I’ve not been following this issue closely, so I just went back through the old
mails and I’m still left with this rather basic question:
What is the problem that we are trying to solve? What started this movement?
What in our organization is “broken” that needs to be fixed?
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ed in changing the tone and dynamic of the
organization, I’d be interested to hear from people as to what we think the
change direction should be and to what ultimate advantage.
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On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Michael P. Ge
Correct: “membership”, by design at the original founding meeting, was designed
not to confer ANY rights or distinguishing properties except for the ability to
vote for board members.
While the election process is pretty messy right now, I view that as a solvable
problem: I’m still at a loss to
While I don’t think I’m keen on having professionals foot the bill for OSGeo,
Dirk is definitely on the right track. His citation of the core principles is
timely, and I’ll go so far as to repeat it here:
OSGeo should act as a low-capital, volunteer-focused organization.
OSGeo should focus
On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Although your points make sense, the reality is that the President is
> requested specifically for many things, in person, or on a Skype call,
> writing a support letter, shaking a hand, giving a talk, etc etc.
Those are all things we would all
Jo wrote:
> As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the
> slightest.
Having heard too many sad stories from across the software industry, and having
seen a couple first-hand, that totally makes my day. We’re doing something
right, folks.
Thanks.
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There is a OGC/GITA event (March 21-23, Washington DC) that it would be
nice to have some OSGeo presence at --
http://www.gita.org/events/ETS/ogc_ets.asp
If you are going, or are looking for a reason to go, please let your
VisCom team know...
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for OSGeo events in 2007.
VisCom is often underrepresented within the OSGeo communit
The folks at ISDE5 (http://www.isde5.org) are looking for OSGeo
participation at their event -- San Francisco, June 5-9.
If anyone is planning to attend, interested in presenting, etc, please
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OSGeo plans to have a booth at Where 2.0, as we did last year, to spread
the word about Open Source solutions in the more cutting-edge geo
spaces.
This year, as part of their effort to reach out to the "mass market" geo
community, OGC also plans to have a significant presence at Where 2.0.
Towards
little more info though about what you want to do first.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
> Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > OSGeo plans to have a booth at Where 2.0, as we did last
> year, to spread
> > the word about Open Source solutions in the more cutting-edge geo
> > spaces.
&g
I'm doing some background research on ties between the concepts of
Sustainability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability) and Open
Source. I found a site for one conference last year
(http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/), which I intend to
devour, but would be interested in any
> I'll make the Open Source community a challenge. If it can produce
> and deliver a column every month (or every other month), I'll include
> it in the magazine.
Sounds like a good deal to me... But, to clarify, I'd like to see the
column as being written by different people every (other?) mont
posed topic, proposed author, and article
deadline date. The topic and author columns could be left blank, and
the community could be invited to visit the page and insert themselves
with their proposed topics. Just an idea... - Dan
On 2/20/07, Michael P. Gerlek &l
be invited to visit the page and insert
themselves with their proposed topics. Just an idea... - Dan
On 2/20/07, Michael P. Gerlek
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll make the Open Source community a challenge. If it can produce
> and deliver a colu
Jody-
We do have a presentation template now (currently in-transit to
website), but I don't think anyone has ever asked for a "document"
template before.
I suppose I could whip something up over the weekend (logo and TOC on
front page, etc), but I'm not particularly design-savvy.
Any takers?
-m
OSGeo folks:
At this morning's VisCom meeting, I announced that I'm stepping down as
VP/Chair of VisCom -- it's been a great 12 months, but I'm ready for a
change and am looking to do some different things within OSGeo now.
Seems like this is as good a time as any to put out a call for VisCom
vol
Hmm. +1 to Allan, I think.
In judging the worthiness of a talk or workshop, a consideration might be
"Would this talk be able to find an equally good home at a 'regular' tradeshow
or conference?"
If the answer is "yes", then perhaps that FOSS4G slot might better be given to
someone else.
Sho
Or just say "OSI-compliant" -- since that's what OSGeo's charter says..?
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ned Horning
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:12 PM
> To: 'OSGeo Discussions'
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"
>
I've seen a lot of workshops and conferences over the years, both geo
and non-geo: tradeoffs have to be made when organizing these things, and
in the end Paul and his team will not be able to satisfy everyone.
To take just four questions off the top of my head:
* Would you rather attend 6 half-
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
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A number of us have this same sort of conversation in the past, but we've never
come up with anything that satisifies all concerned... Perhaps a
BOF/Summit/Thingie at the conference in September to talk about this?
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Three big, on-going concerns of mine:
- How to better do "outreach", specifically to companies (GIS or
non-GIS) that either currently don't know much about Open Source or,
worse, think that Open Source is buggy, amatuer-ware, or otherwise
incompatable with their commercial/profit motives.
- Stand
VisCom, about which I used to know something :-), does have policies
about this... Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to present them
to the membership and see if they are sufficient and appropriate for
what people need.
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> [mai
I'd not go so far as to create a list yet -- I'm not sure we know what
we're all looking for at this point.
For example: do we really want "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or perhaps more generally
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? To my mind, these are two related-but-different,
and equally-interesting, ideas to explore
While I too have no desire to see OSGeo to become a formal standards
body, I do want us to provide a "safe haven" for future work that could
not be done via OGC (GeoRSS and TMS being two possible past examples).
And by safe haven, I don't necessarily mean a formal committee; what I
do mean is acces
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this list will be spammed
> even before
> > starting... )
> >
> > should we proceed creating the list?
> > does anyone disagree?
> >
> > ciao
> > Lorenzo
> >
> >
> &
FYI, later this week at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver we're having a
discussion on this hot topic:
> Ever wonder why we need standards bodies? Can we just do it with a Wiki?
> We have open source, why not open source open standards? What about
> intellectual
> property protection? Can I
gt; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Doyle
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:25 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development
>
>
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 18:08 , Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>
> > Sean has a good point: so
don't mean Canadian
> culture). Going
> public has the potential to reform the culture of the OGC.
>
> Regards,
> Sean
>
> Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > FYI, later this week at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver
> we're having a discussion on this hot
I too agree with Gary & Co.; I don't personally see the need to release
the results, and in
any case the "rules" for this past election were set and should not be
changed retroactively.
If we are interested in looking at geographic distributions -- and,
being geo geeks, who wouldn't be? -- then I'
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of discussion about standards-related
stuff, up to and including things like how OSGeo members might work with
OGC. Since this is an area I know a bit about, and since I've talked to
some OGC folks about it recently, I'd like to see if I
can help us to try and se
OSGeo gets a lot of mileage out of C++ and Java, but I suddenly have an
interest in cutting edge .NET technologies. [you in the back there,
stop laughing...]
So, I'm looking for open source geo projects that are .NET-friendly,
ideally C# and WPF libraries. If you have any suggestions, please rep
, and I'll update it if I learn anything more.
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
> P. Gerlek
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:20 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] C# / .
(Reading Andrea's post, I'm reminded of the thread the other day about
OSGeo's "value". Whatever OSGeo can do to help foster events like this
one, even just by providing a mailing list on which to announce it, is
of great value -- and is easily overlooked.)
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>
Gilles-
Is your idea to measure the quality by having a human look at outputs
(subjective metrics) or automatically via some analysis routine (objective
metrics)?
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Bassière
> Sent: We
gt;
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Bassière
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:38 AM
> > To: OSGeo Discussions
> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] H
Way back on that cold day in Chicago, I'm not sure anyone ever really
thought about what it would mean when we said we'd "offer legal
protection".
Does it imply/lead-to/entail some sort of indemnification? Ouch, that
would be pricey... How does the Apache gang, et al, handle this?
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Dear OSGeo community:
Our friends at GeoConnexions are running a special issue in Feb with a
focus on "Open Source / Open Geodata" (copy deadline is Dec 14th).
This is a great chance for the Open Data folks -- and the rest of us
Open Code types -- to get some media exposure.
Please contact me if
Comment from a back bencher who's somewhat interested in this idea...
+1 to Paolo, just call it OpenShape and let's move on. The format under
discussion should be known to (1) support shapes and shape-like things
and (2) be a truly "open" format. "OpenShape" nicely satifies both,
rhymes nicely
> > Regarding the suggestion that MapServer takes on this new format as
the
> > primary format: I think this is way beyond the scope of what OSGeo
should
> > be doing.
I agree with bitnerd. If the MapServer team thinks this is a valuable
and worthwhile format, they will adopt it at some point.
> I find two problems with Shapefiles -- one, that it is not in public
> domain (I am not even sure of what licensing there is on it), and
> while ESRI is not likely to pull a Unisys on us, it just is
> philosophically better to free if possible.
I don't see this as an issue at all -- legally spe
A colleague asks: are there any good GIS-related podcasts (open source
or not) out there?
Suggestions?
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(We've actually discussed this once before, I think, very early on. How
time flies.)
>From my perspective, as a hypothetical seeker of employees, I want to
reach as many people as possible: to wit, *everyone* is subscribed to
the Discuss list, but only a small subset would be subscribed to the
Jo
Bruce-
Without having seen the sentences on either side of the one you quote, I
think I'd argue that the author is not wrong in his statement: is not
what we here call a PSC, and indeed the OSGeo Foundation itself, an
embodiment of "some form of central authority"?
..which is not to say your ow
+1 to Frank (as usual...) -- the more overhead we put into this, the
less likely it will be sustainable.
Pick a mailing list -- either Discuss or a new one -- and I think we've
already got at least two volunteer moderators.
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailt
in posting their job and/or resume on the wiki page could contact me
> > directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Let me know if there are any objections to this. If there are no
> > objections, then I will set up the wiki pages.
> >
> > Landon
> >
> > -Original
TECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
> P. Gerlek
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:13 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted
>
> Erp, in my initial proposal I was referring to using the
> discuss list as
&
The deadline for papers for GeoWeb 2008 is March 7th:
http://www.geoweb.org/cfp-08.asp
Having been involved with this conference for several years, I find it
yields a nicely different set of offerings than the "usual" fare. This
year, the focus is very much on GIS infrastructures -- both
"informa
> Perhaps we could mark out who on the planet is a Charter Member.
"Charter members" aren't special in any way with respect to blogging, so
I don't think it is a useful distinction to make.
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
As of today, only one job is being offered:
* Tyler Technologies: Java Developer (posted 4 Feb 2008)
See [2] for details.
[Every two weeks or so, we will post a single message to the OSGeo
discuss list of summarizing the OSGeo-related jobs offered/wanted
currently listed on the Jobs Board [1
As of today, only one job is being offered:
* Tyler Technologies: Java Developer (posted 4 Feb 2008)
See [2] for details.
[Every two weeks or so, we will post a single message to the OSGeo
discuss list of summarizing the OSGeo-related jobs offered/wanted
currently listed on the Jobs Board [1
Interesting thread... A couple points from the sidelines:
My company sells a store-your-images-in-a-database product, for storing
JPEG 2000 and MrSID imagery; there are indeed people who see value in
using a DB to manage their raster assets.
Our product is not open source, but when using it with
Bruce-
It is not clear to me what sort of "study" you would need to convince
you, as the ISO standard for encoding data into the JPEG-2000 file
format is by construction mathematically and numerically lossless
process. (Indeed, "compression", i.e. throwing away bits so as to
further reduce stora
Bruce-
Again, I'm not sure how to convince you of this... JP2 is inherently
lossless just like GeoTIFF is; what arguments do you / would you find
persuaive to use GeoTIFF? (alternatively, what do you use now that you
trust?)
[feel free to take this to private email, this is probably a bit
eso
ED] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Schmidt
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:18 AM
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:22AM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Bruce-
> >
François:
When you say "Mega-Images (-> geo-sized images)", just how big are you talking
about?
If you are in the 10-100GB range, I/LizardTech would be very interested in
talking with you about the project, and also about supporting some of the geo
metadata conventions. (Especially if you can
JPEG 2000 is a method for encoding raster images, in such a way that in
the encoded version the image has special properties -- ability to
extact "down-sampled" versions (with data loss), ~2x space savings, etc
-- while still retaining all of the original data. You can read the ISO
spec and verify
I've not read the whole Wikipedia article, but the statement "images
have to be transformed from the RGB color space to another color space"
is indeed incorrect. Images that are 3-banded MAY be encoded with the
YCC transform, but this is not required; images with some other number
of bands do NOT
n beat the
commercial applications like Kakadu.
What standard do you follow for metadata ? OGC GMLJP2, or do you
include GeoTIFF information in a JP2 file like Luratech suggested to the JPEG
committee ?
Cheers,
François
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.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames
Sent: Monday, Mar
As of today, still only one job is being offered -- surely there are
more out there that people should be made aware of?!
* Tyler Technologies: Java Developer (posted 4 Feb 2008)
See [2] for details.
[Every two weeks or so, we will post a single message to the OSGeo
discuss list of summarizi
(Is GeoPDF open now? I was under the impression that they were claiming IP in
there, but my info is a couple years old.)
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rushforth, Peter
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:56 AM
> To: OSGeo
As part of the GeoWeb 2008 conference, a Student Contest is being held
-- with significant cash prizes!
Deadline is next week, so get your entry in soon.
http://geowebconference.org/students-academia/contest-information
(OSGeo is a happy little cosponsor of this event, as Open Source is a
requ
Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo Marcondes
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:20 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects
I'm not looking to start a debate, but...
>> We call on all governments to:
>>
>> 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and
open standards;
>> 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open
standards;
>> 3. Use only free and open digital standards i
I'm increasingly seeing more and more need for an open framework for
doing image processing in a distributed, batch-oriented manner. I'm
thinking along these lines:
- ability to reference some input image data
- ability to reference some output repository
- ability to specify a processing o
A quick look at the List shows that we've got an impressive a cadre
already. But, to misquote, I'll admit that I don't know half of you
half as well as I should like: I am sure there are many good candidates
out there still lurking, but perhaps too shy to speak up on his or her
own behalf.
If so,
+1 from here too. All 18 may be indeed be worthy, but moving the goal
post once the ball is in play sets a dangerous precedent.
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Venkatesh Raghavan
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:14 AM
>
I interrupt here to point out that of late the Board has been faced with
some significant questions about the aim and scope of our organization.
This is a good thing: it is what the Board is there for.
We the Charter Members are tasked with electing new board members
shortly, and thus have a chan
Last week, GeoWeb 2008 (www.geowebconference.org) was held in the lovely
city of Vancouver, BC. Three notable OSGeo-related events occurred
there...
First, the BC Chapter of OSGeo met for an evening at the offices of
Sierra Systems, high up overlooking the bay. After much pizza was
consumed, th
(note from the sidelines: I was the one who started the Library, going back a
couple years ago, but haven't maintained it in a long time. It definitely
needs some love, and would welcome a volunteer to take it over.)
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EM
If any of you kindly OSGeo folks are going to GeoInt next month in
Nashville and would be interested like to do a meetup-ish thing, drop me
a line and maybe we can arrange something.
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It doesn't say who is actually "running" this site -- is it a govt
entity, corporate, non-profit...?
Also, the "terms of use" and "privacy policy" links aren't clicky.
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(OSGeo)
Sent: We
(In Seattle, we go out for a latte.)
This is a quick troll to see who'd be interested in coming to (and/or
helping organize) a mini-conference in Seattle in spring of '09. Send
me email, and I'll follow up later with a summary.
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[mailto:[E
As some of you know, OSGeo runs a monthly column in GeoConnexions magazine
about open source issues. We've done 18 articles to date, which have resulted
in some good PR (and a bit of cash) for our foundation.
If you are interested in submitting a future column, or even just ideas for a
column,
The annual GeoWeb conference has just released its call for papers (and
workshops) -- where better to spend a few days this summer than in beautiful
Vancouver BC?
The theme for this year's gig is "cityscapes", which should appeal to all you
urban modelers out there.
As usual, open source rel
st to you?
Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> As some of you know, OSGeo runs a monthly column in GeoConnexions magazine
> about open source issues. We've done 18 articles to date, which have
> resulted in some good PR (and a bit of cash) for our foundation.
>
> If you are interest
I'll ask.
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From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:08 AM
To: Michael P. Gerlek
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoConnexions column -- see your name in print!
Michael,
Writing abou
Gentlepersons:
I'm doing an article addressing the top ~10 myths/misperceptions about open
source for geo. There are a number of such pieces already out there about open
source in general, from which I'll borrow heavily, but I'd like to have half
the list be myths specific to the geo and GIS w
scuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:54 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Top ten myths for open source in geo?
Gentlepersons:
I'm doing an article addressing the top ~10 myths/mispercept
In order to estimate a cost, the magazine people need to know (exactly) how
much each insert (DVD + sleeve?) weighs. Anyone with a good scale?
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
Sent: Thur
Thanks to all who replied! I've posted all the replies (with private replies
anonymized) to the wiki -- feel free to edit as you think of more.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Myths
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To:
in the budget for this year...
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:08 AM
To: Michael P. Gerlek
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoConnexions column -- see your name in print!
Michael,
Wri
The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in
3-space). It doesn't have to be "really good", just good enough for some
simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed).
I know there are a bunch of TIN algs out there on the net in various places,
b
g in there I can
use.
If anyone has any other suggestions, or is aware of inaccuracies in my above
statements, pls let me know.
Thanks.
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From: Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:17 AM
To: 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: Open source
Yeah, I have anecdotal evidence Isenburg gave the OK (Hobu noted it on the
liblas list), but he didn't specify exactly for *what* he was okay with from
the tools collection which makes me nervous. If he were to say "all of it",
then we're all set (I just care about the TINner inside lasview).
Time for my periodic reminder about OSGeo's monthly column in GeoConnexions
magazine. We've published 22(!) articles to date, covering everything from the
major OSGeo packages to business-related issues to thoughts on standards and
file formats.
I'm always on the hunt for more material, so if
Atlanta in August? ...As long as they've got good air conditioning!
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On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:21 AM, "Mark Lucas"
mailto:mluca...@mac.com>> wrote:
Hi All,
I am helping to setup a Military open source software conference in @ GTRI in
Atlanta in August, no suits/ties, just a bunch of techies
(sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the whole list - still getting used to
the iPhone...)
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On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:26 AM, "Michael P. Gerlek"
mailto:m...@lizardtech.com>> wrote:
Atlanta in August? ...As long as they've got good air conditioning!
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On Jul
(I'm not sure why, but I actually have a sad desire to get up early to watch
this next week...)
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On Behalf Of Julia Harrell
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:03 PM
To: discuss@lists.os
While I have no absolutely no familiarity with the patent in question,
something I've said here before perhaps bears occasional repeating:
Patent and IP law is a very deep and complex subject. The vast majority of us
laypersons are not qualified to read and evaluate patent claims; what is
rep
Like the subject of patents from a couple weeks ago, we need to be careful of
painting
these things with too broad a brush.
> I've got to have MicroStation to work with CALTRANS, AutoCAD to work with my
> local city,
> ESRI to work with the County's GIS department, and software from LizardTech
Some clarifications:
- MrSID has both lossy and lossless modes
- MrSID is not fractal based; it uses wavelets (and arithmetic encoding)
- you can't copyright algorithms; the MrSID source code certainly is, however
- MrSID relies on a number of patents, not all of which are owned by LizardTech
- re
Landon asked:
> When you said "there is today no open source implementation of JP2 that is
> suitable for geo
> work" do you mean that there is no open source library that can read and
> write JP2? If so,
> who is using the format?
There are a few implementations of JP2 around. The Kakadu libr
e is on our side.) :]
Landon
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> > in the proprietary standard?
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> > - that this future software will work seamlessly with my then
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> > spatial environment?
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> > - if all of the above risks prove to eventuate, can I be sure
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> 10:1 compression rates without noticeable image quality reductions,
For some appropriate, workflow-specific definition of "noticeable".
Everything is a tradeoff. I always tell people to run their own tests with
their own datasets to determine what sort of quality they will achieve and what
t
> Someone earlier in this thread spoke about some of these technologies
> being somewhat obsolete what with the new network and bandwidth speeds
> available for publishing.
I think the comment was that by hiding the data behind a server, you can reduce
the users' exposure to a myriad of file fo
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