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 months; you can see some discussion of it in the webcom archives. Looks like we've already got 13 listings :) 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 opensource. The one site where I could actually figure out what was going on was based on MapGuide 6.3. This is a proprietary technology, which is reliant on an ActiveX control (or old netscape plugin). MapGuide 6.x was actually a pretty decent tool in its day (we use it at the City of Nanaimo) but I sure look forward to moving away from ActiveX and embracing a cross-browser open source tool. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting article on open source economics
Hmm. That sounds like an oxymoron, but: http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007-article.html Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 sincerely hope that the new board (and Tyler) are making this topic their highest priority. Jason From: Gavin Fleming Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity On Jo's last point re funding travel expenses, this would be a huge benefit for getting deserving delegates who don't have the means to Cape Town next year and other conferences in future. Perhaps a merit- and means- based application process could be applied. winmail.dat___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 abstract pages (e.g. http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=212). About 40% of presenters have uploaded so far, and I will be harassing the stragglers in the days to come. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[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, if you're just visiting, I'm sure we won't say no) have a look at our wiki page, and add your name to the list: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/British_Columbia_Chapter We hope to have a mailing list set up soon; I'll add the details to the wiki once they're available. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 be subject to trademark. Initial searches of TESS don't show up anything either. That said, I don't think that shapefile should be used anywhere in an open format name _because_ it's too generic and will cause confusion. As my initial blog entry mentioned, I had (have?) pretty high hopes for SDF. It's extremely fast (native rtree), contains multiple tables in a single file, supports complex geometries (arcs, aggregates, etc), includes native schema definition, etc... However... while some initial marketing materials marked SDF as an open format, I have been unable to obtain any clarification from Autodesk on the file specification or openness of SDF. As well, there are some limitations; in the quest for speed, SDF is only using the SQLite table access mechanisms, not the entire relational layer (or something like that). For reference, most of the interesting parts of the SDF Provider, including the Rtree implementation, are available here: http://tinyurl.com/2b5en2 Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 project, and it's really easy to deal with in its basic configuration, even to the extent of pulling its subscription list from an external (Google Docs, etc) CSV file. If there's enough interest on this list, then let's pull it over to WebCom for discussion of details and take care of it from there. Jason From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo Regardless, setting up the planet stuff wouldn't be huge maintenance, but would still need someone keen to set it up and some support from web committee to get started. winmail.dat___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 From: Mateusz Loskot Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo 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. winmail.dat___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 where absolutely required. Jason From: Michael P. Gerlek Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Buttons Dan- In general, yes, you are allowed to use the logo. There are guidelines posted on the web (not sure where..) spelling out proper usage, etc. -mpg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Buttons Arnulf, Thanks for the clarification on the logos. I was hoping to prompt this topic thread with my posting. Also useful would be some guidelines on how and where OSGeo logos can be used on other web pages, particularly in light of the self selection/opt in membership approach. Are all members (i.e. anyone who registers on osgeo.org) allowed to use the OSGeo logo on their project/personal/corporate web pages to help identify their interest in OSGeo? Should the logo be linked to a particular page on osgeo.org? Should the original logo be used or some modification of it? Thanks, Dan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 ___ 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 to the fdo-users mailing list for any further questions about SDF3; this is a list for general discussion of open source geospatial topics, and support for SDF3 is currently limited to FDO. Jason From: Rick Steinberger Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Simplest of questions (with one, assumption) I'm looking into the FDO library and it appears that this approach will not be, as you point out, especially easy. I will follow up with the fdo-users list as I move forward on that front. There used to be an SDFLoader which could transform various input formats into SDF(2?) including csv. This CSV approach was a simple way to get data from any old legacy system into Mapguide. Does anything like the SDFLoader exist to convert csv (or any simple neutral format) to SDF3? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 finish early) :) Should probably ensure that the venue is available for at least an hour post the meeting. I agree with the concept of lightning-talk style reports, but I think that it was valuable having the open question/comment section at the end for general OSGeo organizational discussion. We didn't really have that available at any other time in the program. Jason -Original Message- From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G Last year at FOSS4G I ran an Annual General Meeting that lasted a couple hours. Personally, I thought it was great to hear about the interesting mix of reports from local chapters, projects and committees. (I realised at the last moment that sponsors would have been great to hear from too!) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[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 pizza. If you're planning to come, please drop me, Max, or Martin a line so that we can ensure that there is enough room and pizza. Tentative meeting info: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Chapter_Meeting_2008-07-22 Thanks, Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 (like http://grass.osgeo.org/ - which is non-canonical, this seems to be the same as grass.itc.it) to hosted host-based (http://mapguide.osgeo.org/) to dedicated domains (like http://www.qgis.org/). I don't think that projects should be _required_ to use project.osgeo.org, but I believe that SAC is typically happy to set these host records up for projects if they want them. Domain/url changes are never simple if you want to retain your search engine results, and marketing is an important part of any OS project. Here is some very good advice to follow when doing so: http://tinyurl.com/5s2w3q A bit specific to Google, but it can be extrapolated out to the other engines too. Jason -Original Message- From: Paul Ramsey Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] URL project.osgeo.org During ColabNet days, we had this scheme, but it was dropped when we moved. Was there a reason for it? I personally feel some love for it, since it allows things like bringing the Mapserver site into osgeo.org with a simple URL change. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/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. Somebody (iomeneandrei?) has already created an OSGeo.org topic on Nabble2 so you can see what this looks like, though this forum may need to be deleted to bring across the history from the existing lists: http://n2.nabble.com/OSGeo.org-f678614.html Nabble2 allows for some pretty neat embedding options, so we will likely be looking at this option for integration into the main OSGeo.org website, and projects may want to choose to do this independently as well. Examples: http://n2.nabble.com/Plone-f293351.html http://n2.nabble.com/Openmoko-Public-Mailinglists-f1958.html http://www.go-mono.com/forums/ Documentation here: http://n2.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=36 http://n2.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=38 http://n2.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=40 If you have any questions/concerns about this migration, please let me know. Thanks, Jason Chair, OSGeo Website Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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] Install Problems, OSGeo.FDO DLLs I've been trying to get the OSGeo.FDO 3.3.1 DLLs to work within a Visual Studio 2008 or VS 2005 web service; using Windows XP. [snip] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[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 schedule, but hopefully soon. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 return to a discussion that we had months ago about raster on RDBMS. But this time I would like to present some number. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 Sent: March-04-09 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [Webcom] Usermap SVN and improvement] Months after I added the position information to my userpage, I don't show up on the map. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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, or if someone gives me appropriate rights on the wiki, delete them myself. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 qualified techs for, and just works with the existing systems. It doesn't matter how easy Linux is; it's one more thing to keep track of and one more thing to go wrong. If you want to win the open source battle at small organisations that don't already have OS operating system tendencies, focus on the application level where you can make a strong business case on a feature-by-feature level, and with additional arguments about truly open data being more sustainable and less risky. Personally I think that an open source or bust attitude is not very pragmatic. Sell open source software where it is the best tool for the job, but pick your battles. Jason -Original Message- From: Alex Mandel Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:25 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS That would be fear of the unknown(non gui) and job security at work. Wouldn't want someone else in the org who knows more about running servers. Maybe you can get them to throw a bone to demo something on a virtual machine hosted elsewhere(Amazon) just to show how easy it is. Welcome to the land of small to medium government agencies, etc. The best thing here is showing examples from equivalent groups, of which there are plenty online now. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoREST 1.0 Released!
We are pleased to announce the first major release of GeoREST, a new Open Source framework for publishing and interacting with geospatial data as web resources. Among other Open Source libraries, GeoREST leverages both MapGuide and FDO as data sources. With GeoREST 1.0 you can enable search engines to crawl your geospatial data, dynamically publish to KML, GeoRSS or any other text based format, use web forms to search and update your data, and more. All of this functionality is available entirely through configuration... no programming required! Please visit the GeoREST project website for more information on GeoREST and the benefits it can bring to your geospatial publishing strategy. http://www.georest.org/ For a quick look, here are two sites that have been using GeoREST in a production environment for over nine months, with great improvements in the accessibility of their data: http://maps.nanaimo.ca/data/ http://share.vo-ka.si/iskanje/ (Slovenian) And an example of using OpenLayers to edit a GeoREST vector layer overlaid on a MapGuide image service: http://www.sl-king.com/http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html georestsamples http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html/http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html example1 http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html/http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html rview http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html.hthttp://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html ml http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html GeoREST is an independent Open Source project licensed under LGPL, though our hope is that it will be integrated with the MapGuide 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 Kurtagic P.S. Any help porting this project to run on Linux would be greatly appreciated! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 would like to do list constraints in AutoCAD Map, and according to the documentation, it says that the SDE provider doesn't support that type of constraint. Could someone tell me if that is because it's not part of the SDE API, or rather because it was not written into the SDE provider itself. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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.cgi?REQUEST=GetCapabilitiesSERVICE=WMS Is that server somehow deciding not to serve european hosts or something like that? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:24:26PM -0300, Fabio Renzo Panettieri wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 13:17 -0700, Karsten-3-2 wrote: Yes. What I want to do is simply to find out the fastest options to render on the fly from raw data imagery (no tiles whatsoever stored on disk in addition to the raw data ). I will check out what SpatialCache is... From raw aerial imagery: 1. Store everything as uncompressed tiffs. 2. Make images as large as possible. (This probably requires BigTIFF support.) 3. Use overviews -- usually one for every power-of-two level from the base image up to the point where you have 256 x 256 overviews (gdaladdo) 4. If you have too many images to make one large image practical, create one reduced size image that you use at lower zoom levels. All of this is based around serving with MapServer. I have no experience using other imagery servers to solve this problem. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 Area 51 site that George set up is actually part of that process. I'm highly in favour of this proposal. Many of the most common (and important) GIS questions are not programming-based, and not on topic for Stack Overflow. There is certainly some overlap, but having a dedicated geospatial answers site would be a boon to many, especially non-geek GIS users who are easily daunted by Stack Overflow. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 line. Unless it points at the OSGeo service provider registry. Jason On 4 June 2010 04:34, Cameron Shorter wrote: To support this, I've created the attached pdf template. Please review and provide feedback before we set the template in stone, and ask all projects to create material against this template. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 very much for putting this together George! Jason On 21 July 2010 12:14, George Silva wrote: Hello everyone, First I would like to apologize for cross posting in different/related lists. This is more of a invitation: StackOverflow.com is a website of questions and answers that is very lightweight, dynamic, and involves a great number of members in it's community. The stackOverflow website is specific about programming QA. The makers of SO, built a website classe stackexchange ( area51.stackexchange.com) that allows users to propose new QA websites, about a certain topic. The proposal of this website is a to create a common place to ask for general questions about geoprocessing, GIS, GISc, and related topics. There is no restrictions about the technology or it's licensing methods. It's a true open forum for developers, geographers and anyone who actively uses GIS frequently. I proposed one about GIS and is in it's final stage before Beta. In that website you can view the example questions of On and Off topic questions, vote in the better ones and allows you to commit to that website. Only users that follow and commit to the website are allowed to participate in the Beta version (the beta version lasts for 10 days only - I'm not sure). Right now, we have 98% commit. Only 2% away from getting a QA website like StackOverflow (and others, that already passed beta period: gaming.stackexchange.com , cooking.stackexchange.com , etc); Here is the website address: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems If you feel like it, commit to the website and let's start building a great community for diffusion of GIS knowledge. I'm sorry for the long post, but I hope you like it. George ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 m...@lingner.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 29.07.2010 06:29, schrieb Hamish: Hi, I'm no expert in the Web Services side of things, but for the FOSS4G 2010 osgeo live DVD I am tasked with splitting up the list of Server Apps into smaller categories as the existing list has gotten a bit too large. e.g. I've already split Desktop Apps into Desktop GIS and Navigation and Maps. any good ideas on how to split this list in half? deegree geoserver geonetwork geomajas mapbender mapserver mapnik mapguide openlayers qgis-mapserver zoo-project 52n Here are my 2 cents: - -Frontend / GUI mapbender openlayers mapguide - -Renderer geoserver mapserver mapnik - -Server side processing zoo-project 52north - -GIS Army Knife deegree geomajas qgis-mapserver But geonetwork doesn't fit in... Lars -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxRcLkACgkQ0GRF77ebR/m01ACghcSckA6hzudAJPBx0usR7myz vVcAn0BFJSL48Wiksul8Y9Y8Fvnt+DoH =B2tN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 Open Source packages and marketing documentation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
