Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for our OSGeo AGM 2020 virtual event on 10 September 2020 18 UTC

[Mike Saunt]

+1 from me

On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 at 20:33, Steven Feldman  wrote:

> The AGM format was stretched for the last couple of years when we were
> meeting face to face. It just isn’t possible to give every project,
> initiative, committee and chapter space even if they stick to the time
> limit (which few do).
>
> The slide deck currently stands at 112 slides - a lot are from last year
> but presumably will be replaced. Perhaps we could read the slides as a
> report and then use the AGM for more discussion.
>
> I wonder if the GM needs to focus on a narrower agenda around the Board’s
> activities and strategy with space for more discussion rather than a run
> through of what everyone did in the last year?
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-UK] Contributor needed for Open Source Geo updates for GIS Professional magazine

[Mike Saunt]

Suchith,

Let me know if you don't get any takers, I'll try to help where I can.

Mike

PS Jo shared the photo from that first meet with me recently.  Could drag
it out if you like!

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017, 21:25 Suchith Anand, 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been contacted by Niall Conway (GIS Professional magazine)  to see
> if there are any interested  contributor(s) who would like to share written
> updates on the latest developments in open source geo which will be of
> interest to the wider geospatial community?  They are looking  to include a
> section which is dedicated to opensource news and updates to ensure that
> the magazine content is as balanced as possible.
>
> I think it is a great idea to have a balanced content coverage including
> also the developments in open source geo.  If anyone is interested to
> volunteer to share written updates including coverage of major events and
> conferences such as FOSS4G, software updates and partnerships within the
> broader geospatial field etc please contact Niall (Email -
> conwayni...@gmail.com )  . This role would particularly suit someone who
> enjoys writing on a range of new subjects and wishes to develop a profile
> in the industry.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> PS: I remember Mike Saunt (Astun Technologies) used to write a column on
> open source geospatial developments for one of the GIS Industry
> publications. He published  the summary  from a first small meeting (less
> than 10 people including Tyler, Jo and me!) that OSGeo had in  the UK on
> the sidelines of another event around 10 years back!   But I could not find
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

[Mike Toothaker]

Done and for anyone interested the ticket is here :
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1264
Feel free to add more info.

Thanks again,

Mike

On 12/10/2013 4:29 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Create a ticket here:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/newticket?component=Systems%20Admin
>
> And add my comments to the ticket. This has been an open issues for
> about a month and come up on Discuss a few times so there may already
> be a ticket for it.
>
> -Steve
>
> On 12/10/2013 4:19 PM, Mike Toothaker wrote:
>> That is interesting. I seem to get it all the time. Is there anything
>> that you can suggest as for an avenue of recourse from my end? Do I just
>> wait until someone notices the misconfiguration? Can I find out which
>> server has the misconfiguration and attempt to contact the admin?
>>
>> Thanks again for your quick help.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 12/10/2013 4:12 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>> OK, interestingly that url works fine for me! But if I SHIFT-refresh a
>>> bunch of times I can get that error. So it seems that the load
>>> balancer is hitting one/some? server that is miss configured.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> On 12/10/2013 3:50 PM, Mike Toothaker wrote:
>>>> Thanks for your quick response. From firebug I captured the request
>>>> that
>>>> is being made. Here is an example:
>>>>
>>>> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0?LAYERS=basic&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-45,-45,0,0&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to note, that this seems to be effecting the WMS examples
>>>> on the openlayers.org website as well.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On 12/10/2013 3:44 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>>>> Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this
>>>>> error message?
>>>>>
>>>>> If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not
>>>>> be built into it and you might have better luck requesting
>>>>> map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png
>>>>>
>>>>> -Steve W
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM, mtoothaker wrote:
>>>>>> As of last week sometime this started happening to us as well. We
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> interfacing through OpenLayers, everything was working fine and then
>>>>>> all of
>>>>>> a sudden we stop getting tiles from
>>>>>> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0
>>>>>> and when I copy the request to my browser address bar I get in
>>>>>> reply :
>>>>>> "loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT clause
>>>>>> references
>>>>>> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured. ". When I started
>>>>>> reading
>>>>>> this thead I was hoping to find my solution, but I don't know how to
>>>>>> follow
>>>>>> up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advanced.
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Frank Warmerdam wrote
>>>>>>> Ian,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm, interesting.  I was under the vague belief that the vmap0
>>>>>>> tiles
>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>> being generated by a variety of servers and that one of those
>>>>>>> was the
>>>>>>> webextra VM at OSU OSL which has been having problems.  When I
>>>>>>> login
>>>>>>> I see
>>>>>>> I'm on sphere at telescience.  Can you give me the specific
>>>>>>> request you
>>>>>>> issue to give that response.  It may be that it is misconfigured
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> requests you are making, but it is still handling normal tile
>>>>>>> requests ok.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +cc Martin Spott who I think knows a bunch about this service.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We could likely drop osgeo discuss off this thread.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> Frank
>>>&

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

[Mike Toothaker]

That is interesting. I seem to get it all the time. Is there anything
that you can suggest as for an avenue of recourse from my end? Do I just
wait until someone notices the misconfiguration? Can I find out which
server has the misconfiguration and attempt to contact the admin?

Thanks again for your quick help.

Mike

On 12/10/2013 4:12 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> OK, interestingly that url works fine for me! But if I SHIFT-refresh a
> bunch of times I can get that error. So it seems that the load
> balancer is hitting one/some? server that is miss configured.
>
> -Steve
>
> On 12/10/2013 3:50 PM, Mike Toothaker wrote:
>> Thanks for your quick response. From firebug I captured the request that
>> is being made. Here is an example:
>>
>> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0?LAYERS=basic&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-45,-45,0,0&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
>>
>>
>> I would like to note, that this seems to be effecting the WMS examples
>> on the openlayers.org website as well.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 12/10/2013 3:44 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>> Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this
>>> error message?
>>>
>>> If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not
>>> be built into it and you might have better luck requesting
>>> map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png
>>>
>>> -Steve W
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM, mtoothaker wrote:
>>>> As of last week sometime this started happening to us as well. We are
>>>> interfacing through OpenLayers, everything was working fine and then
>>>> all of
>>>> a sudden we stop getting tiles from
>>>> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0
>>>> and when I copy the request to my browser address bar I get in reply :
>>>> "loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT clause
>>>> references
>>>> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured. ". When I started
>>>> reading
>>>> this thead I was hoping to find my solution, but I don't know how to
>>>> follow
>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advanced.
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Frank Warmerdam wrote
>>>>> Ian,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, interesting.  I was under the vague belief that the vmap0 tiles
>>>>> are
>>>>> being generated by a variety of servers and that one of those was the
>>>>> webextra VM at OSU OSL which has been having problems.  When I login
>>>>> I see
>>>>> I'm on sphere at telescience.  Can you give me the specific
>>>>> request you
>>>>> issue to give that response.  It may be that it is misconfigured for
>>>>> the
>>>>> requests you are making, but it is still handling normal tile
>>>>> requests ok.
>>>>>
>>>>> +cc Martin Spott who I think knows a bunch about this service.
>>>>>
>>>>> We could likely drop osgeo discuss off this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Frank
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ian Turton <
>>>>
>>>>> ijturton@
>>>>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know who to ask about vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms always
>>>>>> returning
>>>>>>
>>>>>> loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT clause
>>>>>> references
>>>>>> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

[Mike Toothaker]

http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0?LAYERS=basic&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-135,0,-90,45&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

seems to give me the exact same response.

Mike

On 12/10/2013 3:50 PM, Ian Turton wrote:
>
> The quick workaround is to request PNG.
>
> Ian
>
> On 10 Dec 2013 20:46, "Stephen Woodbridge"  <mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
>
> Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this
> error message?
>
> If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might
> not be built into it and you might have better luck requesting
> map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png
>
> -Steve W
>
>
> On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM, mtoothaker wrote:
>
> As of last week sometime this started happening to us as well.
> We are
> interfacing through OpenLayers, everything was working fine
> and then all of
> a sudden we stop getting tiles from
> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0
> and when I copy the request to my browser address bar I get in
> reply :
> "loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT
> clause references
> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured. ". When I
> started reading
> this thead I was hoping to find my solution, but I don't know
> how to follow
> up.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
> Mike
>
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote
>
> Ian,
>
> Hmm, interesting.  I was under the vague belief that the
> vmap0 tiles are
> being generated by a variety of servers and that one of
> those was the
> webextra VM at OSU OSL which has been having problems.
>  When I login I see
> I'm on sphere at telescience.  Can you give me the
> specific request you
> issue to give that response.  It may be that it is
> misconfigured for the
> requests you are making, but it is still handling normal
> tile requests ok.
>
> +cc Martin Spott who I think knows a bunch about this service.
>
> We could likely drop osgeo discuss off this thread.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ian Turton <
>
>
> ijturton@
>
>
> > wrote:
>
> Does anyone know who to ask about
> vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms
> <http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms> always
> returning
>
> loadOutputFormat(): General error message.
> OUTPUTFORMAT clause references
> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

[Mike Toothaker]

Thanks for your quick response. From firebug I captured the request that
is being made. Here is an example:

http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0?LAYERS=basic&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-45,-45,0,0&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

I would like to note, that this seems to be effecting the WMS examples
on the openlayers.org website as well.

Mike

On 12/10/2013 3:44 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this
> error message?
>
> If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not
> be built into it and you might have better luck requesting
> map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png
>
> -Steve W
>
>
> On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM, mtoothaker wrote:
>> As of last week sometime this started happening to us as well. We are
>> interfacing through OpenLayers, everything was working fine and then
>> all of
>> a sudden we stop getting tiles from
>> http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0
>> and when I copy the request to my browser address bar I get in reply :
>> "loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT clause
>> references
>> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured. ". When I started
>> reading
>> this thead I was hoping to find my solution, but I don't know how to
>> follow
>> up.
>>
>> Thanks in advanced.
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Frank Warmerdam wrote
>>> Ian,
>>>
>>> Hmm, interesting.  I was under the vague belief that the vmap0 tiles
>>> are
>>> being generated by a variety of servers and that one of those was the
>>> webextra VM at OSU OSL which has been having problems.  When I login
>>> I see
>>> I'm on sphere at telescience.  Can you give me the specific request you
>>> issue to give that response.  It may be that it is misconfigured for
>>> the
>>> requests you are making, but it is still handling normal tile
>>> requests ok.
>>>
>>> +cc Martin Spott who I think knows a bunch about this service.
>>>
>>> We could likely drop osgeo discuss off this thread.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ian Turton <
>>
>>> ijturton@
>>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know who to ask about vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms always
>>>> returning
>>>>
>>>> loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT clause
>>>> references
>>>> driver GD/JPEG, but this driver isn't configured.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Ian
>>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

[Mike Saunt]

Daniel, Arnulf et all

Astun have been in contact with the Ordnance Survey regarding this and
would like to participate.  I'm still trying to understand the outcomes
from a business perspective i.e. will there be negative backlash if
software doesn't have a positive outcome.

We have a possible issue with timing but we should be able work though this.

My thoughts at present are that the following software would be looked at
by Astun (which are core to our services):

   - MapServer (vanilla - MapCache potentially could if people felt the
   need)
   - GeoServer (vanilla)
   - OGR (via Loader!)
   - QGIS (Client only)


Interestingly, I think the latter 3 are all used by OS so I'll be
interested to understand their view on the 'compliance' of those.

I'll try to keep you all posted on this - if any other UK OSGeo users /
companies (or elsewhere in the world) would like to be involved I'm happy
to try to coordinate where possible - unless someone else wishes to...


Thanks
Mike



On 27 September 2013 22:48, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> I agree that it would be great if OSGeo would participate.
>
> The best would be to have a champion, ideally based in UK, to coordinate
> OSGeo's involvement and be the liaison between the organizers and the rest
> of the OSGeo community. Any volunteer?
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> On 13-09-26 9:17 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>> I very much support this activity and believe that it would be quite
>> beneficial to participate. Ordnance Survey is a powerful multiplier in
>> the UK geospatial business due to its position as the main data
>> provider to the public. There is a license program in place called
>> PSMA (Public Sector Mapping Agreement) entitling all public sector
>> broad access to OS data. Not Bene - this is a lot more than what is
>> published through the Open Data program licensed under the Open
>> Government License. I think it is important to understand what data is
>> available and also what can be done with the service offering of
>> Ordnance Survey. The plugfest will additionally allow you to
>> interoperate with other software you typically encounter in the area.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Arnulf
>>
>> PS: I am not working for or paid by Ordnance Survey or OGC and nobody
>> made me say ony of this, it is just my own little gut feeling.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Peter Cotroneo
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm leading a joint Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Ordnance
>>> Survyey interoperability plugfest to test OGC standards in the UK
>>> geospatial community.  So far, there has been a lot of interest from
>>> commercial vendors in the UK, and I would very much like that the open
>>> source community be represented at the plugfest as well.
>>>
>>> The plugfest will be held at Ordnance Survey headquarters in
>>> Southampton, UK.  There will be two sprints, one on the 17th of October and
>>> the other on the 9th of December.  There will also be a results
>>> presentation on the 10th of December.
>>>
>>> The following link gives more information about the plugfest, including
>>> a call for participation document.
>>>
>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/**node/1892<http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1892>
>>>
>>> The deadline to participate is the 2nd of October.  I hope that OSGeo
>>> can join us!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Support for nomination of Ian Edwards

[Mike Saunt]

I'd also like to add my support for Ian who will be a great addition


On 18 August 2013 19:34, Dr. Franz-Josef Behr <
franz-josef.b...@hft-stuttgart.de> wrote:

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G September Invite

[Mike Saunt]

Ian

I'd like to be involved if you can mark me down that would be great

Thanks
Mike


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>
> In case you missed the news... the FOSS4G Early Bird is remaining open
> until this Tuesday (18th June).
>
> If you decided it was too expensive to register then look again:
> http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/
>
>
> *Local Chapter Invitation*
>
> If you're a member of any OSGeo local chapter, OSGeo:UK would like to
> invite you to the Local Chapter Meet Up during FOSS4G's Birds of a Feather
> sessions.
>
> For details, or if you'd like to take part, email Ian Edwards or update
> the relevant section of the 2013 Birds of a Feather wiki 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Problem with Geos-3.2.2, Python & Swig

[Mike Toews]

Hi Thomas,

Since GEOS 3.0, the Python bindings are unsupported, but the
`--enable-python` option is still exposed in case a new developer
wants to step in and support it. Try removing this option.

However, the good news is that you can use Shapely to do the same
work, as it uses the GEOS C API.

Probably the best list for GEOS questions is geos-devel
http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/geos-devel

-Mike

On 19 September 2012 00:57, SIEFFERT Thomas  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I don't know if it's the right place but still, I have a little problem
> while the compilation process of geos (v3.2.2). Here is the error :
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/freeware/python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 87, in
> run_module
> raise ImportError("No module named " + mod_name)
> ImportError: No module named odern
> make[2]: [geos_wrap.cxx] Erreur 255 (ignorée)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/freeware/python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 87, in
> run_module
> raise ImportError("No module named " + mod_name)
> ImportError: No module named odern
> make[4]: [geos_wrap.cxx] Erreur 255 (ignorée)
> Dans le fichier inclus à partir de geos_wrap.cxx:135:
> /freeware/src/Python-2.5.1/Include/Python.h:8:22: erreur: pyconfig.h : Aucun
> fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> Dans le fichier inclus à partir de
> /freeware/src/Python-2.5.1/Include/Python.h:57,
>   à partir de geos_wrap.cxx:135:
> /freeware/src/Python-2.5.1/Include/pyport.h:734:2: erreur: #error "LONG_BIT
> definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)."
> /freeware/src/Python-2.5.1/Include/pyport.h:550: erreur: declaration of
> ?double hypot(double, double)? throws different exceptions
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:163: erreur: from previous declaration ?double
> hypot(double, double) throw ()?
> geos_wrap.cxx: In function ?int SWIG_CanCastAsInteger(double*, double,
> double)?:
> geos_wrap.cxx:2786: erreur: ?errno? was not declared in this scope
> geos_wrap.cxx:2786: erreur: ?EDOM? was not declared in this scope
> geos_wrap.cxx:2786: erreur: ?ERANGE? was not declared in this scope
> geos_wrap.cxx: In function ?PyObject* _wrap_geomFromWKB(PyObject*,
> PyObject*)?:
> geos_wrap.cxx:8247: attention : déréférencement du pointeur type-punned
> brisera les strictes d'aliases
> geos_wrap.cxx: In function ?PyObject* _wrap_geomFromHEX(PyObject*,
> PyObject*)?:
> geos_wrap.cxx:8367: attention : déréférencement du pointeur type-punned
> brisera les strictes d'aliases
> make[4]: *** [_geos_la-geos_wrap.lo] Erreur 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Erreur 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?

[Mike Saunt]

I think this is a good idea.   We're using basecamp for FOSS4G 2013 so lots
of details will be recorded there.  I would think conference post mortems
would work too...

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> In analysing the downfall of FOSS4G 2012 [1] one of the key lessons that
> became apparent to me is that we are not very efficient at passing on
> Lessons Learned from one conference to the next.
>
> Could we do a better job of knowledge transfer by building an OSGeo
> Conference Body of Knowledge? Something like a FOSS4G Cookbook [2]?
>
> If so, what should be the scope of the cookbook? Should it only be for the
> international FOSS4G event? Should it cover regional conferences too?
> Should it also cover FOSS4G steams in other conferences?
>
> Who thinks this idea is important enough that you would like to help write
> sections of the Cookbook, or help with editing?
>
> What format should we use to write the Cookbook? Maybe a wiki?
>
> I'm interested to help push this idea forward if we as a community think
> that there will be value in such a collaboratively edited document.
>
> If you have an interest, please respond on the OSGeo conference_dev email
> list (rather than OSGeo Discuss)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoCoworking

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We don't have this per se,  but do have spare space / meeting room if
people need something in Epsom, Surrey, UK

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> http://www.mutinerie.org/ - but I can't vouch for them personally :)
>
> On 2011-11-17, at 12:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
> > Anyone co-working in Paris? I'm going to be there for a month in May,
> > need references for nice spaces to work.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Membership Nomination: Suchith Anand

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I second this (if I can even though I am not being a Charter Member)

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> I would like to nominate Suchith Anand as an OSGeo Charter Member. His
> tireless enthusiasm in promoting OSGeo in the UK has been immensely
> beneficial to the UK chapter. His work to promote open source geospatial
> software use in education (see http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/) is of
> great importance and benefit to OSGeo globally. Furthermore, his work
> securing an MOU between OSGeo and the Centre for Geospatial Sciences at the
> University of Nottingham, and more recently with
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> exactly the sort of pro-active, enthusiastic person that we need in OSGeo!
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-UK] OSGIS 2011 Awards

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I had a great time seeing everyone again - Well done again Suchith!!!

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On 24 June 2011 14:56, Suchith Anand  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> ** **
>
> We are pleased to inform the winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best
> presentation awards 2011
>
> ** **
>
> *A multi-dimensional viewer for city evolution analysis*
>
> Maria Brovelli, Luana Valentini, Giorgio Zamboni
>
> Politecnico di Milano, Italy
>
> ** **
>
> *Open source GIS for archaeological data visualisation and analysis*
>
> Anna Hodgkinson and Christina Robinson
>
> Oxford Archaeology North, UK
>
> ** **
>
> *Mapping Across Borders: Facilitating Open Source GIS training through
> micro volunteering*
>
> Michael Martin and Jon Corbett
>
> The Centre for Social Spatial and Economic Justice,
>
> The University of British Columbia, Canada
>
> ** **
>
> Well done to all winners.
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks to all our workshop organisers (British Geological Survey, Ordnance
> Survey, Horizon, Creative Commons, gvSIG, GeoSolutions, Faunalia, Astun
> Technology) for their support and efforts. We would like to thank all our
> presenters, sponsors and delegates for helping us make OSGIS 2011 a great
> success.
>
> ** **
>
> The recorded webcasts of the conference will be  made available for the
> benefit of the wider community soon. The event Twitter feeds at
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>
> ** **
>
> We are also pleased to announce that *OSGIS 2012* will be held on 4th &
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> building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research. 
>
> ** **
>
> Best wishes,
>
> ** **
>
> Suchith
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers

[Mike]

For the chart - you might look here http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/

NOAA also has some shoreline datasets, as
well as NGA.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) <
david.fawc...@state.mn.us> wrote:

> I don't know if 1:10,000,000 is a large enough scale for you, but if it is,
> you might want to look at Natural Earth.  Public Domain
>
> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>
> You could also look at OpenStreetMap data.  www.openstreetmap.org  Most of
> the coastline data was imported from the Prototype Global Shoreline dataset
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prototype_Global_Shoreline.  This data
> has been improved in some areas.
>
> David.
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Kerstetter
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:07 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers
>
> On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Peter wrote:
>
> >
> > 4. Try to get an accurate vector layer of the same terrain, that has
> recognizable locations that match your raster, load that up, and then use
> the from map tool, itll be the easiest way.
>
> Any suggestions where to find vector maps? All the ones I have found are
> somewhat squishy in their placement of islands and the details of
> coastlines. I have tried geological survey websites plus the general
> commercial web. I have some older maps I may scan in and trace the vectors
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do youXXX with Open Source GIS?"

[Mike]

I've often thought a document like this would be quite useful.
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165
This one says "You do
this in ArcMap, here's how to do it in Manifold"

Is there a guide like this for some of the OSGeo applications?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Bob Basques wrote:

>  All,
>
>  Could an expanded version of something like this comparison work: *
> http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=257&Itemid=59&lang=en
> *  I really like this comparison, and the fact that there are many
> versions available, each with added content, makes the whole process that
> much more valuable over time.
>
>  If so, is there marketing fund available for building an expanded
> version.  Germain may be interested in something like this.  May also have a
> good bead on what interested parties are looking for in a Geoproduct.
>
>  This type of question/answer packet seems like a good fit for a
> promotional piece of OSGEO propoganda materials, and could be regularly
> upgraded.   Germain for example already has a third (v5) english version on
> the side lines waiting to be converted to english.   This type of product
> with the right additions seems like it might satisfy a large part of the
> question "what tool for what purpose?".
>
>  bobb
>
>
>
>
>
> >>> Tyler Erickson  wrote:
>
> I don't think a FAQ needs to point to one "single best tool". As Frank
> noted in his examples, the answer could be a list of tools if more than one
> provides the capability. Answers that include links to a description of the
> capability (and/or examples of usage) in the project documentation would be
> especially helpful.
>
>
>   - TylerE
>
>   On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Hamish  wrote:
>
>>  Jody:
>>
>> > This request comes up yearly; and was
>> > one of the ideas for content for the osgeo website. The
>> > difficulty is finding resources to produce the content.
>> >
>> > The trouble is just because a request is common, and makes
>> > perfect sense from a marketing open source geospatial point
>> > of view, does not imply the foundation has the marketing
>> > muscle to get it done.
>>
>>   as noted in the original thread on the live-demo ML, much of the OSGeo
>> software is somewhat interchangeable, especially for common desktop GIS
>> tasks. Asking the collective authors/representatives of all OSGeo projects
>> which is the best single tool to get the job done is not likely to converge
>> on a single answer that doesn't leave at least one or two projects feeling a
>> bit ignored.
>>
>> this may be frustrating & overwhelming to the new recruit, but the only
>> honest answer I could give to it is "explore the Live DVD and find something
>> that fits you well".
>>
>>
>> what's the best FOSS tool to edit a text file?
>> debian$ apt-cache search editor | wc -l
>> 603
>>
>> ... "it depends", take your pick :-/
>>
>>
>> solutions welcome,
>> Hamish
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Street address to coordinates database lookup?

[Mike Toews]

FYI, the terms you are looking for is geocoding and reverse geocoding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding

But I haven't done much of this myself, so that's where I stop being useful.

-Mike

On 7 September 2010 15:01, Peter  wrote:
> In NZ as i guess in most places we have a national system of rural property
> addressing (RAPID) where the street number is based on how many meters down
> the road the property gate is. These are stored in Land Informations
> property on line database.
>
> My question is there any official or unofficial ways to access this street
> number to latlong coords data online?
>
> Googlemaps evidently has access to it for its searchs, failing better
> methods perhaps scrape their results page???
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Support of 4D (time based) data sets

[Mike Toews]

On 7 September 2010 04:11, Timmie  wrote:
> how do you intend to deal with aggregated data sets?
> E.g. 10-years average for every month of the year.

For all calculations on NetCDF files (including your example), you can
try NCO[1]. These command-line tools require extensive documentation
reading, and I recommend keeping a log of notes for commands that
work. Many useful examples are also provided in the documentation.

On 7 September 2010 03:16, andrea antonello  wrote:
>> The NASA tool Panoply (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/) does this 
>> quite
>> nicely.
>
> I think it doesn't if you have small local datasets, I have never been
> able to zoom in.

I used ncview[2] to view and produce images for animations used in
presentations (using imagemagick). All my NC files were in a small
region using UTM coordinates, so many viewers didn't know how to show
the data.

[1] http://nco.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html (this needs
X and needs to be compiled -- no binaries or packages available)

-Mike
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

[Mike Toews]

On 16 August 2010 15:39, Peter  wrote:
> - open a http socket to a CGI eg

Opps, my bad. MapServer operates in two modes: CGI and MapScript. It
looks like you want to go into MapScript mode for your application.
Available in almost all of the P languages: PHP, Perl and Python.

#!/usr/bin/python
import mapscript
map = mapscript.mapObj("/home/mapdata/mymap.map")
img = map.draw()
img.save("/home/mapdata/mymap.png")

Again, the MAP file is required, but you can probably template that
somehow and use it in a temporary file for your script.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

[Mike Toews]

On 16 August 2010 13:41, Peter  wrote:
> And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete service.
>  Sounds heavy.

MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI
executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to craft a MAP
file, which is a tricky text file telling the layer source and how it
is stylized. You can connect to most things, including MySQL[1] and
Shapefiles. To get a PNG, you only need to POST a few parameters to
the executable, and it sends you the image file back. You can also use
it with MapScript for PHP or Python. There is lots of documentation[2]
and even a book[3].

-Mike

[1] http://mapserver.org/input/vector/mysql.html
[2] http://mapserver.org/introduction.html
[3] http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594908
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] server down?

[Mike Toews]

See: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeo4w-dev/2010-July/001001.html

On 22 July 2010 06:25, Paolo Cavallini  wrote:

> Hi all.
> AFAIK, the server who hosts the osgeo4w packages is down, and is replaced
> by a
> backup, who does not allow upload by packagers: does anybody confirm this?
> Has
> anybody an idea of when this will be fixed?
> All the best, and thanks.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Mike Toews]

On 1 July 2010 07:22, Arthur Molina  wrote:
>
> Isn't GeoPDF a proprietary and payed format?

It is an open Standard. Both OGC 08-139r1 and ISO 32000. However, I've
never seen it used outside of the Adobe/ESRI scope, so a better
question is what OS software either support rendering or displaying
GeoPDFs?

Considering my impressions of the state of GeoPDF, I don't think it
ins't the best option for distributing data on a CD. My suggestion is
to store the vector data in SHP or Spatialite format, and have a
desktop GIS on the same LiveCD. My vote is for Quantum GIS (QGIS)
since it is the easiest to make a nice looking map that is also
interactive.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Feeds

[Mike Saunt]

Tyler

I'm going to be trying to get to the bottom of the sponsorship etc by 
the end of this week - I'll obviously keep you posted...


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On 10/05/10 21:15, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

Just FYI - I started a wiki page to capture a simple list of various feeds
from OSGeo sites/services.  Feel free to add to them.  I mainly focused on
RSS, but you are welcome to add atom, etc. where applicable too.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Feeds

I'm using a new feed aggregator app on my PC so had to dig them up. Let me
know if it's useful for you.

Tyler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source polygon cluster aggregation algorithm?

[Mike Toews]

The recent JTS has a nice buffering options, namely the mitre buffer.
It does not have rounded corners, and has been very useful to me
(i.e., we can physically survey-out the buffer on the ground with
fewer points to locate and stake out).
http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-buffer-styles-in-jts-19.html

Although I'm no expert at plsql, it appears it can be extended with
java, so maybe it could be possible to wrap the Oracle WKT/B(?)
through JTS:
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Oracle/Extending-PLSQL-with-Java-Libraries/

Someone must have done this for plsql in the past ...

-Mike

On 9 May 2010 06:01, G. Allegri  wrote:
> Hi Stefan. You guessed right, it's buildings generalization. I know
> jts and geos quite well but unfortunatly I  can't use them because I'm
> working directly on oracle with plsql. I think buffer is the way, but
> not the one oracle provides because it rounds the corners...
>
> Bye,
> Giovanni
>
> 2010/5/7 Stefan Steiniger :
>> how about using R it has alpha shapes and a-like?
>>
>> What you describe sounds like a problem in map generalization. I.e. the
>> approach of buffering is something what a colleague of mine once implemented
>> to generalize house-blocks for maps (aggregate the single buildings).
>> Unfortunately I don't know of any accessible code for that.
>>
>> If you are proficient in Java or C++ you could make you custom
>> implementation with JTS or Geos (sounds easy to me).
>>
>> on what geographic objects are you working on? and how much does the shape
>> to be need to maintained?
>>
>> stefan
>>
>> G. Allegri wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> A nice implementation of alpha shapes with jts:
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/jts-de...@lists.jump-project.org/msg01019.html
>>> 
>>>
>>> 2010/5/6 G. Allegri :
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Andrea for the links. Yes, I think the problem is similar, in
>>>> fact I was also looking for concave hull and alpha shapes algoithms,
>>>> but the only open solution I've found is from CGAL [1] and... it's too
>>>> complex to extract and reimplement in my context (database procedural
>>>> programming).
>>>>
>>>> IWe have implemented something very "rude":
>>>>
>>>> 1 - logically aggregate polyongs in clusters (given a certain distance)
>>>> 2 - buffer each polygon mantaining the shape (not the usual buffer,
>>>> which make rounded artifacts)
>>>> 3 - geometrical union
>>>> 4 - shrink the result (unbuffer)
>>>>
>>>> But I have the time for a long holiday waiting the end of the process :)
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Alpha_shapes_2/Chapter_main.html
>>>>
>>>> 2010/5/6 Andrea Aime :
>>>>>
>>>>> G. Allegri ha scritto:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking for an algorithm to do polygon cluster aggregation,
>>>>>> similar to the ArcInfo "Aggregate Polygon" [1].
>>>>>> I know about GEOS "Cascaded Union", but I need two more features:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1 - clustering of polygons that fall within a a certain threshold
>>>>>> distance from each other
>>>>>> 2 - mantain orthogonality, i.e. the original angles/shapes
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know of any such implementation, but it looks somewhat
>>>>> similar to the computation of a concave hull:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubicomp.algoritmi.uminho.pt/local/concavehull.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83593/is-there-an-efficient-algorithm-to-generate-a-2d-concave-hull
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Andrea
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Raster catalog ideas

[Mike Toews]

Hi All,

I'm wondering what existing open source options are available to store
rasters with attributes.

For example, I have several hundred air photos from northern Canada spanning
from the 1940s to now. They have different projections (UTM zones), cell
sizes, etc. This data store needs to be accessed from both web and desktop
GIS software, but needs to have a definition query for the "year" attribute
(so I can take all air photos from 1962, or between 1973 to 1978, or
whatever is required).

Our (my company) present solution is to use ESRI's raster catalog on a
geodatabase. We've had a mixed range of problems on File/Personal/SDE
Geodatabases. We've experienced corruption on all levels of storage options,
so we keep our file path attributes to the original GeoTIFFs so the raster
catalogs can be restored, if required.

I'm a bit lost for the available options. The future PostGIS with raster
capabilities sounds promising, but I need something that already exists. I
don't think a WMS service will work, since it cannot use a query definition
(e.g., I don't want to make layers for each year).

What are other people doing for large stores of air photos? Thanks in
advance.

-Mike
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Web clients

[Mike Adair]

Cameron,

I can provide input on the Fusion client. 


Mike



Cédric Moullet wrote:

Hi Cameron,
I would be happy to bring my input regarding MapFish.
Cédric

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Cameron Shorter 
mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Pieter, good to hear your interest and to hear that geomajas would
be covered.
Anyone interested to step forward for Openlayers, Mapfish or
MabBender?

What should be compared between web clients?
Think of the target audience for such a comparison being a
software developer trying to decide which webmapping framework to
use. What would be the questions they ask?

Off the top of my head:
* What browsers are supported/tested against for each stable release?

* How responsive is the application?
** How large is the javascript which needs to be downloaded to the
browser?
**

* What basemaps are supported
** Google Maps, WMS, WFS, ...

* What tools are supported?
** Pan/Zoom/Edit Feature ...



Pieter De Graef wrote:

Cameron,

if the others are too, I would be interested in such a comparison.
My main question wouls be, exactly what would we be testing?
Performance (how?), functionality, ease-of-use, architecture, 

I still have to check my schedule, but I believe I can set
aside a enough time. I will already forward this mail to the
Geomajas mailing list, to check for response there.




Cameron Shorter schreef:

German Carillo has been building a gis web client
comparison which will make a good basis for a foss4g
presentation here:


http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en

<http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en>


Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can
thank him, and invite him to participate in a FOSS4G
presentation?

Who else would be available to help out with a browser
comparison for the various projects?

Cameron Shorter wrote:

Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April
2010 and I'm hoping that we will see abstracts for:

* LiveDVD lightening overview
* WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout
* Desktop comparison
* Browser Client comparison
* Database comparison

I predict that these presentations will be by far the
most popular presentations of the conference. Further,
I'm expecting to incorporate results onto the LiveDVD.
They will be a lot of effort to prepare, partly
because they will need a team of project developers to
contribute to it, and consequently, unless we get our
act together soon, I suspect that no-one will submit
presentations for some of the topics above.

So I encourage people to respond to the following
targeted email threads, noting your intention to help
and be part of one of the presentation teams. (Note,
the presentation will be the easy bit, the hard bit
will be collating the material for the presentation).

A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:

* a representative from each project in the
comparison. These types of comparisons will be the
first place new users will go when researching
software, so are well worth participating in.
* users who have used more than one of the applications
* anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or
development of feature tables or similar
* coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all
together
* people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You
will have lots of material to present is a short time)





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] what about wms-sites.com ?

[Mike Adair]

Tom Kralidis and I also worked on a WFS implementation of an OWS 
resources catalog some time ago for the CGDI:  
http://atlas.gc.ca/cgi-bin/owscatwfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities


where
service_endpoints: are actual service instances
service_resources: are layers and feature types parsed out of the 
capabilities documents harvested.


and the geometry for those feature types  is the area covered by the 
services (with too many -180,180 services).


That way you could do a geographic query for layers/feature types using 
a WFS query mechanism.


Mike

Tim Schaub wrote:

Hey-

pere roca ristol wrote:

  hi all,
  there was a nice site (wms-sites.com <http://wms-sites.com>) that I 
enjoyed very much because you could do thematic searches of avaible 
WMS, getting back a RSS feed that can be parsed and so on.
  the site has disappeared and I wonder if someone knows something or 
similar sites... I just know the list below, but they don't provide RSS.




I put wms-sites.com together a few years ago.  It was running on a 
pretty outdated setup, and the hosting company I used went out of 
business, so I let it come to an end.


I've started on an updated replacement.  I kept all the catalog 
entries and will populate the new service with these when I get it 
running.


I'll also take a look at http://ows-search-engine.appspot.com/ (I'm 
not getting any response right now).  My current work is also an 
appengine solution - so perhaps there is room for collaboration.


I'll post here when I have something interesting to look at.

Tim


  thanks,
  Pere

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] End of life for Community Mapbuilder

[Mike Adair]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

In fact, I've been just thrilled
by the degree of cooperation achieved between several of the web 
mapping client

side projects in recent years.  The experience and efforts focused on
improvement and exploitation of OpenLayers by those involved in 
Mapbuilder,
ka-map and other projects has helped turn OpenLayers into what I would 
argue
is the "best of breed" role it plays now. 
I just want to point out that a key event in this process was the web 
mapping client BoF at Lausanne where all of the FOSS client projects got 
together and decided to stop re-inventing the wheel.  For me, this is a 
tangible demonstration of the benefits that OSGeo can achieve.


Mike
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Master of GIS in USA

[mike goldberg]

I believe Penn State has a good program. 


https://gis.e-education.psu.edu/mgis
http://www.gis.psu.edu/

cheers!



Len Kne wrote:

The program at the University of Minnesota has worked out great for me.
 
http://mgis.umn.edu/
 
Len



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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ibon Tamayo

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Hi all,
 
One of my friend would like to do a master in USA about GIS. What are 
the best places to do it? and where?

Thanks,
Ibon


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[OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

[Mike Adair]

I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in 
Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under 
the OSGeo umbrella.  Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the 
idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a community 
around the various coordinate system projects, each of which likely 
wouldn't be able to sustain that on their own.


My immediate motivation for bringing this up now is that I need to set 
up a project infrastructure for proj4js [1]  (svn, trac, email, PSC, 
etc.).  This might be a good fit as an OSGeo 'Lab' project as discussed 
a few months ago, either as a project on it's own or within a group of 
projection projects.


Comments?

Mike Adair

[1] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Proj4js

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction

[mike goldberg]

Everyone,

I just wanted to send out an email to introduce myself.  I have been 
reading these threads for a while, but have never really had the time to 
offer support. I can now dedicate time to really contribute and be an 
effective part of the OSGeo community.


My name is Mike Goldberg, and recently graduated (2006) from 
Shippensburg University with a degree in Geography / GIS. Post 
undergrad, i spent a year in Shanghai, taking in the culture and 
learning as much Mandarin I could. Currently, I work for Bentley Systems 
as an Account Manager for their Geo/Civil product lines.  

I am a fairly new Linux user but love the Open Source aspect of the OS.  
I'll be honest and say that I haven't had much experience with the open 
source GIS solutions as I've done most of my work with proprietary 
software in Windows.  

I hope to bring fresh ideas to help bolster Open Source GIS as an 
alternative, not a replacement, to proprietary software.  I think there 
is a time and place for both, with each having it's own benefits and 
pitfalls.  

I look forward to working with everyone here to make Open Source 
software better!  


Thanks!
Mike Goldberg
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4GIS business models

[mike]

Paolo Cavallini wrote:


What I really miss on Terra* is the community: I tried several times to
contact it, especially to help having updated debian packages, but never
get a repy, something unusual for open projects.
All the best.
pc
  


There is a message forum at http://phorum.dpi.inpe.br/index.php?49, 
however it looks fairly unused. 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 3d geoweb - Digital Earth - reference model

[Mike Liebhold]

Dear Friends, ( please forgive cross posting )

I've been thinking a lot about 3D GIS lately, about interoperability of
3D objects in real world - virtual worlds like Google earth, Microsoft-
virtual earth, NASA wwind, ESRI ARCglobe, companies like Autodesk have
large legacy 3D GIS &CAD systems still moving forward, and  no doubt
someone like Linden Labs will launch a 3d social apps in a real world -
virtual world..  based on geo coordinates instead of 2nd life's random
geography, and even mobile 3Dgis is quickly showing glimmers of
promise:  mobile augmented reality developers will  likely build  a
geocoded 3D frameworks to hang links on... for services like nokia's
MARA prototype (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18291/) ... and
a consensus 3D geoweb like GEON  ( http://www.geongrid.org/about.html)
will also be the basis for the worldwide sensorweb, eg. for
trans-disciplinary problem solving like macro-ecology, climate models,
zoonautic, ( animal born disease) emergency response, &&

Will we have multiple 3D geowebs?  beyond harmonized 2D geodata and
geocoded hypermedia, will 3D data  and media producers and service
operators have to produce  and manage multiple frameworks ( including
places, buildings, things - people& avatars ) for each or these
environments?

So,  following digital earth, champion, Tim Foresman's lead  - (As
Director of Digtal Earth programs for NASA working for vp gore, Tim lead
the first  DERM  - A reference model in the Federal Geospatial Data
Committee and ISO communities in collaboration with the original NASA
led Interagency Working Group on Digital Earth.   That work is now off
on a dusty shelf, out of date, given  the future requirements.)

I'll be leading sessions at Where2.0
(http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2007/) and  ISDE5
(http://www.isde5.org/)   to raise questions leading to  re-starting
considering of a consensus reference specification, for a 3D geoweb - a
a standard Digital Earth.  google, no doubt,  sees kml as the answer to
these questions, and MS is, no doubt  brewing up their own too,  clearly
the big guys are going to duke it out from very proprietary
perspectives, and it's still not clear that the US gov, OGC, W3C, OR
SIGGRAPH communities like x3D focusing on vrml, offers the integrated
perspective of the participatoryGIS, FOSS4G and digital graphic arts
communities, here, capability to develop  detailed optimum requirements
from wide perspectives:

Let's start again considering, as communities,  a meta level layered
architectural description for unified earth and geo-related computing,
refining a model including the following topics ( and others) into an
ideally coherent and rigorous framework for optimally sharing and using
data across all web, geospatial and scientific contexts:

* geodesics, where experts are still refining descriptions of the shape
of the earth, and where new coordinate systems are argued.
* sensor data generation and labelling
* geodata and hypermedia coding/decoding/transcoding
* open source networked geodata -libraries and feeds- of raw sensor
data, streaming media, tiles, 3D objects , 2Dvectors, polygons, points,
text, etc.)
* geo metadata models - formal ontologies, logical description, as
frameworks for mining informal users' tag systems
* geo server and middleware models for efficient saving, searching, and
sharing of all kinds of geodata
* sensemanking inference and other spatial intelligence
* rendering  software for combining many sources of geodata into unified
useful views for many kinds of interaction
* user software/ sharing/saving/serving/searching/rendering
* human interaction systems,  avatars and social nets,  gis, mobile gis,
3Digs,  geoaudio, augmented reality, haptics
* autonomous sensor networks processing geodata.
* meta scale geosciences exploring large transdiscipline problem spaces
like planetary meteorology, large scale ecosystem modeling,
human-ecosystem interaction models, large scale,  emergency response,...

These are just penciled place holder layers of a hypothetical reference
model - that will need to be refined by the appropriate communities.

I  have no idea how to organize a coherent dialog between the e-mail
list communities cc'd here. right  now, maybe somewhat  loosely
connected dialog will be fine. later perhaps starting at where2.0 and
ISDE5, maybe some kind of 3D geoweb wiki communities will coalesce to
start organizing these consensus interoperable models.

See you in San Jose and Berkeley!!

Mike

Mike Liebhold
Senior Researcher
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] NASA Earth Observations WMS

[Adair, Mike]

Hi Kevin,

This is a nice dataset, and since it includes a time dimension for some
layers I've updated the MapBuilder Time Series demo to use this server.
It also allows zoom/pan functions which is nice (the previous NASA
server we used in this demo only served fixed size images).  I have an
instance of it available at:

http://geoservices.cgdi.ca/mapbuilder/demo/timeSeries/index.html 
Click on the "NASA EO" link then select a dataset to load and press the
play button.

Hopefully this won't put too much load on your servers, but it
definitely makes for a good demo.

Mike Adair


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Ward
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:47
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] NASA Earth Observations WMS
> 
> Hi osgeo!
> 
> I am pleased to announce the availability of a new service 
> for the distribution of Earth science remote sensing imagery 
> -- NASA Earth Observations Web Map Service (NEO WMS). This 
> Web Map Service is built upon the NEO collection at 
> http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and will hopefully facilitate 
> the use of this type of imagery by a wider community.
> 
> Most of the imagery in NEO is stored at 0.1 degree resolution
> (3600x1800) but some is only at 0.25 (1440x720) and these 
> resolutions are completely dependent upon what the sensors 
> can collect and what our data partners can produce for us. In 
> time some of the datasets may be available at up to 1km 
> resolution, but that is still far on the horizon.
> 
> The NEO WMS understands WMS versions 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. The 
> capabilities documents for these are at the following urls:
> 
> 1.1.1:
> http://neowms.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/wms/wms?version=1.1.1&service=
> WMS&request=GetCapabilities
> 
> 1.3.0:
> http://neowms.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/wms/wms?version=1.3.0&service=
> WMS&request=GetCapabilities
> 
> This is the initial release of the WMS and it may be considered beta.
> Please let me know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions.
> I am still in the process of flushing out some of the 
> ancillary metadata to appear in the capabilities documents 
> but the layers should function as described by the WMS specs.
> 
> Lastly, if you find the collection useful, please let me know 
> how you are using it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> --
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RE: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

[Adair, Mike]

More from the Canadian perspective -  the GeoConnections program policy group 
has produced a "Best Practices Guide" for licensing of geospatial data which 
might help to inform the debate:
http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_v12_finale_e.pdf

It provides a good overview of the background issues and proposes 3 types of 
licences to standardize on: unrestricted-use with licence acknowledgement 
(click-through), an "end-user" licence and a distributor licence.  

Michael Adair
GeoConnections Secretariat / Secrétariat de GéoConnexions 
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Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E9 
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> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Patton
> Sent: April 1, 2007 2:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely 
> available geodata
> 
> Jason Birch wrote:
> > I'm sure that most of you have seen this, but these two free data 
> > resources (provincial and federal Canadian governements) are both 
> > employing a form of copyleft:
> 
> > Kamloops (Canadian municipality) takes an interesting approach.
> 
> Given the interest, maybe the 'OSGeo people' who are already 
> involved could organize a BOF session, and also do some 
> presentations. If there are 'local' resources such as 
> Canadian municipal/provincial/federal managers(or perhaps 
> even better, people from their legal departments) who could 
> attend, then perhaps they could also participate in the 
> BOF/presentations. Also, maybe there are lawyers who are 
> local(e.g. Victoria or BC) any who have some interest or 
> expertise who could attend - even if their perspective is 
> based on Canadian law, it might still help illuminate the discussions.
> 
> --
> Dave Patton
> 
> Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project 
> http://www.confluence.org/
> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand Challenge

[Mike Liebhold]

Please forgive the cross posting:

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