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

2016-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
nly available geosource data, but accessing it in a way that links to the available software would be a useful project. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - h

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

2012-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
Markus Neteler wrote: A project can decide what makes the most sense for them. Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer traceable..). Just check out how long it's taking on openstreetmap ... -- Lester

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Lester Caine
conciderable more freely available. And there are plenty of open source software packages that will work with it. So what are you looking for? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Lester Caine
can do exacly the same without having to pay for that. And even, maybe add a few cities positions and contribute to the project http://www.openstreetmap.org/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Raster data on a DBMS

2008-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
images stored along with links to the correct raster image. So the raster images are stored as files, and the data relating to them in a database? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thematic Mapping Engine as Open Source?

2008-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
Chris Puttick wrote: - Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:40:41PM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Bjorn Sandvik ha scritto: I'll consider the pros and cons between different licenses. I don't have commercial interests, but I would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Lester Caine
need to agree on what we are doing and publish that information somewhere and cooperate in maintaining it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
Fee, James wrote: Lester Caine wrote: It 'somewhat annoys me' when I receive an M$ document from a council and am expected to edit and return it. They get back a PDF because I know that the format will be as I laid it out. You must not mean a M$ Office Open XML document since

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia

2007-12-19 Thread Lester Caine
to being pissed off with wikipedia because they just culled an article I wrote on an open source CMS package, while several other 'advertisements' remain - if you LIST open source projects then they should all be listed - mapnik and other packages should ALL be present ? ) -- Lester Caine