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[OSGeo-Discuss] Comments on DCAT-US Metadata Schema version 3.0 requested

2023-06-02 Thread Newcomb, Doug via Discuss

Hi Folks,
I was asked to spread the word to the internal and external open source 
geospatial communities that version 3.0 of the DCAT-US Metadata Schema is under 
development and  open to public comment.  If you, or your organization, is 
interested in helping to shape the next US Metadata Schema, feel free to 
comment and/or contribute via github:
https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us
https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us/issues

Doug

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[OSGeo-Discuss] DOD memo on Open Source Software

2022-01-27 Thread Newcomb, Doug via Discuss

https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/SoftwareDev-OpenSource.pdf


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [EXTERNAL] ARLAS V15 RELEASE

2021-04-23 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Dolphine,
This looks very interesting. I will pass it along.   Just one comment. A quick 
look at the FAQ does not mention the License. It is on the github License page 
https://github.com/gisaia/ARLAS-server/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt as Apache 2 , 
but you may want to mention that in the FAQ.

Doug


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Hello Everyone,

I would like to share the release of Arlas Exploration v15 for geo-big data 
analytics. The ARLAS Stack includes ARLAS-WUI (the web user interface), ARLAS 
Server and ARLAS Tagger (the analytic and tagging services) while the ARLAS WUI 
Components are the building bricks of ARLAS-WUI. ARLAS-WUI Toolkit is here to 
help you to develop your geo-analytic app in a couple of days.

Here is the link to the documentation - 
http://docs.arlas.io/arlas-tech/current/#the-arlas-exploration-stack

Please, don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Many thanks,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

2018-03-21 Thread Newcomb, Doug

http://rawtherapee.com/blog/rawtherapee-5.4-released

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Newcomb, Doug <doug_newc...@fws.gov>
wrote:

> Tim,
> A new version of Rawtherapee came out today,  Also, http://rawpedia.
> rawtherapee.com/Adding_Support_for_New_Raw_Formats
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yea that was one of the first ones I tried. It looks like this raw file
>> is proprietary so nothing is going to open it.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Newcomb, Doug <doug_newc...@fws.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you looked at darktable , https://www.darktable.org/?  It works
>>> with a lot of Raw image formats.  Not sure if it will handle any
>>> georeferencing information that might be associated with the image.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to deal with output from a Leica RCD30 camera used in
>>>> Aerial surveying. The camera outputs .RAW files but these files are not
>>>> recognized by any of the tools I have used so far.  Oddly enough they
>>>> actually have tiff headers but renaming them to .tiff doesn't work either.
>>>>
>>>> If anybody has any experience decoding these files and turning them
>>>> into geotiffs I would appreciate it if they dropped me a line.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

2018-03-21 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Tim,
A new version of Rawtherapee came out today,  Also,
http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Adding_Support_for_New_Raw_Formats

Doug

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea that was one of the first ones I tried. It looks like this raw file is
> proprietary so nothing is going to open it.
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Newcomb, Doug <doug_newc...@fws.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at darktable , https://www.darktable.org/?  It works
>> with a lot of Raw image formats.  Not sure if it will handle any
>> georeferencing information that might be associated with the image.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All.
>>>
>>> I am trying to deal with output from a Leica RCD30 camera used in Aerial
>>> surveying. The camera outputs .RAW files but these files are not recognized
>>> by any of the tools I have used so far.  Oddly enough they actually have
>>> tiff headers but renaming them to .tiff doesn't work either.
>>>
>>> If anybody has any experience decoding these files and turning them into
>>> geotiffs I would appreciate it if they dropped me a line.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Raleigh, NC
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=551F+Pylon+Dr+Raleigh,+NC=gmail=g>
>> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov
>> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

2018-03-20 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Have you looked at darktable , https://www.darktable.org/?  It works with a
lot of Raw image formats.  Not sure if it will handle any georeferencing
information that might be associated with the image.

Doug

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Tim Uckun  wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> I am trying to deal with output from a Leica RCD30 camera used in Aerial
> surveying. The camera outputs .RAW files but these files are not recognized
> by any of the tools I have used so far.  Oddly enough they actually have
> tiff headers but renaming them to .tiff doesn't work either.
>
> If anybody has any experience decoding these files and turning them into
> geotiffs I would appreciate it if they dropped me a line.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Mather

2017-09-10 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Jeff McKenna  wrote:

> Forwarding Stephen Mather nomination by Kristin Bott. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
>
>
> Nominee: Stephen Mather - USA
>
> Stephen has likely been most recently visible within the OSGeo community
> as the founder and an ongoing contributor to OpenDroneMap -- for which he
> received supportive grant funding in 2016; on which he has given numerous
> workshops, presentations, and trainings since its development; and through
> which he has partnered with a number of people and agencies to use
> geospatial technologies for humanitarian efforts and other applications in
> education, governmental work, and more.
>
> Through mentoring within and beyond his professional role, Stephen
> encourages the development of geospatial skills in a variety of folk, and
> has recently served as a both mentor and a teacher in cooperative programs
> in Musanze, Rwanda in addition to partnering with students at the State
> University Zanzibar and the University of Rwanda on geospatial projects.
>
> Stephen is very active in outreach efforts; the last three years have
> included workshops and presentations all over the globe on open source
> geospatial software and systems (with a notable concentration on drone
> systems/remote sensing applications) -- events include FOSS4G
> (2017,2015,2014), State of the Map Africa (2017), FOSS4G Africa (2017),
> State of the Map US (2016).
>
> Technically, Stephen brings a wide range of expertise in across GIS
> packages/protocols/libraries, remote sensing, and variety of programming
> languages/libraries and is one of the co-authors of the PostGIS Cookbook.
>
> I believe that with a combination of strong technical skills and a
> dedication to outreach/education in diverse communities, Stephen has
> brought a great deal to the OSGeo community for years, and will continue to
> do so.
>
> -Kristin Bott
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Ben Tuttle

2017-09-10 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Forwarding Ben Tuttle nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
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>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
>
> I would like to nominate Ben Tuttle as a Charter Member of OSGeo.
>
> BenTuttle is a R Technologist at the National Geospatial
> Intelligence Agency leading efforts to deliver Open Source Geospatial
> tools as core infrastructure and services for NGA and its customers
> across the US Federal Government. Ben is focused on development and
> delivery of web and mobile geospatial applications to enhance data
> delivery, analysis, and decision-making. He has authored and
> co-authored papers in journals including PE, Geography Compass,
> GeoJournal, Environmental Management, and Remote Sensing of
> Environment. He is currently leading a team of developers to deliver
> new capabilities for first responders, search and rescue teams,
> security personnel, and military users while revolutionizing the
> underlying infrastructure. The team is building on cloud based
> environment with a full DevOps pipeline that includes automated
> security scanning to shorten delivery timelines and fully embrace a
> secure CI/CD process. Ben has attended and participated in numerous
> FOSS4G and his agency is now among the key sponsors of FOSS4G.
>
> Best regards,
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

2017-09-05 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1 for Markus!

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:

> Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
> nominations listwas updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
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>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
> From: Moritz Lennert 
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
>
> Dear CRO's,
>
> I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is
> very deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done
> invaluable work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would be too
> long, but besides introducing many new modules and also significantly
> improving the internal libraries, he has done wonders in allowing GRASS GIS
> to work with very, very large amounts of data.
>
> Best wishes,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Rafael Moreno-Sanchez as an OSGeo Charter Member

2017-08-28 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> It is my pleasure to nominate Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez, from USA, as an
> OSGeo Charter Member.  Rafael  is working at the Department of Geography
> and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, USA [1].
>
>
> Rafael is also very active contributor in the OSGeo’s GeoForAll initiative
> . Rafael Moreno led the effort to establish the FOSS4G lab which opened in
> 2014 in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the
> University of Colorado , USA  to fulfill a growing demand for education,
> research and service in Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
> applications (FOSS4G) development and applications by citizens, businesses,
> governments, educators, students, researchers and geospatial working
> professionals in the Front Range of Colorado and beyond at University of
> Colorado Denver and constantly assisting educators and students.
>
> Rafael also initiated and leads the GeoForAll's "Open Geospatial Science &
> Applications" webinar series [2].  These webinars (and recordings) are
> viewed by hundreds of people around the world and helped us to spread the
> ideas and philosophy of Openness in GeoEducation and Research. We are very
> grateful for his contributions and help.
>
> Thank you Rafael for accepting my request for nomination and  for your
> contributions to our community.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-
> moreno-sanchez/
>
> [2] http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Patrick Hogan as an OSGeo Charter Member

2017-08-28 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> It is my pleasure to nominate Patrick Hogan (USA)  as an OSGeo Charter
> Member.  Patrick Hogan [1]  works for NASA, USA.
>
> Patrick is also very active contributor  in the OSGeo’s Geo For All
> initiative  . He along with Chris Pettit  leads the OpenCitySmart thematic
> [2] of GeoForAll . This initiative helped us bring together key colleagues
> and students from around the world to work on innovative ideas and
> solutions specific to urban management for the benefit of all.
>
> We are especially grateful for Patrick’s efforts (in coordination with
> Maria Brovelli) in creating the NASA Europa Challenge initiative [3] which
> adds great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and
> research worldwide. We are very grateful for his contributions and help.
>
> Thank you Patrick for accepting my request for nomination and  for your
> contributions to our community.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/
> geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/
>
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
>
> [3] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassodor – Patrick Hogan

2017-06-12 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Congratulations Patrick!

Doug

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce
> Patrick Hogan as our GeoAmbassador. Patrick Hogan began his U.S. Government
> career with the Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, and then joined
> NASA a year later as their senior environmental geologist at Ames Research
> Center. In 2002 Patrick was asked to lead the NASA Learning Technologies
> program. This is where NASA World Wind was born, the world's first open
> source virtual globe program. In 2009 World Wind received the prestigious
> NASA Software of the Year award. There are versions of World Wind in Java,
> Android and for the Web in JavaScript. We are especially grateful for
> Patrick’s efforts in creating the NASA Europa Challenge initiative which
> adds great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and
> research worldwide. Now in its fifth edition  the aim of this challenge is
> to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE
> Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology World Wind.
> This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop their ideas covering
> a broad range of domains from transportation to air quality to linked data.
>
> Details of his  contributions are at http://opensourcegeospatial.
> icaci.org/2017/06/geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/
>
> We are proud to honour  Patrick as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely
> grateful for his contributions to Geo for All and for Open Principles in
> Education.
>
> I am grateful for this opportunity of introducing some of our amazing
> colleagues  from different parts of our world each month as our
> GeoAmbassadors and get inspired by their amazing work and contributions for
> the wider community.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Could we make OSGeo and OSGeo-Live available as remote desktops from the cloud?

2017-02-06 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I'm interested. Link to website?

Doug

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Jáchym Čepický 
wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
>
> this is exactly what GIS.Lab project is about - booting from the network,
> shared resources...
>
> Martin Landa and Ivana Mincik (cced) could tell more
>
> Jachym
>
>
>
> Dne 3.2.2017 v 22:14 Cameron Shorter napsal(a):
>
> Does anyone have experience or suggestions in getting OSGeo packages
>> (ideally OSGeo-Live) working as a remote desktop from a cloud platform?
>>
>> As per Chris Barnett's emails, the FOSS4G 2017 would like to get it
>> working for the global FOSS4G.
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/17 2:38 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>
>>> OSGeo-Live USB sticks will be available to [FOSS4G 2017] workshop
>>> participants, but we’d also like to make cloud-based instances
>>> available via remote desktop. I’ve run into a couple of technical
>>> issues with this and think it would be very useful to draw on your
>>> collective knowledge and experience. What would be the best/most
>>> appropriate way to go about this?
>>>
>> On 4/2/17 4:08 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>
>>> I’m really just at the phase of ascertaining feasibility. My attempt
>>> to import the OSGeo Live VM to AWS failed because the AWS import
>>> process didn’t support Lubuntu. I think that I probably can get it to
>>> work on other cloud hosts, but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. For
>>> remote access to the desktop I’ve been using xrdp and tigervnc. This
>>> also looks like an interesting option:
>>> http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/, as it allows remote access via
>>> the browser.
>>>
>>> I think it would be fantastic if a cloud version could be reused
>>> beyond FOSS4G. Something like a docker image could be a nice solution,
>>> as it would be portable across many cloud providers and could also be
>>> installed locally.
>>>
>>
>> On 3/2/17 6:25 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in the cloud, I think that
>>> would be an excellent goal to work on. Back in 2009 some people did
>>> actually get OSGeo-Live working on one of the early cloud platforms
>>> (called click2try which is now out of business).
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35
>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-31 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1  Keep it simple.

Doug

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Randal Hale <
rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote:

> The way I look at it - and this is from watching Teachers at the school:
> Imagine getting a disk full of software. Have a colleague come over and
> repeatedly poke you in the head while you try to figure out what is on the
> disk and where the instructions are. In a few more minutes have someone
> come over and start singing while you are getting poked in the head. Maybe
> someone pours water in your shoe in another 2 minutes.
>
> It needs to be that simple. That's what the ESRI folk are doing "Lessons,
> 'free', and here is the Documentation".
>
> Simple: software, x directories with x lessons.
>
> A giant Red button with "Don't Panic" in nice friendly letters.
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2016 10:39 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>
> So according to Randal, to reach out to schools we need a scaled-down and
> lighter OSGeo-Live build (probably without the server side applications),
> with different documentation included. Maybe based on Edubuntu?
>
> I volunteer to make a custom OSGeo-Live iso for kids, but we will need
> lots of feedback and volunteers to shape up a new documentation.
>
> Last year I had the chance to teach several hours of OpenStreetMap to
> school kids in a municipality initiative and I can totally agree that
> things are different with kids. They did not seem to have much difficulty
> with the OSGeo-Live UI, but we ended up playing with iD and less with
> desktop applications, like josm.
>
> just my 2c
>
> Angelos
>
>
> On 10/28/2016 04:55 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
>
> If I can just chime in (I told my cat I wasn't).
>
> The kicker in this is ESRI is deeply entrenched everywhere. They've entire
> groups of people just focused on "giving to schools". I was at the helm of
> rolling out a full ESRI rollout to a school in 2012. We had a 50 seat lab
> setup. I ended up moving them over to FOSS4G 2 years ago - and I need to go
> back and update their setup (they don't know how). The school is Title 1
> (which means the school is very poor). The computers are better than what
> they normally get - BUT - they will be using them longer than what they
> need to. They will be unable to run the next version of ESRI Software. The
> computers can still run FOSS4G software.
>
> The teachers here in the US (and I have no doubt this is the case
> everywhere) are stretched thin. That's what makes ESRI so nice. They show
> up and go "here is a curriculum (of sorts) and here is 'free' software".
> It's a short term win. They have people targeted to do just that.
>
> So what would Randy do (and I've thought about this more than I care to
> mention) to introduce FOSS4G into the schools:
>
> A bootable disk with FOSS4G software (I am partial to QGIS - other things
> exist) and not everything like the OSGEO Disk. A few select pieces of
> software with a purpose:
>
>  * 10 lessons of 1 hour apiece to work through that are student
>oriented (maybe pick an age range - 12-16)
>  o Start globally and work down to locally. Maybe we have different
>local datasets.
>  * An explanation for the teachers. They don't understand like we do -
>they need us there for hand holding and encouragement. They can
>manage kids - We need to help manage the lessons. I'm not a teacher.
>I can teach adults - but not kids - it's a whole different  game.
>  * A spot where teachers can get the lessons (NOT GITHUB) and the disk
>(maybe we combine all things into a bootable USB stick).
>  * Help - a place where they can get help (NOT GITHUB). My town has 30+
>schools. If more than 1 does this I can't be everywhere. ESRI put
>out a call for Geomentors. We put out a call.
>  * We have COMMUNITY - I don't believe ESRI currently does. They have
>an advertising budget. 20 years ago they had community. We have
>momentum now. Community is greater than an Advertising budget.
>  * Advertise it. Ask for help from the teachers.
>  * Update it.
>
> I know I'm asking for a lot - it's time intensive - but I think it's 100%
> doable. I go to speak at 2 colleges on GIS Day on nothing but FOSS4G.
>
> We've got all the pieces to make this work except time. I'll carve out
> some time if this gets going.
>
> I wished the cat had stopped me. Now I'm in it.
>
>
> On 10/28/2016 09:16 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
> As if someone is reading this ha, a tweet just came across my desk:
> https://twitter.com/GIS4Teachers/status/791981572991746048
>
> So, we need to also get into that huge K-12 market, plant the open seed
> early :)  A challenge indeed.
>
> Think on this over the weekend,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2016-10-27 12:36 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:
>
> Sadly, only ESRI seems to exist for some in the USA...Imagine the
> consequences of
> this: http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100610-gathering-up-
> geospatial-pros-to-meet-massive-market-growth
> 
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Michael Smith

2016-09-08 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1  in support!

Doug

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

> Forwarding Michael Smith nomination to the board of directors by Stephan
> Meißl.
>
> Best,
> Jorge
> CRO 2016
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Stephan Meißl 
> Date: 7 September 2016 at 10:52
> Subject: Nomination of Michael Smith as board member
> To: OSGeo CRO 
> Cc: Michael Smith 
>
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to nominate Michael Smith from the US as board member.
>
> Mike works as Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of
> Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US
> Army Corps of Engineers. He has been a long time power user, supporter,
> and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR, and other OSGeo projects. He is
> a member of the MapServer as well as the PDAL PSC. He is a FOSS4G
> regular and hasn't missed a single one since the 2003 MapServer Users
> Meeting as far as I know. Mike is the present OSGeo treasurer and has
> already served on the board for the last couple of years. I believe he
> is really doing a great job representing OSGeo and he is a perfect
> candidate to continue serving on the board. See his user page for more
> information: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michael_Smith
>
> cu
> Stephan
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination for Larry Shaffer

2016-07-20 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I second the nomination.  Larry does a lot of good work!


Doug

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:

> Forwarding Larry Shaffer nomination by Jody Garnett.
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile
> 2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:nomination for Larry Shaffer
> Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:27:29 -0700
> From:   Jody Garnett 
> To: Vasile Crăciunescu 
> CC: lar...@dakotacarto.com
>
>
>
> *name*
> Larry Shaffer
>
> *
> *
> *
> *paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter
> Member*
> *
> *
> Larry does so much as a developer and spokesperson for both open source
> and the QGIS community. Larry is a core committer on the QGIS project,
> having worked on a number of different areas of the project, from the GUI
> down to writing most of the current labelling engine. Recently Larry
> presented a "State of QGIS" talk at foss4g-na. Larry is also active at the
> OSGeo level working with members of the system administration committee to
> set up signed mac applications for both the QGIS and GeoServer projects.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Matthias Kuhn

2016-07-20 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I second this nomination.

Doug

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Alexander Bruy 
wrote:

> I second this nomination
>
> 2016-07-20 13:25 GMT+03:00 Vasile Craciunescu :
> > Forwarding Matthias Kuhn nomination by Vincent Picavet.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vasile
> > 2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject: Nomination for Matthias Kuhn
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:55:46 +0200
> > From: Vincent Picavet (ml) 
> > Reply-To: vincent...@oslandia.com
> > Organization: Oslandia
> > To: c...@osgeo.org
> >
> > Dear CRO,
> >
> > I would like to nominate Matthias Kuhn for OSGeo Charter Member.
> >
> > Matthias is one of the most active developers for the well-known QGIS
> > desktop GIS application. He participates in QGIS codesprints and has
> > been a strong supporter of OpenSource in GIS for long.
> >
> > Contact : matth...@opengis.ch
> >
> >
> > Vincent
> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination

2016-07-13 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I second the nomination!  Sara works hard to advocate for open source
software.

Doug

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> Forwarding Sara Safavi nomination by David Bitner.
>
> Best regards,
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>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Charter Member Nomination
> Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2016 10:10:57 -0500
> From:   David William Bitner 
> Reply-To:   bit...@dbspatial.com
> To: OSGeo CRO 
>
>
>
> Sara Safavi
> OSGeo Advocate Profile: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sarasafavi
> email: s...@sarasafavi.com 
>
> I would like to nominate Sara Safavi for OSGeo Charter Membership. Sara
> has been a huge developer and advocate of open source in the Austin, TX
> area and beyond. Sara has been an organizer for PyLadiesATX, Austin Open
> Source GIS, and MaptimeATX as well as participating on the FOSS4G North
> America organizing committee in 2016.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-20 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
OSGeo.nl  wrote:

> I managed to create an account, and seem to be able to buy directly at
> lucasfonts [1]
>
> However, according to the license agreement "LucasFonts gives you the
> right to use the enclosed font software on one (1) printer and up to five
> (5) computers at a single geographic location."
>
>
>
> In order to play the game by the rules, this might be a good point to
> change the logo slightly and move to open fonts. (as Steven did for the
> Dutch logo)  [2]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Gert-Jan
>
>
>
>
>
> [1] https://lucasfonts.com/shop/
>
> [2] http://osgeo.nl/about-us/
>
>
>
>
>
> *Van:* Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
> *Verzonden:* vrijdag 18 maart 2016 14:30
> *Aan:* Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl; Anita Graser
>
> *CC:* OSGeo Discussions
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos
>
>
>
> Sadly the shop is a bit broken, I can find it for sale for $98 USD via the
> more mainstream font websites.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:24 AM Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
> OSGeo.nl  wrote:
>
>
>
> One of the two fonts Steven mention in his  2011 search for the fonts
>  (the Trebuchet) is part of the Microsoft (!) TrueType font pack for the
> web which, according the the EULA, can be reproduced and distributed freely
> [1].
>
> The other one, the LucasFonts Sans Italic [2] is a piece of art by the
> pretty famous Dutch font designer Lucas de Groot (now living in Berlin)
>
> According to my sources 50 EUR, for a packed to be used on 5 different PCs
> [3].
>
>
>
> Perhaps we should ask Lucas to give a presentation on font design, use and
> copyright as the FOSS4G ;-)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> GJ
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm
>
> [2] http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesans/about/
>
> [3] https://lucasfonts.com/shop/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Van:* Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Namens *Jody
> Garnett
> *Verzonden:* vrijdag 18 maart 2016 01:15
> *Aan:* Anita Graser
> *CC:* OSGeo Discussions
>
>
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos
>
>
>
> Looking at the price online - 40 EUR fun!
>
>
> --
>
> Jody Garnett
>
>
>
> On 17 March 2016 at 16:23, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
> Found the details here -
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/002643.html
>
>
> --
>
> Jody Garnett
>
>
>
> On 17 March 2016 at 16:09, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
> Revising this email thread, the fonts used in the original logos do not
> quite match Vera Sans. Reading the logo_guide this bitstream vera sans is
> intended for copy font (website, handouts) - we have no record of the two
> fonts used in the OSGeo logo itself.
>
>
>
> Reading in the SVG files it shows that these logos were generated by adobe
> svg export (sigh).
>
>
>
> Trying http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont does not help much:
>
> - https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/710602266558922752
>
> - https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/710603172348174337
>
>
>
> If anyone else has ideas please check svn here:
>
> - https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/logo/
>
>
> --
>
> Jody Garnett
>
>
>
> On 27 December 2015 at 22:07, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
> Those are great. I have a bit of trouble reading the silver one logos
> (since the shimmer effect fades out the top and bottom of the word and I
> read by word shape).
>
>
>
> Thanks so much for your contribution! I am not sure what we need to do
> next to make these official (I would normally talk to the marketing
> committee).
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jody Garnett
>
>
>
> On 25 December 2015 at 08:52, Anita Graser  wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the font info Gert-Jan!
>
>
>
> Here's a first draft:
>
>
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_bronze.png
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_silver.png
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_gold.png
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_platinum.png
>
>
>
> This SVG contains all four versions in different layers.
>
>
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_bronze.svg
>
>
>
> Bet wishes,
>
> Anita
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
> OSGeo.nl  wrote:
>
> Hi Anita,
>
>
>
> In case you haven't found it out yourself yet: the OSgeo_logo_guide (as of
> 2007) states it's the Vera Sans font:
>
> https://www.gnome.org/fonts/
>
>
>
>
>
> regards,
>
>
>
> Gert-Jan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Van:* Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Namens *Anita
> Graser
> *Verzonden:* zondag 20 december 2015 13:09
> *Aan:* OSGeo Discussions
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] parcel data in US

2015-10-15 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Jachym,
The State of North Carolina has parcel data statewide at NCOnemap,
http://data.nconemap.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page .  Search for
parcels.

Doug

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Jachym Cepicky 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (sorry for cross posted and slightly off-topic mail)
>
> for business purpose, I was asked to find out, where we could get some
> parcel data in USA - not necessary for free (assumed, we would like to
> start our business with the data, reasonable prise is expected).
>
> Could anybody point me to agency/private business company, who is
> providing such kind of data? Where would you say is the best starting point?
>
> Thanks for hints
>
> Jachym
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Helena Mitasova

2015-09-08 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I support this nomination!

Doug

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Alexander Bruy 
wrote:

> I also support this nomination
>
> 2015-09-08 13:33 GMT+03:00 Dirk Frigne :
> > I support this nomination.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > On 08-09-15 12:31, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> >> I strongly support this nomination.
> >>
> >> maxi
> >>
> >> 2015-09-07 23:45 GMT+02:00 Vasile Craciunescu  >> >:
> >>
> >> Forwarding Helena Mitasova nomination to the board of directors by
> >> Venkatesh Raghavan.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Vasile
> >> CRO 2015
> >>
> >>
> >>  Forwarded Message 
> >> Subject: Board of Directors nominations for Prof. Helena Mitasova
> >> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:19:30 +0900
> >> From: Venkatesh Raghavan  >> >
> >> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer  >> >, Helena Mitasova  >> >
> >>
> >> Dear CRO,
> >>
> >> It is a great honor for me to nominate Prof. Helena Mitasova [1]
> >> for the 2015 OSGeo Board Elections.
> >>
> >> - Prof. Helena Mitasova
> >> - USA
> >> - Prof. Helena Mitasova [1] hardly needs any introduction. Her
> >> activities
> >> that encompass the entire gamut of the OSGeo Foundation goals,
> speak for
> >> themselves. She was awarded the Sol Katz Award in 2010 for her long
> >> standing contribution to the OSGeo Foundation and FOSS4G
> communities.
> >> Recently, she has been one of the driving forces behind the Geo4All
> [2]
> >> initiative. Her invaluable experience in area of Education and
> >> Research will
> >> be a great asset to the OSGeo Foundation Board.
> >>
> >> I thank her for agreeing to be nominated for the 2015 OSGeo Board
> >> elections.
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Helena
> >> [2] http://www.geo4all.org/
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination for Moritz Lennert

2015-08-25 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I  also support this nomination in recognition for all of the excellent
work that Moritz has done.

Doug

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Johan Van de Wauw 
johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Vasile Craciunescu
 vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote:

 
  Dear CRO,
 
  I would like to nominate Moritz Lennert for the OSGeo Charter members
  election:
 
  Moritz Lennert (email: mlenn...@club.worldonline.be) is PSC Member and
  developer for GRASS GIS since a long time. He is also an
  OSGeo advocate :
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Moritz_Lennert
 
  Moritz is one of the founding members of the local chapter OSGeo.be and
  he is part of the organisation team for the first FOSS4G conference in
  Belgium.

 I second this nomination and I also would like to add that Moritz was
 one of the organisers of the excellent beOpenGISfr conference[1] last
 year as well.

 Kind Regards,
 Johan

 [1] http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-India 2015 summary

2015-06-12 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Thank you, I'm looking forward to seeing the presentations.

Trivim looks very interesting, but I did not see a License.txt file in the
github repository.  What open source license is the code being released
under?

Doug



On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:33 AM, K S Rajan ra...@iiit.ac.in wrote:

 Suchith,
 Thanks for sending in the note on the Conference.

 All,
 I am just back to Hyderabad after successfully holding the *FOSS4G-India
 2015* at IIRS Dehradun [1] with the help of all the co-organisers. We had
 a very enthusiastic group of about 110+ participants covering researchers,
 academicians, students, software developers, companies, and Govt
 functionaries (National and State bodies).

 There were 2 Workshops- one on Becoming QGIS Power User by Ujaval Gandhi;
 and the other on Geospatial Data Processing using R  by Kamal Pandey and AK
 Jha. About 48 papers and 3 talks on - Use of OSM for Crisis Mapping; Use of
 Open Standards and Open Source in SDIs (and the National Roadmap); and on
 Geo for All initiative were presented. All the full papers, presentations
 and also Photos will be uploaded in a week's time onto the conference
 website [1].
 The panel discussions towards the end had some wonderful ideas on building
 Synergy across various organizations by leveraging their strength, More
 focus on Capacity Building initiatives, Use and adoption of FOSS4G in
 GeoSpatial Curriculum, develop and implement focused solutions for Common
 users like Linemen (utilities management) to City Mayors, focused efforts
 on tweaking/improvisation/development of FOSS4G tools aimed at specific
 verticals like Social forestry, legacy data support, etc.

 Would like to mention here that IIRS has developed a tool called Trivim- A
 free and open source Software for 3D Street Model Generation [2], [3] and
 it was showcased during the event. GPS enabled Photos captured from mobile
 phones and consumer grade cameras can be used to generate the Street view.
 Pls do try it out and share your comments with poonam at iirs dot gov dot
 in. They will soon be choosing an appropriate OSLicence for this product.

 -Rajan
 OSGeo-India

 [1] http://foss4gindia.in/
 [2] https://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0_precompiled/
 [3] http://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0/



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 *From: *Doug Newcomb doug_newc...@fws.gov
 *To: *Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 *Cc: *discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org, ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
 *Sent: *Friday, June 12, 2015 5:20:15 PM
 *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo-Discuss]“Open Source Geospatial Tools in
 Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” and ISPRS Summer
 Schools

 Will the presentations be available online?
 Doug

 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 Dear colleagues,

 The Second National Conference on Free and Open Source Software for
 Geospatial  (FOSS4G-India 2015) with focus on “Open Source Geospatial Tools
 in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” was held
 earlier this week at June 9-10, 2015 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
 Dehradun. Dr K.S. Rajan (IIIT Hyderabad) gave the Plenary presentation on
 Geo for All: an international network towards open geospatial research and
 education . It is excellent to see the growth in number of universities in
 India who are now doing research and teaching in GIS using FOSS4G. I
 understand from Rajan that the conference was a great success with 12
 sessions  ranging from Climatic Studies to Village GIS. Program details at
 http://foss4gindia.in/Technical%20Program%20Schedule_June9-10_2015.pdf

 Conference details at http://foss4gindia.in/

 Next month, IIRS (July 6-10, 2015) will also host the ISPRS Summer School
 at Dehradun  on following 3 themes

i)   Online Sharing of Geospatial Data, Algorithm and Model (offered
 by ISPRS WG VI/1 ;  Huayi Wu, State Key Laboratory of Information
 Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University,
 China);

   ii)   Open Source GIS (offered by ISPRS WG VI/2 ; Dr. Sameer Saran,
 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research
 Orgamisation (ISRO), Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, Dehradun ); and

   iii)  Research and Teaching methodologies for Master and PhD students
 (offered by ISPRS WG VI/4 : Igor Musikhin, Siberian State Academy of
 Geodesy,  Russia ).

 I understand that there has been great response for all these courses
 which shows the demand and need. Details of Summer School at
 http://www.iirs.gov.in/isprs-summerschool/index.html

 I remember when i was student in India, there was very few opportunities
 for learning GIS as very few universities had GIS programs . So i am really
 pleased that now more universities and academics are empowered and starting
 GIS courses and more students are getting opportunities to learn geospatial
 science. My thanks to Rajan and colleagues who have been working tirelessly
 for providing more

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Source Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” and ISPRS Summer Schools

2015-06-12 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Will the presentations be available online?

Doug

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Suchith Anand 
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 Dear colleagues,

 The Second National Conference on Free and Open Source Software for
 Geospatial  (FOSS4G-India 2015) with focus on “Open Source Geospatial Tools
 in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” was held
 earlier this week at June 9-10, 2015 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
 Dehradun. Dr K.S. Rajan (IIIT Hyderabad) gave the Plenary presentation on
 Geo for All: an international network towards open geospatial research and
 education . It is excellent to see the growth in number of universities in
 India who are now doing research and teaching in GIS using FOSS4G. I
 understand from Rajan that the conference was a great success with 12
 sessions  ranging from Climatic Studies to Village GIS. Program details at
 http://foss4gindia.in/Technical%20Program%20Schedule_June9-10_2015.pdf

 Conference details at http://foss4gindia.in/

 Next month, IIRS (July 6-10, 2015) will also host the ISPRS Summer School
 at Dehradun  on following 3 themes

i)   Online Sharing of Geospatial Data, Algorithm and Model (offered by
 ISPRS WG VI/1 ;  Huayi Wu, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering
 in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China);

   ii)   Open Source GIS (offered by ISPRS WG VI/2 ; Dr. Sameer Saran,
 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research
 Orgamisation (ISRO), Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, Dehradun ); and

   iii)  Research and Teaching methodologies for Master and PhD students
 (offered by ISPRS WG VI/4 : Igor Musikhin, Siberian State Academy of
 Geodesy,  Russia ).

 I understand that there has been great response for all these courses
 which shows the demand and need. Details of Summer School at
 http://www.iirs.gov.in/isprs-summerschool/index.html

 I remember when i was student in India, there was very few opportunities
 for learning GIS as very few universities had GIS programs . So i am really
 pleased that now more universities and academics are empowered and starting
 GIS courses and more students are getting opportunities to learn geospatial
 science. My thanks to Rajan and colleagues who have been working tirelessly
 for providing more learning opportunities for students.

 Best wishes,

 Suchith




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-India 2015 summary

2015-06-12 Thread Newcomb, Doug

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 Thanks for the summary Rajan, wow, it seems like a great event!  I must
 not miss the next one :)

 Ravi has some pics online already here:
 https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/63ihtrdBCf3

 Doug: Rajan wrote that they will soon be choosing an appropriate
 OSLicence for this product


Sorry, I missed that. it looks like a great project!  Really interested!

 Doug


 Congratulations to the OSGeo-India chapter for another very successful
 FOSS4G event

 -jeff




 On 2015-06-12 9:33 AM, K S Rajan wrote:

 Suchith,
 Thanks for sending in the note on the Conference.

 All,
 I am just back to Hyderabad after successfully holding the *FOSS4G-India
 2015* at IIRS Dehradun [1] with the help of all the co-organisers. We

 had a very enthusiastic group of about 110+ participants covering
 researchers, academicians, students, software developers, companies, and
 Govt functionaries (National and State bodies).

 There were 2 Workshops- one on Becoming QGIS Power User by Ujaval
 Gandhi; and the other on Geospatial Data Processing using R  by Kamal
 Pandey and AK Jha. About 48 papers and 3 talks on - Use of OSM for
 Crisis Mapping; Use of Open Standards and Open Source in SDIs (and the
 National Roadmap); and on Geo for All initiative were presented. All the
 full papers, presentations and also Photos will be uploaded in a week's
 time onto the conference website [1].
 The panel discussions towards the end had some wonderful ideas on
 building Synergy across various organizations by leveraging their
 strength, More focus on Capacity Building initiatives, Use and adoption
 of FOSS4G in GeoSpatial Curriculum, develop and implement focused
 solutions for Common users like Linemen (utilities management) to City
 Mayors, focused efforts on tweaking/improvisation/development of FOSS4G
 tools aimed at specific verticals like Social forestry, legacy data
 support, etc.

 Would like to mention here that IIRS has developed a tool called Trivim-
 A free and open source Software for 3D Street Model Generation [2], [3]
 and it was showcased during the event. GPS enabled Photos captured from
 mobile phones and consumer grade cameras can be used to generate the
 Street view. Pls do try it out and share your comments with poonam at
 iirs dot gov dot in. They will soon be choosing an appropriate OSLicence
 for this product.

 -Rajan
 OSGeo-India

 [1] http://foss4gindia.in/
 [2] https://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0_precompiled/
 [3] http://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0/



 

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 *To: *Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 *Cc: *discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org,
 ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
 *Sent: *Friday, June 12, 2015 5:20:15 PM
 *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo-Discuss]“Open Source Geospatial Tools
 in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” and
 ISPRS Summer Schools

 Will the presentations be available online?
 Doug

 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Suchith Anand
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 Dear colleagues,

 The Second National Conference on Free and Open Source Software
 for Geospatial  (FOSS4G-India 2015) with focus on “Open Source
 Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource
 Management” was held earlier this week at June 9-10, 2015 at
 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun. Dr K.S. Rajan
 (IIIT Hyderabad) gave the Plenary presentation on Geo for All:
 an international network towards open geospatial research and
 education . It is excellent to see the growth in number of
 universities in India who are now doing research and teaching in
 GIS using FOSS4G. I understand from Rajan that the conference
 was a great success with 12 sessions  ranging from Climatic
 Studies to Village GIS. Program details at

 http://foss4gindia.in/Technical%20Program%20Schedule_June9-10_2015.pdf

 Conference details at http://foss4gindia.in/

 Next month, IIRS (July 6-10, 2015) will also host the ISPRS
 Summer School at Dehradun  on following 3 themes

 i)   Online Sharing of Geospatial Data, Algorithm and Model
 (offered by ISPRS WG VI/1 ;  Huayi Wu, State Key Laboratory of
 Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing,
 Wuhan University, China);

ii)   Open Source GIS (offered by ISPRS WG VI/2 ; Dr. Sameer
 Saran, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space
 Research Orgamisation (ISRO), Dept. of Space, Govt. of India,
 Dehradun ); and

iii)  Research and Teaching methodologies for Master and PhD
 students (offered by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-02 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Suchith,
I am guessing that the 1 billion dollar number is for full commercial price
with no volume or educational discounts for the ArcGIS Online services. If
you want to make a similar claim for the OSGeo Academy simply multiply the
full retail commercial cost ( plus maintenance) , without volume or
educational discounts, of the different proprietary software packages with
equivalent functionality to the tasks presented in the GeoAcademy MOOC ,
times 4000.

To add a bit more honesty, list the educational discount for the
proprietary software packages , then the full commercial price. One could
make the case that the software presented in GeoAcademy does not change in
price when leaving academia for the real world, presenting an economic
benefit to geospatial professionals starting careers.

Do a 10 year analysis, based on ongoing licensing purchase and maintenance
costs, between the software in GeoAcademy and the proprietary software.
Multiply that times 4000.

Just a suggestion.

Doug

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Suchith Anand
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

Hi all,

Few years ago, myself and colleagues here did a study to help us
understand the social history of collaborative activities within the OSGeo
ecosystem. The results were published as a research paper on Mapping
Collaboration in Open Source Geospatial Ecosystem in Transactions in GIS
(Volume 16, Issue 4, pages 581–597, 2012).

Last year after OSGIS 2014, following informal discussions with some
colleagues, i decided to do a similar study to help understand the economic
impact of OSGeo Software on the digital economy. To do this, we need to
understand the metrics used for calculating this. Can anyone who has done
similar studies in other domains help me point to any relevant articles for
helping find a framework for this. We need to know the underlying metrics
so we can use that same framework for this study.

For example, reading through
http://news.aag.org/2015/05/aag-seeks-proposal-authors-reviewers-for-new-ap-course-in-gist/
i understand that In 2014, Esri announced a $1 billion gift of
cloud-based ArcGIS Online software to support the Obama Administration’s
ConnectEd initiative. This remarkable gift is providing free ArcGIS Online
accounts to any public or private school upon request. I am interested to
understand how this $1 billion gift is calculated? Can anyone
knowledgeable on this provide the details of these metrics use for this
calculation?

For example, The GeoAcademy MOOC program that our colleagues did ( i
understand that for just the March 2015 cohert were 4000 students in thier
program who all used QGIS), so if they all had to buy properitory software
for thier study, how much will they have to pay? and will it be possible to
even run a course like this ? It is important to quantify this as it will
help us also appreciate the great donation of the Open Source Geospatial
Foundation and the importance of Open Principles in Education.

Once we can get details of the metrics used for the calculation of
properitory software donation, we can use the same metric to understand the
impact of OSGeo software donations over many years to the Global geospatial
education, economy and business and help us with the new research paper
that i am planning to work on The Economic Impacts of Open Source
Geospatial Software. I will acknowledge all contributions/inputs recieved
from the wider community in this planned research paper. If you done
similar kind of study, in other domains , it will be helpful to get your
ideas. Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] QGIS workshops live streaming

2015-05-19 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Will the sessions be recorded and available later?

Doug

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 Live streaming of the QGIS workshops (from the 1st QGIS Users Conference,
 in Denmark) is happening now (likely for the next 4 hours):
 http://streaming.organicer.dk/qgis2015/

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

2015-03-31 Thread Newcomb, Doug

According to the presenter, it would lessen the bandwidth by a couple of
orders of magnitude for streamed XML formats.

Doug

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com
wrote:

 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
  anyone looked at that?

 Doug,

 I don't know about EXI, but most web servers should already support GZip
 compression out of the box, with no impact on WFS clientserver code, so
 IMHO,
 EXI should offer significant compression ratio over GZip-compressed XML to
 really be an incentive to be adopted by both WFS client  servers. WFS
 servers
 also often the possibility of alternate outputFormat to GML, such as zipped
 shapefile, etc..

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[OSGeo-Discuss] EXI with XML data streams

2015-03-30 Thread Newcomb, Doug

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
anyone looked at that?

Doug

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Atmospheric Correction

2015-03-04 Thread Newcomb, Doug

If this is what you are looking for,
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/i.atcorr.html, GRASS will do it. See
also, http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LANDSAT

Doug

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Devin Johnson 
devin.a.johnson.1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to find an open source remote sensing software that is able to 
 perform
 atmospheric correction on imagery data. I have minimal programming knowledge
 so something that I can operate via a GUI is of preference. Would you be
 able to help me or point me in the right direction? It. would also help
 if there were tutorials or detailed user manuals included.


 Thanks
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board nomination for Michael Smith

2014-08-18 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1
I believe that someone with Michael's experience with open source
geospatial software and integration into government enterprise applications
would give him important insights valuable to the board.

Doug


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Helena Mitasova hmit...@ncsu.edu wrote:

 I too would like to express my support for nomination of Michael Smith.
 He brings enormous expertise in both the OSGeo software development
 infrastructure and its deployment in government organizations that is
 important for the board and our organization to move forward. Daniel has
 captured his contribution and qualifications really well,

 Helena

 Helena Mitasova
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 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
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 On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

  I second the nomination of Mike Smith for the Board of Directors, so
 nicely written by DanielM.
 
  Mike is one of those who could join the Board and make an impact right
 away (because is so familiar already with how the Board runs, and knows the
 OSGeo community so well).  He was also nominated for last year's Board
 election, but true to his nature, it never phased his commitment to the
 community when others were selected.  I feel the time is perfect for Mike's
 input, and his vision, for the foundation.
 
  As an example of his dedication to OSGeo, all those WMS Benchmarking
 exercises at past FOSS4G events were hosted on infrastructure that he set
 up, he provided, he opened up fully to the development teams...his kind
 dedication has touched the whole community of OSGeo.
 
  Please strongly consider Mike Smith for the Board of Directors.
 
  -jeff
 
 
 
  On 2014-08-13 5:07 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
  Forwarding Michael Smith nomination by Daniel Morissette
 
  Best
  Jorge
 
  -- Forwarded message --
  From: Daniel Morissette
  Date: 2014-08-13 20:51 GMT+02:00
  Subject: Board nomination for Michael Smith
  To: OSGeo CRO c...@osgeo.org
 
 
  I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.
 
  Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS
  Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor
  of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the
  MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL
  project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with
  the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the
  perspective of government organizations, which is a very important
  group of users and contributors of OSGeo software that needs to be
  represented on the board in my opinion.
 
  He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer
  Users Meeting), and was an active participant and supporter of the
  FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise for several years.
 
  Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the
  last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC
  board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I
  believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for
  the challenges of serving on the board.
 
  See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc
 
  Daniel
 
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2014-07-11 Thread Newcomb, Doug

+1 Sharing of practical experiences on interoperability is always
worthwhile.

Doug


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 Bruce, there is no issue with using this mailing list for discussing
 interacting with our open tools and others...it is VERY interesting and
 please do continue and share.

 -jeff



 On 2014-07-11, 9:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
  Many thanks Gavin.
 
  We have the required licenses, so that will be OK.
 
 From memory, ESRI's support is a few versions of Postgres and PostGIS
 behind the current releases.
 
  Have you had any luck with using versions of Postgres and PostGIS higher
 than ESRI claim to support.
 
  We're running ArcGIS 10.1 and the new Postgres / PostGIS environment
 that we're looking at is 9.3.4 with PostGIS 2.1.3.
 
  We'll be running our own tests, but it would useful to have an idea of
 potential issues.
 
 
 
  If anyone would like me to move this thread off Discuss, please let me
 know. However I suspect that it may be of interest to a number of sites.
 
  Bruce
 
 
  
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
 On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming [gavinjflem...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Friday, 11 July 2014 5:29 PM
  To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS
  [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
 
  Hi Bruce
 
  I've done fairly  extensive research as this is a very common situation.
 The landscape is quite fluid though.
 
  There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had much
 luck with them in a read-write production environment.
 
  Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been available
 for a few versions now. The clincher is write support. For that you need to
 pay up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor (now called Standard). ArcGIS
 ArcView (now called Basic) won't get you write access. And you can't get
 around it with WFS-T either.
 
  So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database connection
 or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or Enterprise
 ('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native PostGIS geometry).
 
  Gavin
 
  On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector spatial data
 source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?
 
  I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being able to
 create, update and delete spatial data managed within a PostGIS
 environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle wear.
 
  Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that you’ve had from
 implementation to operational use?
 
 
  We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop and open
 source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.
 
  Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d like to move
 our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and consolidate our vector
 spatial database environment on Postgres / PostGIS.
 
  Bruce
 
 
 
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC calling participation in USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise

2014-05-05 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Hi Folks,
This looks like your opportunity to give feedback on how well USGS' OGC web
services are doing.
http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/ogc-calls-for-participation-in-usgs-interoperability-assessment-virtual-exe/397239

Signup URL
http://tinyurl.com/usgs-ogc-ia-survey

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] gis data download app per sheet/quad suggestions

2014-04-15 Thread Newcomb, Doug

You might also look at this presentation on using mapserver.

http://www.slideshare.net/foss4g2011/clip-and-shipmapserverfordatadistribution

The Southeast GAP online tool has a clip and zip data download option ,
http://www.gapserve.ncsu.edu/segap/segap/ ( you have to choose an are area
interest first and be registered) . Contact the folks at
http://www.basic.ncsu.edu and they might be able to give you some insights.

Doug


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Andrew Turner ajtur...@gmail.com wrote:

 There are a few open-source options. They may not do exactly what you want
 but provide an interface that could be adapted.

 for imagery: https://github.com/Esri/image-discovery-app-js
 geoportal can call to zip  ship processing:
 https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server

 for a hosted option - you can use GeoCommons to save filtered views of
 datasets and then download those for free, but I'm not sure how
 configurable you need it to be.

 Andrew



 On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.ptwrote:

  It's for vector and raster...



 *De:* Andrew Turner [mailto:ajtur...@gmail.com]
 *Enviada:* terça-feira, 15 de Abril de 2014 13:09
 *Para:* Duarte Carreira
 *Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 *Assunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] gis data download app per sheet/quad
 suggestions



 Are you interested in vector, raster or other types of data?



 Andrew

 (via mobile - 248-982-3609)


 On Apr 15, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.pt wrote:

  Hi everybody [1].



 I'm looking for suggestions on existing or easily adaptable solutions to
 a simple point-select-download web app. The ones I've found work by
 downloading an entire gis dataset. I need to allow downloading of selected
 sheets/quads to narrow down the volume of downloaded data at any given time.



 So, any suggestions?



 Much appreciated,

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Darpa just published a catalog of open source code

2014-02-05 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Thought this might be of interest.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5377492/darpa-publishes-all-its-open-source-code-in-one-place-open-catalog

http://www.darpa.mil/OpenCatalog/index.html

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible CS-W Portal Opportunity

2014-02-03 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Paul,
I would be very interested in whatever enhancements that you are working on
for Geonetwork. I'm on the metadata subcommittee,
http://www.ncgicc.com/Default.aspx?tabid=901, for the North Carolina
Geographic Information Coordinating Council and we are looking for
methods/software to make metadata  easier to create and maintain for Local
and State government entities in North Carolina .We looked at
Geonetwork and had similar concerns ( specifically in the area of ISO
19115-1 support).

Please let me know what you can share about this work.

Doug




On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Breimyer, Paul - 0442 - MITLL 
paul.breim...@ll.mit.edu wrote:

 My name is Paul Breimyer and I work for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a
 government research lab (FFRDC).  We are building what is effectively a
 secure CS-W portal interface for the Department of Homeland Security
 (DHS).  I'm writing to see if OSGeo might be interested in the portal if it
 were open sourced appropriately.  As part of this work we reviewed
 GeoNetwork: the backend services were well implemented, but we found the
 portal to be lacking capabilities that were necessary (at least for our use
 cases).  There may be an opportunity to enhance the GeoNetwork portal to
 facilitate broader adoption of the CS-W  standard.  Please let me know if
 there's interest to learn more.



 Thanks,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Arnulf for Sol Katz Award 2013

2013-09-26 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Congratulations Arnulf!

Doug


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan 
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote:

 Hi All,

 I would like to congratulate Arnulf on the Sol Katz 2013 award
 in recognition of his contributions to FOSS4G and the OSGeo
 Foundation.

 Looking forward to his many more contributions in the years to
 come.

 Cheers, Arnulf.

 Best

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for a one pager write up for Why Open Source is good.

2013-09-12 Thread Newcomb, Doug

You don't have to wait for a year or more to have access to a
bugfix/enhancement of the software, you can try it right away and influence
the resolution of the problem.
You can influence the direction the software roadmap takes by funding
contributions, paying for support, reporting bugs, and registering desired
features with the project.


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote:

  Hi All,

 I'm looking for a one pager write-up for a Booth display for why Open
 Source Software is a good bet for businesses.

 Anything I can use freely or pointers would be appreciated. This is
 intended as an informational handout.

 I have a start on something below, maybe it's easier for folks to add to
 these.  I'll go off and look some on Google

 Thanks in advance.

 

 Here are some benefits that Open Source software gives you.

- You are not prohibited from using Commercial Software in the mix.
- The act of using OpenSource software in general is also promoting
the Open-Data concept as well as Open-Standards.
- You are not requiring other potential business partners to use
Commercial Software in order to use your services and get at your data in
an unfettered manner, nor to serve their data to you.  Interoperability is
considerably enhanced.  The big commerical packages offer these
capabilities as well, but beware of special situations and process
additions that still bind your process to a commercial package.
- The bigger picture view is that OpenSource should be thought of as a
method for keeping business operations open and inter-operable across
boundaries and jurisdictions.  And to be thought of as a business best
practice.  It's not about going 100% OpenSource, even though you can if you
want to, but to provide a system and mechanisms that work for both
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Michael Smith

2013-08-19 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I support Mike's nomination
Doug


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) 
steve.l...@state.mn.us wrote:

 Solid +1 on Mike's nomination! --Steve

 -Original Message-
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
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 Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 9:14 PM
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 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Michael Smith

 I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

 Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center
 and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of
 MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the
 MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project,
 the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo
 projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of
 government organizations.

 He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer
 Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS
 Benchmarking exercise each year.

 Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last
 few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board
 meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is
 well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of
 serving on the board.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members!

2013-08-04 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Welcome aboard!

Doug


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arn...@osgeo.orgwrote:

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 Dear OSGeo,
 as per Board motion [1] we have now accepted all 37 nominees into
 Charter Membership [2]. Hooray! Please welcome our new Charter Members.

 Thank you for the great nominations and thanks to all for making OSGeo a
 sustainable Foundation.

 We now have people from 38 nationalities! Even the largest group now
 represents no more than a quarter of all Charter Members (the United
 States with 23%). This is really good global representation.

 FOSS4G is approaching [3] fast and in case you still did not book or
 decide to come, it is hight time. Even for procrastination experts.

 Best regards,
 Your Chief Returning Officers
 Arnulf Christl  Michael Gerlek

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Yann Chemin

2013-07-15 Thread Newcomb, Doug

I second the nomination.

Doug


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Margherita Di Leo 
dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 Let us nominate Yann Chemin [0] from France / Sri Lanka (rather citizen
 of the world), for OSGeo Charter membership.

 Yann is a researcher at IWMI [3,9], Visiting Lecturer at University of
 Colombo [4] and Visiting Lecturer/Consultant at University of Moratuwa [5],
 Sri Lanka.

 His  research interest lies in water, land and planetary remote sensing
 [1] .

 One of his major goals is to provide extensive information on soil and
 vegetation from remote sensing sources, that are often the only data
 sources available in developing countries.

 We (Anne  Madi) met Yann at GRASS Community Sprint in Genova in 2013 [6],
 after many years of email exchange and contributions on GRASS GIS
 documentation. We had the opportunity to meet him again [7] in GRASS
 Community Sprint in Prague [8], where we discussed extensively on how open
 source geospatial software can improve education and land management in Sri
 Lanka, where he currently lives.

 We believe that Yann would be a very effective Charter Member. He is a
 passionate promoter of open source geospatial, a skilled researcher and a
 great communicator.

 Anne, Margherita and Jachym

 [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Yann_Chemin
 [1] http://iwmi.academia.edu/YannChemin
 [2] http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/yann-chemin/36/b79/bbb/
 [3] http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/
 [4] http://www.cmb.ac.lk/
 [5] http://www.mrt.ac.lk/foa/
 [6] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013
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 [8] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Live DVD and OGC standards

2013-07-08 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Dr. Baumann,

Lighting my torch...;-)

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Baumann, Peter 
p.baum...@jacobs-university.de wrote:


 Finally, my personal 2 cents: I feel the future is with services, not
 formats will decide in future. Do I care, in my browser, whether I see PNG
 or JPEG or...GIF? http functionality, Ajax and the like is what I care
 about. Flames on... ;-)

 I like using Services when that are open standard formats,  but services
are ephemeral.  A local source in an open standard format is better for
archival / reproduction of work products.

Doug




 cheers,
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 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
 on behalf of Stefan Keller [sfkel...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:59 PM
 To: Carl Reed
 Cc: osgeo-discuss; TC Discuss; standa...@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards]  Live DVD and OGC standards

 Hi Carl

 2013/7/8 Carl Reed cr...@opengeospatial.org:
  The idea that the OGC process would significantly change something like
 GeoRSS is untrue.

 I would like to slightly disagree here and point to the ongoing
 GeoPackage standardization.
 Referring to the initial question, GeoPackage with SQLite/Spatialite
 format would have a chance to become the Shapefile of the future.
 The OGC just recently had the chance to adopt this existing encoding -
 but unfortunately voted against in favor of an own spec.
 To be fair to OGC (which I respect) I'd have to say that such
 political decisions happen to most standardization bodies.

 Yours, Stefan


 2013/7/8 Carl Reed cr...@opengeospatial.org:
  Allan -
 
  I respectfully disagree with your comment regarding the authors not
 wanting to bring GeoRSS into the OGC. I know that Raj, myself and other
 original authors would support bringing GeoRSS into the OGC as is.
 
  The idea that the OGC process would significantly change something like
 GeoRSS is untrue. A good recent example is Open GeoSMS. That candidate
 standard was developed externally and submitted into the OGC. The normative
 content was not changed at all other than making one tag consistent with
 some IETF RFCs (HELD, LoST, etc). We also separated the normative text from
 the informative examples (primer) which made the standard very short and
 easier to understand. Additional eyes on a document does not necessarily
 mean any normative change but does mean improvement to the document
 (grammar, wording, clarity, etc).
 
  Cheers
 
  Carl
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Arnulf Christl arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net
  To: standa...@lists.osgeo.org, TC Discuss 
 tc-disc...@lists.opengeospatial.org
  Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 9:11:27 AM
  Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] [OSGeo-Discuss] Live DVD and OGC standards
 
  On 08.07.2013 14:14, Rushforth, Peter wrote:
  Hi Allan,
 
  The counter-example is actually GeoTIFF, which was proposed
  as an OGC format a long, long time ago, by the original
  authors of the spec. At the time, it was rejected
  specifically because the TC felt that OGC should not be
  standardizing file specs, but rather should be standardizing
  interfaces.
 
  Ironic, because the strength of the Web is based on 'file' specs.  The
  geo community needs to think less about interfaces and more about
  how to communicate state through files.
 
 
  Cheers,
  Peter
 
  Peter,
  so true, I couldn't agree more. Why is it that there is a perception
  that the OGC should not work on data formats but only interfaces? Is
  this still the case? With GML and KML there are two strong existing data
  standards. GeoPackage is not exactly just a media format but ships
  with code - an ideal package so to say, and by any means not just an
  interface standard.
 
  GeoRSS and GeoJSON would not be hard to go forward with but for some
  reason it never happened.
 
  Cheers,
  Arnulf
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Announcements

2013-01-16 Thread Newcomb, Doug

It's been a topic for controversy at some other open source software
events. I've not seen it as an issue at any of the FOSS4G events that I
have attended, but I think it's a good idea to have such a policy in place.

Doug

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Dave Patton da...@confluence.org wrote:

On 2013/01/15 11:32 AM, David William Bitner wrote:

*Greetings!

The planning committee of the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference to be held May 22-24 in
Minneapolis, MN is pleased to make the following announcements which were
recently posted to our website at http://foss4g-na.org.

DIVERSITY
In an effort to foster a diversity of voices the community voting will be
done in a presenter anonymous fashion. In other words, you will be
voting
for the topic and abstract content, not the potential presenter.
FOSS4G-NA
is dedicated to a harassment-free conference
experiencehttp://foss4g-na.**org/harrassment-policy/http://foss4g-na.org/harrassment-policy/

David et al:

I have no issue with the Harassment Policy, but I am curious
as to it's origin. Is it a result of specific problems at
other FOSS4G-related events?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New GRASS GIS Website online

2012-11-14 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Definite improvement in appearance and usability.  Good job!

Doug

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote:

 The new GRASS GIS Website is finally online, offering
 a fresh look-and-feel for users and newcomers!

 Please visit
 http://grass.osgeo.org/

 After several month of development relevant content of
 the old Website was migrated to a content management
 system. The structure was simplified and put into a more
 intuitive order.

 We hope you enjoy the modernized site. The web team
 is happy to receive comments and especially community
 donated screenshots for the gallery. Please send to the
 editors.

 Note that the old Website is preserved for a while at the
 address http://grassold.osgeo.org . Help is welcome to
 migrate remaining relevant content to the Wiki. Furthermore,
 the mirror sites will be maintained as software mirror.

 Enjoy,

 the Web team
 http://grass.osgeo.org/home/imprint/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS android application

2012-10-30 Thread Newcomb, Doug

Oops, forgot to cc the list and the website for geopaparazzi.

http://code.google.com/p/geopaparazzi

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Newcomb, Doug doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote:

 Faezeh,
 I don't have a tablet or smartphone yet, but I've heard good things about
 qgis for android.  http://hub.qgis.org/projects/android-qgis .  You may
 also want to look at geopaparazzi.

 Doug


 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Faezeh Karimi Nejad 
 f.karimine...@gmail.com wrote:

 Does anyone know a GIS android application which could work on tablets or
 mobiles? The app should support shape files and a GPS is a plus. The
 abilities should include simple tasks of adding layers, displaying  and it
 better  has the editing features ability. The app is best to be a free or
 open source one. any suggestions?

 Faezeh Karimi

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