Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Gérald Fenoy

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+1 for this nomination!

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On Aug 16, 2013 7:19 PM, "Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas" 
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> I second Gérald nomination, what a great candidate!
>
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> El 16/08/2013 13:02, "Jachym Cepicky"  escribió:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Dne 16.8.2013 11:54, Anne Ghisla napsal(a):
>> > On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:21:36 +0200
>> > nicolas bozon  wrote:
>> >
>> >> I second Gérald's nomination and strongly support it.
>> >> I believe that he would be an excellent OSGeo director.
>> >
>> > Let me also second Gérald's nomination. His worldwide perspective and
>> > long time professional experience with open source geospatial software
>> > is extremely valuable.
>> > I met Gérald many times at FOSS4G events and every time we had
>> > eye-opening discussions about OSGeo. I really hope to see him among
>> > Board members.
>> >
>> >> Dr.Nicolas Bozon
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Anne
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 2013/8/16 Peter Baumann 
>> >>
>> >>> very much supported from my side! I know Gerald personally as  an
>> >>> enthusiastic, competent, and consensus oriented person with strong
>> >>> visions.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Peter
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 08/16/2013 11:00 AM,
>> >>> maria.brovelli@diiar-topo.**polimi.it<
>> maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it>wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Dear All
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of
>> >>>> Directors elections.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion
>> >>>> since 2004. He has a very global and generic vision of both the
>> >>>> Foundation activities and its software projects.
>> >>>> Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he
>> >>>> manages to leverage for both community and business related issues.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the
>> >>>> OSGeo projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo
>> >>>> developers to add enhancements to their software, for using in his
>> >>>> personal projects or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting
>> >>>> company based in France (http://geolabs.fr).
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS
>> >>>> plateform back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this
>> >>>> innovative and incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to
>> >>>> several projects through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer
>> >>>> and PostGIS, with patches, translations, ideas and more.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006,
>> >>>> where he often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and
>> >>>> helped many times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and
>> >>>> Africa.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in
>> >>>> Europe and in Asia.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
>> >>>> brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding
>> >>>> and open source good practices, but also about international
>> >>>> collaborations and community management.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> More info on Gérald:
>> >>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_**Fenoy<
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Many thanks and best regards to All of You.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Maria
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --**
>> >>>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>> >>>> Vice Rector for Como Campus
>> >>>> Politecnico di Milano
>> >>>> Via Natta, 1

[OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G

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Dear everyone,

A couple of colleagues are asking me this.  Are there any
MS/scholarship GIS programs that focuses on the use of FOSS4G?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G

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>  Could you tell us what "MS" means here, since I first read it as
> "Microsoft". Do you mean "Masters" level (as in something like a
> one-year MSc course typically taken after a first degree)? Or
> something else?
 Sorry, I meant Masters.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G

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>
> You might actually start by browsing the OSGeo/ICA labs forming in
> programs across the globe, there you will likely find active FOSS4G
> programs and faculty.  http://www.geoforall.org/locations/

Thanks, jeff.


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[OSGeo-Discuss] "FOSS4G" Philippines 2014

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Dear everyone,

We are in the planning stage again for the "FOSS4G" track in the
philgeos 2014 this coming November.  We have been hitching with the
PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already
[0, 1].  Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost
(to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops.

One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to "brand" this as FOSS4G
Philippines?  Are there official channels to toalk and disuss?

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "FOSS4G" Philippines 2014

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Dear Jeff,

Thanks for your support.  So I'll take this as an approval that we can
use the FOSS4G name?
As to the official recognition of the local chapter, we will add this
as one of the agenda during the event.
I'm watching this talk [0] as I think about moving forward to official
recognition. :)

[0] https://vimeo.com/106232256

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Jeff McKenna
 wrote:
> Maning,
>
> Please also consider sending the OSGeo Board a request to become an Official
> local chapter (see the guidelines[1]).  This might be nice news for your
> FOSS4G event! :)
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines#Chapter_Formation
>
> -jeff
>
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>
>
>
> On 2014-09-24 12:32 PM, maning sambale wrote:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> We are in the planning stage again for the "FOSS4G" track in the
>> philgeos 2014 this coming November.  We have been hitching with the
>> PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already
>> [0, 1].  Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost
>> (to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops.
>>
>> One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to "brand" this as FOSS4G
>> Philippines?  Are there official channels to toalk and disuss?
>>
>> [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and webpage ready

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Apologies for cross-posting.  Just hoping there are PH-based memebrs
of this list.


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Subject: [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and
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Dear everyone,

The page at PhilGEOS site [0] and survey [1] are now ready!  Thanks to
Please share the news.  And let us know what workshops you would like to join.

See you all November 29!

[0] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/
[1] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/wpgforms/foss4g/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and webpage ready

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[apologies for cross-posting]

Just a reminder, FOSS4G-PH 2014 will happen this Saturday November 29, 2014 at
GE Theater 4th Floor Melchor Hall College of Engineering, UP Diliman
(map) from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/



On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:36 PM, maning sambale
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> Dear everyone,
>
> The page at PhilGEOS site [0] and survey [1] are now ready!  Thanks to
> Please share the news.  And let us know what workshops you would like to join.
>
> See you all November 29!
>
> [0] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/
> [1] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/wpgforms/foss4g/
>

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Join State of the Map Asia October 1-2, 2016 in Manila, Philippines

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Dear everyone,

[crosspost]

We are happy to announce that the 2nd State of the Map Asia will
happen in Manila, Philippines on October 1-2, 2016. Two days in the
Philippines with talks, discussions, and workshops all around the free
and open map of the world.

This is a free event (no registration fee), if you plan to join, head
over to the website to register.

http://stateofthemap.asia/

Call for proposal/prsentations is here: http://stateofthemap.asia/program.html

In the coming weeks, we will announce the scholarship applications and
other details. We are also looking for sponsors to cover for food and
other expenses needed to make this awesome.  If you are interested,
please contact: osmpilipinas+sotmasia2...@gmail.com

We hope the OSM community in Asia and all over the world can join.

Maning Sambale
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in State of the Map Asia 2017 in Kathmandu

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Forwarding invitation from the SotM-Asia Organizing team, see you in Nepal!

Dear OSM community members,

We want to welcome you to State of the Map Asia 2017, which will be
organized in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 23 - 24, hosted by Kathmandu
Living Labs and OSM community of Nepal.

The event website is now live at: http://stateofthemap.asia/

A call for session proposals is now open. We will be opening calls for
travel scholarships and event registration soon. You are invited to propose
creative and informative sessions (presentations, workshop etc.) including
your country's state of the map.

We need your support to make this a successful event and help foster the
growth of OSM in Asia and beyond.

Please refer to the website for further details.

With best regards,

Kshitiz Khanal
Researcher, Open Data and OpenStreetMap
Kathmandu Living Labs


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [talk-ph] Pista ng Mapa 2019

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Hi everyone,

Sharing this event happening in the Philippines this August 1-3.  If
you are close by, please come!  It's a nice way to connect with
mappers in the country.  This is also our first community
event/conference outside of the nation's capital! So we hope to spread
the open mapping love to more people!


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Subject: [talk-ph] Pista ng Mapa 2019
To: OpenStreetMap Philippines 


Hello all!

Are you a fan of open geo datasets and free and open-source geospatial
software and tools? Pista ng Mapa ("Feast of Maps"), the open mapping
conference in the Philippines, will be held at Foundation University,
Dumaguete this coming 1–3 August 2019. Registration is free! (Travel
and accommodations not included.)

Please register and reserve your slot here:
https://ti.to/PistaNgMapa/2019

We would like to thank our generous sponsors:
Kaart – http://kaartgroup.com/
Grab – https://www.grab.com/
Mapillary – https://www.mapillary.com/

We would also like to acknowledge the support of our host:
Foundation University – https://www.foundationu.com/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for sponsorship for Pista ng Mapa 2020

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Dear everyone,

We are organizing our annual Pista ng Mapa Conference on May 27-29, 2020.
Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) is a free-of-charge outreach activity
to generate public interest, advocate the use of open (geo) data,
promote free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G)
applications, gather and grow enthusiasts, users in the public and
private sector, and local communities in the Philippines.

https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

We are looking for sponsors to the event:
https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/call-for-sponsors
is there a way for OSGeo to support?  Who do I ask?


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[OSGeo-Discuss] The call for presentations for Pista ng Mapa 2020 has been extended until October 10, 2020

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EXTENDED! The call for presentations for Pista ng Mapa 2020 has been
extended until October 10, 2020.
Share your research, ideas, community projects, and more at this
year's conference! You may submit your presentations at
bit.ly/pnm20cfp

You may visit https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/ for more information.
We wish to let you know that Pista ng Mapa 2020 is offering incentives
to accepted session proposals.
#PistaNgMapa #PnM #PistaNgMapa2020 #PnM2020 #OSM #OpenStreetMap #FOSS4G

The incentives for accepted presentations are:
PhP 4000 - 55+ minute Presentation/Workshop
PhP 2000 - 25-minute Presentation
PhP 800 - Lightning Talks
Notes on the incentives:
1. Incentive offer is valid only for presenters with a local bank
account, or local digital wallet.
2. Non-local presenters may opt to receive a digital gift voucher

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the release of Quantum GIS version 0.11.0

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It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of
Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.11.0. See below for press release:

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic
Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and
Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is
licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse
and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial
data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to
do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source
software and its free of cost. We welcome contributions from our user
community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports,
contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our
mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions  are also welcome.
This release introduces several new features including python support
and many new GRASS modules. The release also includes numerous bug
fixes and stability improvements. QGIS is available is source form,
and as binary executables for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and
GNU/Linux. All versions can be obtained from our download page at
http://download.qgis.org . As an open source project, we provide
support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:

* For general inquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
* For developer related inquiries subscribe to our separate
developers list at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
* If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our
bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact
information in case we need help with replicating your issue at
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis

Major changes in this release are:
 * over 60 bug fixes
 * legend improvements
 * revision of toolbars and dialogs for consistency improved usability
 * extended QML style support
 * automated generation of projection information in srs.db
 * improved view and filter for GRASS toolbox
 * support for Qt4.2.x discontinued
 * separation of python support into its own library

QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a
dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend
our thanks and gratitude for the  many, many hours people have
contributed to make this release happen.

The visual changelog will be published at http://blog.qgis.org/
shortly - visit that page for more for details.

cheers,

Maning Sambale
QGIS Release Team
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[OSGeo-Discuss] project management software (foss) for GIS projects

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Hi,

I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS projects.  Are there any
you can recommend?  I'm looking at trac, it's primarily for managinf
software projects.  Is there anybody here who have used it for
managing GIS projects?

cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project management software (foss) for GIS projects

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Alex,

Thank you for your reply.  The versioning for postgis seems a good one.
However, what I'm looking for is a general purpose PMS for planning,
coordinating GIS projects.

I'll try postgis versioning though.  Thanks!

maning

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maning sambale wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS projects.  Are there any
>> you can recommend?  I'm looking at trac, it's primarily for managinf
>> software projects.  Is there anybody here who have used it for
>> managing GIS projects?
>>
>> cheers,
>> maning
>
> Trac/svn really isn't a good option since it would keep copies of every
> version of the binary. Poking around a little I found something based on
>  versioning of Postgis data.
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Versioning+Postgis
>
> Maybe that's more what you're looking for, it would track individual record
> changes within your spatial layers.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project management software (foss) for GISprojects

[maning sambale]

Thank you for all the tips.  I'm trying the trac for the meantime.  I
thinks it meets some of the functions we need like detailing the
roadmap for tasks and activities.  As well as assigning who is in
charge.  This would work for us in the meantime.

We'll try other PMS as well.

cheers,

maning
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Milo van der Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One more ;-)
>
> http://www.openworkbench.org
>
> Most important thing in project management is managing. If the ultimate
> project tool would exists, we would have less project-managers (Am I
> having a pleasant dream?)
>
> You might consider looking at PRINCE2 and ITIL methodology. If you
> manage to translate these methods to practice, your project might become
> a success.
>
> Regie Alam wrote:
>> A good GIS project management is perhaps the product
>> by GeoCue
>> (http://www.niirs10.com/Products/geocue.htm). Haven't
>> actually used the software yet but have been looking
>> at it for a while.
>>
>> Is there something similar in the FOSS world? Would it
>> be possible to customize the Gantt Project and/or Dot
>> Project to be similar to GeoCue's?
>>
>> Regie
>>
>>
>> --- Marco Lechner
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> You also could try dotproject as PM:
>>> http://www.dotproject.net/
>>> dorProject is an ordinary Project Management
>>> Software. What special
>>> features, in general, should a PMS have to support
>>> GIS-projects?
>>>
>>> Marco
>>>
>>> Gavin Fleming schrieb:
>>>> Good general purpose FOSS (Java) project
>>> management tool is
>>>> http://www.ganttproject.biz/
>>>>
>>>> Gavin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Original Message-
>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>>> Of maning sambale
>>>> Sent: 05 August 2008 04:06 AM
>>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discussions
>>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project management
>>> software (foss) for
>>>> GISprojects
>>>>
>>>> Alex,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your reply.  The versioning for
>>> postgis seems a good one.
>>>> However, what I'm looking for is a general purpose
>>> PMS for planning,
>>>> coordinating GIS projects.
>>>>
>>>> I'll try postgis versioning though.  Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> maning
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alex Mandel
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> maning sambale wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS
>>> projects.  Are there any
>>>>>> you can recommend?  I'm looking at trac, it's
>>> primarily for managinf
>>>>>> software projects.  Is there anybody here who
>>> have used it for
>>>>>> managing GIS projects?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>> maning
>>>>>>
>>>>> Trac/svn really isn't a good option since it
>>> would keep copies of
>>>>>
>>>> every
>>>>
>>>>> version of the binary. Poking around a little I
>>> found something based
>>>>>
>>>> on
>>>>
>>>>>  versioning of Postgis data.
>>>>>
>> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Versioning+Postgis
>>>>> Maybe that's more what you're looking for, it
>>> would track individual
>>>>>
>>>> record
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dotproject.net/changes within your
>>> spatial layers.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Cost of satellite images for the past 20 years

[maning sambale]

Hi,

We say that the cost of using satellite imagery was greatly reduced
compared to a few decades ago.  We are doing some literature review on
the cost of satellite images in the past 20 years (particularly SPOT
and LANDSAT).  Any pointers on where can I get hold of old price list
of these data.  A few hours of searching doesn't yield good results so
far.

cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoFOSS LiveDVD - test it before we burn it

[maning sambale]

Hi,

A bit late, just finished the download after 2 days.
Tried the Live DVD using minimal RAM config.

Mac OS X 10.5.5 VirtualBox 1.6.2
Name geofoss-dvd
OS Type Ubuntu
Base Memory 512 MB
Video Memory 8 MB
Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
ACPI Enabled
IO APIC Disabled
VT-x/AMD-V Disabled
PAE/NX Disabled
Hard Disks IDE Primary Master geofoss-dvd.vdi [Normal, 8.00 GB]
CD/DVD-ROM Image FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha4.iso

Seems to work OK for a brief explore
GRASS with NVIZ: OK
QGIS, pluging/grass modules: OK
Udig with sample dataset: OK
GVSig with sample dataset: OK

mapserver.bash: connection timeout downloading mapserver.tar.bz2
mapserver demo (australia): no map displayed in the html template.

cheers,
maning

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:52 +0200, graeme mcferren wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>> I have downloaded a copy of the .iso locally and will make a Live DVD of
>> it + a DVD with the .iso on it, so we at least have a South African copy
>> of it.
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>
> Thanks Graeme,
>
> Much appreciated.  I didn't get it all downloaded before I left home,
> but I'm now sitting in Changi Airport (Singapore) where I've discovered
> the *free* wireless internet access is *much* faster than my adsl at
> home.  The download will be finished before I catch my next flight.  I
> wasn't expecting that.  I'm planning on dropping a copy of to
> www.multiskillmedia.co.za when I get there in the morning.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:58 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
>> > Mark,  Please don't let that cutoff slip.  How long will your upload
>> > take?  I've got to start a download as soon as it's finished (note to
>> > self- I wonder if I can start slurping shortly after you start
>> > uploading?  Is there an rsync daemon on the server?  That might make it
>> > quicker).  I'm taking a hard copy with me in case the duplication house
>> > has issues with the download size (they've flagged this yesterday as the
>> > size has grown a bit).  I'll be leaving tomorrow at lunchtime, so that's
>> > cutting it fine as is.
>> >
>> > If there is anyone already in Cape Town on a fast link who can download
>> > in a timely manner, please drop me a line.  I prefer to have more
>> > contingency plans ;-)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Tim
>> > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:04 +1000, Mark Leslie wrote:
>> > > Lorenzo,
>> > > That would be much appreciated, and I'll get the mapfile in right away.
>> > > We are planning on starting to build the 'final' image this afternoon,
>> > > so we've got an effective cutoff of 3pm AEST.  Anything you can get in
>> > > before then we'll be sure to add.
>> > > 
>> > >
>> > > I've put together a quick, and not especially impressive, mapfile and
>> > > cgi template using some australian data, so that will be in there as
>> > > well, but the cgi interface doesn't look too impressive.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Mark Leslie
>> > > Geospatial Software Architect
>> > > LISAsoft
>> > >
>> > > -
>> > > Ph: +61 2 8570 5000 Fax: +61 2 8570 5099 Mob: +61
>> > > Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf 19-21 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009
>> > > -
>> > >
>> > > LISAsoft is part of the A2end Group of Companies
>> > > http://www.ardec.com.au
>> > > http://www.lisasoft.com
>> > > http://www.terrapages.com
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> > > > I've made a mapfile to show mapserver with the Alaska dataset:
>> > > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc:mapfile_for_mapserver#WMS_calls
>> > > >
>> > > > what time is the deadline to close the final ISO?
>> > > > If I have time I'll try, on Wednesday, to do a zip file containing:
>> > > > * a home page for localhost with links to:
>> > > > ** Mapserver WMS getCapabilities, getMap, getLegend
>> > > > ** a page with OpenLayers showing available layers
>> > > > ** geoserver demos
>> > > >
>> > > > ciao
>> > > > lorenzo
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Tim Bowden wrote:
>> > > >> I'm planning on using the live-DVD to load the OSGeo booth PC.  If
>> > > >> anyone wants to take advantage of the provided stack for loading some
>> > > >> demos, please drop me a line.  The plan atm is to have the PC wired to
>> > > >> the local lan, so it can offer web services etc locally if it is set 
>> > > >> up
>> > > >> in time.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Regards,
>> > > >> Tim Bowden
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:04 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >>> Correct, please test FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha3_4.iso
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>  From now on we plan to only fix bugs and address cosmetic changes
>> > > >>> (like populating an index.html). We don't plan to add features.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Also, we have extra testing time until Wednesday 24 September, but
>> > > >>> please test earlier 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoFOSS LiveDVD - test it before we burn it

[maning sambale]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mark Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whoops.  The mapserver.bash script is one I put together to load some
> configuration settings into Stefans development image.  It should have
> been deleted before making the image.  No major harm in it, but it will
> delete the Mapserver icon from your desktop :)
>
> Did you find the 'experience' was adequate with only 512 RAM?

Overall, I think its quite OK on a 512 RAM, though my mouse is a
little bit clunky probably due to my virtualbox settings.  I
intentionally configured it with a small RAM, so we can guarantee its
running on most machines.  I'll test it in another PC with a much
smaller RAM (256?).

The DVD is just in time for an upcoming conference I will attend.  Not
entirely geospatial, but  might be worthwhile sharing and discussing
OSGE stacks during coffee breaks.

cheers,
maning

> --
> Mark
>
> maning sambale wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A bit late, just finished the download after 2 days.
>> Tried the Live DVD using minimal RAM config.
>>
>> Mac OS X 10.5.5 VirtualBox 1.6.2
>> Name geofoss-dvd
>> OS Type Ubuntu
>> Base Memory 512 MB
>> Video Memory 8 MB
>> Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
>> ACPI Enabled
>> IO APIC Disabled
>> VT-x/AMD-V Disabled
>> PAE/NX Disabled
>> Hard Disks IDE Primary Master geofoss-dvd.vdi [Normal, 8.00 GB]
>> CD/DVD-ROM Image FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha4.iso
>>
>> Seems to work OK for a brief explore
>> GRASS with NVIZ: OK
>> QGIS, pluging/grass modules: OK
>> Udig with sample dataset: OK
>> GVSig with sample dataset: OK
>>
>> mapserver.bash: connection timeout downloading mapserver.tar.bz2
>> mapserver demo (australia): no map displayed in the html template.
>>
>> cheers,
>> maning
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:52 +0200, graeme mcferren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>> I have downloaded a copy of the .iso locally and will make a Live DVD of
>>>> it + a DVD with the .iso on it, so we at least have a South African copy
>>>> of it.
>>>>
>>>> Graeme
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks Graeme,
>>>
>>> Much appreciated.  I didn't get it all downloaded before I left home,
>>> but I'm now sitting in Changi Airport (Singapore) where I've discovered
>>> the *free* wireless internet access is *much* faster than my adsl at
>>> home.  The download will be finished before I catch my next flight.  I
>>> wasn't expecting that.  I'm planning on dropping a copy of to
>>> www.multiskillmedia.co.za when I get there in the morning.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:58 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark,  Please don't let that cutoff slip.  How long will your upload
>>>>> take?  I've got to start a download as soon as it's finished (note to
>>>>> self- I wonder if I can start slurping shortly after you start
>>>>> uploading?  Is there an rsync daemon on the server?  That might make it
>>>>> quicker).  I'm taking a hard copy with me in case the duplication house
>>>>> has issues with the download size (they've flagged this yesterday as the
>>>>> size has grown a bit).  I'll be leaving tomorrow at lunchtime, so that's
>>>>> cutting it fine as is.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there is anyone already in Cape Town on a fast link who can download
>>>>> in a timely manner, please drop me a line.  I prefer to have more
>>>>> contingency plans ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Tim
>>>>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:04 +1000, Mark Leslie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lorenzo,
>>>>>> That would be much appreciated, and I'll get the mapfile in right away.
>>>>>> We are planning on starting to build the 'final' image this afternoon,
>>>>>> so we've got an effective cutoff of 3pm AEST.  Anything you can get in
>>>>>> before then we'll be sure to add.
>>>>>> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=24&year=2008&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=240>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've put together a quick, and not especially impressive, mapfile and
>>>>>> cg

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)

[maning sambale]

Hi,

I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar).

I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200.bv.tu-berlin.de/rat/index.php
But it depends on IDL.  However, RAT is FOSS (mozilla license) so
anybody can port it.

Are there any other foss for radar we can use?

cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)

[maning sambale]

Ned,

Thanks! I'll look into these tools.

maning

On 11/21/08, Ned Horning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maning,
>
> The Alaska Satellite Facility
> (http://www.asf.alaska.edu/sardatacenter/?q=softwaretools)
> has a few tools and they maintain a list or other software. They are trying
> to get more community involvement so it would be helpful to them if you
> could
> comment on the tools or even get involved with development/documentation...
>
>
> Ned
>
> maning sambale wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar).
>>
>> I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200.bv.tu-berlin.de/rat/index.php
>> But it depends on IDL.  However, RAT is FOSS (mozilla license) so
>> anybody can port it.
>>
>> Are there any other foss for radar we can use?
>>
>> cheers,
>> maning
>>
>>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)

[maning sambale]

Thanks to all the links!  I just found NEST yesterday and  will
explore it.  I'm very new to radar processing and would like to "glue"
them in my current GIS workflow (GRASS and QGIS).  Are there plans in
the OSGEO to incorporate some radar processing in some of their
projects?

cheers,
maning

PS. Looking at the quotes of some data providers, it seems PALSAR is
way cheaper than most optical sensors and no clouds to deal with!

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Luis W. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST)  http://www.array.ca/nest/tiki-index.php it's
> GPL and developen in Java
> hope it helps.
>
>   Greetings
>  Luis
>
> Brent Fraser wrote:
>>
>> And ESA's PolsarPro seems to be Free and Open and can handle ALOS Palsar,
>> but I haven't tried it:
>>
>>http://earth.esa.int/polsarpro/default.html
>>
>> Brent Fraser
>>
>> maning sambale wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar).
>>>
>>> I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200.bv.tu-berlin.de/rat/index.php
>>> But it depends on IDL.  However, RAT is FOSS (mozilla license) so
>>> anybody can port it.
>>>
>>> Are there any other foss for radar we can use?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> maning
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.0 'Kore'

[maning sambale]

apologies for the cross-post:

Dear QGIS Users, Developers and FOSSGIS devotees

We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the
shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at
http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair:

-

This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work
by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and
graphics designers.

QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of
the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data
that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true
cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix,
Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map
composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS
capability. QGIS has been translated into many languages by a dedicated
internationalization team.

At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom
solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number
of exciting developments underway in both the core application and
plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think
you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using
QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success.


-- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee
-

For more detailed release information, visit:

http://blog.qgis.org/node/123

For Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows downloads, visit:

http://download.qgis.org *

* Source code and User's Guide are also available from this site.

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

[maning sambale]

Hi,

I just want to share my experience teaching grass and qgis using the
osgeo FOSS4G 2008 livedvd.

I was invited by a non-profit organization to provide an overview of
using FOSS Geo tools.  The organization provides mapping services to
Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through collaborative efforts
like participatory mapping, resource mapping for asserting IP rights
to resources and ancestral domain.  The participants are in-house
geo-analysts coming from Indigenous Communities as well (note that the
participants, have no formal GIS "schooling" and has no experience
using FOSS Geo thus far).

I provided several exercise using QGIS and GRASS (no offense to udig
and gvsig, I don't use them hence, I can't teach them).  I didn't used
the GRASS sample dataset, because I want local sample data for my
exercise. My datasets are just a landsat image and a dem.  The
exercises are as follows:

Part 1  Open GRASS and QGIS - load vector and raster layers, saving
project files
Part 2  Editing GRASS vectors and rasters  (v.digit, r.contour, r.shaded.relief)
Part 3  Remote sensing based-classification (v.to.rast, i.group,
i.gensigset, i.samp, r.reclass, r.report)
Part 4  Map layout and visualization (QGIS map composer, NVIZ)


The initial plan was to do everything GUI, but I had to move to grass
terminal when we did the image classification because QGIS doesn't
have the i.smap in the grass toolbox plugin.  Anyway, this provided me
the opportunity to show the advantages of using the CLI.  At the end
of the session, I showed them that by understanding CLI commands of
grass, you can actually paste every command to a text file, run a bash
script, implement all the exercise including map layout we did for 3
hours, in just several seconds!  The reaction was: "Hey, I can do more
work with GRASS while drinking my beer!"

Reminds me of xkcd: http://xkcd.com/303/ ;-)

The overall experience was good and I believe I was able to
demonstrate FOSS Geo's power over the $25,000 esri stack they
currently have (the DVDs I bought and distributed was just a little
over $1!).

Some thoughts (and requests) on improving my subsequent FOSS Geo demos:
1.  I can't get the live-dvd running laptop to display to the LCD
projector.  I had to use another windows laptop for the presentation
and GRASS/QGIS demo.  Is there way to fix that in the live-dvd? Or is
it the projector?
2.  If the live-dvd running laptop works on the lcd projector, I can't
show my presentation slides because it has no openoffice impress
(which is correct to strip down the size).  Is it possible for future
release of the live-dvd to at least add a pdf reader?  This way I can
convert my presentation slides to a pdf document and I won't be
needing another machine for my slide presentation.
3.   It is best to use local datasets, participants can "relate" to
the data better.  Although my sample data are just a landsat image and
a dem, I was able to demonstrate how to produce several map layers
with GRASS and QGIS (landcover, hillshading, contours, etc).
4.  Never underestimate the power of showing newbies the CLI.  I
usually hide the CLI when introducing FOSS Geo to noobs for fear that
they might be overwhelmed with the cryptic commands with no menus and
icons to click-on.

If others have some experience and tips in teaching FOSS Geo, please
share them here.

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

[maning sambale]

Helena,

I will try out the barebones dataset.  And try to prepare some data
sets I can add.

maning

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Helena Mitasova
 wrote:
> Maning,
>
> I very much agree with what you have to say, especially about
> introducing students to CLI. I teach a semester long course
> on geospatial modeling and analysis with assignments in GRASS
> and ArcGIS and eventually the students find out that they can run
> the assignments and project in minutes from a text file - that is a big win
> especially for the project when I ask them to recompute everything
> because of some small mistake at the beginning.
>
> Regarding the need for running the tutorials and courses with local data
> I tried to start some initiative for building standardized data sets
> for different locations that can be used with the same tutorial by preparing
> a data set with generic names of map layers and a simple getting started
> tutorial -
> see my post to OSGeo Edu below. Some people responded, but we don't
> have any additional data sets yet. Maybe you can add few additional
> layers to your data set, give them the same names as in the data set below
> and try it out with the simple tutorial (I can add the imagery if needed)
> and provide some feedback whether this would be feasible.
> If the concept works, we can put the data sets on the osgeo web site (they
> are small)
> and it would make preparation of tutorials and courses
> for different locations worldwide much more efficient,
>
> thanks a for sharing your experiences,
>
> Helena
>
> -
> Following some discussions with Venka and the suggestion on Wiki
> about a need for local data sets for tutorials I have created the following
> as a basis for an experiment:
>
> 1. scaled down, basics-only version of the NC data set with generic names
> of map layers
> 2. getting started bare bone CLI  GRASS minitutorial for this data set.
>
> It is here
> http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_basic_spm.tar.gz
> or here
> http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/gisdemo_international.tarz
>
> Now the experiment :
> The objective is
> - provide data sets for different regions with the same map layer names
> so that the same tutorials can be run with data in Japan, Trento
> or other location in US
>
> I see the main trouble with the attribute names - but those can be changed
> if there aren't too many, otherwise it may be worth to try the concept.
>
> I will be happy to modify the data set  and of course the tutorial(s) can be
> much nicer - GRASS wxpython GUI-based tutorial would be a nice test case
> if we could provide it with data sets from all over the world.
>
> So if you think it is worth it, please create small data sets for other
> locations
> with the same names of map layers
> that would run with the minitutorial to test the idea. I can then further
> modify
> the data set to fit with the other ones so that we can create a working
> standard
> that can be easily expanded to many areas in the world,
>
> Helena
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 10:16 PM, maning sambale wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to share my experience teaching grass and qgis using the
>> osgeo FOSS4G 2008 livedvd.
>>
>> I was invited by a non-profit organization to provide an overview of
>> using FOSS Geo tools.  The organization provides mapping services to
>> Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through collaborative efforts
>> like participatory mapping, resource mapping for asserting IP rights
>> to resources and ancestral domain.  The participants are in-house
>> geo-analysts coming from Indigenous Communities as well (note that the
>> participants, have no formal GIS "schooling" and has no experience
>> using FOSS Geo thus far).
>>
>> I provided several exercise using QGIS and GRASS (no offense to udig
>> and gvsig, I don't use them hence, I can't teach them).  I didn't used
>> the GRASS sample dataset, because I want local sample data for my
>> exercise. My datasets are just a landsat image and a dem.  The
>> exercises are as follows:
>>
>> Part 1  Open GRASS and QGIS - load vector and raster layers, saving
>> project files
>> Part 2  Editing GRASS vectors and rasters  (v.digit, r.contour,
>> r.shaded.relief)
>> Part 3  Remote sensing based-classification (v.to.rast, i.group,
>> i.gensigset, i.samp, r.reclass, r.report)
>> Part 4  Map layout and visualization (QGIS map composer, NVIZ)
>>
>>
>> The initial plan was to do everything GUI, but I had to move to g

[OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on FOSS Geo for local governance

[maning sambale]

Hi,

We are looking for case studies/success stories in deploying FOSS Geo
for local government.  I earnestly believe that FOSS tools are
available for adoption in local government.  Critical is how to
integrated them to a provincial/city wide government IT
infrastructure.  In the Philippines, geospatial technologies are often
used in:

property/parcel tax mapping
zoning
development planning

However, in most cases these "domains" are "loosely" integrated.
Sometimes the GIS in the planning division doesn't "communicate" with
the assesor's office in terms of data management.  What we are looking
for are stories that integrate FOSS GEO tools in the overall IT
infrastructure.  I know some of the strategies maybe "institutional"
rather than technical in nature.

What technologies do we need (dbase managment, server, desktop apps)?
How do we provide capacity to local government staff?
How do we integrate the data into planning?

Any ideas?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on FOSS Geo for local governance

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This are really nice examples.  Please keep it coming!

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:36 AM,   wrote:
> Mecklenburg County , NC,  USA.
> Geospatial portal .  Source code availabe to site.
> http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/ft/?p=307
>
> http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/gp/
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> official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior.
> Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
>
>
>
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>             03/12/2009 03:28          [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on
>             AM                        FOSS Geo for local governance
>
>
>             Please respond to
>             OSGeo Discussions
>                              geo.org>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We are looking for case studies/success stories in deploying FOSS Geo
> for local government.  I earnestly believe that FOSS tools are
> available for adoption in local government.  Critical is how to
> integrated them to a provincial/city wide government IT
> infrastructure.  In the Philippines, geospatial technologies are often
> used in:
>
> property/parcel tax mapping
> zoning
> development planning
>
> However, in most cases these "domains" are "loosely" integrated.
> Sometimes the GIS in the planning division doesn't "communicate" with
> the assesor's office in terms of data management.  What we are looking
> for are stories that integrate FOSS GEO tools in the overall IT
> infrastructure.  I know some of the strategies maybe "institutional"
> rather than technical in nature.
>
> What technologies do we need (dbase managment, server, desktop apps)?
> How do we provide capacity to local government staff?
> How do we integrate the data into planning?
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend

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On 7/31/09, Cameron Shorter  wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
> Yes, you are so right, we do need to collect as much of the material
> from the FOSS4G conference as we can.
>
> One way we hope to facilitate this has been to give every attendee a
> LiveDVD which can be populated with all the material from the workshops.
> This means that if workshop presenters can get their data onto the DVD,
> then they know all attendees will receive it.
>
> So we have budget for the LiveDVD. We have an old version of the LiveDVD
> (based on FOSS4G 2008). What we need to continue through to completion
> is to have someone who will coordinate the compiling of the DVD.  This
> is primarily a project management role, keeping track of what is on the
> DVD and what should be on it, contacting workshop authors, and project
> leads and helping them get their projects onto the DVD etc.
>
> Sound like you? It would be an incredibly valuable contribution to
> FOSS4G and the greater OSGeo community at large.
>
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help
>> put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from
>> FOSS4G2008 etc...
>>
>> Jody
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM,  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication
>>> of material on the website eagerly such that they can follow labs,
>>> workshops and presentations of choice.
>>>
>>> So the present organisers may please request those especially conducting
>>> labs/workshops to keep in mind the multitudes who browse them through the
>>> internet can have equal benefit. This can be achieved my keeping on the
>>> internet for download
>>> 1. All the binaries that are required for the exercise
>>> 2. All the data that are required for the exercise
>>> 3. All the printed material provided for the exercise
>>> 4. All the other material provided to the attendees, CD or DVD etc
>>>
>>> I agree that most of it is done each time, except for a few instances
>>> Example:'Download data from the CD provided', is given in the lab pdf..
>>> but the data is not given for download...
>>> Example:'Run the pg_setenv.bat file first,' (FOSS4G2007).. even on date a
>>> nice archive is available from the FOSS4G2007 website, data, text etc..
>>> but, the pg_setenv.bat, not there.
>>>
>>> This may be trivial for experts, but for those learning through the
>>> internet and depending on 'Discuss Lists', it will be a roadblock.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Ravi Kumar
>>>
>>>
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If this doesn't require programming but more coordinating.  How can I help?


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis'

[maning sambale]

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Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:26 AM
Subject: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
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We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis' the
next in our development release series.

Our 'development' release series are provided to offer users a chance to
try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will
not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed at people
who don't mind if the user interface changes from release to release. We
are dropping the term 'unstable' in favour of 'development' to label our
non-long term support releases since it creates the incorrect impression
that these releases are more crash prone. In reality the developer
releases contain many bug fixes that should improve stability over
previous releases.

Binary and source code packages are available at
http://qgis.org/en/download/current-software.html

A visual changelog for the release is available here:

http://blog.qgis.org/node/137

Along with the release of QGIS 1.2.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at
work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.2. The guide will be
available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is
available.

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dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

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Libraries and tools that can be used across different OSGEO apps.

data format libraries - done!

algorithm/analytic libraries = +1 . GRASS has an extensive collection.
 Would be good for other OSGEO projects to reuse them.

cartographic libraries = +1


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Helena Mitasova
 wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over
>>> the next 3 and 5 years.  I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter
>>> and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst
>>> committees, projects, chapters and the board.
>>>
>>> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to
>>> get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.
>>
>>
>> My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in the
>> next 3-5 years are the following three items:
>> - Continued expansion of the local chapters.  Local chapters make OSGeo
>> real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't.
>> - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we
>> start to use it our central fundraising piece.
>> - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs,
>> benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be fostered by
>> us.  From my biased developer's perspective, these have been OSGeo's biggest
>> accomplishments along with the local chapter development and consolidation
>> of the conference.
>
> +1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of
>  cross-project collaboration
>
> Helena
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

[maning sambale]

Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs:

1.  Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS
variant).  Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS
company that fits your skill set.

2. Try research and non-profit institutions.  They are generally more
receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies
(hope this change in the future).

3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your
skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :)

good luck!

On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)  wrote:
> To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an
> OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :)
>
> Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some
> momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for
> ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list
> - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion
> point.
>
> I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to
> chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to
> helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what
> you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will
> drive the point home :)
>
> Best wishes!
> Tyler
>
> original message-
> From: "Chris Puttick" chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT)
> -
>
>
>> And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is
> under the
>> influence of the "if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing" although we're
>
>> hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent
>
>> systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's
> going
>> to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for
> London
>> and some of the London councils.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> - "Landon Blake" lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer
>>> some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job
>>> focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of
>>> the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in
>>> our current economy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an
>>> opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can
>>> think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open
>>> source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are
>>> Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are
>>> Canadian companies, the second is in Australia.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your
>>> programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects.
>>> (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a
>>> couple of things right now.) :]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help
>>> organizations get started with open source GIS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing
>>> list. That can?t hurt.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>>>
>>> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM
>>> To: discuss
>>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job
>>> /
>>> career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite
>>> hard
>>>
>>> to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area;
>>> which area
>>> is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting
>>> websites
>>> which are more attributed to OSGEO please?
>>>
>>>
>>> (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject
>>> pasted)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> --
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>>> URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net
>>> MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com
>>> ICQ : 145951110
>>> Skype : solutions-lab.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is
>>> strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error,
>>> please notify the sender immediately.
>>> 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

[maning sambale]

Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs:

1.  Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS
variant).  Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS
company that fits your skill set.

2. Try research and non-profit institutions.  They are generally more
receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies
(hope this change in the future).

3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your
skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :)

good luck!

On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)  wrote:
> To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an
> OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :)
>
> Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some
> momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for
> ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list
> - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion
> point.
>
> I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to
> chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to
> helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what
> you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will
> drive the point home :)
>
> Best wishes!
> Tyler
>
> original message-
> From: "Chris Puttick" chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT)
> -
>
>
>> And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is
> under the
>> influence of the "if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing" although we're
>
>> hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent
>
>> systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's
> going
>> to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for
> London
>> and some of the London councils.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> - "Landon Blake" lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer
>>> some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job
>>> focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of
>>> the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in
>>> our current economy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an
>>> opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can
>>> think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open
>>> source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are
>>> Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are
>>> Canadian companies, the second is in Australia.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your
>>> programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects.
>>> (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a
>>> couple of things right now.) :]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help
>>> organizations get started with open source GIS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing
>>> list. That can?t hurt.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>>>
>>> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM
>>> To: discuss
>>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job
>>> /
>>> career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite
>>> hard
>>>
>>> to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area;
>>> which area
>>> is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting
>>> websites
>>> which are more attributed to OSGEO please?
>>>
>>>
>>> (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject
>>> pasted)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matthew Pulis
>>> URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net
>>> MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com
>>> ICQ : 145951110
>>> Skype : solutions-lab.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Warning:
>>> Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against
>>> defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader
>>> is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any
>>> dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is
>>> strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error,
>>> please notify the sender immediately.
>>> 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

[maning sambale]

Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs:

1.  Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS
variant).  Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS
company that fits your skill set.

2. Try research and non-profit institutions.  They are generally more
receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies
(hope this change in the future).

3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your
skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :)

good luck!

On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)  wrote:
> To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an
> OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :)
>
> Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some
> momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for
> ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list
> - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion
> point.
>
> I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to
> chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to
> helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what
> you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will
> drive the point home :)
>
> Best wishes!
> Tyler
>
> original message-
> From: "Chris Puttick" chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT)
> -
>
>
>> And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is
> under the
>> influence of the "if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing" although we're
>
>> hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent
>
>> systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's
> going
>> to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for
> London
>> and some of the London councils.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> - "Landon Blake" lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer
>>> some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job
>>> focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of
>>> the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in
>>> our current economy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an
>>> opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can
>>> think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open
>>> source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are
>>> Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are
>>> Canadian companies, the second is in Australia.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your
>>> programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects.
>>> (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a
>>> couple of things right now.) :]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help
>>> organizations get started with open source GIS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing
>>> list. That can?t hurt.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job
>>> /
>>> career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite
>>> hard
>>>
>>> to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area;
>>> which area
>>> is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting
>>> websites
>>> which are more attributed to OSGEO please?
>>>
>>>
>>> (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject
>>> pasted)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] distributing "read-only" vector files?

[maning sambale]

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 research and policy initiatives.  At the moment we
have two broad users the public (we provide free download of pdf maps)
and special interest group (requesting for GIS data).  We always want
our datasets to be used by other geoshop.

However, we have several concerns regarding the release of GIS data:
1.  Securing "data integrity" - once released we cannot guarantee that
the data will be distributed from other sources with
alterations/changes.  Some of this data may contain critical info that
if used (coming from altered data), our institution "might" be blamed.
2.  Ensuring corrections will be reported back to us for data enhancement.
3. Ensuring non-commercial use of the data

I'm sure these concerns are not unique to us but also common to other
institutions.  I am hoping we can discuss options on how we can
resolve the above concerns in areas both technical and institutional
policy.

Any ideas?

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

[maning sambale]

Thanks! These are all good suggestions.

> If you are trying to be open, then be open! Look at OpenStreetMap and how
> they do it. They have a page of license violations also.

I know about OSM and  I consider myself an active contributor in my
side of the hemisphere.
On a personal capacity, I come from the let's open geodata camp.  The
work environment is another issue, culture needs to be changed (you
know what I mean).

>fear the day when
> someone hacks you code and frees your data.
I very well know this can happen, but such a proposition to the
management isn't encouraging.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Qgis-community-team] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus'

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Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:30 AM
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus'
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Dear QGIS Users & Developers

We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus',
the next in our development release series.

Our 'development' release series are provided to offer users a chance
to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We
will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed at
people who don't mind if the user interface changes from release to
release.  We are dropping the term 'unstable' in favour of
'development' to label our non-long term support releases since the
'unstable' moniker creates the incorrect impression that these
releases are more crash prone. In reality the developer releases
contain many bug fixes that should improve stability over previous
releases.

Binary and source code packages are available at:

http://download.qgis.org

A visual changelog for the release is available here:

http://blog.qgis.org/node/142

Along with the release of QGIS 1.4.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard
at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.4. The guide will be
available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is
available.

QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a
dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend
our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have
contributed to make this release happen.

If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please
visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software
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[OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

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Hi,

We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing
geospatial related research to local partners.  This year we are
getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages
(mostly under OSGEO projects).

We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within
their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or
customized apps).

In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist.
However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical
support or specific application customization.  In the future, we want
to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community.
But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who
can help us.

What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism.  Our staff will be
involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial
solutions.  But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance.
Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need
experts in many fields.

I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide
the support we need.
http://opengeo.org/
http://opengeo.org/products/

Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us?  Note that we are
not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need
are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our
partners.

Many thanks in advance.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

[maning sambale]

> You can find a list of Open Source service providers in the OSGeo
> directory [1]. None of them are endorsed by OSGeo and the directory is
> self maintained, but it may serve as a starting point.
Thanks for the link.  I am looking at them at the moment.

> Please notice that although OSGeo.org sounds similar to OpenGeo.org the
> two organizations have a completely different background and are not
> directly related. OpenGeo is not the official service provider for OSGeo
> software but offer services like any another provider listed in the
> directory or elsewhere. Sorry for the potentially confusing names.
I know the difference. :)  I noticed opengeo because they seem to
provide a "complete" package.  I will look at the the osgeo service
providers as well.



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

[maning sambale]

Thanks for all the replies (here and in my private mail).  I never
expected such overwhelming response!  This makes us even more
comfortable in pursuing the FOSS route.

I will individually contact those who responded to discuss our
specific requirements.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:19 PM, maning sambale
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing
> geospatial related research to local partners.  This year we are
> getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages
> (mostly under OSGEO projects).
>
> We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within
> their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or
> customized apps).
>
> In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist.
> However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical
> support or specific application customization.  In the future, we want
> to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community.
> But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who
> can help us.
>
> What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism.  Our staff will be
> involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial
> solutions.  But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance.
> Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need
> experts in many fields.
>
> I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide
> the support we need.
> http://opengeo.org/
> http://opengeo.org/products/
>
> Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us?  Note that we are
> not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need
> are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our
> partners.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] ESSC offers basic Geomatics Training Course

[maning sambale]

Hi,

Some of your friends (based in the Philippines) maybe interested.  We
have a limited slot of 10 participants per session.

ESSC offers basic Geomatics Training Course
http://essc.org.ph/content/view/314/1/

==
ESSC is offering a short introductory course  for geomatics students,
practitioners, and developers using free and open source software
geospatial (FOSS-Geo) technologies. ESSC seeks to share its experience
and techniques in its geomatics work using various geospatial
technologies (both FOSS and proprietary software products).

FOSS technology is gaining popular usage due to the high costs of
proprietary geospatial products. This is also ESSC's contribution to
expanding the adoption of FOSS and democratizing the access of
software.

Each course is designed as an introduction to several FOSS-Geo
technologies and there are practical exercises for participants to
accomplish. By the end of each course, participants should be able to
install, navigate the basic interface of each application, and produce
map products in paper or digital format. The course will run for a day
for a minimum fee of PhP 1,500.00. The only requirement is a working
portable computer that can accommodate loading of the software
applications.

Please get in touch with Mr Maning Sambale at
emmanuelsamb...@essc.org.ph or Ms Freida Tabuena at
freidatabu...@essc.org.ph for further information and scheduling.

List of Courses and Schedule

Introduction to Quantum GIS - June 30, 2010

This training/workshop is designed to introduce participants to
Quantum GIS [link: www.qgis.org] as an easy to use FOSS-Geo
application. This one-day training workshop focuses on the basic
interface and data exploration tools of QGIS.

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic
Information System (GIS) that runs on several operating systems
(Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows). QGIS supports vector, raster, and
database formats.

What you will learn
At the end of the training/workshop, participants should be able to:
• install, navigate the basic interface of QGIS,
• perform basic vector data processing and,
• produce map products either in paper or digital format.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] listings of foss-geo training services

[maning sambale]

(cross posted to qgis user list and osgeo discuss)

Hi,
I posted our FOSS-Geo training program in several of my list, the
training service is based in the Philippines:
http://essc.org.ph/content/view/314/1/

There are a couple of inquiries regarding a similar training program
in the UK and Africa.  I gave them the following links for reference:

http://qgis.org/en/commercial-support.html
http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile

Related to OSGEO's service provider's dbase, it would be nice to have
a search field to specific type of support the listed
individual/companies is providing (i.e. training, customization
development, etc. ) .


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Georges Thierry Handja
 wrote:
> Dear Mr Sabale,
> It will be great if you could help to do this. I really like to learn
> how to use open source mapping softwares.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Georges Thierry Handja
> Programme Advisor, Participatory GIS
> Congo Basin
> The Rainforest Foundation UK
> Imperial Works, 2nd Floor
> Perren Street; London
> NW5 3ED ; United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7485 0193
> Fax: + 44 (0)20 7485 0315
> Registered Charity No. 801436
> www.rainforestfoundationuk.org
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Maning Sambale [mailto:emmanuelsamb...@essc.org.ph]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:23 AM
> To: Georges Thierry
> Subject: Re: Application - Found word(s) Congo in the Text body
>
> Georges,
>
> The foss-geo training we provide is based here in the Philippines.
>
> If it's OK with you, I can post your inquiry to the QGIS international
> mailing-list.  For sure there are QGIS users and developers who are
> willing to help you either in the UK or Africa.
>
>
> On 06 12, 10, at 6:57 PM, Georges Thierry wrote:
>
>> Mr Sabale,
>> I will really like to attend on of these course, could please tell
>> me what are the conditions. I'am in London and I'am working in
>> supporting local NGO's in the Congo Basin region.
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> Georges Thierry Handja
>> Programme Advisor, Participatory GIS
>> Congo Basin
>> The Rainforest Foundation UK
>> Imperial Works, 2nd Floor
>> Perren Street; London
>> NW5 3ED ; United Kingdom
>> Tel: +44 (0)20 7485 0193
>> Fax: + 44 (0)20 7485 0315
>> Registered Charity No. 801436
>> www.rainforestfoundationuk.org
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
>> 
>
> cheers,
>
> Maning Sambale
> Geomatics Associate
> Environmental Science for Social Change
> www.essc.org.ph
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS-Geo users in the Philippines?

[maning sambale]

I would like to know if there are Philippine-based osgeo users here
(other than me). :)
Would be nice for us to share some experiences.= or organize some
osgeo related event.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)

[maning sambale]

No luck so far looking for a converter.

Basically, I want to export geometry and attributes without the
styling from an Arc's mxd format to shapefile.

Any workaround here (other then looking for an ArcGIS installed machine)?
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)

[maning sambale]

George,

To get this right, mxd are actually just a styling file similar to
Arcview's apr and avl?

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, George Silva  wrote:
> You must be confusing things here Maning,
>
> Mxd is the format that ArcGIS uses to store mapdocuments, while
> shapefiles/database geometry data/coverages/rasters are displayed on that
> map. If you only have the mxd you won't be able to convert anything to
> shapefile. You need the original data.
>
> A Mxd is much like an HTML. It provides information on how content is
> organized, but it's not content itself.
>
> George
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:21 PM, maning sambale 
> wrote:
>>
>> No luck so far looking for a converter.
>>
>> Basically, I want to export geometry and attributes without the
>> styling from an Arc's mxd format to shapefile.
>>
>> Any workaround here (other then looking for an ArcGIS installed machine)?
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[OSGeo-Discuss] "git" like for geodata management

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Hi,

Just something for brainstorming.

Use case:
1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days.
Coming back from field work, I "sync" the edits to the main data
server.  An application takes care of the merge like git does.

2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area.  An
application manages the conflict before merging to main data server.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "git" like for geodata management

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Any real world cases for this?

>>>
>>> Use case:
>>> 1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days.
>>> Coming back from field work, I "sync" the edits to the main data
>>> server.  An application takes care of the merge like git does.
>>>
>>> 2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area.  An
>>> application manages the conflict before merging to main data server.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for the sync part you should have a look at CouchDB [1]. Though it doesn't 
>> do the hard part of resolving conflicts. This part would need to be coded.
>>
>> [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management

[maning sambale]

Perhaps the only online service I can think of that is similar to what
I mentioned is openstreetmap's API:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Kalyan Janakiraman
 wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> Versions are also used to demarcate the the geospatial transaction boundary.
> I didn’t see this point articulated.
>
>
>
> We have been sucessfully running replication of ArcSDE geodatabase from data
> maintenance environment to different geodatabase repositories (about 150
> repositories) for many years now through event-driven mediation framework.
> Because we had used the event-driven mediation approach, we could replicate
> irrespective of the version or the vendor.
>
>
>
> Because ESRI didn’t support robust replication before, we did this
> ourselves. In gist the version is boundary of each geospatial transaction.
> When a version is posted, the transactions in it are picked up and shipped
> across as XML event feeds.
>
>
>
>
>
> I published this as a paper. I can send it to anyone interested.
>
>
>
> -   Kalyan
>
>
>
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ragi Burhum
> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 4:06 AM
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Noli Sicad
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management
>
>
>
> Hi Noli,
>
>
>
> thanks for the link. That is definitely a step in the right direction, but
> it is hardly comparable to git ArcSDE versioning at that.
>
>
>
> The article and sample code you describe above generates hashes for all rows
> and tables in the db and compares them to the target db. So 1 million rows
> in a db, regardless if the two dbs are identical, would cause 1 million
> hashes to go over the wire. Every single time you ask to sync you pay the
> price.
>
>
>
> Git and ArcSDE keep track of changesets, and when it is time to synchronize,
> they exchange that changeset and apply it. One insert? That is all that
> needs to be sent.
>
>
>
> Another issue is that there is nothing about conflict resolution there (what
> happens when you delete one row in one db and modify it in another one?).
> There is also the problem of allowing multiple versions of the data in the
> same db (Like having multiple heads).
>
>
>
> Regardless, thank you for the link,
>
>
>
> - Ragi
>
>
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:22:17 +1000
> From: Noli Sicad 
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management
> To: OSGeo Discussions 
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> PostgreSQL Synchronization Tool  --- psync [1]
>
> " The article introduces a method of synchronizing two PostgreSQL
> databases. Although, this seems to be an easy task, no product (slony,
> londiste, ...) really satisfied the needs within the maps.bremen.de
> project. Either they have special prerequsits that didn't apply for
> our problem or they didn't support synchronizing of large objects.
>
> Large objects are used to store tiles of a street/aerial map within
> PostgreSQL. My GIS-server queries the database and gets the tiles out.
> By using this construction we are getting a flexible infrastructure
> for updating and maintaining different versions of the maps.
>
> Everything was working fine until the service needs to be spread over
> three servers. How can we easily synchronize the databases? I really
> found no really working solution that is clean and easy to use.  "
>
> [1]http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/psync.aspx
>
>
> Noli
>
> On 9/23/10, Ragi Burhum  wrote:
>
> Are you looking for an alternative to (1)ESRI's versioning, (2)ESRI's
>
> disconnected editing, or a mix of both (3)git like? the scenario that you
>
> described first was more like (2), but this one fits (1).
>
>
>
> I would love to see something like (3), but truth of the matter, AFAIK,
>
> there is nothing like that implemented for geo (yet).
>
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:00 AM, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:10 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
>
> Any real world cases for this?
>
>
>
> Imagine the following scenario:
>
>
>
> * 50 ~ 70 digitizers
>
> * 5 QA
>
> * 1 Manager
>
>
>
> Each QA has 10 digitizers assigned. After all the data is validated, the
>
> manager merges it and generates the geodb.
>
>
>
> All users work against the same DB, most of them linked. This causes
>
> disconnections, duplicated data, and lots of random errors.
>
>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management

[maning sambale]

This is cool! Thanks Noli!
Anyone tried this already?

(can't compile source while in the middle of a critical project)
(cross posted to qgis list)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Noli Sicad  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FYI, there is a new offline plugin for QGIS that synchronizes data source (
> e.g. PostGIS or WFS-T) to a spatialite database and storing the
> offline edits to dedicated tables.
>
> http://www.sourcepole.ch/2010/9/29/offline-editing-plugin-for-qgis
>
> Screenshot
> http://www.sourcepole.ch/assets/2010/9/27/screenshot1.png
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

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IMO, listing bugs vis-a-vis response time can be counter-productive.
Generally, we have more bugs than being squashed because a lot of
people are reporting them (which is a good thing btw).

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
less than 24 hours.

Come next training, I shared the incident to other participants. With
an encouragement that if they can find some bug during the workshop,
we will then report it to the devs this way they already contributed
to the open source community.  Works for me.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jody Garnett  wrote:
> Just to put myself on the line ...
>
> For GeoTools the bug tracker is here:
> - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT
>
> The initial page shows the current open vs close rate.
>
> If you click on "Reports" you can get a "resolution time" report; you
> will need to sign in first.
>
> Jody
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>> You can often export the bug database out into excel for analysis. You
>> may need to play with the results to focus on problem reporting.
>>
>> Why? Often open source projects end up with "wish list" bugs that do
>> not fall within anyone's funding or mandate.
>>
>> Personally I would love to see the difference not between open source
>> and proprietary software - as I think that sells us short (we are more
>> amazing than that!).
>>
>> The true test would be the track record for paying customers - getting
>> a bug fixed with an open source product vs a proprietary product.
>> Since a common open source model is to pay for support; it would be
>> great to show the amazing service provided.
>>
>> Now that *would* be an impressive difference.
>>
>> Jody
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Sjur Kolberg  
>> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there any mechanism in the bug tracking systems being used, that can
>>> export the distribution (histogram or mean) of time taken from a bug report
>>> is filed to it is declared successfully closed?
>>>
>>> I guess I could figure that out manually by reading through all tickets;
>>> that is probably not going to happen...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to convince people that open source GIS is a better solution
>>> than buying proprietary software. Such discussions follow a well-known path
>>> (is it mature/stable? How about support? All our clients use ..., Nice
>>> for programmers, but...) etc. Conclusions precede arguments, and some hard
>>> numbers could be of great help in all the religion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Sjur K :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management

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Dear Horst,

I've tested the pgvs and it looks very promising.  Perhaps an
integration with the offline editing plugin developed by sourcepole
could be a good feature.
This plugin stores the postgis data into a spatiallite db which can be
edited on field and then integrated into the man pg db later on.

http://www.sourcepole.ch/2010/9/29/offline-editing-plugin-for-qgis

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Noli Sicad  wrote:
> Hi Horst,
>
> In the example given in your website, you have 2 revisions, could you
> do more than 2 revisions?
>
> For example, in forest management we do plant, thin and harvest the
> forest for period of time (i.e 100 years planning period). You keep on
> editing planting, thinning and harvesting plans of the same forest. We
> like to see the revisions of these 3 plans (3 layers) e.g. 5 years, 10
> years or 50 years, the edits that have been in these periods. Could we
> use this plugin for this purpose?
>
> I think this scenario also apply to agricultural management (planting
> and harvesting of crops) and animal range management - grazing.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Noli
>
> On 11/26/10, Horst Düster  wrote:
>> Some times ago the upper subject was discussed on the osgeo.org list.
>> Now I'm able to announce the first release of the pgvs system I
>> developed in the last few month. The aim of pgvs is to offer an option
>> to edit PostGIS layers with CVS, SVN or GIT like support for
>> concurrencing editing of geodata stored in a PostGIS Database.
>> Additionally I've developed a QGIS plugin to support your work with pgvs
>> in conjunction with QGIS.
>>
>> For further information have a look at:
>>
>> http://www.kappasys.ch/cms/index.php?id=23&L=5
>>
>> Regards
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] planning for an osgeo local chapter in the Philippines

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Dear everyone,

We are planning to start the osgeo local chapter in the Philippines.
I've been reading up on the osgeo wiki related pages.  But it would be
great for the established chapters to share here their own
experiences.

Osgeo projects like grass, geoserver, qgis and postgis are slowly
penetrating the small but budding geo-industry in the country and it
would be nice to consolidate marketing/advocacy efforts.

Thanks!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] planning for an osgeo local chapter in the Philippines

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Thank you for the word of support.  Venka started the wikipage and
we'll take it from here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines

I will post my Local Chapter related inquiries to the appropriate list.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jeff McKenna
 wrote:
> Just to add to Arnulf's message: you might want to start by creating a wiki
> page your Philippine chapter, similar to the Vietnam chapter
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vietnam).  Be sure to include the tag
> "[[Category:Local Chapters]]" in your wiki page so that your chapter page
> appears on: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Local_Chapters  You can also
> request for your own mailing list hosted by OSGeo...and you can follow
> Arnulf's advice to ask these requests/questions on the Local Chapter list.
>
> I'm happy to see a new chapter forming in your country! :)
>
> -jeff
>
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> On 11-05-12 10:20 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>>
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>> maning sambale wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear everyone,
>>>
>>> We are planning to start the osgeo local chapter in the Philippines.
>>> I've been reading up on the osgeo wiki related pages.  But it would be
>>> great for the established chapters to share here their own
>>> experiences.
>>>
>>> Osgeo projects like grass, geoserver, qgis and postgis are slowly
>>> penetrating the small but budding geo-industry in the country and it
>>> would be nice to consolidate marketing/advocacy efforts.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Maning,
>> thanks for your interest. You might want also to join the local chapters
>> mailing list:
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters
>>
>> Currently not much going on there but this list is exactly intended to
>> talk about local chapters find out what this is and how it can work out.
>> Feel free to ping this list about anything related to OSGeo Local
>> Chapters.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Arnulf.
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] advise on WYSIWYG sld editor

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I am trying out several sld editors recently (udig, qgis, geoext
styler).  While some are very powerful, each has its own issues.

QGIS - you can compose really nice layer symbolology using the "New
Symbology".  There is a plugin to export to SLD but you can only
export polygon and unique value symbology to SLD.
GeoExt styler - I'm using the opengeo shipped Styler, I can produce
SLDs  which are automatically added in the geoserver list of styles
but it is too limited. I. e. I cannot activate "follow line" in
labels.
Udig - probably the best sld editor.  I'm using udig 1.2.2 on a mac
but for some reason my rules are not persistently saved when I close a
udig session.

Are there other WYSIWYG options for creating SLD out there?  I
personally prefer QGIS as the main app for composing the layers and
then export the style either the project file (.qgs) or the saved
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?

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I got this news recently, from this website, one can download ~30m SRTM data:
http://eoweb.dlr.de:8080/index.html

"The X-band SRTM DEM data are provided in DTED format. Detailed
information on the DTED format
can be found in the document 'Product Description of the SRTM
DTED-Format' (SRTM/PD-03/11/03)
available at http://www.dlr.de/srtm/docs/SRTM-XSAR-DEM-DTED-1.1.pdf.

The DEM and HEM data are in geographic (Lat/Long) projection, datum
WGS84. The elevation values
are also WGS84, as specified in the product description of the SRTM
DTED-format.

The DEMs inside the compressed archive are distributed as individual
files, i.e. they are not
mosaicked into one large DEM file. Each DEM covers an area of 15' by
15'. The filename of the
individual DEM file specifies the bottom left coordinate of the
corresponding 15' by 15' DEM tile.

One pixel of the DEM files corresponds to approximately 25 m x 25 m on
the ground. The elevation
values are provided at a resolution of 1 m. The horizontal accuracy of
the SRTM X-band DEMs is ±20
m (abs.) / ±15 m (rel.), both 90% CE. The vertical accuracy is ±16 m
(abs.) / ±6 m (rel.), both 90% LE.
Precise information on vertical and horizontal accuracies for
individual tiles can be found in the
accuracy description record (ACC) of the DTED file. "

I tried to access the public portal, but I just got the "Loading java
virtual machine" message.
Anyone here, who can access the data and is it really available to the public?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?

[maning sambale]

Dear Sylvain,

The USGS site, provides ~30m SRTM only for the US.  I'm looking the
30m worldwide coverage. That was mentioned in the link I provided.


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Sylvain Maillard
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you can also download them from the earthexplorer ui from the USGS
> (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov)
> more informations on
> http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/SRTM
>
>
> cheers,
> Sylvain
>
>
> 2011/8/22 maning sambale 
>>
>> I got this news recently, from this website, one can download ~30m SRTM
>> data:
>> http://eoweb.dlr.de:8080/index.html
>>
>> "The X-band SRTM DEM data are provided in DTED format. Detailed
>> information on the DTED format
>> can be found in the document 'Product Description of the SRTM
>> DTED-Format' (SRTM/PD-03/11/03)
>> available at http://www.dlr.de/srtm/docs/SRTM-XSAR-DEM-DTED-1.1.pdf.
>>
>> The DEM and HEM data are in geographic (Lat/Long) projection, datum
>> WGS84. The elevation values
>> are also WGS84, as specified in the product description of the SRTM
>> DTED-format.
>>
>> The DEMs inside the compressed archive are distributed as individual
>> files, i.e. they are not
>> mosaicked into one large DEM file. Each DEM covers an area of 15' by
>> 15'. The filename of the
>> individual DEM file specifies the bottom left coordinate of the
>> corresponding 15' by 15' DEM tile.
>>
>> One pixel of the DEM files corresponds to approximately 25 m x 25 m on
>> the ground. The elevation
>> values are provided at a resolution of 1 m. The horizontal accuracy of
>> the SRTM X-band DEMs is ±20
>> m (abs.) / ±15 m (rel.), both 90% CE. The vertical accuracy is ±16 m
>> (abs.) / ±6 m (rel.), both 90% LE.
>> Precise information on vertical and horizontal accuracies for
>> individual tiles can be found in the
>> accuracy description record (ACC) of the DTED file. "
>>
>> I tried to access the public portal, but I just got the "Loading java
>> virtual machine" message.
>> Anyone here, who can access the data and is it really available to the
>> public?
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?

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+1 We conducted our own site specific comparison and we concluded that
SRTM is much better especially those post-processed by CGIAR.
>>
>> Depending on where you are there are issues with ASTER GDEM:
>> http://gis.cri.fmach.it/aster-gdem-quality/
>>
>> Markus
>
> Or in flat tropical area...
> http://yepca.org/wp3/?p=303
Thanks! Shared and bookmarked this site!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Local-chapters] OSGeo AGM on Friday September 16th

[maning sambale]

I cannot attend the foss4g  but will be in Denver for OSM's State of
the Map.  I am very interested to learn more about what the local
chapters in other countries are doing as we start organizing our own
in the Philippines.  Is the AGM still part of the conference?  Do I
still need to register to the conf to attend the AGM/local chapter
lighnitng talks?

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> we will have our OSGeo Annual General Meeting on Friday, September 16th
> from 4 to 5 pm in the Grand Ballroom, right after the Closing Plenary of
> the conference. The AGM will be a firework of lightning talks by the
> Local Chapters, officers, chairs and members highlighting their
> achievements within OSGeo in the last year and the objectives for the
> next. Other than the typical AGM[1] it will be rather informal and fun.
> The latter depends a lot on your participation which is why we send out
> this email to remind you that this is your chance to speak up about what
> you have done for OSGeo and how you achieved it. The goal is to learn
> from each other and to better understand the scope of OSGeo and where we
> can still improve it. This will also be valuable input for the board of
> directors who will meet on Sunday for their annual face to face meeting
> to decide how to realize all of these objectives.
>
> If you are interested in presenting please add yourself to this Wiki
> list [2] and prepare a talk no longer than !four! minutes. That is 225
> seconds of talking (the missing 14 seconds are for breathing and
> switching to the next speaker). The rule is first come first serve with
> final arbitration and ordering by the moderator (me). We will not be
> able to allow for any overrun so please check your talk against the clock.
>
> If you have questions or doubts please feel free to ask on this list (or
> contact me directly).
>
> If you are in a Local Chapter please make sure that at least your
> representative is subscribed to the Local Chapters mailing list [3].
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf Christl
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO-PH first meeting 20110923

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Dear everyone,

We will be having our first informal meeting of OSGEO-Philippines this
coming Friday (September 23, 2011) from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the ESSC
Conference Room
Manila Observatory Building, Ateneo de Manila University Campus, QC.

This is a very informal meeting just to get a feel of who are using or
interested with OSGEO technologies.

Initial agenda:
 * Presentation of OSGEO
 * The OSGEO-Live project
 * Brainstorming of ideas for the OSGEO-PH local chapter

If anyone is interested, please send me an email offlist.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live lightening presentation now updated to 5.0

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Thanks! I will use it for our first osgeo-ph meetup.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Cameron Shorter
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> is a 30 to 40 minute presentation about all the applications on OSGeo-Live.
> It also happens to be a very useful source of material for anyone heading
> back from foss4g who will be giving a presentation to co-workers about what
> foss4g is all about.
>
> The presentation is available here:
> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo philippines mailing list

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[Apologies for cross-posting]

Just a short announcement for anyone interested.

Public mailinglist for the OSGeo-Philippine local chapter is available at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/philippines

This will be the main discussion list for organizing the OSGeo
Philippine Local Chapter.  See you there!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] charter member nomination: Tim Sutton

[maning sambale]

+1 here for tim sutton.

On Friday, November 11, 2011, Giovanni Manghi 
wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 05:01 -0800, gavinf wrote:
>> I heartily support Tim's nomination. In addition to his kudos already
>> mentioned, he made a major contribution on the LOC of FOSS4G 2008 and
much
>> of his unpaid time is devoted to OSGeo-related causes, whether hacking,
>> teaching or advocating.
>
> I also support the nomination of Tim Sutton.
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSs4G + SoTM

[maning sambale]

A good presentation by Arnulf on the various communities (osgeo, ogc
and openstreetmap) during SOTM 2011 in Denver here:
http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/what-open-and-what-free-ogc-osgeo-and-osm

My oneliner take:
OGC = open standards
OSGEO = open source software
OSM = open data

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Noli Sicad  wrote:
> You can to learn more on OSM activities.
>
> Visit OSM Blogsite.
>
> http://opengeodata.org/
>
> Noli
>
> On 11/17/11, Frans Thamura  wrote:
>>>
>>> SOTM not yet decided (at least according to this,
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sotm)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> that will be new OSS Movement, if both can together
>>
>>
>>
>>>  Eli
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Frans Thamura  wrote:
>>> > ok -ok :)
>>> > thx for the reply..
>>> > because i just got a lot of "OSM" in last FOSS4G Tokyo..
>>> > and got the SoTM name there...
>>> > will next year, also FOSS4G with SotM again..
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Tyler Mitchell 
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Frans,
>>> >> It seemed to be a coincidence that SOTM also chose the same
>>> >> location that FOSS4G had planned for.  Both groups helped
>>> >> advertise both events, but there was no more collaboration
>>> >> beyond that really.  Just friends meeting friends and staying
>>> >> longer in Denver :)
>>> >>
>>> >> Best wishes,
>>> >> Tyler
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 2011-11-16, at 3:32 PM, Frans Thamura wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > hi all
>>> >> >
>>> >> > after see FOSS4G Tokyo
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am planning to create FOSS4G Indonesia...
>>> >> >
>>> >> > but i see in denver, there are SoTM..
>>> >> >
>>> >> > i see OSM is using Mapnik, and it is not part of OSGeo..
>>> >> >
>>> >> > any glue all...
>>> >> >
>>> >> > what is relation between SoTM with FOSS4G
>>> >> >
>>> >> > because held in same day
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
>>> >> > Chief of Advisory
>>> >> > Meruvian.
>>> >> > Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>>> >> >
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>>> >> > Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>>> >> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members

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Dear everyone,

Thank you for the opportunity to be a Charter Member.  As a simple
user and non-coder/developer, I am very happy to be part of this
family.  Me and my institute [0] are actively promoting OSGeo in the
Philippines in the last 2 years.  This coming year, we are planning to
be more involved in the formation of the PH local chapter [1].  We
just had one of our osgeo-ph meetup last Saturday and I thank Venka
and Nicolas Bozon for joining us via skype.

I hope other OSGEO members can also join us in future meetings to
share insights.

[0] http://www.essc.org.ph/
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ravi Kumar  wrote:
>
> 
> From: Suchith Anand 
> To: OSGeo Discussions 
> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members
>
> Dear OSGeo Colleagues,
>
> I am greatly humbled and thankful for this opportunity to be Charter member
> of OSGeo. I will strongly continue in my efforts with the aim to get Open
> Source GIS its rightful place in geospatial education worldwide. It is a
> long road but i am confident with all of our joint efforts and hardwork we
> will achieve this aim.
>
> Having strong agenda and result oriented plans  for Education and training
> is very important for the long term sustainability of OSGeo and our aim to
> help bring the
>
> benefits of geospatial technologies to all especially for the economically
> disadvantaged communities worldwide.
>
> Well, and hope to see a better future..
> Ravi Kumar
>
> Thanks to Jo and Mike for nominating me and all charter members for giving
> me this opportunity.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> Dr Suchith Anand
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> http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/
> http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/
>
> Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for
> bridging the digital divide
>
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> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
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> Sent: 01 December 2011 06:35
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> Welcome to all new charter members.
> Now it is time to hear from them their plans for OSGeo in general and their
> domain, local chapters in particular.
> Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too.
>
> Old charter members:
> It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members.
> Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter.
>
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> Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections

[maning sambale]

My websearch skills are failing right now.  I beleive it was mentioned
here before of very big flow chart/diagram of all OSGEO projects.  I
distinctly remember that almost all projects connects to GDAL.

I need for a presentation about osgeo.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections

[maning sambale]

Thank you Noli and Jorge.  This is what I need. Dated but good enough
for this crowd.
> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/mindmaps/project-relationships-diagram/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-SEA a sucess

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Dear everyone,

I am happy to announce that (personally) foss4g-sea 2012 [0] was a
success.  This event was in conjunction with the partner conference
AGSE 2012 [1].  I personally thank UTM, Dr. Behr and Dr. Thuy for
making this a success.  Everyone got their very own OSGeo Live-DVD.

OSGeo Malaysia Local Chapter convened during the event and  I expect
more activities from the LC will move afterwards.

Many of the participants have heard of open source but I'm amazed to
see that many where surprised of what it can actually do.  Lots of new
converts in my opinion (including the Malaysian national mapping
agency who attended my QGIS workshop). :)

Dr. Behr and Dr. Thuy can provide more details.  Thanks again.


[0] http://foss4g-sea.org/
[1] http://applied-geoinformatics.org/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

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I support this proposal.  We are already doing this for the Charter
Membership election [0].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process#Voting

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>> But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy
>> member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude
>> not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the
>> chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter will
>> react to this.
>
> Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method as
> used by the Debian project?
>
> Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

[maning sambale]

cool idea!

i love to bring this book to my regular fossgeo promotion rounds.
On Jul 28, 2012 8:46 PM, "nicolas bozon"  wrote:

> Great ideas !
>
> I think if the input format is generic enough (LateX, or Sphinx may be..),
> we would be able to provide such a maps collection (images+txt) as both
> Print, HTML, EPub or what ever (may be at different prices too).
> It'd be a great tool to promote both open source geospatial software and
> open geospatial data according to me, and yes, as Barry suggested, why not
> try to make profit out of this, for OSGeo.
>
> My 0.02 €
>
> Best,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
> 2012/7/28 Mr. Puneet Kishor 
>
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson <
>> b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source
>> > technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was
>> > thinking:
>> > ..
>>
>>
>> Great idea, but a physical book in today's day and age? Perhaps... That
>> said, what about
>>
>> http://www.radicalcartography.net
>> http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Convert a scanned map to vector format

[maning sambale]

A good starting point would be QGIS and GRASS.

Here's an article on "Trace vector contours from a scanned map" with
GRASS.  You can QGIS via the GRASS plugin.

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Trace_vector_contours_from_a_scanned_map

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:26 PM, mrmmsilva  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need suggestions for software open source that allows me to convert a
> scanned map to vector format.
>
> thank you very much.
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Certified software policy within international aid agencies

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Dear everyone,

While manning our OSGeo booth in a geo conference today. An employee of an
international aid agency approached me and said while they very much like
to try many of our software, they can't easily install them because they
have strict IT policy that requires that a software should be certified by
their organization.

I know this is not OSGeo specific but more of FOSS in general. I am also
aware that large businesses may have similar IT policies. However, what
concerns me more is that these aid agencies are directly working with many
organizations specifically with developing countries like ours. They have
limited view on what FOSS options are available and it can influence any
advice they on what technology developing country organizations can use.

Just a thought.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] First FOSS4G event in the Philippines at PhilGEOS 2012

[maning sambale]

Dear list,

We had our very first FOSS4G event in the Philippines.  The FOSS4G
workshops was not part of the original schedule of activities but we
were able to "hitchhike" a pre-conference day for the workshops. ;)

Short summary:


OSGEO Philippines (OSGeo-PH), the University of Philippines Department
of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH)
and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a
series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source
technologies at the PhilGEOS 2012 last November 23-24, 2012 at Melchor
Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City (map).

This is our first FOSS4G event in the Philippines. Over 60
participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live
project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions
in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed
during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50
OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.

More info here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?

[maning sambale]

Can chapters-in-formation submit reports?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?

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Thanks Arnulf!

Will put up some report for our chapter.

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> Source, Data and Education and we should also talk about them. The
> Journal helps to spread word and get others interested.
>
> Best regards,
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