Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 1 week to test the OSGeo-Live DVD before we burn it

Hi Cameron, The link to the MapGuide overview in the contents list is incorrect. It's pointing to doc/mapguide_overview.html instead of overview/mapguide_overview.html Jason On 3 August 2010 05:21, Cameron Shorter wrote: > The OSGeo-Live DVD is looking great, with 43 pre-configured GeoSpatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] beakdown of osgeo server projects

MapGuide has front-end, rendering, and processing capabilities. If forced to choose between these, I'd probably go with rendering. On 2010-07-29, Lars Lingner wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 29.07.2010 06:29, schrieb Hamish: >> Hi, >> >> I'm no expert in the Web Se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OFF-TOPIC] GIS "StackOverflow" Website

I've been participating in the new Pro Webmasters community (another Area 51 site) while waiting for the GIS site to kick off, and it's been a great experience. I'd strongly encourage anyone with an interest in a consolidated, open licence knowledge base for GIS to commit to this effort. Thanks

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

Jody, Is that under http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/ or is there another source for it? Jason On 5 June 2010 19:40, Jody Garnett wrote: > You should find that an official marketing template is already available as > part of the work the graphics designed has done. My trouble is that

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

Wow, I'm really having opinions this week :) IMHO getting into rating projects is just asking for trouble, infighting, bitterness, and people/projects walking away from OSGeo. Jason On 5 June 2010 16:37, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Andrea and others, does this fit with people's expectations? > ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

Arnulf, Yes, I like both of those options. I think my initial reaction was because it implied that a project was only supported by a single commercial entity, which isn't healthy. But I can definitely see the need to meet the use cases you've outlined. It makes a lot of sense to encourage/enable

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

Couple comments based entirely off the PDF: - The typography needs some work. Mix of serif, sans serif, italics, bold is a bit confused. - Would be nice to see some header/footer graphics or at least colour. - I really, really, really, really don't like the inclusion of the commercial support l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] StackOverflow like GIS website

On 4 June 2010 04:05, Adrian Custer wrote: > As I understand it, the folk behind Stack Overflow have already started > on plans to expand the design to many other topics---you might want to > follow the evolution over there and propose a "GIS" forum on the new > site when it goes live. > > The Are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web map on the fly

I've often wondered if power-of-two was the best approach from a perception viewpoint. It definitely makes the most sense from a code perspective. Anyone know of any research on this? On 2010-05-22, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:24:26PM -0300, Fabio Renzo Panettieri wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server

Works for me. Do you have a corporate firewall? Checkpoint was killing our external WMS requests until we turned off an over-aggressive filter. Jason On 11 May 2010 10:35, Andrea Aime wrote: > Am I the only one getting a 403 when trying to access that server? > > http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FDO SDE Provider

HI Bill, This kind of question will get a better answer on the FDO-Users mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/fdo-users or, on Nabble: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/FDO-Users-f2048584.html Jason On 30 April 2010 12:15, Bill Ten Broeck wrote: > I have a client who w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any thoughts on the potential for using Seadragon as a map browsing interface?

It is pretty cool, but I believe that it just uses pyramid tiling + XML definition file in the background, with some sexy SL/JS transitions. I was marginally involved in developing Nanaimo's Public Art Inventory web app, which uses the JS version of Seadragon to present high-resolution photos of pu

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoREST 1.0 Released!

Guide project in the future. It is available for installation on the Windows platform using either the GeoREST built-in webserver or IIS. We would love to hear what you think about GeoREST. Please join the project's mailing list today and help us shape its future. Jason Birch and Haris Kurtagi

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] SpatiaLite and RasterLite

I could be wrong, but I think that the GPLv3 license that librasterlite is distributed under is incompatible with the GDAL/OGR library. I believe that has been some work ongoing to integrate libspatialite into GDAL/OGR but I haven't been watching all that closely. Jason __

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

I think that it's generally less fear of the unknown or job security than it is the cost of adding complexity to what is often an already over-extended support load. In many cases it just makes sense to spend $1000 for a server OS that doesn't require additional training, is easy to get qualifi

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki Upkeep - Orphaned Pages

Alex Mandel wrote: > There should be 0 pages removed from this process, and when in > doubt about a link, just leave it for someone else who knows > that topic. There are a bunch of old MapGuide links there that were migrated to our Trac, and could be deleted. I can either mark these as deleted

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Windows Installer resources

Hi all, I've recently been helping to create a WiX based (MSI) installer for MapGuide Open Source. As part of this I've generated the following OSGeo-generic resources: - Large BMP for "welcome" page for installer; lots of room to add project-specific logo - Small BMP for intermediate page

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [Webcom] Usermap SVN and improvement]

I wonder if you have the "User Name" and username backwards on your tag? I'm probably not the best one to talk though, since mine hasn't been updated either. I just edited mine based on the guess that the username may be case sensitive. Jason -Original Message- From: Alexandre Leroux Se

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] web services in agriculture

Have you checked out Hectares BC? Possibly not exactly what you're looking for, but they do offer web services as well as cool analytical tools: http://hectaresbc.org/trac Jason -Original Message- From: Jachym Cepicky Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] web services in agriculture I'm looking aft

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster data on RDBMS

I find this stuff fascinating, but I believe that the Oracle EULA prohibits users from disclosing the results of benchmark tests. Be careful how you represent these results. Jason -Original Message- From: Lucena, Ivan Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster data on RDBMS I would like to retur

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [Webcom] Nabble update

> Nabble has developed a new system (Nabble2) and we will need > to migrate all existing lists to this system. Just a follow-up... I am now working with Nabble Support to migrate all of the existing Nabble1 lists under the OSGeo.org category over to Nabble2. This will be done on Nabble's schedul

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Install Problems, OSGeo.FDO DLLs

Hi Rob, This question would likely receive a better response on the FDO project's mailing lists rather than the general OSGeo Discussions list. Details for this list are available here: http://fdo.osgeo.org/user.html Jason -Original Message- From: Rob Sosnowski Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss]

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nabble update

Hi all, Some of you are aware that the majority of the OSGeo and OSGeo Project mailing lists are mirrored through the Nabble forum service. http://www.nabble.com/OSGeo.org-f18127.html Nabble has developed a new system (Nabble2) and we will need to migrate all existing lists to this system. Some

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] URL

I don't think that it was specifically dropped, it just wasn't made a requirement for new projects coming into OSGeo. There are project pages on the OSGeo site (like http://www.osgeo.org/grass - just product info "fliers") but from there the project URL can be anything from external host-based (

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo BC Local Chapter meeting at GeoWeb

Hi all, If you're going to be in Vancouver for GeoWeb, please consider coming to our local chapter meeting, only a few blocks away from GeoWeb on the Tuesday evening. It's currently looking like it'll be fairly informal given the number of confirmed attendees; couple presentations, chatting, and

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

One thing I noticed from last year's conference was that there was not nearly enough time booked in the venue. Conference centre staff were waiting to clean the room when we were only about 2/3 done. And that was with a social event booked directly after the AGM (which should have caused it to fi

[OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom wants you!

08 Thanks, Jason Birch (WebCom Chair) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Simplest of questions (with one, assumption)

Have you looked at the fdo2fdo application? It's a windows-based command line and GUI tool for transforming between FDO data sources: http://www.sl-king.com/Fdo2Fdo/download/download.html FME's Safe Software also supports SDF if proprietary software is acceptable. I'd strongly suggest moving t

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

Ari Jomla wrote: > GDAL has feature style specification: > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_feature_style.html Hey, that's pretty cool. Almost JSON or WKT-like. MapGuide has a similar XML-based stylization schema: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14 Jason ___

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Buttons

http://www.osgeo.org/logos See "Branding Guide", and also Trademark Guidelines. I do like the idea of branded logos for members, sponsors, and supporters though. I would prefer to see the white background be given precedence on these though; the black (inverted) image should only be used w

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

I've had the same experience with Venus (only a few months now). I like being able to maintain the feeds in an external spreadsheet too... http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/01/CSV-Subscription-Lists Jason -Original Message- From: Fee, James Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSG

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

I guess I'm assuming that Mateusz talked to Christopher before posting this? Anyway, I'd certainly welcome this kind of service. If there is community buy-in and Christopher isn't interested in setting it up, I'd be happy to install it on osgeo2. I've worked with it a bit for an unrelated pr

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

I like the idea Mateusz. I think I'd probably have to remove my blog from the list though, as I sometimes blog about proprietary software as well :) How does this work for the other planets; do they allow wishy-washy open source proponents like me? Jason Fr

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: idea for an OSGeo project -- a new, open data format

Landon wrote: --- I really think you are going to run into problems using the "Shapefile" as part of the trademark or name for any product not sold by ESRI. I strongly recommend against this move. --- I'm not a lawyer, but I really doubt that shapefile is unique enough to b

RE: SUSPECT: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Canadian Chapter (call for interested individuals)

Yep, that's the idea :) -Original Message- From: Ken Sanderson Subject: SUSPECT: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Canadian Chapter (call for interested individuals) Should we just edit the wiki to add our selves to the interested list? ___ Discuss mailing l

[OSGeo-Discuss] BC Local Chapter

It looks like FOSS4G has resulted in an increase in local interest, one of the very real benefits to hosting this great conference. As a result, a group of folks here in BC are looking at putting together a local chapter. If you're in British Columbia and interested in getting involved (heck,

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Presentation materials

Paul, was the same option / link provided for workshop and lab instructors? It would be nice if some of them wanted to share their materials. Jason -Original Message- From: Paul Ramsey Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Presentation materials They'll be found attached to the relevant abstrac

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity

I think that it's a mistake to be thinking about how to spend OSGeo's funds until we have a business model that ensures sufficient income to cover our expenses. We're still bootstrapping, but we're almost two years in and are still heavily reliant on Autodesk's continued involvement. I sincerel

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Show Image On Tooltip

Hi, spokanemaps.com is a site run by one of the MapGuide Open Source PSC members, Andy Morsell. I'm sure if you ask on the MapGuide Users list he'll be able to help you: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users or http://www.nabble.com/MapGuide-Users-f14845.html Jason

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] mapguide1.1.0 compile error on linux: conflictlibxerces-c version

Hi yagbu, This mailing list is for discussion of general things relating to OSGeo. Please come and join us on mapguide-users: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users If there is a site that is pointing to this as the MapGuide mailing list, could you please let me know directly

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting article on open source economics

Heh, Yes, I was considering "interesting" in the same topic as "economics", rather than trying to create a schism between open-source and economics. Master Arnulf, sir, I promise to try very hard not to say anything that might be construed as distancing open source from commerce. Indeed, I a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting article on open source economics

Hmm. That sounds like an oxymoron, but: Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Freegis-list] Autodesk, DXF, OSGEO

jidanni wrote: > And also they created MapGuide, which is the main impediment to me > being able to use http://basicmap.moi.gov.tw/ http://gis2.tccg.gov.tw/ > http://doorplate.taichung.gov.tw/ Arnulf wrote: > Maybe you want to check whether these are old versions or the new > "MapGuide opensour

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial Support for the OSGeo Stack

Cameron wrote: > I think OSGeo should limit itself to providing a list of > service providers. I notice that Frank has emailed a > description of exactly that. I'm not sure if that was a > coincidence or related to this thread. Happy coincidence. That little app has been brewing for a couple mo

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help with Where 2.0 and OGC

Thanks for the test post :) It looks like a runaway machine at 67-53-118-126 was relaying our archives through the list server again. I've added a filter to mailman that I think is dropping these messages, but it's not a great solution. Jason From: Raj Sin

RE: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

Chris wrote: > The very quick story is that they don't believe copyright > can be applied to any geospatial data. Thus creative > commons licenses don't work, since they depend on > copyright. So people providing data have two options - > public domain or make a contract that completely restricts

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Elections

FrankW wrote: > It has been our intention for some time to "regularize" > a plan for new charter members [snip] > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Membership_Process I'm happy with most of this, but would prefer not to fix the number of new members (at 15 or whatever). Would it be reasonable to p

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] A little help with the Google SoC Application

"and the results will be used for the targeting instructions for high-powered space-based lasers. " I think we should seriously put that into the application. Perhaps referencing Google's top secret battery of space lasers. And maybe mentioning Jody's ideas as less acceptable alternatives :)

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

You know, I'd actually be in favour of this workshop if it showed how Oracle can be integrated with open source geospatial applications (web mapping, etc). This is the kind of thing that many organisations need to gradually integrate open source into their stacks. As it stands, it shows how to in

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapServer subdomain on osgeo.org not aboutMapServer?

Alexandre wrote: > Strangely enough, the https://mapserver.osgeo.org/ > website > does not seem related to MapServer specifically, while > http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver is. my-name-is-fred.osgeo.org

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Introdution tutorials

I would LOVE to add some tutorials to the OSGeo website. I think that the way to handle this would be to set up a part of the website for tutorials, and then give control of that section (and an appropriate permission level for changing new articles from pending to published) to a tutorial coordi

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapguide installation

Please direct MapGuide questions to the MapGuide mailing list. This list is for general Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo Foundation discussions. You can sign up for the MapGuide mailing list here: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4g 2007

Daniel P. Ames wrote: > Is OSGEO making plans for a FOSS4g 2007? What Aaron and Frank said. But also, do you know of any other mailing lists that we should be targetting with announcements? We already have a fairly extensive list (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Communication) with l

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open DMTP?

Has anyone used this? We are looking at cross-platform location tracking from mobile devices, and my boss forwarded this to me: http://www.opendmtp.org/ Looks pretty cool... Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.o