[OSGeo-Discuss] very last chance to vote for a geo in Education idea

2015-01-12 Thread James Reid
All,very last chance to vote for a geo idea in education: http://researchatrisk.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cloud-Work-Bench/101899-31525 voting closes tonight midnight (UK local time) .. so hurry - do vote otherwise :'( -- James S Reid Geoservices, EDINA,University of Edinburgh t:+44 (0)131 651

[OSGeo-Discuss] vote for a proposal for geo infrastructure for researchers

2014-12-18 Thread James Reid
Dear all, as a follow up to an earlier post about putting an idea in for some funding - if folks are interested in what's proposed (a cloud based open geo infrastructure for researchers) then please feel free to cast a vote for it at:

[OSGeo-Discuss] possible idea for a funding opp?

2014-12-17 Thread James Reid
All, in the UK one of the educational funding charities is having an open door ideas pitch where you can pitch ideas relating to research data: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/get-involved/research-data-spring I'm on the cusp of submitting an idea to this but thought Id poll this list first to see

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Codes

2014-11-28 Thread James Reid
All, a while back the new Google Open Location Codes spurred some interest. Whats the list current views on this? For interest we have put together a little play thing that lets you generate and resolve (mostly!) OLCs short and long form.. http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/unlock-open-location/

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

2012-01-17 Thread James Reid
You could check out our Unlock Text service at: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesagesles...@geo.gob.bo wrote: Hi, does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to automatic geocoding of text documents ? The idea of

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

2012-01-17 Thread James Reid
On 17/01/12 16:11, James Reid wrote: You could check out our Unlock Text service at: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesagesles...@geo.gob.bo wrote: Hi, does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to automatic

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 40

2011-11-15 Thread James Reid
Can anyone point me at a current list of active CSW endpoints or know where such a thing might be found? thanka in advance On 26/11/09 17:00, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 53, Issue 7

2011-05-06 Thread James Reid
Can anyone point me at an OGC CSW installation that is actually implementing a query Filter? All instances we've looked at don't appear to either properly support a Filter or appear to have any Filtering capability? regards James On 06/05/11 00:19, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing availability of Open WMS stack for UK academics

2010-09-29 Thread James Reid
All, for your information. EDINA, Universty of Edinburgh is pleased to announce the release of a free open WMS stack based on Ordnance Survey OpenData which includes: * GB Overview * Miniscale * 1:25 Colour Raster * Vector Map District Raster * OS Streetview This is

[OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
All, a colleague from our local chapter has recently been at Redlands Institute and emailed me the following link: http://www.institute.redlands.edu/sds/welcome.html#consortium His observation was that much of the extant content uses proprietary software for exemplars and that some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
not just a face shop for ESRI. But knowing how ESRI works I'm guessing they're very hand in hand. I only point it out to soften possible expectations for success. By all means though, steer the ESRI ship towards more open waters! regards, - bri On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:24 AM, James Reid

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
and M$ too but actually the Redlands Institute is a little wider than that (how independent is another matter)... Brian Russo wrote: Well of course, Redlands is ESRI's corporate HQ after all. - bri On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM, James Reid james.r...@ed.ac.uk mailto:james.r...@ed.ac.uk