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

2017-09-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I just got off the phone with a client that is interested in migrating to open source tools. They problem is they don't know where to start. They know what proprietary tools they are using, they know what features they are using, they know about OSGeo, but rapidly get lost in all the projects a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Really, that is news to me. I never knew we had that option. I think we would have liked to fund some additional development for the project or defrayed travel expenses for PSC members to go to conferences to present papers on behalf of the project. What is the process for mentors to get the m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think at the least we might want to consider giving that money or some of it back to the project that did the mentoring and let them decide how to use it with some guidelines on use. OSGeo as the sponsoring organization should probably get some of it to defray effort of organizing. Just my 2

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] tiling alternative

2017-06-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/14/2017 4:47 PM, Eduardo Kanegae wrote: hi there, I have the need for maps on hosted platforms without mapserver. I'm thinking in use Leaflet and tilesets (PNG for transparency) for that. What would be a practical to do that locally? (under an OSGeo Live workstation) MapNik? MapProxy?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-06-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
You can get all the Ceneus polygon areas that they report statistics about here: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/ ZCTA5 - Zip code tabulation areas BG - block groups etc There is good documention. If you loade these into postgis, then you can dos a simple query like: select * from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS

2016-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Suchith, Vicky Vergara and I developed a vehicle routing problem solver as part of a city wide trash collection planning system that Ingesur developed for the city of Montevideo UY. Our repository is here: https://github.com/woodbri/vehicle-routing-problems/tree/release-v5 This is an inte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Has anyone looked at Salesforce.com that has offers 10 free licenses to NPO's as a possible CRM solution. http://www.salesforce.com/industries/nonprofit/overview/ http://www.salesforce.org/nonprofit/ http://thirdsectorit.org/blog/the-difference-between-regular-salesforce-and-the-nonprofit-starte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy

2015-12-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
We already have the technology for lists that support all the various lists that we already maintain. It seems that we could create various new lists, like foss4g, foss4g-na, foss4g-, etc and then allow people to sub to these lists. Part of signing up for an event would be to check off if you w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

2015-12-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think there is another facet of communication that is being missed and is probably part of the current issue. I think the OSGeo member of LocationTech should also be responsible for keep the OSGeo membership more informed about what is happening between the two organizations. I think it is n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] parcel data in US

2015-10-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
And another I had bookmarked a while ago: http://www.boundarysolutions.com/BSI/page1.php -Steve On 10/18/2015 7:57 PM, Raj R Singh wrote: One for-fee source is http://courthouseusa.com/ “Nearly 100 million property records with parcel boundaries in one standard format.” --- Raj Singh r...@raj

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 on the less is more and on renaming. Marketing is about establishing a brand (among other things). It is clear who owns the OSGeo brand. Who owns the FOSS4G brand belong to? what is the added value of supporting this brand? and potentially diluting or confusing the OSGeo brand? Many bran

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

2015-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Darrell, Thank you for you assessment, I think this is a great call for action and it puts words to a lot of my feelings about OSGeo. If you look at most of the successful projects they are driven by someone with vision and passion that pulls in others to work toward concrete goals. If you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

2015-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 on having more time. On 9/25/2015 1:47 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: To avoid confusion: the election date has been confirmed by the CRO to end on 27 september 12.00 GMT With respect for all the board candidates and their busy agenda, I think for the election campa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] code of conduct: another real case

2015-09-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Ok, maybe I don't understand, but why doesn't somebody just fix this issue. It seems everyone agrees the listing is wrong on the site. Somebody should have a cease and desist letter sent to the site to change the owner to the correct name or remove the posting. whois openhub.net for the site

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Ko Nagase

2015-08-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Another +1 for Ko Nagase. He is a long term supporter of pgRouting and pgRoutingLayer for QGIS. He supports OSX builds and debugging issues and all platforms. He is a valuable contributor and supported this and other projects for many years. Thanks, -Steve On 8/30/2015 7:46 AM, 林博文 wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Vicky Vergara

2015-08-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I would like to second this Nomination. I have worked extensively with Vicky on a number of projects and she is a real asset to our community. I think we will see her as an active and growing member of our community. She brings a lot of expertise and energy to all the projects she works on and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations

2015-08-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
+1 Frank's statement is exactly what I would like to see also. -Steve On 8/3/2015 12:39 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Folks, For what it's worth, I also do not feel comfortable with completing the survey as it is currently structured as the structure forces me to give answers that don't really re

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations

2015-07-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think Bruce has put some of my concerns about the questions into good examples the resonate with my concerns. For example: I am a long time contributor to multiple OSGeo projects and have mentored some smaller projects that are not OSGeo projects yet but are key pieces of GIS infrastructure.

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

2015-07-27 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Vasile, The survey looks excellent but a minor structural change suggestion would be to put the voting questions last. The reason for this change is that the voting should be based on how you think about the later questions. By reversing the order of these you force the user to think about th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
increase transparency IMHO. my 0.02, Peter On 03/05/2015 09:13 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: I think the idea would be that an "Incubated Project" would have meet all the basic stars. Obviously the steps that get you to be "incubated" are the same steps that a project have to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think the idea would be that an "Incubated Project" would have meet all the basic stars. Obviously the steps that get you to be "incubated" are the same steps that a project have to achieve to get stars. It seems like there are goals to get you to "incubated" and then goals to get you to "gra

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think this type of system makes a lot of sense especially if you tie the achievement of stars to completing the various requirements of incubation and graduation. -Steve On 3/5/2015 6:18 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Bart, that needs to be discussed but as example: yes, 1 star for current labs

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi, I would like to dig a bit more into the topic "more fine incubation" procedure and former "OSGeo Labs" (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs) I would like to start talk abou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Projects mailing lists

2014-10-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 10/8/2014 7:47 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi, I would like to ask all our OSGeo projects contact points, to join the projects mailing list [1], so we have one single contact point for all projects. I would also like to ask projects chairs/contact points, to update the wiki [2] with your e-mai

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

2014-07-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dirk, Thank you for putting a lot of what I have been feeling about this issue into words. Well said, -Steve On 7/1/2014 12:46 PM, Dirk Frigne wrote: Although I am not so active on the mailing list, I am an OSGeo's advocate, and I take the opportunity to promote OSGeo wherever I can. I b

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

2014-06-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Folks, I'll toss my two cents into this discussion. I think a lot of this has been already stated in part by others. o while I don't object to a membership fee in principal it has to come with some benefits for the member not for OSGeo. While it might be beneficial to OSGeo by providing an i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
So elections are to add to our membership, then elections should support that activity. Maybe the conversation needs to be also about what OSGeo wants out of its members because that would drive the process of how to select them. -Steve On 5/7/2014 7:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEG

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoPDF generation with PHP?

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I have been using FPDF to generate pdf files using PHP. Since these files have among other stuff in them, map images, I am thinking that it would be cool and useful to add georeferencing to these files. Does anyone know of a PHP library or package that will support generation of geor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ubuntu vs. Centos for GIS?

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 4/2/2014 2:57 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: On 04/02/2014 11:13 AM, David Strom wrote: We have a project where people are using R & Grass & GDAL for various sorts of Geoprocessing. The first server we put up is running Ubuntu 12.0.4, and we installed Grass, Gdal, etc. from repository(ies) - i.e., w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New to OSGeo

2014-01-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 1/28/2014 2:09 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: On 01/28/2014 11:04 AM, Pulkit Agarwal wrote: Hello, I'm new to OSGeo and would like to contribute. I read the various prerequisites in terms of knowledge of different platforms of the organization. And i have basic idea of almost all the platforms mentio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
for your quick help. Mike On 12/10/2013 4:12 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: OK, interestingly that url works fine for me! But if I SHIFT-refresh a bunch of times I can get that error. So it seems that the load balancer is hitting one/some? server that is miss configured. -Steve On 12/10/2013 3

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
version of mapserver needs to be installed with GD/JPEG support add to the ./configure command when it is built. -Steve W On 12/10/2013 4:12 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: OK, interestingly that url works fine for me! But if I SHIFT-refresh a bunch of times I can get that error. So it seems that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
that this seems to be effecting the WMS examples on the openlayers.org website as well. Mike On 12/10/2013 3:44 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this error message? If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org broken?

2013-12-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Can you post the full url to a single tile that is generating this error message? If mapserver has been upgraded to v6.4 the GD/JPEG support might not be built into it and you might have better luck requesting map_imagetype=jpeg or map_imagetype=png -Steve W On 12/10/2013 3:09 PM, mtoothak

[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting 2.0 Released

2013-09-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Authors: Project Steering Committee Release 2013-09-24 The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting 2.0.0 This 2.0 release brings a number of major new features that are summarized in this document. ## Table of Contents * Major New Feature in pgRouting 2.0 * Migration G

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

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
The part that bothers me the most about this has to do with the big picture. I'm concerned that if we focus on this or that standard without putting it into the larger context that poor(bad?) decisions are getting made that set precedents for more bad decisions to follow. This had been touched

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] geo ip locator services

2013-02-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/15/2013 6:33 AM, Rashad M wrote: Is there any Free GeoIp locator services available that can get info without any limit by ip/country? If no Is it possible to build a custom geoip locator? You can install geoip on most linux systems. I built a ws using this code: -Steve W ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

2012-12-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
2 5:19 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote: Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim? Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef "Stephen Woodbridge" mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com>> het volgende: On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

2012-11-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are "in" labs. There is a short list of "stable" and "

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Printing SHP

2012-11-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 11/18/2012 8:48 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: hi Any idea to make it like condole rathe wb based? This might give you a clue: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-dev/2010-July/006284.html It might be possible to render it to svg if you are using mapserver with 6.2 that was just releas

[OSGeo-Discuss] Very cool wind map

2012-10-30 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I thought you might be interested in checking this out. http://hint.fm/wind/ It is a very cool animated wind map of the US. I haven't look at the implementation but thought it was worth sharing. -Steve ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] African universities on google maps

2012-09-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 9/21/2012 9:09 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:49:21 +0100 Barry Rowlingson wrote: This just disturbed me: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=694668 "NAIROBI, Sept 14 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Students from more than 90 universities in 12 sub-Saharan African count

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hello, I think the 'cookbook' is a great idea! It is about capturing our collective knowledge and experience, it not about limiting creativity or change. Just like in software when you have an individual contributor that has passion, vision and drive can create wonderful things, you also have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did anyone else see this article on OSGeo?

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
The writer has a feedback link at the bottom of the article. I think it is time to educate him about support. He obviously needs everyone here to tell him that each of us are support, and give him links to the various support lists, advocates, and companies that are supporting and co-developing

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort

2012-06-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge

[OSGeo-Discuss] Google announces full offline mapping mode for Android smartphones

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I thought this might be of interest to people here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/google-announces-full-offline-mapping-mode-for-android-smartphones/7744?tag=nl.e550 -Steve Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Governance

2012-05-26 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Arnulf and the whole OSGeo Board, +1 as a vote of confidence in the board and in this decision by them. Please keep things moving and if you feel things need a broader discussion I'm sure you will let us know. I do think notices of decisions like your email are very helpful to keep us up to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/2/2012 1:32 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 02/05/2012 19:04, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) ha scritto: We see new opportunities by starting joint activities with the Eclipse foundation - which is in the process of spawning activities explicitly focused on geospatial. They have lots of high level co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-04-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi All, I think there are lots of ways to be an "Ambassador". The issue is that different people have different skills and comfort levels in how they approach the role. For example, I am comfortable "pushing" OSGeo projects that I work with and recommending that clients use them and discuss t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

2012-03-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/18/2012 7:50 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: On 17/03/12 00:06, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: On 3/16/2012 12:52 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a simple means to take a shapefile and create a either a SQLite or xBase table? Essentially it is taking an attached attribute table

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

2012-03-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/16/2012 12:52 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a simple means to take a shapefile and create a either a SQLite or xBase table? Essentially it is taking an attached attribute table, inserting the coordinates in a field and saving the new file in a designated format. Most of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Jeff, Thank you for your service

2012-02-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Jeff, I want to thank you for all your service on the board and on committees. OSGeo would not be what it is today without all your efforts. I have a huge respect for all you have done for OSGeo and Mapserver where I am closer to your efforts and on other projects that you have selflessly jum

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

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 1/17/2012 2:51 PM, Arnie Shore wrote: I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise. Arnie, I think that there is no simple answer to this because it is largely defined by the specific requirements. If your problem is scanning text and ex

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

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Ahhh! found the reference I was looking for. This will show relevant links: https://www.google.com/#q="geo+search"+egnor Hope this is useful. -Steve On 1/17/2012 11:58 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com

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

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/385 http://www.ijcte.org/papers/005.pdf http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_4_1/Martins_et_al.pdf http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html I can not find a potentially excelent reference tha

[OSGeo-Discuss] US National Historical GIS Site

2011-12-19 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I just found this site and thought it might be of interest to others. National Historical GIS The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010. https://w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Woodbridge

2011-11-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
OSGeo ranks in my opinion. Thank you and best regards, -Steve Woodbridge On 11/14/2011 11:19 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi all, We, Dan Putler and Daniel Kastl, are nominating Stephen Woodbridge to be a Charter Member of OSGeo. We have both worked with Steve as part of a project team, Daniel Kas

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Woodbridge

2011-11-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
regards. Best regards, -Steve On 11/14/2011 11:19 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi all, We, Dan Putler and Daniel Kastl, are nominating Stephen Woodbridge to be a Charter Member of OSGeo. We have both worked with Steve as part of a project team, Daniel Kastl on pgRouting and Dan Putler on PAGC. We have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source Geospatial DVD

2011-09-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Cameron, Awesome job on this. I download it last night burnt a dvd and booted it to my laptop. Works great! Now I'm sorry that pgRouting and PAGC do not have submission on the DVD. I guess I will have to work on getting them on the next iteration. Thanks for all your effort on this. -Steve

[OSGeo-Discuss] Handouts for FOSS4G presentation?

2011-09-04 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Does anyone know what the process is for handouts for FOSS4G presentations? Is the conference making copies for the audience? Do the presenters need to make copies? How do we know how many to make if we need to do this? Is the conference collecting presentations to put online or to publish? W

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/13/2011 4:41 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to keep OSGeo going. This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to partly finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting these reso

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 9:29 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1? Tilecache (tilecache.org)? Then if Arc can consume wms-c services your are good to go. You might want to look at mod_geocache[1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 3:08 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: On 10/06/2011 4:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 09/06/2011 21:38, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises ar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

2011-05-27 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/27/2011 9:51 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote: Hi, I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an "open stream map" project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too... It is an interesting idea -- roa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for map matching software

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/9/2011 11:58 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: On 2011-05-09, at 8:36 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Do we have any good map matching code around? I looking for something that does more than simple snapping of points to nearest segments. I have read tons of academic papers and played around with

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for map matching software

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, Do we have any good map matching code around? I looking for something that does more than simple snapping of points to nearest segments. I have read tons of academic papers and played around with some simple algorithms in postGIS. I have the road network loaded in pgRouting. Is anyon

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does osgeo provide infrastructure for non-incubating projects?

2011-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 4/5/2011 7:43 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: On 11-04-05 04:59 AM, Fernando González wrote: The first step is to create a work group to learn GGL2 technologies so we need a mailing list and a public SCM (we work with a private one currently). Is it possible to get such infrastructure from osgeo?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
These all are pretty cool, but all seem to work based on knowing the current location, which is is the unknown in Michael's hypothetical problem. But that said some of the tech behind these tools might be useful in comparing photo to a potential reference image. This is a very interesting and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
brand new area..] -mpg -Original Message- From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:16 PM To: m...@flaxen.com; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile? On 3/28/2011 4:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/28/2011 4:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Consider the following hypothetical problem: Assume we have a good elevation data set for a large region of the earth -- say, an entire mountain range. Now let's say we have a photograph taken from the ground, the horizon of which shows the profile

[OSGeo-Discuss] New System May Disrupt GPS Signals

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
This is very disturbing if it is approved! http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/7/obama-to-america-get-lost/ new system will disrupt GPS signals. -Steve ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/2/2011 5:14 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Below, Frank has done a great job asking the exact sort of question that new GIS users ask, and which we as an OSGeo community should address to attract new users. I think that it would be helpful to identify gaps also, for two reasons: 1. if someone

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AWSTATS experts?

2010-09-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
It is self service. Look at the footer of every post. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss On 9/29/2010 7:13 PM, moxamillion wrote: how do I get my email address removed? from this list On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Tyler Mitchell mailto:tmitch...@osgeo.org>> wrote: Sl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Yes, on the OSGeo Discuss list there was the interesting suggestion that one could compute the viewshed for points along a road segment to get an estimate of the potential view from that segment. I'm thinking about doing this in the future since I already have the DEM which would be required fo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
of both cruvyness and grade on our travel times. Rich On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: On 9/14/2010 11:43 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: Steve, Adding viewsheds to the package would certainly up the computing costs; I was wondering if you had a limit to what sort of pro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
precision of your results before you can say much about applying this to any real-world problems. I'll post a link back if I get anything working. Meanwhile, thanks for the ideas and thoughts. -Steve - Bill Thoen On 9/13/2010 5:28 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Bill, Thanks for the i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
to get reasonable results. Thanks, -Steve W On 9/13/2010 4:24 PM, Bill Thoen wrote: Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi all, (This is cross posting from the pgrouting list, sorry for the dups.) I have preprocessed some shapefile data and added elevation information in the Z value of the coordinates

[OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on how to use elevation in routing

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, (This is cross posting from the pgrouting list, sorry for the dups.) I have preprocessed some shapefile data and added elevation information in the Z value of the coordinates. I'm wondering how to best utilize that in routes and would like any thoughts or ideas you might be willing to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
There is also a patch to mapserver that provides on the fly tile generations and serving tiles from a cache. This is slated to be integrated with mapserver 6.0. http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3513 -Steve W On 9/1/2010 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote: I was also just looking into tile ca

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping a more accurate geoid

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
This might interest some of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm -Steve W ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Need help backporting postgis-1.5.1 to debian lenny using pbuilder

2010-05-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, If anyone has any experience pbuilder on debian and/or backporting postgis to lenny, I could really use some help. I'm using the pkg-grass package definitions. Please contact me off list. If I can get this to work, I'd be happy to document the process and post it somewhere. TIA, -S

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [SoC] Google Summer of Code 2010 begins

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Thank you! Wolf and the rest of the admin team. Now the work for us begins ;) -Steve Wolf Bergenheim wrote: Hello, first of all we at OSGeo would like to to thank all students who applied this year! THANK YOU :D Then congratulations are in order for the 10 students selected to participate in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mailing list problems - can somebody fix this? Please

2010-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
on: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; cannot append message to destination file /var/mail/root: cannot open file: Permission denied Subject: [Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender] From: Stephen Woodbr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for PHP, OpenLayers GPS tracking software

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie, Brent, Thank you for the suggestions. I'll check out openises when I have a chance. I have coded bits and pieces of this in various apps at one time or another, but it just seems like there should be something like this available. I just got sidetracked for a few days, but I'll get ba

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for PHP, OpenLayers GPS tracking software

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I'm looking for something like OpenGTS but written in PHP. The needs are pretty flexible. I would like the server side code to be in PHP and the mapping interface to be OpenLayers based. Does anyone know if there is an OpenSource project doing something like this? Thanks, -Steve _

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WCS/WMS accuracy tests?

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Steven M. Ottens wrote: Hi all, Working with Geoserver as a WCS we discovered that requesting a GeoTIFF in the same projection as the original GeoTIFF produces a shifted dataset. (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3702) The shift is small, less than one pixel of the original dataset, but with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Simon, You might want to look at PostGIS. It is a GIS extension to the posgresql database. There are windows installers for it. There is a shapefile loaded and dumper, so you can easily load a shapefiles into tables then do SQL queries with geospatial function. The postgis support list has a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] distributing "read-only" vector files?

2009-11-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
maning sambale wrote: Before anything else, let me introduce our dilemma. We are a non-profit geo-research institution. In many cases we produce geospatial datasets no other local institution can create in my country at the moment. What we create are sometimes benchmark info useful to various

[OSGeo-Discuss] Google Disruptive business models on Geo Data

2009-10-31 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, This is a great article that has a lot of relevance to the OpenSource/OpenData world. I thought it was a good read. http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%E2%80%9Cless-than-free%E2%80%9D-business-model/ Sorry for the cross-posting. -Steve W

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-10-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
http://www.openrouteservice.org/ This is the only one that I know about. But last time I looked I did not see a link to download source code. -Steve Sampson, David wrote: I am looking for an open source project that has implemented OpenLS specification from OGC. I know their are some gro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
;d be great if those components could talk to the same routing API, and indeed could be the start of an improved open standard. best regards, Chris Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable, optionally usable, optionally effective, optionally robust solutions of remote routing services? The use case is very simple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about available and programmatically callable, optionally usable, optionally effective, optionally robust solutions of remote routing services? The use case is very simple: 1) client is a non-Web thin client 2) client has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapServer dynamic thematic map

2009-09-25 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
jxRui, You should ask this question on the Mapserver Users List mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-us...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users You are more likely to get a response to this Mapserver specific question on that list. I have added it to the

[OSGeo-Discuss] How about an OSGeo Credit Card?

2009-08-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4577&tag=nl.e539 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie Shore wrote: Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
about something like this for a couple of years now. Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of starting/setting up a group to work on this? I am also interested in such a prog

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki Upkeep - Orphaned Pages

2009-04-21 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Markus Neteler wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: So looking around there a few things that could use some work on the wiki and are easy enough for any community member to help with. 1. We have 327 Orphaned Pages, these are pages that exist but that no other page links

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] process for copyright assignment

2009-04-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I think this is simpler than you are making it, but maybe not. There are two separate issues here: 1) title/ownership (in this case the copyright) 2) branding These are totally separate issues and we need to make sure that one does not imply the other. We just need explicit language the makes

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