[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software

2007-03-03 Thread Markus Neteler
Como, 26 February 2007 The Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera / GFOSS.IT (Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software) has been founded in Palermo, Italy. GFOSS.IT has been founded by specialists with a consolidated international experience in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Grants - Free Advertising for Open Source Non-profits

2007-04-04 Thread Markus Neteler
On 4/5/07, Michael P. Gerlek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey wow, this sounds like something we could do...? http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-grants-free-adver tising-for-open.html This looks very good, but we have to check: From the FAQ Can I apply for a Google Grants

[OSGeo-Discuss] Product survey MySQL, Oracle, PostGIS

2007-04-10 Thread Markus Neteler
... available here: Product Survey on Geo-databases Geo-databases: May 2007, Volume 21, Issue 5 http://www.gim-international.com/productsurvey/id21-Geodatabases_May_,_Volume_,_Issue.html Regards, Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

2007-05-16 Thread Markus Neteler
Congrats to all contributors! On 5/15/07, Allan Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tyler - this is fantastic! I'm learning a lot already, reading through it. It would be good to clarify the copyright on the journal. Right now, on page 70, it says all articles are copyrighted by the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

2007-05-16 Thread Markus Neteler
On 5/16/07, Daniel Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal. I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed science type journal articles in future editions in addition

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-06 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Brent, with GRASS' ps.map you can do that rather easily: - define the raster and vector map names - define (optionally) legend stuff - activate geogrid to overlay a geographic grid onto the output map - define paper size It generated a Postscript file (use ps2pdf to make PDF) which can be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application thatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-07 Thread Markus Neteler
On 9/7/07, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent, I am not sure ArcView or its open source replacement can produce the kind of stuff Markus has been producing (maybe it can, just that I haven't seen any). Most, really, really good cartographic output, the kind you can print at 1500 dpi on

[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal Software Translation Portal

2007-09-21 Thread Markus Neteler
projects (e.g. using pootle). To better brainstorm on that, we have made a Wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Software_Translation_Portal Comments welcome, Markus Neteler Stefano Costa -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://osgeo.org/grass

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

2007-10-31 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Brent, (remembering this thread...) some new cartography screenshots arrived: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php Cheers Markus On 9/7/07, Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brent, with GRASS' ps.map you can do that rather easily: - define the raster and vector map

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

2007-10-31 Thread Markus Neteler
On 10/31/07, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Neteler ha scritto: Hi Brent, (remembering this thread...) some new cartography screenshots arrived: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php a couple of pages are missing: http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/images

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] time in gis

2007-12-16 Thread Markus Neteler
On Dec 16, 2007 2:22 AM, Ralston, Bruce A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drs. Shih-Lung Shaw (University of Tennessee) and Hongbo Yu (Oklahoma State) have done some interesting work that extends a linear referencing approach to events in temporal gis. While their application does use ESRI software,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia

2007-12-19 Thread Markus Neteler
On Dec 20, 2007 12:19 AM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and there was some other discussion about a multi-language GIS dictionary. Here the link to my proposal: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary Markus ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Events on your calendar

2008-01-10 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Tyler, please add (I tried but cannot) IX Meeting degli Utenti Italiani di GRASS - GFOSS 21-22 Feb 2008, Perugia, Italy http://www.grassmeeting2008.unipg.it/ FOSSGIS 2008 1.-3. April 2008 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page thanks

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for education

2008-03-18 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Helena Mitasova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the wiki below the best we currently have for Linux and MS Windows? http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Binary_Package_Listing A related note: Recently a new native winGRASS package with Installer was prepared by Marco

[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Python Library

2008-04-07 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi OSGeo, I would like to propose another idea which might be a (long term) goal of OSGeo software development: OSGeo Python Library http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Python_Library Currently it is quite complex to set up a Python based OSGeo software environment without knowing well the

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

2008-04-13 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: I'm still very much interested in this. Cairo would provide a single API to render to an image buffer, on PDF and others. It has good support for

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

2008-04-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Ari Jolma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second thing would be to have a free OSGeo map symbol set, which the map description file would refer to and the software use when creating the map. Do I make any sense? Absolutely. I have created a wiki page for this,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FAQ update needed?

2008-05-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Helena Mitasova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at the Projects joining the foundation part of FAQ but it looks like FAQ answers need an update? Also, have all projects listed as OSGeo projects on the OSGeo web site passed incubation ? No. I have added (as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Java Collaboration...Again

2008-05-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO: Hi Frank, I would also like to bring to your attention the MetaCRS project, an effort to confederate some other existing coordinate system related projects (particularly Proj4JS, CS-MAP and PROJ.4) and to work towards

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career

2008-05-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:13 PM, ChrisWebster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The biggest problem with OS - nobody seems to have mentioned it yet - is the lack of user-friendly or coherent documentation, even for mature tools like GRASS (yes, I know there's a GRASS book, but getting hold of it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of color palettes with vector data

2008-05-19 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Stéphanie, (this is best asked on the GRASS user list). Last Saturday I have added in d.vect: support for z height (geometry) colors, so no more need to add an attribute table and such: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-May/037911.html You can easily colorize 3D

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of color palettes with vector data

2008-05-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Stéphanie Faroux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Markus, Now I will use the grass user list as you suggest. Thank you for your answer; as i'm a recent grass user, could you confirm this is what to do to get your update: svn checkout

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: on Google Code and export restrictions

2008-06-06 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/08, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Would mirroring to several neutral countries entirely solve the problem? It could, but I would suggest consulting an export control lawyer. If the software is considered

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Free Cartographic Symbol Library

2008-06-30 Thread Markus Neteler
Landon, yes. Please check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set and add ideas! cheers Markus On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on GeoTools support for the GPX format. Part of the GPX format allows a user/program to specify a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] URL

2008-08-11 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jason Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Manage translation in OSGeo project

2008-08-25 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yves, We have to think about hosting pages, but also all the translation process: who is doing what, when do we need what modify, who change what, etc. I believe there are really two (2) areas in which OSGeo projects can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material

2008-08-26 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) I was hoping

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Cameron, all, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very excited to hear Markus and Lorenzo correct me and tell me that GeoFOSS packaging is live and well. And yes, we would be delighted to work with you, building upon your work rather than

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts

2008-10-07 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have clearly stated that local conferences could be an alternative to FOSS4G, not a REPLACEMENT. This is what I also brought up a few days ago on the conference list. Half a years after/before the main event. This

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Successful FOSS4G use case needed especially in government sector

2008-10-07 Thread Markus Neteler
Therefore I'm writting a letter to you to request your help. Please let me know any successful case of FOSS4G in your country. Web site, implementation history, your experiences... and kinds of materials will be useful to me. Here one more (absolutely incomplete):

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] some post-FOSS4G thoughts

2008-10-08 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Warmerdam ha scritto: I would suggest that local/regional conference In Italy, GRASS meetings (now GFOSS meeting) have been organized regularly since 2000. Next year it will be in Sardinia:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] defining a Geospatial Integration Showcase to be launched at FOSS4G 2009

2008-10-23 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Data is indeed where it all starts. There is a very good demo dataset included with the GeoMoose package, it's aimed primarily at a state (of Minnesota) perspective currently. There are also some municipal datasets in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit, now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G

2008-10-29 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Judit Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pyroGIS schrieb: Fellow listers, Where I'm wondering about going next is down the whole Web Mapping road. What are your opinions on GeoServer vs. MapServer vs. OpenLayers? Those seem to get the most love from the OS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit, now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G

2008-10-29 Thread Markus Neteler
Bob, all, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus, What's all that stuff in there about managed and un-managed supposed to describe? Seems to be somewhat out of date. I think I would start over with the whole bottom section. sounds good! :) In

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best Place For My OSGeo Presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've finished with my OSGeo presentation at the Gold Country GIS Users Group. (Thanks for all of those that provided reference material and copies of their own presentations.) I was wondering where the best place would be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to set up a beijing54 region in grass?

2008-12-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, xjzheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i selected the transmoctor projection ,but no correct datum for beijing54,thank u You can find them here: http://www.epsg-registry.org/ - Name: beijing - projection parameters There is a note Replaced by Xian 1980, though.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile's dfb editing

2008-12-12 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Silvia Franceschi silvia.frances...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, do some of you know how to edit a shapefile's dbf file? I tried with OpenOffice Calc but I have the following error: Connection to file could not be established I have to add some attribute that I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Hello, Is there a set of icons already available to start from? Yes, see links in http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material Markus ___ Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w stack building notes: maybe a dedicated wiki?

2009-02-26 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com wrote: ... To some extent this will depend on those who are doing the builds now to describe details - in this case Jurgen. We are looking forward to this. Also for the aspect of a potential maintenance transition to someone

Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] experience using FOSS4G live-dvd in teaching FOSS GIS

2009-03-01 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Charlie Schweik cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote: One other follow-up comment to Maning's post: Does the OSGeo data group have any inventory of data online that we should be linking to on the educational pages? This page should be linked:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: Microdonations for OSGeo

2009-03-13 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi, (ealier posted to board list, now here for wider discussion) I would like to bring up the idea of accepting microdonations as general donations to OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations Given the success of OSM, Wikipedia and others in that area of fund-rising I don't see a reason

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Watching the trolls go by...

2009-03-24 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jacolin Yves yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Le Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:16:30 Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses, vous avez écrit : It just came to my attention... http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Between_a_Rock It seems whe have some Runescape[1] players between our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] List of FOSS GIS Implementations

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Chris, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: ... http://gallery.osgeo.org/ would it be possible to link the screenshot to a higher res version of the uploaded photo instead of the same link as the title? Best Markus

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] List of FOSS GIS Implementations

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote: Hi Chris, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: ... http://gallery.osgeo.org/ would

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

2009-04-21 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: So looking around there a few things that could use some work on the wiki and are easy enough for any community member to help with. 1. We have 327 Orphaned Pages, these are pages that exist but that no other page

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: TOP 20 OSGeo Mailman subscriber statistics - GeoNetwork stats

2009-04-28 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: 2009/4/27 Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:00:15PM +0200, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Here are the GeoNetwork opensource mailing list subscribers statistics, running on

[OSGeo-Discuss] Unique number of OSGeo mailing lists subscribers

2009-05-03 Thread Markus Neteler
Interested to know how many unique users we have in the OSGeo mailing list system...? Here we are: 02_May_2009: 9791 So we'll possibly hit 10.000 later this year! For now added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VisibilityStats#Mailing_list_subscribers Markus PS: I would be happy to (auto-)post

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Unique number of OSGeo mailing lists subscribers

2009-05-03 Thread Markus Neteler
in projects increases over time. Does anyone have ideas about how this could be set up? Markus Neteler wrote: Interested to know how many unique users we have in the OSGeo mailing list system...? Here we are: 02_May_2009: 9791 So we'll possibly hit 10.000 later this year! For now added

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The first (in)formal meeting of Poland OSGeo Chapter

2009-05-19 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Tyler, I think it is this site: http://wogis.org/konferencja/?command=pagecommand_e=13 Markus On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi Tomasz, do you happen to have an information on a web page or wiki I can point people to?  Just having a wiki

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers andESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-30 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:54 PM, sampe...@gmail.com wrote: Eventualy some can point out that ESRI ships open source libraries and tools. Then you ask the decision makers why you can't use other open source software if ESRI ships it already. Right - see for example Frank W's recent posting:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Military OSS

2009-07-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Michael P. Gerlekm...@lizardtech.com wrote: (sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the whole list - still getting used to the iPhone...) No - the problem is the odd setup of this list (unique in OSGeo?) which changes replies to the list instead of the poster as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Anne Ghislaa.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patton ha scritto: ... There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1] http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ [1] http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

[OSGeo-Discuss] Please feed the OSGeo Gallery

2009-08-02 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi, (reminder) if you have nice examples with screenshots and a short description of applications of OSGeo software, please post them here: http://gallery.osgeo.org/ thanks Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please feed the OSGeo Gallery

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Dave McIlhaggadmcilha...@dmsolutions.ca wrote: Hi Markus, It seems to be down right now? Hi Dave, yes, it is on the currently unreachable xblade14. Hope someone has a backup in case of disk loss. Cheers Markus ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D visualization

2009-08-29 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Alex Mandeltech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: Am looking for suggestions on how to take raster-style data (values per grid) and create 3D surfaces out of it. This would be not just for terrain but for anything... for example, a 3D surface of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Helena Mitasova

2009-09-21 Thread Markus Neteler
for teaching Open Source GIS. Her activities in the education committee of OSGeo are fundamental to render OSGeo visible in academia and elsewhere. She also contributed a first public geodata set to the community, showing once more her engagement in various OSGeo activities. Best, Markus Neteler

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Markus Neteler

2009-09-25 Thread Markus Neteler
Dear charter members and community, I feel honored to be renominated again for the upcoming board election - this election is important to continue the work done for OSGeo and to meet the new challenges. This year we have a great choice between many new nominees and two board member standing for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Companies using FOSS GIS in India

2009-11-04 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, the OSGeo India is preparing for a meeting with Indian policy makers, and wish to gather information (before the meeting )on 1. Indian Universities / Educational institutions using FOSS GIS 2. Indian Companies using FOSS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Companies using FOSS GIS in India

2009-11-04 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 PM, blammo bo...@gritechnologies.com wrote: All, I wonder, can some short one line reminders be added to the footers of the Mail servers that hand out these types of reminders to folks.  Or . . . even a one line link to a OSGEO Services page or something like that,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Licensing

2009-11-10 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: Ravi wrote: Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or Ossim or any other Open GIS as well Example: I love Qgis and I have added some code to Qgis as a C++ programmer, thus

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

2010-01-13 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:36:11AM +1100, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: Hi, *** Sorry for cross-posting for those people on both lists *** Does anyone have or know of some high

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de wrote: Hi, does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas? I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison

2010-02-18 Thread Markus Neteler
2010/2/18 Andrea Aime aa...@opengeo.org: ... Checking open source software against its documentation ... depends on the project... also remember this: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Library#GFOSS_Books Plenty of books :) Markus is like evaluating commercial software against the help you can get

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using v.overlay to crop 3D vector contour map - I can only get 2D output

2010-02-20 Thread Markus Neteler
(Perhaps this is better posted to a GRASS list) On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Mark msca...@mac.com wrote: I've tried using this feature but the only way I can make it work is to use the vector as ainput , type line and the region mask as binput type area. The resulting vector is only 2D.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2010 Workshops ready for inscriptions

2010-02-26 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Oscar Fonts oscar.fonts.li...@gmail.com wrote: [FOSS4G 2010 press release 5 - please promote] Link correction ahead: Barcelona, Spain. 26 February 2010. ... Following is a breaf description for each workshop. For more detailed information and registration,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A FOSS Geo Project in India

2010-03-01 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, freedomgis.worpress.com shows little. Pl give specifically Try (note the d): http://freedomgis.wordpress.com/ Markus -- http://gis.fem-environment.eu/ ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector menu - analysis tools - distance matrix ... and respectively for GRASS: - how to start it:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [book] GIS Primer

2010-03-20 Thread Markus Neteler
2010/3/19 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net: Folks, I've come across an interesting e-book: GIS Primer by David J. Buckley http://bgis.sanbi.org/GIS-primer/ Seems to be valuable edu material. Perhaps it is partially a bit dated (the preface indicates February 1997) and there is no

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS USER DOUBT

2010-03-24 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Gangadhar A annamredd...@gmail.com wrote: HOW TO DIGITIZE A RASTER LAYER IN GRASS GIS # Classical digitizer: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.digit.html # New advanced digitizer:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps

2010-03-30 Thread Markus Neteler
And also Ratman: http://ratman.sourceforge.net/ which even includes the data streaming server software. Markus On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Brian Russo br...@beruna.org wrote: World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Brent Fraser

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-02 Thread Markus Neteler
Cameron, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Marina, (small correction: Maria) That is a good example. To be complete, could you also answer: * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use? I'll leave that to Maria.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote: - Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I can't think of any successful (wide adoption, long-term sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love. Well, maybe Bacula?

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

2010-05-26 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use information calculated for the upstream area.  It is based on some OSGEO projects and is quite a cool app. As backbone, GRASS

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

2010-07-13 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: I need to respond quickly to an international / intergovernmental group, where I'd like to cite examples of: - Proprietary companies using FOSS4G software (e.g. ESRI using GDAL); Here a GDAL related list:

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

2010-07-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, cruise...@comcast.net wrote: am in a quandry, have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo list of programmers?

2010-07-31 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi all, I was recently asked by a company which was originally focused on proprietary software development and gradually opens up to OSGeo related development, how to deal with the problem of (quickly) finding software developers specialized in OSGeo related software. Their problem is that they

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo list of programmers?

2010-08-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com wrote: Markus Neteler wrote: Perhaps we need something similar to Service Provider Directory at http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile which is better supporting the many individuals in our communities in the style of rent

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing

2010-08-25 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Timmie timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: Hello, I have piled up quite some data for a current project. In order to keep track of the data I would like to use some automatic indexing to create a data catalog. Important issue! Time ago I put together this Wiki

[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released

2010-09-07 Thread Markus Neteler
GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released http://grass.osgeo.org We are pleased to announce the new stable version of GRASS GIS. As a stable release GRASS 6.4 will enjoy long term support. While active development has continued in the background, due to our highly conservative stabilization policy this is the

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

2010-09-10 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote: Bill,        The EPEL  repository has older versions of  postgis (1.3.2)/mapserver (4.10) and gdal (1.42).  If you want newer versions you will need to look elsewhere. See here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

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

2010-09-10 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote: Markus,         You're making it harder to choose between Ubuntu and Centos for the home computer :-) Doug Well, I am happy Mandriva user :) All is there, too. Markus ___ Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for dedicated server recommendations

2010-10-03 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl wrote: Hi Mateusz, I have been using multiple (Root) servers from Hetzner http://www.hetzner.de the last 5 years and am very happy with their price/quality. best regards, Another happy Hetzner client (7+ years)...

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for dedicated server recommendations

2010-10-03 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: On 03/10/10 19:51, Markus Neteler wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl wrote: Hi Mateusz, I have been using multiple (Root) servers from Hetzner http://www.hetzner.de the last

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there Charter Member elections on?

2010-10-22 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: On 10/21/2010 01:18 PM, Jo Walsh wrote: don't see a news item on http://osgeo.org/ ... Nominations are open according to the recent email from Paul Ramsey

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS not in demand, says PennState

2010-10-30 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.com wrote: Directions Magazine just published a QA about the state of geospatial jobs and occupations with some folks from Penn State in which this question appeared: Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tools and approaches for the cartography of archaeological excavation sites

2010-11-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: Hello, I have been asked to analyze how FLOSS software could help to support an archaeological program that would take place in remote mountainous corners of Central Asia. I pretty much see which sensors and software

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Greek Inspire Metadata Editor (gimed)

2010-11-07 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: Those software you mention are far more advanced and mature, I agree with you. I can also add MDWeb to the list as a great metadata/catalog software (http://www.mdweb-project.org/) I have added the links to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Charter Member Selection

2010-11-12 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Ramsey pram...@cleverelephant.ca wrote: OSGeo members, The 2010 process is complete, and the new charter members are, in alphabetical order:        • Alex Mandel        • Andreas Hocevar        • Anne Ghisla        • Astrid Emde        • Danilo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: ... I prefer concrete examples when highlighting bug response time.  For example, during one of our training, a participant noticed a simple bug in QGIS.  I promised to report them to the devs which was fixed in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Iteration and supercomputing with GRASS GIS

2011-01-14 Thread Markus Neteler
Sensing 2(1), 333-351. Abstract + free PDF: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/2/1/333 I can give you more indications if you need. Best Markus -- Markus Neteler, PhD Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) - IASMA Research and Innovation Centre Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology Head of GIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GWF Hyderabad 2011

2011-01-21 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, GWF turned to be a great event for OSGeo and OSGeo India. http://www.geospatialworld. net/index.php?option=com_ contentview=articleid=21391% 3Aopen-source-initiatives-so- far-catid=75%3Amiscellaneous-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Jobs list

2011-03-11 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net wrote: Hi! Maybe a good opportunity to discuss this :-) Traffic on the OSGeo Discuss list is not very high these days, but it has by far the largest number of subscribers. When posting a job opportunity you want to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] mapguide download problem

2011-03-22 Thread Markus Neteler
(cc SAC) On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, olek plewa ool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, has anyone heard about downlaod problem of all mapguide OpenSource staff, form the official website. I can not download anything form about 3 days :/ Please do something The download.osgeo.org server no more

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Posters and Flyers

2011-04-04 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: On 2011-04-03, at 12:13 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: can you please do a svn propset svn:mime-type application/pdf *.pdf to let our browsers detect the good stuff??? Done :)  Still trying to make it do

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project donations

2011-04-14 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Tim, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Tim Schaub tsch...@opengeo.org wrote: Hello- I see a proposal for having OSGeo accept microdonations on behalf of projects. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations I also see that MapGuide has a Donate button that brings users to a PayPal page

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?

2011-06-03 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.pt wrote: Have there been any discussions about ways of raising funds for projects under the OSGeo umbrella? For instance, annual fund raising campaigns like Wikipedia does? Or letters/emails asking for donations to known

[OSGeo-Discuss] Now - Geostat 2011 Livestream

2011-07-25 Thread Markus Neteler
participants learn how to move data back and forth between the different environments; how to produce scripts and automate analysis. The summer school will include a 1 day course of GRASS GIS by Markus Neteler and Markus Metz. The complete summer school will be broadcasted live over Ustream

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Alex Borrell borrella...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like OSGeo to increase its presence in not-developed areas in LatinAmerica (where I am :)), Asia and Africa. Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board should be representative in terms of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Paper of interest: Evaluating Open Source GIS for Libraries

2011-08-12 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Schweik cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote: I stumbled across this article today and thought others might be interested to know it exists. The citation is: Francis P. Donnelly, (2010) Evaluating open source GIS for libraries, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 28 Iss:

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