[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: quot; GRASS not in demand, says PennStatequot;
Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as GRASS? Two of the panelists answered. One said More generally, the ability to create custom software solutions - whether proprietary or open source or a combination of the two - is in high demand. which is a good, healthy response. But the other said Not seeing positions posted with GRASS. Please, both users, academia and industry need to see that it's not about a particular software product. In the end it countshow efficient I can get a particular job done and how accurate the results are. FOSS stuff is great for teaching because they allow to understand the ideas behind both by sound combination of different tools and looking into the development life cycle (bug discussions, maillist, code). students can do their own work without licese headaches and also achive tracability of the results. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: parsing coordinates
* 40:26:46N,79:56:55W * 40:26:46.302N 79:56:55.903W * 40°26'21N 79°58'36W * 40d 26' 21 N 79d 58' 36 W * 40.446195N 79.948862W * 40.446195, -79.948862 * 40° 26.7717, -79° 56.93172 I'm aware that parsing and interpreting free-text coordinate descriptions is quite complex, maybe someone knows a script (or a remote service) that does a similar job? I did some of this for python. What langauge will you use? Please report if you find some useful libraries. Kind regards, Timmie ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: on Google Code and export restrictions
I would prefer to keep this focused on our concrete responsibilities and the actual impact on the distribution of OSGeo software rather than That's very fine with me. I was just dropping examples. Thanks also a lot for your well formulated and written answer which already clarifys a lot. For the rest I will patiently wait for a board decision. think it is better for us to follow established practice in other well managed projects (like Apache), and to avoid taking on any restrictions that we aren't clearly mandated to adopt. For instance, I suspect that PS. I would note that download.osgeo.org supports mirroring using rsync. I would encourage local chapters or individuals with their own servers to consider mirroring the download server for the sake of fast local access, and to ensure no one can take anything away. See: I think Debian has developed good practice, too. I mean, they have general and non-use repositories. They leave it up to the user to comply with these. BTW, politicians in Europe also start to wrongly national safety and civil rights/digital rights. Germany just passed their online investigation law this week... Also good that you highlight the importance to check the policy of the code hoster and their anticipated understanding of not doing evil. Kind regards, Marco ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library
III. Automated Mapping (script driven) 1. Map Series (single page, identical layout) Just would like to add creationg of index maps that give overviews on smaller areas: a country wide idex map and then map 1,2,3,... for each federal state. Like those pages at the begining of a printed atlas. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Proposal: OSGeo Python Library
Hello, this is a nice idea. Although considering myself still a starter I can already percieve the glue potential that doing GIS with Python offers. Esspecially when one thinks of integration GIS and other scientific software packages that already exist or the ease to distribute python programs. Hacks to the Wiki page and comments welcome, On that page you mentioned Scipy/Numpy. Please consider the issue about licence compatibility with Scipy/Numpy wich are both release with a more liberal licence. Some information on this: Scipy/numpy license compatibility http://www.scipy.org/License_Compatibility In the end this would mean that (L)GPL liceneced packages developed at OSGEO will never be integraded by the Scipy coders because they seek much more liberal licences. This applies as well to such neat this as the Python bindings of QGIS. I therefore suggest to release the Python bindings with another licence. Refer to SAGA GIS for a example case. The core program is liceneced with a different licence as the SAGA API. Interested to hear you opinion. Kind regards, Timmie ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Traineeship on Integrating Harmonizing distributed Mapping Services at EU IES institute
The trainee is going to contribute to the on-going development of the geo-portal project described above. More specifically the following tasks are foreseen: - identify the issues on integrating distributed WMS considering the draft INSPIRE view service implementing rule - designing and prototyping an 'INSPIRE WMS harmonizing engine' that deals with the expected heterogeneity in multilingual capabilities. The candidate will have good knowledge of - English (written and spoken) - Geospatial Web technologies for more information refer to: http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/actions0.html = job description at: http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/fileadmin/Documentation/Reports/MSU/Trainees_07/PS_11602-1.doc P.S.: sorry for crossposting... there's to many lists nowadays. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities
Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to discuss this but I just start. At my university open source is little used in eductaion and research. There are only a few single warriors who care about it. We have serveral departments that use GIS programs. Each of them buys normally the licences for Arc* Most students make their way into one program after attening a number of classes on how to push the buttons of that program. But when they come back to it after a while all this is lost since they haven't learned the logic behind. To my thinking, getting into the many FOSS programs forces students to lokk behind and learn concepts rather than functions. Another thing is the question of resources. Instead of buying licences from big companies that money could be saveed to by data loggers, equipment or pay a FOSS-developer. Most projects buy expensive tools when they only want to produce some maps to display the survey fields etc. So, my question is: * Is there a possibilty set up a university wide infrastructure on FOSS that enables whoever neeeds it to handle geodata and analyse it even when they are not educated GIS specialists (rather geo/agric scientists)? * Naive idea/vision: 1) computing center of the university employs a GIS specialist(s) who act as service force for other disciplines (set up of geodatabases, introductory courses) 2) computing center sets up a server with GRASS, postgis, etc. 3) those who need geo processing will install a tailored cywin or eny other environment to access the latest version of the FOSS GIS software on the server via -X forwarding or simply access their data in the postgressdb from various clients. 4) data in the postgressdb could be shared according to given access rights = there infrastruture is just there, those who need take to whatever level they'd need it. * Question: would it be possible to implement such a scenario? * Are there already such cases out there? * Why not take the nice example of the various projects that deliver FOSS for schools (Edubuntu, Skolelinux, etc.) and adapt this to the world of FOSS4G? * Who or what are the thoughts of OSGEO on this? Keen to hear your opinion, thoughts, experineces, critics, etc. Tim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
