Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Tile Cutter

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
John Zastrow wrote: I don't think I dreamed this: Some time a go I swear I saw a method for cutting a static image (like a GeoTiff) into tiles which would then be served by some light-weight server that would respond to WMS requests. Period. I need to just send a small number of static tiles

[OSGeo-Discuss] OT: Any one know of a Census list that discusses the Tiger data

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
to clutter up this list with those posts and was wondering if anyone has come across and Census or Tiger related lists that might be appropriate for this kind of discussion. Would this be an appropriate list to ask OSGeo to host? Thanks, -Stephen Woodbridge

[OSGeo-Discuss] Problem with links on http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
To whom it may concern, I tried to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is referenced from http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/admin But the address bounced with: This is the Postfix program at host lists.osgeo.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your

[OSGeo-Discuss] Requesting a new maillist

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
and/or moderator. Can someone help we get this setup. I'm posting this here because mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is failing at the moment. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman

[OSGeo-Discuss] us_tiger moving to geodata list

2008-06-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, OK, is seems that we already have a list for these discussions and I have been asked to move the discussion over to geodata list. So, if you are not subscribed to the geodata list and want to talk about Tiger data please join us at: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Requesting a new maillist

2008-06-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
the new list too, where the discussion can continue . . . . My thirteen cents worth. bobb Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/08 7:56 AM On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:58:44AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hello, I would like to create a new mailing list similar to the Can_rnf list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubator Sponsor idea.

2008-09-12 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
An other thought on this might be a some kind of OSGeo contrib project that is more focused on collecting projects likes Bob's into a common repository with the hope that making these public might allow some of them to spin-off into full blown OSGeo projects if there is enough interest and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubator Sponsor idea.

2008-09-12 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
won't necessarily be interested or skilled in the other projects. The Openlayers/Geotools model of sponsoring smaller project does work because there (hopefully) should be the interest and skill sharing between the projects. Stephen Woodbridge wrote: An other thought on this might be a some kind

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The existence (and value of) clean geocoding tools?

2008-09-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
is important, well how do you determine what is right, remember the Oak St example above. Anyway this is a good place to discuss this topic. -Stephen Woodbridge http://imaptools.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Andrew Ross wrote: Thank you everyone for the great response to this post. I'd like to poll everyone's thoughts regarding the appropriate next steps. It seems to me we have good support for this initiative. It isn't as clear to me yet what the best way forward is. My instincts are leaning

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Yes, you are correct, but this is not a reason for not trying. For example, US, Canada, and most (all?) of Europe could be represented by a single engine. It is likely, that large chunks of the rest of the world can be represented by a similar engine, and then there will be a bunch of exceptions,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
. Address data and system are made based on each local culture and history. I won't discourage that we try to have an open geocoder at all. Just want to avoid possible misunderstanding on this list that i18n geocoder can be a snap. Mori Stephen Woodbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes

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

2009-04-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Markus Neteler wrote: 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of starting/setting up a group to work on this? I am also interested in such a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie Shore wrote: Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that

[OSGeo-Discuss] How about an OSGeo Credit Card?

2009-08-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4577tag=nl.e539 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapServer dynamic thematic map

2009-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
jxRui, You should ask this question on the Mapserver Users List mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-us...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users You are more likely to get a response to this Mapserver specific question on that list. I have added it to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable, optionally usable, optionally effective, optionally robust solutions of remote routing services? The use case is very simple: 1) client is a non-Web thin client 2) client has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable, optionally usable, optionally effective, optionally robust solutions of remote routing services? The use case is very simple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-10-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
http://www.openrouteservice.org/ This is the only one that I know about. But last time I looked I did not see a link to download source code. -Steve Sampson, David wrote: I am looking for an open source project that has implemented OpenLS specification from OGC. I know their are some

[OSGeo-Discuss] Google Disruptive business models on Geo Data

2009-10-31 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, This is a great article that has a lot of relevance to the OpenSource/OpenData world. I thought it was a good read. http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%E2%80%9Cless-than-free%E2%80%9D-business-model/ Sorry for the cross-posting. -Steve W

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] distributing read-only vector files?

2009-11-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
maning sambale wrote: Before anything else, let me introduce our dilemma. We are a non-profit geo-research institution. In many cases we produce geospatial datasets no other local institution can create in my country at the moment. What we create are sometimes benchmark info useful to various

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Simon, You might want to look at PostGIS. It is a GIS extension to the posgresql database. There are windows installers for it. There is a shapefile loaded and dumper, so you can easily load a shapefiles into tables then do SQL queries with geospatial function. The postgis support list has a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for PHP, OpenLayers GPS tracking software

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I'm looking for something like OpenGTS but written in PHP. The needs are pretty flexible. I would like the server side code to be in PHP and the mapping interface to be OpenLayers based. Does anyone know if there is an OpenSource project doing something like this? Thanks, -Steve

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for PHP, OpenLayers GPS tracking software

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie, Brent, Thank you for the suggestions. I'll check out openises when I have a chance. I have coded bits and pieces of this in various apps at one time or another, but it just seems like there should be something like this available. I just got sidetracked for a few days, but I'll get

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mailing list problems - can somebody fix this? Please

2010-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Mail Returned to Sender] From: Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:40:26 -0400 To: postmas...@lists.osgeo.org To: postmas...@lists.osgeo.org Can someone looking into this issue. Everytime a post to the list, the post goes through ok, but I also get a bounce back

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [SoC] Google Summer of Code 2010 begins

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Thank you! Wolf and the rest of the admin team. Now the work for us begins ;) -Steve Wolf Bergenheim wrote: Hello, first of all we at OSGeo would like to to thank all students who applied this year! THANK YOU :D Then congratulations are in order for the 10 students selected to participate in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Need help backporting postgis-1.5.1 to debian lenny using pbuilder

2010-05-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, If anyone has any experience pbuilder on debian and/or backporting postgis to lenny, I could really use some help. I'm using the pkg-grass package definitions. Please contact me off list. If I can get this to work, I'd be happy to document the process and post it somewhere. TIA,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping a more accurate geoid

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
This might interest some of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm -Steve W ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
There is also a patch to mapserver that provides on the fly tile generations and serving tiles from a cache. This is slated to be integrated with mapserver 6.0. http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3513 -Steve W On 9/1/2010 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote: I was also just looking into tile

[OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, (This is cross posting from the pgrouting list, sorry for the dups.) I have preprocessed some shapefile data and added elevation information in the Z value of the coordinates. I'm wondering how to best utilize that in routes and would like any thoughts or ideas you might be willing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
to get reasonable results. Thanks, -Steve W On 9/13/2010 4:24 PM, Bill Thoen wrote: Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi all, (This is cross posting from the pgrouting list, sorry for the dups.) I have preprocessed some shapefile data and added elevation information in the Z value of the coordinates

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
travel times. Rich On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com wrote: On 9/14/2010 11:43 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: Steve, Adding viewsheds to the package would certainly up the computing costs; I was wondering if you had a limit to what sort of processing power

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Yes, on the OSGeo Discuss list there was the interesting suggestion that one could compute the viewshed for points along a road segment to get an estimate of the potential view from that segment. I'm thinking about doing this in the future since I already have the DEM which would be required

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AWSTATS experts?

2010-09-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
It is self service. Look at the footer of every post. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss On 9/29/2010 7:13 PM, moxamillion wrote: how do I get my email address removed? from this list On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org

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

2011-02-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/2/2011 5:14 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Below, Frank has done a great job asking the exact sort of question that new GIS users ask, and which we as an OSGeo community should address to attract new users. I think that it would be helpful to identify gaps also, for two reasons: 1. if

[OSGeo-Discuss] New System May Disrupt GPS Signals

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
This is very disturbing if it is approved! http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/7/obama-to-america-get-lost/ new system will disrupt GPS signals. -Steve ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/28/2011 4:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Consider the following hypothetical problem: Assume we have a good elevation data set for a large region of the earth -- say, an entire mountain range. Now let's say we have a photograph taken from the ground, the horizon of which shows the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
-Original Message- From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:16 PM To: m...@flaxen.com; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile? On 3/28/2011 4:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Consider the following

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
These all are pretty cool, but all seem to work based on knowing the current location, which is is the unknown in Michael's hypothetical problem. But that said some of the tech behind these tools might be useful in comparing photo to a potential reference image. This is a very interesting and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for map matching software

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, Do we have any good map matching code around? I looking for something that does more than simple snapping of points to nearest segments. I have read tons of academic papers and played around with some simple algorithms in postGIS. I have the road network loaded in pgRouting. Is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for map matching software

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/9/2011 11:58 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: On 2011-05-09, at 8:36 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Do we have any good map matching code around? I looking for something that does more than simple snapping of points to nearest segments. I have read tons of academic papers and played around

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open StreamMap?

2011-05-27 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/27/2011 9:51 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote: Hi, I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an open stream map project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too... It is an interesting idea --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 3:08 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: On 10/06/2011 4:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 09/06/2011 21:38, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 9:29 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1? Tilecache (tilecache.org)? Then if Arc can consume wms-c services your are good to go. You might want to look at mod_geocache[1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/13/2011 4:41 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to keep OSGeo going. This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to partly finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting these

[OSGeo-Discuss] Handouts for FOSS4G presentation?

2011-09-04 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Does anyone know what the process is for handouts for FOSS4G presentations? Is the conference making copies for the audience? Do the presenters need to make copies? How do we know how many to make if we need to do this? Is the conference collecting presentations to put online or to publish?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Woodbridge

2011-11-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
ranks in my opinion. Thank you and best regards, -Steve Woodbridge On 11/14/2011 11:19 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi all, We, Dan Putler and Daniel Kastl, are nominating Stephen Woodbridge to be a Charter Member of OSGeo. We have both worked with Steve as part of a project team, Daniel Kastl

[OSGeo-Discuss] US National Historical GIS Site

2011-12-19 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I just found this site and thought it might be of interest to others. National Historical GIS The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/385 http://www.ijcte.org/papers/005.pdf http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_4_1/Martins_et_al.pdf http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html I can not find a potentially excelent reference

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Ahhh! found the reference I was looking for. This will show relevant links: https://www.google.com/#q=geo+search+egnor Hope this is useful. -Steve On 1/17/2012 11:58 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 1/17/2012 2:51 PM, Arnie Shore wrote: I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise. Arnie, I think that there is no simple answer to this because it is largely defined by the specific requirements. If your problem is scanning text and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

2012-03-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/16/2012 12:52 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a simple means to take a shapefile and create a either a SQLite or xBase table? Essentially it is taking an attached attribute table, inserting the coordinates in a field and saving the new file in a designated format. Most

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

2012-03-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/18/2012 7:50 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: On 17/03/12 00:06, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: On 3/16/2012 12:52 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a simple means to take a shapefile and create a either a SQLite or xBase table? Essentially it is taking an attached attribute table

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/2/2012 1:32 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 02/05/2012 19:04, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) ha scritto: We see new opportunities by starting joint activities with the Eclipse foundation - which is in the process of spawning activities explicitly focused on geospatial. They have lots of high level

[OSGeo-Discuss] Google announces full offline mapping mode for Android smartphones

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I thought this might be of interest to people here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/google-announces-full-offline-mapping-mode-for-android-smartphones/7744?tag=nl.e550 -Steve Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort

2012-06-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did anyone else see this article on OSGeo?

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
The writer has a feedback link at the bottom of the article. I think it is time to educate him about support. He obviously needs everyone here to tell him that each of us are support, and give him links to the various support lists, advocates, and companies that are supporting and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hello, I think the 'cookbook' is a great idea! It is about capturing our collective knowledge and experience, it not about limiting creativity or change. Just like in software when you have an individual contributor that has passion, vision and drive can create wonderful things, you also

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] African universities on google maps

2012-09-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 9/21/2012 9:09 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:49:21 +0100 Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: This just disturbed me: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=694668 NAIROBI, Sept 14 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Students from more than 90 universities in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Very cool wind map

2012-10-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I thought you might be interested in checking this out. http://hint.fm/wind/ It is a very cool animated wind map of the US. I haven't look at the implementation but thought it was worth sharing. -Steve ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Printing SHP

2012-11-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 11/18/2012 8:48 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: hi Any idea to make it like condole rathe wb based? This might give you a clue: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-dev/2010-July/006284.html It might be possible to render it to svg if you are using mapserver with 6.2 that was just

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

2012-11-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are in labs. There is a short list of stable and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

2012-12-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
van der Linden wrote: Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim? Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com het volgende: On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
The part that bothers me the most about this has to do with the big picture. I'm concerned that if we focus on this or that standard without putting it into the larger context that poor(bad?) decisions are getting made that set precedents for more bad decisions to follow. This had been

[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting 2.0 Released

2013-09-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Authors: Project Steering Committee Release 2013-09-24 The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting 2.0.0 This 2.0 release brings a number of major new features that are summarized in this document. ## Table of Contents * Major New Feature in pgRouting 2.0 * Migration

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this error message? If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not be built into it and you might have better luck requesting map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png -Steve W On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
examples on the openlayers.org website as well. Mike On 12/10/2013 3:44 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this error message? If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not be built into it and you might have better luck

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
for your quick help. Mike On 12/10/2013 4:12 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: OK, interestingly that url works fine for me! But if I SHIFT-refresh a bunch of times I can get that error. So it seems that the load balancer is hitting one/some? server that is miss configured. -Steve On 12/10/2013 3

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoPDF generation with PHP?

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I have been using FPDF to generate pdf files using PHP. Since these files have among other stuff in them, map images, I am thinking that it would be cool and useful to add georeferencing to these files. Does anyone know of a PHP library or package that will support generation of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
So elections are to add to our membership, then elections should support that activity. Maybe the conversation needs to be also about what OSGeo wants out of its members because that would drive the process of how to select them. -Steve On 5/7/2014 7:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

2014-06-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Folks, I'll toss my two cents into this discussion. I think a lot of this has been already stated in part by others. o while I don't object to a membership fee in principal it has to come with some benefits for the member not for OSGeo. While it might be beneficial to OSGeo by providing an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

2014-07-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dirk, Thank you for putting a lot of what I have been feeling about this issue into words. Well said, -Steve On 7/1/2014 12:46 PM, Dirk Frigne wrote: Although I am not so active on the mailing list, I am an OSGeo's advocate, and I take the opportunity to promote OSGeo wherever I can. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi, I would like to dig a bit more into the topic more fine incubation procedure and former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs) I would like to start talk about

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think the idea would be that an Incubated Project would have meet all the basic stars. Obviously the steps that get you to be incubated are the same steps that a project have to achieve to get stars. It seems like there are goals to get you to incubated and then goals to get you to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 03/05/2015 09:13 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: I think the idea would be that an Incubated Project would have meet all the basic stars. Obviously the steps that get you to be incubated are the same steps that a project have to achieve to get stars. It seems like there are goals to get you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think this type of system makes a lot of sense especially if you tie the achievement of stars to completing the various requirements of incubation and graduation. -Steve On 3/5/2015 6:18 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Bart, that needs to be discussed but as example: yes, 1 star for current

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations

2015-07-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think Bruce has put some of my concerns about the questions into good examples the resonate with my concerns. For example: I am a long time contributor to multiple OSGeo projects and have mentored some smaller projects that are not OSGeo projects yet but are key pieces of GIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations

2015-08-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 Frank's statement is exactly what I would like to see also. -Steve On 8/3/2015 12:39 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Folks, For what it's worth, I also do not feel comfortable with completing the survey as it is currently structured as the structure forces me to give answers that don't really

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

2015-07-27 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Vasile, The survey looks excellent but a minor structural change suggestion would be to put the voting questions last. The reason for this change is that the voting should be based on how you think about the later questions. By reversing the order of these you force the user to think about

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] parcel data in US

2015-10-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
And another I had bookmarked a while ago: http://www.boundarysolutions.com/BSI/page1.php -Steve On 10/18/2015 7:57 PM, Raj R Singh wrote: One for-fee source is http://courthouseusa.com/ “Nearly 100 million property records with parcel boundaries in one standard format.” --- Raj Singh

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 on the less is more and on renaming. Marketing is about establishing a brand (among other things). It is clear who owns the OSGeo brand. Who owns the FOSS4G brand belong to? what is the added value of supporting this brand? and potentially diluting or confusing the OSGeo brand? Many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Ko Nagase

2015-08-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Another +1 for Ko Nagase. He is a long term supporter of pgRouting and pgRoutingLayer for QGIS. He supports OSX builds and debugging issues and all platforms. He is a valuable contributor and supported this and other projects for many years. Thanks, -Steve On 8/30/2015 7:46 AM, 林博文 wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

2015-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Darrell, Thank you for you assessment, I think this is a great call for action and it puts words to a lot of my feelings about OSGeo. If you look at most of the successful projects they are driven by someone with vision and passion that pulls in others to work toward concrete goals. If

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] code of conduct: another real case

2015-09-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Ok, maybe I don't understand, but why doesn't somebody just fix this issue. It seems everyone agrees the listing is wrong on the site. Somebody should have a cease and desist letter sent to the site to change the owner to the correct name or remove the posting. whois openhub.net for the site

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

2015-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 on having more time. On 9/25/2015 1:47 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: To avoid confusion: the election date has been confirmed by the CRO to end on 27 september 12.00 GMT With respect for all the board candidates and their busy agenda, I think for the election

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

2015-12-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think there is another facet of communication that is being missed and is probably part of the current issue. I think the OSGeo member of LocationTech should also be responsible for keep the OSGeo membership more informed about what is happening between the two organizations. I think it is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Has anyone looked at Salesforce.com that has offers 10 free licenses to NPO's as a possible CRM solution. http://www.salesforce.com/industries/nonprofit/overview/ http://www.salesforce.org/nonprofit/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy

2015-12-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
We already have the technology for lists that support all the various lists that we already maintain. It seems that we could create various new lists, like foss4g, foss4g-na, foss4g-, etc and then allow people to sub to these lists. Part of signing up for an event would be to check off if you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS

2016-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Suchith, Vicky Vergara and I developed a vehicle routing problem solver as part of a city wide trash collection planning system that Ingesur developed for the city of Montevideo UY. Our repository is here: https://github.com/woodbri/vehicle-routing-problems/tree/release-v5 This is an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-06-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
You can get all the Ceneus polygon areas that they report statistics about here: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/ ZCTA5 - Zip code tabulation areas BG - block groups etc There is good documention. If you loade these into postgis, then you can dos a simple query like: select *

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] tiling alternative

2017-06-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/14/2017 4:47 PM, Eduardo Kanegae wrote: hi there, I have the need for maps on hosted platforms without mapserver. I'm thinking in use Leaflet and tilesets (PNG for transparency) for that. What would be a practical to do that locally? (under an OSGeo Live workstation) MapNik?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I just got off the phone with a client that is interested in migrating to open source tools. They problem is they don't know where to start. They know what proprietary tools they are using, they know what features they are using, they know about OSGeo, but rapidly get lost in all the projects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think at the least we might want to consider giving that money or some of it back to the project that did the mentoring and let them decide how to use it with some guidelines on use. OSGeo as the sponsoring organization should probably get some of it to defray effort of organizing. Just my

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Really, that is news to me. I never knew we had that option. I think we would have liked to fund some additional development for the project or defrayed travel expenses for PSC members to go to conferences to present papers on behalf of the project. What is the process for mentors to get the