
   thanks,

   Pere


2009/6/5 pere roca ristol 


  hi all,
  I have a webmapping application that generates map images to 
download in different formats and resolutions, with the legend and so on. You 
can see it in http://edit.csic.es/geo/mapviewer/edit.html or some videos 
http://edit.csic.es/edit_info/edit_videos.html

  I wonder how I can add a scalebar to the image to be 
downloaded? as the images to download (ImageMagick) are processed in PHP it 
should be a server-side solution. 

  some idea? thanks!
  Pere Roca





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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRIArcIMS

[Fawcett, David]

Don't forget to include annual software maintenance payments to ESRI as
part of the total cost.  


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and ESRIArcIMS


A couple more suggestions:
- make sure to include either tile server or geowebcache in the mix to
minimize hardware costs
- try and cost for a three year window in order to capture the
respective difference in license costs

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Problems with OSGEO Trac (MapServer)

[Fawcett, David]

Thanks Frank.  

It came back to life about 15 minutes after I posted.  Sometimes a
message to the list seems to be all that is needed to get an application
working again (in time to embarrass the poster...)

David.

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Fawcett, David
 wrote:
> Not sure who to notify.
>
> The MapServer Trac is spewing errors at me when I try to view tickets 
> or search for tickets.

David,

It seems to be working for me.  Perhaps this was a temporary problem.
You can file tickets for the OSGeo System Administration Committee in
the OSGeo Trac instance at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo

However, that might not work if trac is broken. :-)

You may also be able to find someone able to look into
issues most quickly by asking in #osgeo or #telascience.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Problems with OSGEO Trac (MapServer)

[Fawcett, David]

Not sure who to notify.  

The MapServer Trac is spewing errors at me when I try to view tickets or
search for tickets.  

David.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generating html clickable image maps from polygons

[Fawcett, David]

Alex, 

You can use MapServer to generate imagemaps.  See 
http://mapserver.org/output/imagemaps.html

David.

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Hi list,

A rather technical question. I was able to find a potential solution 
with GRASS GIS, but want to know if there are other solutions involving 
FOSS4G software.

Which other FOSS4G software can generate html clickable image maps out 
of polygons? The challenge is simple: a colleague has many polygons that 
must be exported to several clickable PNGs like the example on this 
page: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/sqc_e.html
(A webmap tool such as OpenLayers would be much more powerful, but in 
some cases we do need clickable PNGs.)

I found out it seems GRASS GIS 6.3+ can do it via its HTMLMAP driver: 
http://www.phygeo.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass63/manuals/html63_user/htmlmapdriver.html
Can any other OSGeo software do the same?


Thanks for any reply!

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] methods for programatically adding fields toshapefiles

[Fawcett, David]

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
columns.  

http://code.google.com/p/flatlandmaps/source/browse/trunk/csv2shp.py

You can email me directly if you have any questions about how it works.

David.

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toshapefiles



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 it using ogr2org
with a sql clause, such as:

ogr2ogr -sql "select *, 'http://somewebsite.com' as source_url from
infile" outfile.shp infile.shp

but that didn't work since ogr2ogr supports a limited set of SQL,
described
at:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_sql.html

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? (I would prefer suggestions that
can be scripted with python.)

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Layers

[Fawcett, David]

Bob, 

Are you using the MS4W distribution, or did you install it yourself?  

With MS4W, I can hit the MapServer executable with this URL:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe

David.

PS.  For more help, I would suggest switching over to the
mapserver-users or ms4w mailing list.  

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Thanks

I am attempting to establish Mapserver.

One of the tests to see that Mapserver is running is to query the
version 
through the command line. This was successful.

Another test is to send http://your.domain.name/cgi-bin/ms4/mapserv.exe
.

I've tried 'localhost', 'localhost.localdomain' and 
'localhost.localdomain.apache' with no luck.

Can someone suggest a solution. As you can see I'm new to this.

Bob



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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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Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Bob Pawley wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking at Open Layers to display Postgis data.
>>
>> I have a couple of questions to start.
>>
>> - Can Open Layers connect directly to Postgis or does it require 
>> other software?
>>
>> - Is there documentation that shows how to make the connections and 
>> put the system together??
>>
didn't see any detailed answer to this, so...

I believe that Open Layers needs to talk to a WMS or WFS service, rather

than directly executing SQL against a datatabase (PostGIS or otherwise).

A pretty standard configuration is to run Geoserver (geoserver.org) w/
postgis.  Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) might be another option.

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Layers

[Fawcett, David]

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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Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Bob Pawley wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking at Open Layers to display Postgis data.
>>
>> I have a couple of questions to start.
>>
>> - Can Open Layers connect directly to Postgis or does it require 
>> other software?
>>
>> - Is there documentation that shows how to make the connections and 
>> put the system together??
>> 
didn't see any detailed answer to this, so...

I believe that Open Layers needs to talk to a WMS or WFS service, rather

than directly executing SQL against a datatabase (PostGIS or otherwise).

A pretty standard configuration is to run Geoserver (geoserver.org) w/ 
postgis.  Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) might be another option.

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapter, network and structuration

[Fawcett, David]

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 away from the annual
FOSS4G event.

David. 

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Dave wrote: "If people are saying they can't attend [insert name of
OSGeo event here], then it would be useful to state why they can't
attend. There is a difference between "travel/accommodation cost is 'too
high'" and "my workplace has to authorize the travel, and they do not
send people to events outside the continent, regardless of the costs".

I suppose my situation is somewhat unique. I only work on open source
GIS as a hobby, and it isn't really something my day job will support
financially. So in my case only events that are hosted locally or
regionally are possible.

I'm likely the exception to the rule, and not the rule.

Landon

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help: GDAL and txt2shp.py

[Fawcett, David]

Kjell, 
 
For ease of setup, I definitely recommend using William Kyngesburye's
binaries found at:  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 data, I
recommend EXIF.py.  You can find it at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/exif-py/
 
 
I put together a python module for roughly georeferencing air photos
based on EXIF data.  You might be able to harvest something useful out
of there.  The module is called imageplop, I also have an example script
that I use to call it and glue everything together.  
 
You can find the scripts at:
http://code.google.com/p/flatlandmaps/source/browse/trunk/imageplop.py


http://code.google.com/p/flatlandmaps/source/browse/trunk/osGetImagedata
.py
 
 
If you want to play with it, I put a zip file containing sample data
at:  http://www.flatlandmaps.com/lab/data/sampleData.zip
   The archive
contains several air photos that include GPS data in their EXIF
headers, and a geotiff elevation grid clipped to the area.  The photos
are from two different flight lines.
 
Let me know if you have any questions about pulling EXIF data from
images and using it to build shapefiles.  
 
David.


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On 7. juli. 2008, at 23.54, Dane Springmeyer wrote:

...Well, given my completely newbie status as a
GIS/Geodata user, I am very grateful for your patience, explaining these
things to me.



no problem. Please do consider consulting the mailing
lists of the specific software that you are using as well.


Sorry about the lack of background info. 

I am on a MacOS X 10.5.2 and have downloaded the latest version
of Perl and Python and all the dependencies needed to run the gdal
package.

As mentioned earlier, my goal is to set up a basic workflow to
do a mashup between shapefiles that I have, and geodata inside jpeg
files collected with a garmin gpx file and injected using gpsbabel. 

As a non-programmer, and short on time, I am really hoping to be
able to tie together existing software (like txt2shp.py) and do some
easy basic shell-scripting to get this to work.

Going into this, I was hoping that I would come across some sort
of swiss army knife style software (like exiftool or gpsbabel) that
would let me add mashup-data to an existing shapefile and convert files
to web-compliant formats. Seems like 


...
Okay. Well that graphic is nice and simple. However,
getting there through automation will be not be as easy as using Qgis to
layout you map graphics and then exporting them into another design
program like Scribus, Inkscape, or the GIMP to do your photo layout.


Darn. I seem to be forced into setting up a complete map server
to do this? Automation is kinda the whole deal of this part of my
thesis. 

For those of you wondering what the purpose of all of this is,
my thesis is about exploring technical challenges and opportunities as
they related to digital photographs. As the implementation goes, the
argument behind not simply using a classic Google Maps mashup has to do
with longevity/preservation and the fact that I want to make web
publishable albums that tries to relate to as simple/few/standard
elements as possible to be accessible far into the future.  


I'm assuming that you want to do this with desktop based
tools. 


Yes.


If you are up for installing apache 


already a part of my Mac OS X installation.


then you could utilize a variety of web based toolkits
to automate the generation of the map graphic and the photo layout. I'd
look into Openlayers and Geoserver (in addition to Mapserver and
Mapnik), and any web framework with a powerful templating engine like
django.


Hm... Sounds like an extensive solution that requires a lot of
work. I would love to know more about how accessible these technologies
are. I am just afraid that I am looking at 4-8 weeks of installing and
figuring out how these solutions work, only to find out that I need to
learn Python and Ruby to get it to work?

Yes. I know what you're saying (and I am always telling myself -
don't shy away from something just because it looks complicated, but I
am really hoping to finish my thesis in september :-), and my coding
this solution is sim

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatialenvironment 'sizing')

[Fawcett, David]

>> - 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 data etc.

>But there is no difference whether you back up files or a database.
Well, actually there is a >difference. Backing up files is a lot
easier, more robust and much much better scalable than cramming
>everything into one or even several databases and trying to replicate
that once it needs to be scaled >up.

It is a little ironic that their Secret Sauce Du Jour, Map Caching, is
just pre-rendering the images and storing them on the file system.  ; /
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

[Fawcett, David]

It would likely be a good outreach tool to shed some light on OSGeo
projects and technologies for people who don't know the secret handshake
yet.  

I personally like reading the OS bloggers mixed in with the proprietary
bloggers along with the bloggers who write about using tools from both
camps, all at planetgs.com.  

David.

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Folks,

Is there any plan or motion to setup an official OSGeo Planet? Chris
developed and maintains it at http://planetosgeo.crschmidt.net/ and it
gathers a number of OSGeo bloggers, so the idea works!

Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to 
planet.osgeo.org and make it more an official OSGeo Community thing.

There is a number of well-known and popular planets around the Web:
http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.gnome.org/
http://planet.ubuntu.com/ etc.

and all of them play very important role in these communities.

Perhaps this subject has been discussed already, but I couldn't find 
anything in the archives.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

[Fawcett, David]

http://www.gjc.org/ ?



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On 24-Jan-08, at 11:21 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

> What do you guys think about using something like http://
> www.jobberbase.com

Jobberbase seems to have a lot of potential.  For any OSGeo job  
board, there really *must* be a GeoRSS feed!  A wiki would not have  
well-formed-enough data, nor would a mailing list.  I can't think of  
any [popular] jobs site out there that i'd trust enough to rubber- 
stamp OSGeo onto -- they all seem slimy and ass-backwards.

Perhaps it's time for the kiss of death for this thread, and we ask  
for a volunteer?

Cory.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

[Fawcett, David]

A first, and maybe only step might be to provide wiki space, or some
sort of templated content management space for new open source
geospatial projects to introduce and display themselves.  Using a
standard template, they could provide a project background, context,
current capabilities, proposed/planned/future capabilities, linkages to
other os geospatial projects, etc.  The advantage of a template would be
that one could easily put projects into context and compare them.  

Maybe there could be a forum to facilitate/generate communication about
and between new projects.  This could also be handled with a listserv,
but it could (and hopefully would) be a high traffic list.  

In rough concept, I am thinking of a place where new osg projects can
make themselves known, find opportunities for collaboration, and
hopefully build a community of supporters.  

David.



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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.

> While it is good to provide pointers to projects of interest, there 
> needs to be a clear separation of what is an OSGeo project and what is

> not. I think that it is acceptable to have certain hurdles that a 
> project has to pass in order to be accepted into the OSGeo fold.

Could there be a series of tiers?

The first tier could have a low barrier of entry, with low support
provided, plus little-or-no promotion as being of the OSGeo 'brand'.

A project could work its way through the tiers, and incidentally through
the incubation process, and be rewarded with more support from OSGeo
along the way.

The final tier would include, amongst other things, recognition on the
OSGeo home page.

nick


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Hudson River Opportunity?

[Fawcett, David]

There was an article in the NY Times last week about the Beacon River
Institute and IBM working to create a large array of real-time sensors
to monitor the Hudson River.  They talk about using the real-time data
to steer operational decisions and making the data available on the Web
as it is collected.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/nyregion/16hudson.html

It sounds like RPI and other educational institutes are involved.  

It would be cool to see some OpenSource Geospatial software/technology
used.  When I saw the article, I immediately thought that it might be a
great case to use/push/hone OGC sensor services.  

David. 
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