Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Revamped spatialreference.org

ESRI used to have the most comprehensive on-line CRS repository, but it was taken off line some years back. Therefore spatialreference.org is also an important resource to ESRI users. The raw content is available in their github repository at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Cyber Resilience Act staying informed on updates

Hi Jody, thanks for the update. The clarification of point 3 is still fuzzy to me. What do they actually mean by "monetised by manufacturers". Is monetizing only when the software is open source but people have to pay to use it on SaaS or similar models ? Otherwise if it is about money being

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

Hi, I've drafted some personal notes in a pad https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/osgeo_cra-a2r1 if that may help for further action. Feel free to drop yours into it (anyone with the link should have edit rights). I most certainly have mis-understood some things, and the formulation is too

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

However you do not have to be the distributor - Wondering if I'd be a "manufacturer" instead ? There are many obligations for the manufacturer in the CRA... "manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

Le 18/08/2023 à 20:50, Jody Garnett via Discuss a écrit : Thanks for setting that up, can we add it to the website ad an event or news item? That way it can be shared on social media and email lists. The missing voice on this discussion (and osgeo in general) is the small and medium business

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

Hi Adam, I'm not sure if we can come up with a completely novel analysis of the Act compared to what other foundations have already been done, but looking around the various resources and analysis, this is very worrisome if the text would pass in its current form (especially the one of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Parsing well-known text

Pierre, > I just added code to PerfectTIN to read the variable-length records of a LAS > file. I found a WKT record in a square of West Virginia terrain, with no > line feeds; I added line feeds and indentation and attached it. The other > point clouds do not have variable-length records. I'd

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Analysis] Geospatial server deployment statistics

On vendredi 5 juin 2020 14:18:42 CEST Jody Garnett wrote: > Interesting so some of the 5000+ WMS services attributed to geoserver may > be mapserver instances? I imagine someone with sufficient time and determination could actually do much more than saying this is a Geoserver, this is a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Analysis] Geospatial server deployment statistics

On vendredi 5 juin 2020 08:30:39 CEST Jody Garnett wrote: > That is really interesting Jonathan, if you are open to cross posting it > would be nice to reference this from a GeoServer blog post. > > I especially liked the fingerprinting: > > A ridiculously long, 5000+ item list of default

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PerfectTIN 0.4.0rc2 released. Anyone know GPU programming?

> The reason I'm not calling this 0.4.0 is that twice, once each on two > different computers, the program crashed, but did not dump core because of > ulimit. I ran the debugger, but could not get it to crash again. I ran it > without the debugger, but it still didn't crash. If not already done,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sign-up and subscription process request and offer of help

Scott, > We're working on building up the OSGeo Alberta Chapter mailing list and I > have heard a few folks mention that they aren't really sure if they're on > the mailing list though they feel they've done what steps are apparent to > them. Normally when you subscribe to a mailing list, you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

Nyall, for my understanding, and hopefully help others, I assume the issue is that you have a style definition where there are tuples of (font_identifier, symbol_identifier_in_the_font) to define the styling of layers with point geometries, right ? Or possibly some dataset layers whose fields

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and Java on Windows (and FileGDB too)

> I have downloaded the ESRI binary SDK (the 1.3 one, pointed by the GDAL > format description page), The link was of course outdated. I've just updated it. The latest one is 1.5.1 from https://github.com/Esri/file-geodatabase-api/ Not sure if that would solve your issues though. -- Spatialys

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS for Application Schema development

Hi, Looking at one existing GeoSciML schema, I see a mention it was generated by ShapeChange, a GPL tool : https://shapechange.net/get-started/ Even > Dear all, > > I would like to develop a GML application schema [0] from an existing domain > model. This is essentially an XSD file that can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is mantra-requ...@osgeo.org

On lundi 6 novembre 2017 09:10:49 CET Thomas Gertin wrote: > Is mantra-requ...@osgeo.org active? I tried e-mailing it a few weeks > ago to try to get an OSGeo user ID but I never got any response. It is. I see that Angelos replied to you on 11/10/2017 23:27 with the mantra. Resending it to you

[OSGeo-Discuss] Alternative to CLA: Developer Certificate of Origin

Hi, Some food for thought for our projects regarding how to deal with contributions, triggered by a recent reading: https://lwn.net/Articles/738048/#Comments Contributor License Agreement (CLA) tend to be replaced by a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) in a number of projects:

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

On jeudi 21 septembre 2017 11:20:54 CEST Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > We have that kind of page here > http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/about/migrate-open-source-gis/ ... The > link was removed from the hero area when Steve Feldman changed this in > Boston, so there is no content there now. > > Are we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Seth Fitzsimmons

I second this nomination. Seth has also contributed to GDAL, directly, or indirectly through open source projects leveraging it (I was happy recently to find code and blog post from him to run GDAL in AWS Lambda). I also see he has been a speaker to a number of events: FOSS4G NA 2015, FOSS4G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member

On mercredi 30 août 2017 18:33:02 CEST Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Forwarding Rob Emanuele nomination by Doug Newcomb. The 2017 member > nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. I second this nomination Even > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs > > [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Manuel Grizonet

On mercredi 30 août 2017 16:05:19 CEST Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Forwarding Manuel Grizonnet nomination by Gerald Fenoy. The 2017 member > nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. I strongly second Manuel's nomination. Best, Even > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website

On mardi 22 août 2017 14:07:04 CEST Jeff McKenna wrote: > Many of these don't make any sense to me, if you ask me my opinion. We > should be using the list of OGC standards and entering them into > wordpress, and not allowing editors to edit/add new non-standards. But > that is all my own

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

Hi Angelos, thanks for turning those discussions into a positive way forward and your proposal sounds good to me. A few comments below. > > I would like to propose a way forward: > > 1. We should *only* promote projects that are somehow affiliated with OSGeo > (as other Free and Open Source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

On Friday 21 October 2016 12:41:56 Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Hi all, > > On 10/20/2016 10:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > OSGeo-Live likewise has hundreds of contributors, provides a easy way > > for new users to find out about Open Source projects, and maintains a > > high level of quality. It

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Detect and define the coordinate system of gis data with no projection information automatically

Foks, I read through the emails of this thread and I'm still not sure to understand what the exact focus would be. It seems it might go beyond the title of this email thread. Is it about documentation about projections ? If so, I guess improving proj.4 documentation could be appreciated.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

Le mercredi 04 mai 2016 18:34:27, Peter Baumann a écrit : > HI Cameron, > > first, as this word has been used too often now, the current model has > nothing at all to do with dictatorship. What is the suggested opposite, > BTW - "dictatorship of majorities"? ;-) Actually reading

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

Jonathan, if you feel OSGeo should have an environmental policy, you could certainly propose one for consideration by the larger community, and then volunteer to champion to make it adopted, and enforce it afterwards. Even > > > On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 + Daniel >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the paris code sprint go

Le dimanche 06 mars 2016 20:59:16, Jody Garnett a écrit : > Taking this out to a seperate email thread - several projects had a plan > going in, how did it go? > >- PostGIS Agenda > >- SFCGAL Agenda >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Le lundi 22 février 2016 08:07:53, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) a écrit : > Venka and All, > > For my two-pence, which won't even get you a cup of chai in Mumbai, I am > not a fan of code sprints. Show me any lasting results of those events. Patrick, This might be read as a bit a provocative

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

> Early after I joined there was still Frank Warmerdam who did a lot - but > that got less over time. Matt Wilkie did some work on python. And Martin > Landa took over GRASS. Except for some people on-and-off that's about it > - the rest mostly ended up here. Jürgen, Perhaps for example for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

Andrea, > > It is the viral nature of the GPL & AGPL Just as an aside: as for most people a "virus" is something not very positively connoted, I'd suggest rather refering to the reciprocal or share alike nature of the license to better describe its intent in a way that doesn't assume bad

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Didier Richard

On Wednesday 19 August 2015 16:09:48 Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Didier Richard nomination by Vincent Picavet. I support this nomination and would add that Didier is also a committer to GDAL and proj.4 Best regards, Even Best regards, Vasile On 8/17/15 7:07 PM, Vincent

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

Hi, I'm looking at the survey too and feel a bit the same as Peter. The first question seems to suggest transforming current Charter membership into regular membership, but following questions seem to leave open the possibility for the 2 kinds of membership. Perhaps the first question should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code of Conduct in Real Case

Le mercredi 24 juin 2015 13:29:43, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl a écrit : In my opinion as well there is not a problem, especially since both pictures are used within a certain context. However, I realize I'm looking through a Western-european, liberal cultural perspective.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EXI with XML data streams

Le lundi 30 mars 2015 16:47:26, Newcomb, Doug a écrit : Hi Folks, Sitting in on a standards meeting and just heard about EXI, Efficeint XML Interchange http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/. It seems that this would be useful for reducing bandwidth requirements for XML data streams such as WFS. Has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

lack of support for GeoPackage write capability. I agree. The best marketing, if needed, would be to point at our implementations that do support write capability. * However, it is totally appropriate for individuals and news agencies to write about it. On 2/03/2015 9:37 pm, Even Rouault

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

Stefan, That a proprietary vendor decides not to implement a standard in its products is mainly its problem (as well as the one of its customers). Especially as they are plenty of FOSS alternatives that implement the standard! So I'd say it is a selling point for FOSS. The annoying thing here

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2015 - istSOS ideas

Le mercredi 18 février 2015 15:14:07, Massimiliano Cannata a écrit : Dear Margherita, as required by OSGeo at the page http://sourceforge.net/p/istsos/wiki/GSoC%20ideas%202015/ you can find 3 ideas for GSoC 2015 participation of istSOS within the OSGeo umbrella. Please let me know if

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2014 detailed results

Jorge, thanks for the openness effort. Small remark on the presentation of results: regarding vote for Board of Directors, if I recall well, we had to select 5 names, but that didn't imply that we voted No for the remaining 2 candidates. So I think that just the Yes column is meaningfull for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter

Selon Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com: Daniel If we get to a version that the community broadly supports can it go on the OSGeo wiki? I thought anyone could (just about) could post on the wiki and others can amend or even delete. Does the appearance of something on the wiki mean that it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter

Steven, I'm very supportive of your thoughts and think it could be adopted as an official OSGeo statement. Well done. If I can make a suggestion, perhaps the Donate picture should show banknotes rather than coins ;-) Even A couple of months back I asked whether their was any contribution

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

Selon Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl: Hey Peter, so what would be your suggestions to make the process more of the 4 bullet points you mentioned? Not answering on behalf of Peter, but a potential idea to solve those issues would be to combine Cameron proposal of a yes/no vote on each

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

Hi, Interesting topic that raises quite a few questions. I think that all people who have commented in that thread have not necessarily agreed if membership fees would be something in addition to the nomination and election processs, or if it would replace it. If we switch to a paid membership,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Open Letter to state concerns about Geoservices REST API

Le mercredi 08 mai 2013 00:54:49, Cameron Shorter a écrit : I agree with Jeroen's suggestion that we should write an Open Letter to the OGC collating our concern. I've started a wiki page to collate this here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API#Open_Letter_to_OGC_and_voti

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

Le dimanche 05 mai 2013 01:05:22, Adrian Custer a écrit : On 5/4/13 6:06 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: Thanks for the background Adrian, do we know of any other parties with implementation plans? -- Jody Garnett The known implementations are listed in the document responding to the 'no' vote.

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

Note that Cameron was either unclear or incorrect in his presentation of where the standard now stands. * The document was released for public comment. (see above) * A response to all the comments was issued. (however incomplete) Adrian, Do you have by chance a link to the response to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remove Coordinate Information using GDAL Translate

*C:\Program Files\GDALgdal_translate -of GTiff -co TFW=YES -co INTERLEAVE=PIX* *EL -co TILED=YES -co COMPRESS=JPEG -co JPEG_QUALITY=100 -co COPY_SRC_OVE* *RVIEWS=YES -co PROFILE=BASELINE C:\Program Files\GDAL\Converted_Geo.tif C:* *\Program Files\GDAL\Converted_Geo1.tif* Input file size is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] the project home page link here has been hijacked . . .

Le mercredi 19 septembre 2012 20:09:34, Frank Warmerdam a écrit : Bob, Funky, it works for me. It leads me to the MapBuilder info page, and information on it being retired. This works in a logged in session and in a not logged in session (both in chrome and firefox). I've also the same

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board of Directors Nomination: Frank Warmerdam

Dear OSGeo Community and Charter Members, I would like to nominate Frank Warmerdam for re-election in the OSGeo Board of Directors. Frank is one of the key persons that have contributed to OSGeo creation and have served it as a board member since then. He is currently taking part in various

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

Hi, I also agree with Arnulf that we need to change this for the next election. I also think that changing rules so close before the election period is not appropriate (imagine how people would call a governmenent that would do that before an election !) There are pros and cons in every