Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Edu] Web cartography, SLD

2016-12-01 Thread stefan steiniger
Hey, I know of these 2 tutorials in Cartographic Perspectives by Richard G Donohue, Robert E Roth, and Carl M Sack on web cartography: https://github.com/uwcart/cartographic-perspectives but its not about SLD. For SLD it may be best to check the GeoServer Documentation directly

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

2010-09-09 Thread Stefan Steiniger
actually besides your web-based requirement (which the software below doesn't fulfil) A free spatial statistics tool is GeoDa - with an open source version under work (http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software). stefan Mayank Agarwal wrote: I want an opensource GIS might or might not be java based

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open jump

2010-08-04 Thread Stefan Steiniger
The question is what you mean by hosting? If you ask why we are not an OSGeo project then the answer from Yves is correct: we did not apply. Although I have written/filled most documents necessary and we also have people who would support us in the incubation process the problem is that we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS vs OpenJump

2010-08-04 Thread Stefan Steiniger
A final note, GRASS functionality for raster processing may be best added to Sextante [1]. A java toolbox that is used by OpenJUMP (and gvSIG and Kosmo) for raster processing. Vector analysis functions could be added directly. not sure how difficult it would be to port GRASS functions. The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] beakdown of osgeo server projects

2010-07-29 Thread Stefan Steiniger
not into half but many as Lars proposed with respect to the SDI software categories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_Data_Infrastructure (well, I made those categories up, somehow...) stefan Lars Lingner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 29.07.2010 06:29, schrieb

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects

2010-07-20 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Geonetwork OpenSource is FAO sponsored http://geonetwork-opensource.org/documentation/articles Noli Sicad schrieb: Hi Joseph, Thanks. Nice to know about OSGeo in Africa. Correction to my earlier posting, the project below is of course LGPL. uDig is LGPL. I am just thinking where we can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OS GIS for Grazing Planning

2010-06-22 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Frank, not sure but there was a precision farming project Pirol using OpenJUMP, but I guess what they did is/was quite different? http://www.al.fh-osnabrueck.de/pirol-english0.html however, Arnd is still around on the OpenJUMP user list, so I can give you his email. stefan Frank

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ?

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Steiniger
not sure - but I know deegree was always quite up to date with the standards. but if it does 3.1.1? http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/deegree3/HowToWorkWithGML the text in the page mentions version 3.1 stefan Raj Singh schrieb: I would love to know this too! --- Raj On Jun 15, at 10:00

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ?

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Steiniger
AM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: not sure - but I know deegree was always quite up to date with the standards. but if it does 3.1.1? http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/deegree3/HowToWorkWithGML the text in the page mentions version 3.1 stefan Raj Singh schrieb: I would love to know this too

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone know of a FOSS GIS solution to creating terrain profiles from contours lines or an elevation raster (DEM)?

2010-06-12 Thread Stefan Steiniger
yep, just copied the profile tool a month ago or so to work with OpenJUMP (but not yet in the nightly build). Though... only for a DEM and not contour lines. thanks to Victor Olaya for the Sextante version (I guess he also did the Saga version)! stefan Simon Cropper schrieb: On Wednesday

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-06 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, what I miss: - a line on supported platforms - not sure if applicable to all: supported customization/scipting languages (if not too geeky) and, I like it to be a OpenOffice doc, though Adobe Illustrator is fine for me too. stefan ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, I would like to know some tools too that are used by others. As OpenJUMP is also lacking a help system (still...). Things that heard of are: - docbook - elml.ch (though not thought for documentation directly but it exports to several formats: pdf/html as it is xml based) - the Sextante

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server

2010-05-11 Thread Stefan Steiniger
how about this one: http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi Jochen Topf wrote: I am just working on a piece of Open Source software that can access WMS servers. I'd like to have some kind of demo server that could be configured in the software by default so that people have a working configuration

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [kind-off topic?] Cellular Automata and GIS

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Papers: Daniel Marceau [1] at University of Calgary has active research on integration of Agents and CAs with GIS. Though, I haven't heard that any code has ever been made public of that research. Implementations: As far as I know TerraLib has a CA implementation/methods [2] and well.. I

[OSGeo-Discuss] Place Time - Establishing an Open Source GIS Software Interest Group, Calgary Alberta

2010-04-26 Thread Stefan Steiniger
sorry for cross postings === Dear Colleague, If you are interested in Open Source GIS software and live in the Calgary area - this might be of interest for you. We have now closed the poll (http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=5c4hn45w98mcga3g) and have set a date for our first

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-19 Thread Stefan Steiniger
I think we (OpenJUMP) have a couple of people that are working (i.e. sending emails and improving code) on the weekends (and evenings) for fun. This includes not only developers but also people that update documentation and test new functions. so - yes! Btw. if you have a 20 hours/week

[OSGeo-Discuss] Establishing an Open Source GIS Software Interest Group, Calgary Alberta

2010-04-06 Thread Stefan Steiniger
group. For more information see the text below. If you have questions about this or would like to be contacted directly in the future, don't hesitate to send an email. best regards, Stefan and Andrew Stefan Steiniger - Geography, University of Calgary: ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca Andrew Hunter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining

2010-03-30 Thread Stefan Steiniger
You may also have a look at GeoDa - which is free-of-cost and I think they develop also an open source version right now (OpenGeoDa): http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software PirolJUMP (i.e. a version of OpenJUMP) had a k-means clustering function too - not sure, however, if the plugin is still

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generalizing complex 3D vector polygon data

2010-03-23 Thread Stefan Steiniger
not that I know of any 3D FOSS. however I know of research in Hannover (GER) by Frank Thiemann - german only webpage: http://www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/projekte/3d-gebaeude-generalisierung/ and Potsdam (GER) group of Juergen Doellner: http://www.matthias-trapp.de/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts

2010-03-15 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, maybe the manuscript below helps to get an overview of software out there but unfortunately there has been no space for examples in that: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/publications/sstein/sstein_hunter_fosgis4sdi_v6_short.pdd (note, this is a submitted manuscript... not a paper, but I am

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

2010-03-05 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Do the distance matrix tools work on geographic coordinates? I suspect for GRASS yes, but for QGIS? stefan Markus Neteler wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison

2010-02-18 Thread Stefan Steiniger
same for me - I stumbled over this page after a hint from Markus - and nobody ever asked us to have a look over it or send an email. Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:28 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote: Rafal Wawer ha scritto: Hi Jovi, For a start you can take a look at the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Degree vs GeoTools API

2010-02-11 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Frans, could you outline in more detail what you are aiming to do? I.e. what the students (after training) and the software (to be programmed) should be able to do? If it is about web mapping then you may consider a whole different range of FOSS4GIS. stefan Frans Thamura wrote: thx for

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

2010-02-04 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Sextante has a raster to vector conversion function - that can help in certain instances. though - depends on the data you have and if there are gaps to bridge. Landon Blake wrote: Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released under an open source license? I’m looking

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

2010-01-22 Thread Stefan Steiniger
I am not sure what Opticks (opticks.org) can do by now really since I checked it last time... but you may have a look. If you find something can you report back? so I can update my FOS GIS projects paper/map I am writing on. The not complete image of the software map 2009 is here:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] density maps

2010-01-06 Thread Stefan Steiniger
java.. then have a look at the Sextante library. It has a density and kernel density function. It can be used with geotools and from gvSIG and has connectors to OpenJUMP. I lately worked on improving the function a bit (though - everything local by now). stefan miblon schrieb: Hi there

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan Steiniger
I don't think that we (OpenJUMP) will switch to Python 3.x using Jython soon - nor prepare anything. So we rely on the Jython team anyway. stefan Dave Sampson schrieb: Hey Folks, I am wondering what, if any, projects are preparing or planning for a move to support python 3.x. Due to it

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Include remote sensing software in OSGeo desktop shootout? Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 31

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Drew, my question to you would be: Which FOS remote sensing packages do you know? I did not found many in my survey made in the beginning of December (this year). So, I think the state here is worse than for desktop GIS. I found the following tools: desktop: - OSSIM - desktop RS app -

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mobile shootout at FOSS4G 2010?

2009-12-22 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, well so it would be ArcPad (1) vs. gvSIG Mobile Pilot (2)? because these are the only platforms I know of that are (1) heavily used and (2) FOS. Or does anybody know other FOS mobile clients too? The latter info would be highly appreciate becasue then I could revise nmy article sections

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?

2009-12-22 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Dan, thanks for the thoughts - I like them too and thats what I see too.. we need not only to bring up the highlights between FOSGIS but even more to convince people to eventually have a look on FOSGIS by comparing it to ESRIs desktop software, since they have set a bit the standards (at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?

2009-12-20 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei all, thanks for Cameron on keeping me in the loop, and to Markus for remembering :) I am now subscribed to this list. I think Pauls idea sounds interesting - because this whole comparison thing is a) quite cumbersome when we have 10 desktop GIS (+ X), and b) neither really worth because

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?

2009-12-20 Thread Stefan Steiniger
mhm.. I like that idea (and also have some answers - that I got from the iGeoDesktop Crew and OrbisGIS, two pretty new Desktop GIS). but here the question: is it as valuable for the end user? or rather our thing. Brian Russo schrieb: I think a more interesting presentation would be why there