Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

[Doug_Newcomb]

Hi Folks,

>Hi Guys,

>I agree totally with everything that has been said. I don't have a 
>problem with using multiple applications to conduct my GIS work. I do 
>all the time.
>
>I suppose the issue is what the purpose of the Atlas will be. To promote 
>fosGIS or promote Open Source. I was under the impression it was the 
>former and so I suggested not using Inkscape. I presumed, the Atlas 
>would illustrate what most mere mortals could do with fosGIS rather than 
>show what some creative genius can achieve.

>If however the task is to create beautiful maps using whatever open 
>source package comes to hand then by all means incorporate Inkscape 
>manipulated images -- it seems to be the preferred tool for manipulating 
>maps generated by a whole raft of fosGIS packages.

>-- Cheers Simon

I view this exercise as a Howto on creating great maps with open source 
geospatial software.  As part of the effort, I would assume that there 
would be text included that walked one through the map creation process, 
including steps where tools such as Inkscape were used to enhance the 
visual impact.  To me, telling how it was done with open source geospatial 
tools is as important as that it was done with open source geospatial 
tools. 

Doug

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

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I would have to echo that.  I do not see using code at work that does not 
have any licensing information attached.

Doug

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I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...

Puneet wrote:
> [...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by
> not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to 
encumber with 
> these complications.

Do you literally mean no license at all? That might be a mistake, if 
you're looking for others to adopt your code.

Having no license documentation in the code raises all sorts of red flags. 
 In my commercial or government work, I'd not allow use of any code whose 
provenance, author, and/or copyright status is at all unclear.
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

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>Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto:
>> GPL is dying, of natural causes.
>> http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards, 
>is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon?

Well, if you do a quick search for GPL on github, 
https://github.com/search?q=GPL&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Everything&language=
, you have about 1572 repositories that match. 


Searching for MIT or GPL dual license 
,https://github.com/search?q=MIT+or+GPL&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Everything&language=,
 
turns up 3475 repositories.

It's interesting that the most active projects on github are not GPL, but 
I don't think that signals the death of the GPL license. 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New charter members!

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Thank you.  I am honored to be included with such gifted and passionate 
individuals.

Doug

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We received 22 nominations for the 2012 Charter Members. There were 20 
membership positions available, but the board acted over the weekend to 
increase that number to 22.

Therefore, on behalf of the OSGeo Board and the entire OSGeo community, I 
am pleased to welcome the following people as OSGeo Charter Members for 
2012:

Barend KobbenNetherlands
Angelos Tzotsos  Greece
Anita Graser Austria
Victor Olaya Spain
Pedro-Juan FerrerSpain
Andrea Aimee Italy
Jean-Roc MorrealeFrance
Serena Coetzee   South Africa
Michael SmithUSA
Karel CharvatCzech Republic
Jan JezekCzech Republic
Vasile Craciunescu   Romania
Thomas Bonfort   France
Mauricio Miranda Argentina
Peter Löwe   Germany
Massimiliano Cannata Italy
P.K.SinhaIndia
Brian Hamlin USA
Ragi Yaser BurhumPeru
Dimitris KotzinosGreece
César Medina Chile
Doug Newcomb USA

Congratulations to all!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0

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Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I noticed 
that Whitebox requires the SUN  Java JRE to be installed.  I'm not sure 
you can distribute the  JRE  on a live DVD, since Oracle retired  the 
'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. 
http://jdk-distros.java.net/

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John,
Congratulations on your release.
I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live, 
http://live.osgeo.org.

In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were 
not obvious to me.

What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks 
would they be performing?

Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or 
sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is 
to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from 
this project.

Who is currently using Whitebox GAT?

You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your 
website home page.

On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source GIS 
Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on it, and 
now we're are excited to announce that the new version of Whitebox GAT has 
finally arrived. Please visit 
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html for more information.
>
> Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this was to 
allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well on MS 
Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking and as such 
there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox 1.0.7 that need to 
be translated over to the new version. We're looking for volunteers to 
help with the work yet to be done (including working on the help 
documentation, testing and reporting bugs). Whitebox is now written using 
Java, the world's most popular multi-platform programming language. I know 
there are a lot of you out there with Java programming skills who could 
contribute to the project. There have also been many additions to version 
2.0, including support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new 
tools, new image processing functionality, and an improved user interface 
( http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html ). As always, 
we welcome any feedback to help improve the software. Please contact John 
Lindsay with any comments you may have.
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: DGPS with software for Linux

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Crossover office gives you a 30 day trial  of their version of Wine 
http://www.codeweavers.com/  .

Doug
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What about the Windows Emulator “Wine” for Linux?
 
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Subject: 
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Date: 
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Dear All
 
Greetings,
 
We are in the process to buy Differential GPS, and found Promark 100
L1 from Ashtech SAS, France is quite cost effective and can be use for
static as well kinematic survey, but post processing software in case
of static survey is only for MS Windows.
 
Detail of product is:
 
http://www.ashtech.com/promark-100-4567.kjsp?RH=PRO-EN&RF=1284571071254
 
Do you know any similar product, with software which cam run on Linux?
 
Please pass on to any other person, who you feel can help me in this 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS Clients for ArcGIS server

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For web mapping - openlayers 
http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/

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I am a FOSS GIS advocate trapped in a proprietary GIS world.  My 
organization manages several ArcGIS servers and we provide a Flash based 
map viewer (http://geonb.snb.ca/geonb/).  We are exposing the ArcGIS REST 
services (http://geonb.snb.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services), however we are not 
providing any OGC services.  Are there any FOSS map clients that can 
consume the ESRI ArcGIS REST services?
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Yum or RPM Site for GIS Suite for Centos 5.5

[Doug_Newcomb]

Markus,
You're making it harder to choose between Ubuntu and Centos for 
the home computer :-)
Doug

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM,  wrote:
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> Bill,
>The EPEL  repository has older versions of  postgis 
(1.3.2)/mapserver (4.10) and gdal (1.42).  If you want newer versions you 
will need to look elsewhere.

See here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

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

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Bill, 
The EPEL  repository has older versions of  postgis 
(1.3.2)/mapserver (4.10) and gdal (1.42).  If you want newer versions you 
will need to look elsewhere.
Doug

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I hope this is the appropriate place for this general-GIS software 
question. Apologies if this isn't it.

I'm looking for a yum repo or an rpm download site for the following set 
of GIS packages for a machine running Centos 5.5:
PostgreSQL
Proj4
GDAL / OGR tools
GEOS
PostGIS
MapServer
PHP Mapscript
Open Layers
Quantum GIS

I'd like to have PostGIS compiled with at least these switches or their 
equivalent built in:
  --with-pgsql=...
  --with-geos=...
  --with-proj=...
  --with-proj-libdir=...

GDAL should have at least these switches set:
  --with-pg=...
  --with-geos=yes

MapServer
  --with-proj=/usr/local/ \
  --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
  --with-ogr=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
  --with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
  --with-wfs \
  --with-wcs \
  --with-wmsclient \
  --with-wfsclient \
  --with-curl-config=/usr/bin/curl-config \
  --with-agg=/usr/local/src/agg --with-freetype \
  --with-php=

I used to just compile these from source, but my sysAdminis recommends 
that whenever possible, to use rpms to take advantage of yum's or rpm's 
file management. and inventory capabilities. Since this is a brand new 
machine, I'd like to follow the recommendations of people who know more 
than I do, whenever I can.

So, does any know if there's a one-stop yum repository or rpm site where 
I can get everything as integrated, compatible rpms ?

TIA,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements

[Doug_Newcomb]

Mayank,
I'm a bit confused.  Do you want to run a desktop gis through a 
web interface, or be able to perform some  GIS functions similar to a 
desktop gis through a web interface ? 

 It sounds like you want to be able to run a specific GIS software 
remotely as a thin client, but though a web interface.   I believe that 
you can accomplish remote access via Citrix  through a web interface.  The 
upcoming NX 4.0 software should also offer this web based thin client 
access.

You can thin client into windows computers via rdesktop ( 
available on most linux distributions) or via the NX client, 
http://www.nomachine.com/documents.php.  You can also set up one of the 
various flavors of VNC services on windows or linux.  you can alos set up 
NXserver on linux and access it from Windows, Mac, or Linux. ( Supposedly 
there is a version of nxserver for windows in the works) .  If you are 
going linux to linux, you can use ssh with X forwarding on and have the 
program execute remotely but display locally.

If you want to make a web interface look and act like a desktop 
gis with access to all of the commands in say, GRASS, then I think you've 
got a fair bit of web programming ahead of you.

Doug


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But will it help Desktop GIS to act as a web based GIS?
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements

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Mayank,

You can use php to call GRASS, postgis, gdal, etc. to do all you ask. 
See http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_PHP

Example.
http://www.gapserve.ncsu.edu/prgap/prgap/.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] U.S. Department of Interior soliciting Ideas on improving business practices

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Arnulf,

Mind if I copy/paste your comments below into the comments section for that
entry ?
Doug

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> Hi Folks,
>   The U.S Department of Interior has a website up soliciting ideas
for
> improvement. Each idea gives registered users options to comment and vote
> on suggestions.  There is a suggestion posted  for the use of open source
> software, and I have just posted a suggestion for regular benchmarking of
> software ( commercial and open source)  for OGC services and processing
> large datasets ( comments welcome!) .

Doug,
thank you for this information.

One minor clarification on terminology (I will never tire): Using the
wording "commercial and open source" to differentiate proprietary form
free/open license models is misguiding as all Open Source software can
also be used in commercial contexts and is thus also "commercial
software".

This has recently been clarified by the US Department of Defense available
in a document [1], attachment 2 on page 5, §2 a):
"In almost all cases, OSS meets the definition of “commercial computer
software” and shall be given appropriate statutory preference in
accordance with 10 USC 2377 (reference (b)) (see also FAR 2.101(b),
12.000, 12.101 (reference (c)); and DFARS 212.212, and 252.227-7014(a)(1)
(reference (d)))."

(I love to cite those guys, they manage to make everything look dead
serious :-)

The correct term to differentiate free and open source license models from
proprietary license is models is "proprietary", and nothing but.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

[1] http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/2009OSS.pdf

>   For those who might be interested in making suggestions or
> commenting
> on the existing suggestions, the website is:
> http://openinterior.ideascale.com/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] U.S. Department of Interior soliciting Ideas on improving business practices

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Hi Folks,
  The U.S Department of Interior has a website up soliciting ideas for
improvement. Each idea gives registered users options to comment and vote
on suggestions.  There is a suggestion posted  for the use of open source
software, and I have just posted a suggestion for regular benchmarking of
software ( commercial and open source)  for OGC services and processing
large datasets ( comments welcome!) .

  For those who might be interested in making suggestions or commenting
on the existing suggestions, the website is:
http://openinterior.ideascale.com/


Doug

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - What Is Available?

[Doug_Newcomb]

I've not had a chance to use these, but these do what you want?

http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.thin.html
http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.to.vect.html

Not spatial, but may also be of interest.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tools
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Potrace

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Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released
under an open source license? I’m looking for something similar to:

http://www.vextrasoft.com/vextractor.htm

I found the Autotrace program (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/), but it
seems to be a little more limited, and not geared to the GIS user.
Vextractor allows you to georeference your tracing output and supports
export of the traced vectors to SHP and DXF.

The price for a single license of Vextractor isn’t bad ($99 US), but I’d
love to find a similar open source project. I’ve thought about trying to
write something up using JTS, but I know it would be a very challenging
project. I’d like to know if any of you have worked on open source projects
in this area.

Thanks for any info.

Landon








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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AGU in December (Volunteers)

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I'm planning on being there.  I can help out.

Doug

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All,

Tyler is speaking at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec
14-18(Booth is 15-18) in San Fransisco.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AGU_2009

I'm interested to know who is already planning to go to the AGU and
could help at the booth occasionally?

Several members of the California chapter have volunteered to run the
booth, we're just looking to make sure we have some additional help
before we commit the funds.

We need to know before the marketing meeting tonight, 11pm PST if we
have enough people to do the booth or not.

Thanks,
Alex


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

[Doug_Newcomb]

http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/12/12/tip-from-an-rhce-memory-storage-on-postgresql/



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Great to see the shootout results.

Also interesting to see the Amazon RDS announcement (MySQL based) with
possibility of using quadruple extra large EC2 instances: db.m2.4xlarge -
68 GB of RAM
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazon-relational-database-service-.html
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/two-new-ec2-instance-types-additional-memory.html

Maybe next shootout the DB layer could look at Amazon RDS(mySQL) and
PostgreSQL/PostGIS using a quadruple extra large instance 68Gb RAM.

After reading Todd Hoff’s blog I’d be curious to see if PostGIS could be
configured to make use of large memory capacities and how it affects
performance:
http://highscalability.com/are-cloud-based-memory-architectures-next-big-thing

Thanks
Randy




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I agree wholeheartedly.  It looks like the bottleneck was the database.
I’ve been privy to some MapServer tests done by testing teams over several
months and the result there was always deploying the data with long update
cycles to the middle tier disks instead of using the database.  Only then
could the performance of the actual map servers be evaluated.  Performance
shootouts/testing take time to do correctly as each run teaches you more
and more about how your deployment architecture affects the results.

Craig
Geospatial Software Engineer
Spatial Minds, LLC

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It was really interesting. The very close results suggests to me that the
bottlenecks were external to the WMS and more related to external
limitations like the ability to supply things like I/O. It would be
interesting to have profiling data on where the response time was spent.
For Mapserver it'd be a simple case of running Valgrinf and KCacheGrind:

http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi/KcacheGrindIndex

Case point. We had an in house app for crunching big raster and KCacheGrind
showed us that an external library was the biggest bottleneck.

A.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jeff McKenna <
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
For those that did not make it to Sydney, here is the WMS Performance
Shootout presentation with results (GeoServer vs MapServer):

http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout

MapServer: power users who manage MapServer sites with high loads/map draws
should
take note of the results of MapServer CGI vs MapServer FastCGI, even in
the case of Shapefiles and Rasters (yes, quite surprising).

All: a lot of credit should go to Andrea Aime from GeoServer who worked
very hard in bringing the MapServer team up to speed to learn the 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Doug_Newcomb]

Perhaps this is related to Helena's  OSGeo Edu posting , but more efforts
towards outreach to the Elementary, Middle, and High School ( pre-college)
educational communities.  Working with them to set up pre-packaged lessons
involving geographic concepts in which you can give the student a CD/DVD
with project data and software that they could use at home  on their
Windows/Mac/Linux box.  Not just basic viewing, but some analysis as well.


Doug


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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] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

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I regularly use the gdal tools and python  to convert/reproject the NAIP
county mosaics from UTM to NC State Plane in a Quarter Quad format.  It
really doesn't take that long on  a 64-bit linux box with a couple of big
hard drives.  Once you get things out of MrSid format, things go pretty
quickly.

Doug

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Interesting... I can understand why NAIP was in MRSID. It's a pretty large
dataset - and I think .SID was more widely supported than JP2 until
recently. The USDA site does provide links to PCI Geomatics FreeView, which
can read .SID format but not save it. IrfanView, with a plugin, can read
SID format and convert. So it's not a dead-end format. And it sure beats
SDTS!

I think data interchange and real interoperability has only recently been
possible for large raster datasets. It's still a chore if you have to
re-project large raster datasets. This may add some content to a research
paper I'm working on.

-Eric


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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Landon Blake  wrote:
  Eric,





  The imagery I am talking about is from the USDA APFO:








  This FAQ contains a snippet about the format:


  http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/apfoapp?area=home&subject=prog&topic=nai





  In an interesting turn of events I note that as of 2008, the USDA is
  releasing the county mosaics in JP2 format, not in MRSID. I am not sure
  what brought about this change, and I wasn’t aware that it had been made.
  The same web page indicates that there is a shapefile index for the
  individual image tiles.





  It appears that you can also download the county mosaics online.





  A lot of this has changed (improved) in the last couple of years. I’m
  glad I checked again. That being said, the principles from our discussion
  still apply. :]





  Landon


  Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268


  Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658











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  The MRSID format is a very special case - and perhaps an opportunity for
  a new FOSS file format. MRSID is a lossless, fractal-based, multi-scale
  raster compression format. LizardTech has the algorithms to encode and
  decode MRSID locked up in copyrights, and I believe, patents. Even
  companies like ESRI shell out big bucks to LizardTech to be able to read
  and write the MRSID format.





  I guess I missed the context of the discussion. Is the government
  releasing certain data exclusively in this format? If so, I think the
  argument can be made against this practice. The different in compression
  between MRSID and gziped TIFFs isn't really that great in this day of
  cheap disks and fat pipes.





  -Eric



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  On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Landon Blake  wrote:


  I realized that publishing a spec for a file format like MRSID isn’

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government

[Doug_Newcomb]

Hi folks,
  Sorry my last message got garbled.  I was just remarking on the irony
that the video was on Youtube, which I am blocked from viewing at my
agency. :-)

Doug


>The Open Technology Development Roadmap that we wrote for Ms Sue
>Payton is highlighted as well as Open Source for America (RadiantBlue

>is one of the founders)

>Good talk.


>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0C9T7h01o
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Mark,
  Irony abounds.  We at Dept of Interior are blocked from accessing
YouTube.  I'll try to watch it at home.

Doug

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The Open Technology Development Roadmap that we wrote for Ms Sue
Payton is highlighted as well as Open Source for America (RadiantBlue
is one of the founders)

Good talk.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0C9T7h01o
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] case studies on FOSS Geo for local governance

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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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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] Where 2.0 Topics

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Paul,

How about:

"Integrating my (customers') personal data spatially into the world and
making my (customers')  life better."

Probably not buzzword-compliant, but it's a start.

Doug

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Question: What is the one thing from the open source world that the
hipsters, venture capitalists and other black-clad denizens of Where
2.0 absolutely *must* hear this year?

Looking for the golden topic,
Paul

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Top ten myths for open source in geo?

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1) It doesn't scale as well.

2) No commercial support



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Gentlepersons:

I'm doing an article addressing the top ~10 myths/misperceptions about open
source for geo.  There are a number of such pieces already out there about
open source in general, from which I'll borrow heavily, but I'd like to
have half the list be myths specific to the geo and GIS world we're playing
in.

Do you have any nominations?  Which issues are not well understood?  What
questions do you most frequently get asked?


Thanks in advance -

-mpg

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