Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?
Hi All, Thanks for the responses- I was looking for a very loose figure for the community as a whole, so for my purposes the 33K unique subscribers to the mailing lists works well. The graphs of charter members per country from the OSGeo AGM slides are also really helpful. (Thanks Jorge Sanz). (FYI I'm not doing science with these figures, it's just some factoids for the purposes of a talk I'll be giving soon) Best Jo On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:03 PM Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > > Hi Jachym, > > On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members > > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members > > 1210 entries on https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member > > That's also where wiki's Main_Page points to. > > > Jürgen > > -- > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 > Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 > Software Engineer D-26506 Nordenhttps://www.norbit.de > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jo Cook t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For urgent responses at that time, please visit support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 -- -- *Sign up to our mailing list <https://astuntechnology.com/company/#email-updates> for updates on news, products, conferences, events and training* * * Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com <http://astuntechnology.com/> twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has recently attempted to estimate the size (in people) of OSGeo? I thought the easiest approach might be to see the number of people subscribed to the discuss list. I'm aware it's not going to catch everyone, but it seems reasonable as a measure of the community. Thoughts? Furthermore, how many people attended FOSS4G in Bucharest this year? Thanks Jo -- Jo Cook t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For urgent responses at that time, please visit support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 -- -- *Sign up to our mailing list <https://astuntechnology.com/company/#email-updates> for updates on news, products, conferences, events and training* * * Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com <http://astuntechnology.com/> twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code campaign
Hi Maria et al, That sounds eminently sensible to me. I guess it's already an agenda item for the next board meeting so the rest of us can wait to see what comes out of that. All the best Jo On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:14 PM María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > Hi, > > I think we can do both. > > I mean: OSGeo should sign it (from my perspective) because it is > saying the same thing we say all the time: FLOSS is better :) > > And at the same time, we can use the European Chapter to talk to the > FSF(E) if this is an european initiative to lobby and if we can join > forces. Or what is the purpose of this (I guess they are not going to > collect signatures and just wait for something to happen). Whatever > the FSFE has in mind, we are probably interested in it. > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:11 PM Jo Cook wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Do we think this is something OSGeo should sign globally, or that > > individual chapters should decide to sign or not, as appropriate? I'm > > all for OSGeo signing it, as it's bigger (obviously) and would > > hopefully have more of an impact, but I guess others may have a > > different opinion... > > > > Jo > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Margherita Di Leo > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Jody, > > > > > > thank you, just added to the agenda. Indeed I think this aims at being a > > > global initiative rather than limited to Europe only. I have seen > > > signatures from countries all over the world, as well as support from > > > international organizations based outside Europe. I think that OSGeo > > > should support this campaign to remark that supports the principle, as in > > > this phase no political action is entailed. Local chapters as well should > > > sign and, if any, take further political actions when the times come. In > > > fact I have forwarded this also to the Italian local chapter and I invite > > > all the community to do the same to your own local chapters. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jody Garnett > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> You are welcome to add it to the agenda to the the next board meeting > > >> (edit wiki page Board_Meeting_2019-07-29) , however we try and leave > > >> political influencing to local chapters - as it is more effective to > > >> have a local voice when talking to politicians. This looks like exactly > > >> the kind of initiative OSGeo Europe was formed to support :) > > >> > > >> Note despite the "eu" in the domain name the web page does not appear be > > >> limited to Europe. When signing it immediately asks which country you > > >> are from (no doubt to direct the support to the appropriate region). > > >> -- > > >> Jody Garnett > > >> > > >> > > >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 05:21, Margherita Di Leo > > >> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Dear members of the OSGeo community, > > >>> > > >>> I haven't seen this circulating already in our mailing list, if I just > > >>> missed it, apologies. > > >>> This is to draw your attention to the following campaign: > > >>> https://publiccode.eu/ > > >>> I really would like to see OSGeo among the supporters of the open > > >>> letter. Like-minded organizations like FOSSGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc have > > >>> already signed it. > > >>> > > >>> Thanks > > >>> Kind regards, > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Margherita Di Leo > > >>> ___ > > >>> Discuss mailing list > > >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Margherita Di Leo > > > ___ > > > Discuss mailing list > > > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > -- > > Jo Cook > > t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek > > Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For > > urgent responses at that time, please visit > > support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 > > > > -- > > -- > > *Sign up to our mailing list &
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code campaign
Hi All, Do we think this is something OSGeo should sign globally, or that individual chapters should decide to sign or not, as appropriate? I'm all for OSGeo signing it, as it's bigger (obviously) and would hopefully have more of an impact, but I guess others may have a different opinion... Jo On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Margherita Di Leo wrote: > > Hi Jody, > > thank you, just added to the agenda. Indeed I think this aims at being a > global initiative rather than limited to Europe only. I have seen signatures > from countries all over the world, as well as support from international > organizations based outside Europe. I think that OSGeo should support this > campaign to remark that supports the principle, as in this phase no political > action is entailed. Local chapters as well should sign and, if any, take > further political actions when the times come. In fact I have forwarded this > also to the Italian local chapter and I invite all the community to do the > same to your own local chapters. > > Thanks > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jody Garnett wrote: >> >> You are welcome to add it to the agenda to the the next board meeting (edit >> wiki page Board_Meeting_2019-07-29) , however we try and leave political >> influencing to local chapters - as it is more effective to have a local >> voice when talking to politicians. This looks like exactly the kind of >> initiative OSGeo Europe was formed to support :) >> >> Note despite the "eu" in the domain name the web page does not appear be >> limited to Europe. When signing it immediately asks which country you are >> from (no doubt to direct the support to the appropriate region). >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 05:21, Margherita Di Leo wrote: >>> >>> Dear members of the OSGeo community, >>> >>> I haven't seen this circulating already in our mailing list, if I just >>> missed it, apologies. >>> This is to draw your attention to the following campaign: >>> https://publiccode.eu/ >>> I really would like to see OSGeo among the supporters of the open letter. >>> Like-minded organizations like FOSSGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc have already >>> signed it. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Margherita Di Leo >>> _______ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Margherita Di Leo > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jo Cook t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For urgent responses at that time, please visit support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 -- -- *Sign up to our mailing list <https://astuntechnology.com/company/#email-updates> for updates on news, products, conferences, events and training* * * Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com <http://astuntechnology.com/> twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has launched
Hi Cameron, Yes, definitely. I assume the idea is that OSGeo would apply to become a mentoring organisation? Jo On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:36 AM Cameron Shorter wrote: > As per below, Google has just launched a Season of Docs program, designed > to bring open source and technical writer communities together, to the > benefit of both. Awesome! I reckon our OSGeo projects should get involved, > and I'm personally keen to be part of it. Anyone else want to join me? > > -- Forwarded message - > From: Sarah Maddox > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 08:56 > Subject: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents: > Season of Docs has launched > To: > > > Thank you for your feedback on the initial proposal of Google’s Season of > Docs program! You’re receiving this email because you indicated that you’d > like us to send you updates about the program. > > We’re delighted to announce that we’ve launched the 2019 pilot of Season > of Docs. Details are on our website: g.co/seasonofdocs > <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/>. > > Season of Docs is a Google program that fosters collaboration between open > source projects and technical writers. It’s similar to Summer of Code, but > with a focus on documentation and technical writers. > > Would you like to take part as a mentor in the inaugural year of Season of > Docs? Organization applications open on April 2, 2019. See the full > timeline <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline> and > join the announcement group at season-of-docs-announce > <https://groups.google.com/group/season-of-docs-announce> to stay > informed. > > Please do tweet and blog about Season of Docs if you’d like to share the > news. We want as many people to know about it as possible. We’ve provided > logos that you can download and some example content on the press page > <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/press>. > > If you have any questions, please email > season-of-docs-supp...@googlegroups.com. > > Many thanks again for your valuable feedback on the initial proposal. > > Sarah Maddox, Andrew Chen, and the Season of Docs team > > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Technology Demystifier > Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant > > M +61 (0) 419 142 254 > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For urgent responses at that time, please visit support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 -- -- *Sign up to our mailing list <https://astuntechnology.com/company/#email-updates> for updates on news, products, conferences, events and training* * * Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com <http://astuntechnology.com/> twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a single map
Hi Roz, You might have more luck asking this question on the UK-specific OSGeo discussion list (see our website at http://uk.osgeo.org/ where there's a link to the mailing list). As the name suggests, it's focused on the UK, and no doubt someone there will be able to help you with things like Ordnance Survey (free) data products and methods you might use for combining them so that you can remain in possession of all of your limbs and organs. Regards Jo (chair of the UK OSGeo chapter) On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Roz Jones wrote: > Hi all > > I am currently research a Roman road in south-west England, linking Aquae > Sulis (modern day Bath) and Poole. > > At the moment, the route covers about 5 Ordnance Survey Explorer maps. > But I want to be able to view the route on a single map, of the same scale, > 1:25 000 > > I have looked at GIS software, but I can't get my head around it and I > have enquired with the Ordnance Survey about creating one, and it would > cost an arm, a leg and a few organs to produce. Would anyone please help > me in creating such a map. > > Thank you > > Roz > > My website/blog: http://rhjones19.wix.com/lifesapain?_ > ga=1.190150379.1392238553.1441730357 > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek Please note that currently I do not work on Friday afternoons. For urgent responses at that time, please visit support.astuntechnology.com or phone our office on 01372 744009 -- -- * Reserve your conference place now: *Bristol 26 Sept <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astun-conference-bristol-tickets-46763717538>* | *Leeds 3rd October <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astun-conference-leeds-tickets-46763825862> * * *Sign up to our mailing list <https://astuntechnology.com/company/#email-updates> for updates on news, products, conferences, events and training* * * Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com <http://astuntechnology.com/> twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member
I'm also proud to second this nomination. Jo On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > I am very happy to second the nomination of Antony Scott. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > From: Discuss on behalf of Vasile > Craciunescu > Sent: 06 September 2017 2:44 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member > > Forwarding Antony Scott nomination by Steven Feldman. 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 > Subject: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member > Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:29:51 +0100 > From: Steven Feldman > To: Cro > CC: Antony Scott > > I would like to nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member of OSGeo > > Antony has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for a long time and is > now the secretary of OSGeo:UK > > He teaches QGIS both in the UK and overseas via MapAction where he he > has been a volunteer for over 5 years. > > Antony was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and also a member of the LOC > for FOSS4G UK 2016. > > Antony is a dedicated open source person who has travelled the world > promoting OSGeo technologies in all sorts of environments, he is always > willing to offer help to others. He would be an excellent Charter Member > __ > Steven Feldman > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership
I also second this nomination- Matt has been a linchpin of the OSGeo UK chapter for many years. Jo On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > I second this excellent nomination. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > From: Discuss on behalf of Vasile > Craciunescu > Sent: 04 September 2017 8:29 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership > > Forwarding Matt Walker nomination by Steven Feldman. 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 > Subject:Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership > Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:25:22 +0100 > From: Steven Feldman > To: Cro > > > > I would like to nominate Matt Walker as a Charter Member of OSGeo > > Matt has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for many years now. > > He is the lead developer of the Loader tool that is used by most UK > organisations to load Ordnance Survey data into PostGIS and has also > contributed to other projects. > > Matt was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and coordinated the workshop > programme for that event. He was also a member of the LOC for FOSS4G UK > 2016. > > Matt is a committed open source person who is always willing to offer > help to others. He would be an exemplary Charter Member > > __ > Steven Feldman > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this > message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the > author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the > University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Simon Miles for charter membership
I second the nomination of Simon Miles for OSGeo Charter Membership. Quietly and unassumingly, Simon has been raising the profile of QGIS and Open Source GIS in UK local government for a number of years. Regards Jo On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Forwarding Simon Miles nomination by Ian Turton. The 2017 member > nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017 > > > Forwarded Message > Subject:Nominate Simon Miles for charter membership > Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:06:37 +0100 > From: Ian Turton > To: c...@osgeo.org > > > > I would like to nominate Simon Miles for charter membership. Simon works > in local government in the UK and has been one of the leaders in this > community in moving from proprietary to open GIS systems. He also runs the > local QGIS user group in his spare time. > > Ian > > > -- > Ian Turton > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] UCL PhD opportunity
Hi Lists, I've been asked to pass on this superb geospatial PhD opportunity from University College London. Due to funding requirements it's available to UK residents only. Note the quick closing date if you're interested! University College London and the Ordnance Survey are currently inviting applications for a 3-year PhD studentship in "Creating Dynamic3D City Models for Smarter Cities" which will examine the creation of multiple 3D models from a single data source (through generalisation/abstraction). The PhD will be supervised by Dr Claire Ellul (UCL) and by Jeremy Morley (Ordnance Survey). The closing date is the 28th July. You can find more details here: "https://www.findaphd.com/ search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76840&LID=985 <https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efindaphd%2Ecom%2Fsearch%2FProjectDetails%2Easpx%3FPJID%3D76840%26LID%3D985&urlhash=8bGC&_t=tracking_anet> Anyone interested is welcome to contact Claire Ellul on c.el...@ucl.ac.uk for an informal chat . Regards Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM further details
Hi All, A reminder that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be on Tuesday at 5.30PM BST at FOSS4G UK 2016 in Southampton. You can now find details of this, including the agenda, on our website at http://uk.osgeo.org/agm/agm2016.html All are welcome- this is not a closed or members-only event. Thanks Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM
Dear All, This is advance notice that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be held on Tuesday June 14th at 5.30pm, at FOSS4GUK (Ordnance Survey HQ, Southampton). An agenda is being finalised and will be posted to uk.osgeo.org asap. If you're attending FOSS4GUK you are more than welcome to attend and find out some more about what OSGeo:UK does. Thanks Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Problem Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin
Hi Rodolfo, The best place for you to ask this question would be on one of the qgis support lists or forums- see http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html for details. This list is for more general discussion rather than specific software issues. All the best Jo On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Rodolfo Souza wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to perform a imagery classification using Semi-Automatic > Classification Plugin in QGis, but when I try to do the training part, my > QGis shows the error message (please see below): > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/home/rodolfo/.qgis2/python/plugins/SemiAutomaticClassificationPlugin/roidock/roidock.py", > line 910, in saveROItoShapefile > self.calculateSignature(cfg.shpLay, cfg.rstrNm, [self.ROILastID], > cfg.ROIMacroID, cfg.ROIMacroClassInfo, cfg.ROIID, cfg.ROIInfo, 50, 40) > File > "/home/rodolfo/.qgis2/python/plugins/SemiAutomaticClassificationPlugin/roidock/roidock.py", > line 1254, in calculateSignature > bX = cfg.utls.clipRasterByShapefile(tLP, oList[b], None) > IndexError: list index out of range > > > Does everyone have the same problem? how can I solve this? > Many thanks, > Rodolfo > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GUK provisional programme is up!
Hi All, Just a heads up that the FOSS4GUK 2016 (14th -16th June) provisional programme is now available- see http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ for details and http://foss4guk.eventbrite.co.uk/ to buy tickets- the price of which includes a really cool t-shirt. Please note that there are still a few "super early bird" tickets available for both two day and single day tickets, as well as tickets to the party on the Tuesday night. We've also found a few more spaces at the free hackathon on the Thursday, and are investigating our options for increasing the capacity of the free QGIS codesprint, also on the Thursday. Hope to see you all there! Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GUK reduction in ticket prices
Dear All Due to some exceptional generosity from our sponsors, we're delighted to say that we are reducing the ticket prices for FOSS4GUK 2016. Early bird tickets are now £75 for the two days, plus there are now single day tickets available. See http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ for further information. If you have already purchased a ticket then we will be issuing refunds and you will be contacted shortly with details about this. Many thanks, and we look forward to seeing you in Southampton in June! All the best Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- Astun User Group - Conference 2016 <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> <http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/> <http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GUK 2016 early bird tickets will be released tomorrow
Hi Lists. Just to let you know that tomorrow morning we are releasing our first batch of early bird tickets for the FOSS4GUK 2016 event at the Ordnance Survey offices in Southampton, UK from the 14th to the 16th of June. We expect these to be very popular, so if you're keen to come along, get in quick! Check http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ for more information- tomorrow morning (BST) we will release the eventbrite link for booking. We're all really excited about this event, and we look forward to seeing lots of you there! Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- Astun User Group - Conference 2016 <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> <http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/> <http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] UK local chapter
Hi All, This is just a heads up that the UK local chapter, having muddled along happily as a group of interested individuals for almost 10 years, is now an unincorporated organisation under UK law, with a constitution setting out our aims and powers. If you're interested, there's a link to it at uk.osgeo.org. tldr; we will support the aims of the global OSGeo foundation. Under UK law, this is the "least formal" sort of organisation that you can have, but it does allow us to have our own bank account. Due to circumstances beyond our control, our previous banking arrangement is no longer available to us... ... and of course we definitely need our own bank account for our fabulous FOSS4GUK 2016 event, at the Ordnance Survey offices in Southampton, from the 14th to the 16th of June! http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ All the best Jo -- *Jo Cook* t:+44 7930 524 155/twitter:@archaeogeek -- -- Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 1372 744 009 w: astuntechnology.com twitter:@astuntech <https://twitter.com/astuntech> iShare - enterprise geographic intelligence platform <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/> GeoServer, PostGIS and QGIS training <https://astuntechnology.com/services/#training> Helpdesk and customer portal <http://support.astuntechnology.com/support/login> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> Astun User Group - Conference 2016 <https://astuntechnology.com/astun-user-group-conference-2016/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases and requirements for web maps
Hi All, I just wanted to draw your attention to this, from W3C if you have not already seen it. I don't have the technical know-how to see if there are any negative implications but there are opportunities to comment. https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/ http://maps4html.github.io/HTML-Map-Element-UseCases-Requirements/ Regards Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.
Hi All, and especially Darrel, In his email Darrel articulated some ideas that I have been having for a couple of years now, but haven't been able to clearly define. So firstly I'd like to say that I totally agree with Darrel's points (and Michael Gerlek's previously)- OSGeo is definitely in danger of becoming irrelevant. Some of this is down to being a victim of its own success. The projects have, in many cases, matured and become popular to the point where they no longer need OSGeo. I'd really like to see a thorough assessment of our goals and objectives to decide what is still important. The availability of infrastructure, version control, open data, etc have improved massively over the last 5 years so now is a great time for a real spring-clean and decide what we need to keep and what we don't. What does the world really need from OSGeo that it can't get from anyone else? What problems could we solve moving forward? Those are the things we should focus on. I'm currently trying to write an article on open geospatial in 2020 and I can honestly say I'm struggling to see a place for OSGeo in it. I'd really like to be proved wrong (and I'd love some predictions for my article, but that's for another discussion). Thanks Jo On 26 Sep 2015 1:40 pm, "Just van den Broecke" wrote: > Dear Milo, > > That you agree Darrel's statements is your opinion and fine in any open > discussion. > > I react here on your phrase: '"empty talkers" from my country run for > charter membership'. > > We have 9 Charter Members from the Netherlands, including me. I know each > of them, and IMO they are far from "empty talkers". They all spend long > voluntary hours in an array of activities that support OSGeo's global and > OSGeo.nl local mission and FOSS in general. To name a few: > Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2015) spends ample time in Debian packaging > Barend Köbben (2012) helping/speaking at FOSS4G, org academic track > We all know what Jeroen and Bart have accomplished. I could go on. Not all > charter members need to make software, some make things happen like > organizing local OSGeo.nl events and acting in the LOC for the upcoming > FOSS4G in Bonn. > > So I hope your "empty talkers" phrase came out of a sudden impulse, that > we all have from time to time. I had to react to clarify some things. Best, > > Just van den Broecke > Secretary OSGeo.nl Foundation > > > On 26-09-15 00:12, Milo van der Linden wrote: > >> Being a "don't talk, act" member since 2008, entrepreneur and former >> chairman of a couple of local initiatives, I strongly agree. >> >> Seeing all the "empty talkers" from my country run for charter >> membership and still not having geoserver, which is the most mature open >> geospatial product I can think of pas incubation made me completely lose >> interest in OSGeo. >> >> I am disappointed, a little frustrated and plotting a business course >> that values open source and open knowledge. OSGeo or any in-crowd will >> have no part in my future. >> >> Thank you for your honest and to the point analyses. >> >> Milo >> >> On Sep 25, 2015 21:58, "Darrell Fuhriman" > <mailto:darr...@garnix.org>> wrote: >> >> The recent discussion on the board list >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-September/013172.html >> >that >> came out of the question of the 2014 videos has got me thinking >> about a few things again, and I want to try to get them out there. >> >> Grab a mug of your favorite liquid and hunker down, because I put >> some time and effort into this, and your own well considered reply >> is appreciated. >> >> Keep in mind that all of these comments are coming from my personal >> perspective, which, like everyone’s, is an incomplete picture of the >> whole. Much of what I’m going to say has been rolling around my head >> for a while, so I’m just going to put it out there. >> >> I will start with a provocative thesis: >> >> OSGeo lacks visionary unified leadership and without it will become >> irrelevant. >> >> Of course, making such a claim requires support. So let me break >> down the statement. >> >> “Visionary leadership” is really two things, “vision” and >> “leadership.” I will address each in turn. >> >> >> OSGeo lacks vision >> >> I looked at the list of “Goals” for OSGeo >> <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html>. I wonder: when >> was
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)
Brilliant, I'd be happy to see that blogpost published as a rebuttal. Jo On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Martin Isenburg wrote: > Hello, > > We (Oliver and me) had contacted the (new) editor (Roland Mangold who is > cc-ed) last week and suggested to use the contents of this blog article > > > http://odoepner.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/lidar-news-publishes-uninformed-gpl-rant/ > > authored by Oliver Doepner as a factual rebuttal of Lewis Graham's FUD > rant on GPL/LGPL for publishing in the next issue of the LiDAR Magazine > (the two-month ago rebranded LiDAR News magazine). I have no final word > from the Roland yet but our communication suggested that this would happen. > Please check Oliver's column for any errors (should you care) so he can > correct them prior to this being published. > > Regards, > > Martin @rapidlasso > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Jo Cook > wrote: > >> I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to. >> Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some >> factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond? >> >> Jo >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw < >> johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was >>> > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by >>> Lewis >>> > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer discretion >>> > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD >>> > attack: >>> > >>> > >>> http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf >>> > >>> >>> I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are >>> false. >>> " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of >>> launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed" >>> not true >>> >>> "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which >>> you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded >>> your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your >>> patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software >>> Foundation for free distribution." >>> >>> Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You >>> don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is >>> the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL. >>> >>> I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack >>> on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software >>> Foundation Europe to help write a response? >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> Johan >>> ___ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Jo Cook* >> Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, >> KT18 7RL, UK >> t:+44 7930 524 155 >> iShare - Data integration and publishing platform >> <http://www.isharemaps.com/> >> >> * >> >> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. >> Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. >> 864201149. >> > > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)
I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to. Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond? Jo On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw < johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg > wrote: > > > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was > > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by > Lewis > > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer discretion > > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD > > attack: > > > > > http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf > > > > I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are false. > " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of > launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed" > not true > > "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which > you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded > your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your > patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software > Foundation for free distribution." > > Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You > don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is > the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL. > > I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack > on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software > Foundation Europe to help write a response? > > Kind Regards, > Johan > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Venues for FOSS4G UK 2016
Dear All, OSGeo:UK is seeking venues for a conference on Free and Open Source Geospatial Software, to be held in the UK Spring 2016. Our requirements are as follows: Can support a main space for 250 Up to 5 spaces for 50-60 High-speed WIFI that can support up to 500 concurrent connections (assuming everyone has 2 devices and Gb file downloads are not uncommon) Decent low cost simple food Ideally student accommodation at around £50/night Alternative low cost hotel rooms Somewhere to host a party one night If you are interested in putting a venue forward for consideration, or you require further information, please contact Conference Chair ( joc...@astuntechnology.com), by October 1st at the latest. Yours, The FOSS4G UK 2016 organising committee -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Predictions about Open Geospatial in 2020
Thanks Jody, I agree with all of your points here, though the security aspect disappoints me! Keep them coming folks- off list is fine too :-) I appreciate that everyone's busy with FOSS4G (lucky people) but if you have any thoughts, please pass them on. I'm keen that this article doesn't just represent my own opinions, but reflects the wider community too. All the best Jo On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > There was a good academic foss4g13 talk exploring devices communicating > their location back into a visual console - I think we will need to take > that idea and run with it. > > - IoT will not be a thing, instead things will be things (the internet > will be assumed) > - I did not mention location there, because location will already be > assumed > - Security will still be a pain, but we will give up privacy rather than > fix it > - Giving up the privacy associated with location will actually mean giving > up real privacy (but we won't notice until a generation has grown up > without it) > - We have a tradition of spatial being special (things closer together are > likely correlated) the mix of this assumption with things > (internet+location) will result in "GIS" behaviours where the closeness > assumption no longer holds > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 9 September 2015 at 11:42, Jo Cook wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for >> a Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information ( >> http://www.agi.org.uk/). I contributed to their previous foresight >> study- on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See >> http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report for a link to the pdf. >> >> In this case, "Open" is not simply limited to Open Source, but also Open >> Data, Open Standards, and unfortunately many other meanings of the term >> "Open". >> >> I asked for predictions for the previous study here on the OSGeo Discuss >> list (though I can't find the thread in the archives) and I'm both keen and >> curious to crowd-source some opinions/predictions again now. Anything I use >> will be cited, unless you don't want it to be! >> >> Grateful thanks in advance >> >> Jo >> >> -- >> *Jo Cook* >> Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, >> KT18 7RL, UK >> t:+44 7930 524 155 >> iShare - Data integration and publishing platform >> <http://www.isharemaps.com/> >> >> * >> >> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. >> Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. >> 864201149. >> >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Predictions about Open Geospatial in 2020
Dear All, I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for a Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information ( http://www.agi.org.uk/). I contributed to their previous foresight study- on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report for a link to the pdf. In this case, "Open" is not simply limited to Open Source, but also Open Data, Open Standards, and unfortunately many other meanings of the term "Open". I asked for predictions for the previous study here on the OSGeo Discuss list (though I can't find the thread in the archives) and I'm both keen and curious to crowd-source some opinions/predictions again now. Anything I use will be cited, unless you don't want it to be! Grateful thanks in advance Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Local Chapter - contact details
Hi Dirk, The wiki needs updating, I'm the UK chapter chair, Ian has stepped down. We're not a legal organisation. Feel free to contact me if you need more info. Jo On 4 Sep 2015 16:30, "Dirk Frigne" wrote: > Dear list > > Can somebody give me the OSGeo contactperson for the UK Local chapter? > On the wiki I find as official representative Ian Edwards (Met Office), > but I don't have his coordinates. > > Other question: is the UK local chapter a formal legal organisation? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Yours sincerely, > > > ir. Dirk Frigne > CEO > > Geosparc n.v. > Brugsesteenweg 587 > B-9030 Ghent > Tel: +32 9 236 60 18 > GSM: +32 495 508 799 > > http://www.geomajas.org > http://www.geosparc.com > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Patreon Funding for open source
Hi All, I realise that the question of funding open source GIS development is a massive topic, but having read https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/08/Funding_OSS/ and following some of the links in the article (eg http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/08/throwing-in-the-towel/) I'm curious about how many people within the OSGeo "community" are using Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/). In light of discussions we've all had over the last few years about how to get companies etc to financially support open source development, I'd like to know whether Patreon is a possible option. Thanks Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case
Hi Sanghee, My personal opinion (as a female member of OSGeo) is that these slides are certainly NOT offensive to women. From your description, they are being used in context and there should be no problems with that. Jo On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote: > Dear All, > > It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case. > > I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation "7 Reasons why you > should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of FOSS4G > Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say, slide #6 > (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are those > controversial ones. > > I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my presentation > breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view. > > However since this is not the first time asking me to remove those slides > from my presentation and OSGeo now have CoC, I think we’d better discuss > this issue more openly to reach conclusions. > > I might be wrong and I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this from > all around the world. Also I expect Conference Committee’s input as well, > because this is the matter of OSGeo conference. > > I’m open to remove/amend/keep those slides after hearing other people’s > opinions on this. Also I believe it’ll be a great chance for OSGeo to learn > how to apply CoC in real cases. > > *Sidenote for defending myself: > - Slide #6 is the part of Salvador Dali’s well known painting named > “Lincoln in Dalivision”[2] > - Slide #20 is the picture of famous girl group, Girls’ > Generation(SNSD)[3], which I believe as symbolic icon of wide spread of > Korean culture(K-Culture) in/around Asia. > > All the best, > > Sanghee > > [0]http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct > [1]http://2015.foss4g.org > [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_Dalivision > [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation > --- > Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul > "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!" > http://2015.foss4g.org > Twitter: @foss4g > Facebook: FOSS4G2015 > email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences
We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things, one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD. Jo On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva wrote: > I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS. > > Never tried OpenSuse and Debian. > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial applications >> on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, MapProxy, PostGIS and >> so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know others opinion. >> I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your >> favorite one? >> The shortlist is as follow: >> OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian >> >> Thanks for your tips. >> Petr >> >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > George R. C. Silva > SIGMA Consultoria > > http://www.consultoriasigma.com.br/ > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Chance for better open source representation at the AGI
Dear All, Here in the UK we have been working towards improving the representation of open source GIS at the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) for a number of years, and we've done pretty well so far. Last year at FOSS4G in Nottingham they were instrumental in helping us to organise the event and we followed on from their GeoComm conference, where there was a lot of interaction between the two communities. The AGI have also helped the OSGeo UK local chapter, providing a bank account for us amongst other things. We now have an opportunity to increase our representation even further, by getting a known open source advocate onto the AGI Council. Mike Saunt has been an enthusiastic proponent of open source for many years, and Astun Technology's products are built on the open source gis technology stack. Astun have also sponsored OSGeo and the UK chapter over the years. Full disclosure, he is my boss, but I would be doing this anyway as I think it's a great opportunity for us to increase the profile of open source within the wider UK GIS community, and build on the work that has already been done in this area. So, calling all UK people on these lists- if you are a member of the AGI and eligible to vote, then please consider voting for Mike here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AGICouncilElection2015 Thanks! Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] On the subject of tilecache
Dear List, A while ago I reached out to the tilecache mailing list to try and understand what's happening with the project. The company that I work for has a few minor fixes that we would like to contribute back to the main code, and I also noticed that there are some broken links on the website (and in the example config) as the metacarta tile server is no longer in operation, so beginners are going to find it quite tough to set up. A quick look on github suggests a number of people have forked it and are doing their own thing, but ideally it would be good to know if the core team are still doing any work on it, or have any plans to take it forward. Github's great, but it would also be nice to have a canonical version of the package that we can all contribute to rather than many versions, all slightly different. As I said, I asked this question on the tilecache mailing list and got no answer, so I thought I'd ask here but if anyone wants to chat about it off list then please do get in touch. All the best Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reflections on resignations, mergers & the soul of OSGeo
Hi Steven, Board and Discuss List, Well said. I'm going to add another point to this, which is that to my mind OSGeo is becoming a victim of it's own success- in that the projects it nurtured and helped to grow have indeed grown, to the point where they are far better known than the organisation. I've worried about this for a while- I talk to people about open source geospatial and everyone knows what I'm talking about, but I mention OSGeo and no one has a clue. So great that we (collectively as a community and not just OSGeo) have made the projects a sucess but what's the future for the organisation itself? So.. basically this is a +1 for a deep breath and a thought about where we want OSGeo to go, but... we keep having these discussions- year on year and to my mind we're not making a lot of progress. Can we make this year the one where we do come up with a new plan? Jo On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Steven Feldman wrote: > The last few weeks there have been several threads running on the mailing > lists, rather than trying to reply in line to each of them I want to draw > out a theme that seems apparent to me as a relative newcomer to the OSGeo > community. > > We are facing the challenges of success or what could be described as > growing pains. > > We have recently had debates over the role of the president, the election > of charter members and board members, references to factions forming and > off list conversations, a discussion about the need for change in the way > we organise FOSS4G’s (and believe me as a recent past chair of a LOC, we > need to make this easier) and their purpose (fund raising vs community > building) has somehow morphed into a row over our relationship with > LocationTech and in the last couple of days a committed member of the board > has resigned. These are all indicative of a conversation that we need to > have about the role and future of OSGeo. > > Why do we need an OSGeo (or a LocationTech)? There are loads of reasons > (but not for a short mail) and we as the OSGeo community need to set out > the options for our organisation, articulate a clear vision for the next > few years and find a way to broaden discussion to a wider group than the > small number of individuals who have been active on the lists in the last > couple of months, there were over 800 people at each of the last 2 FOSS4G’s > (massive respect to the 2014 team) how do we engage with them to understand > their needs and aspirations. > > If we can agree on a clear vision for OSGeo including whether we want to > continue being a solely volunteer run organisation or whether there is a > need for some other model to deliver on our aspirations then we can work > out how we can cooperate with LocationTech or if there is benefit from some > closer relationship. > > Open Source engenders passion, we care about this stuff massively, and > sometimes that may lead those of us with strong opinions to become critical > of each other. It’s time to take a deep breath. > __ > Steven > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK local chapter update
Dear Lists, At the OSGeo:UK AGM a couple of weeks ago, I agreed to stand as co-chair of the UK Local Chapter, alongside Ian Edwards. I stood down two years ago to focus on organising FOSS4G, and also because I was a little burnt out from chairing the chapter since it's inception in 2007. Thanks to Ian for managing things in my absence! We've been a little quiet of late, but that's going to change- we have some great plans for the rebooted UK chapter v2 coming up, along with a new statement of our aims and objectives, and some new ideas to help get people involved. Watch this space :-) Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Steven Feldman
As he did such an awesome job as chair of FOSS4G last year in Nottingham, it goes without saying that I, and I'm sure the rest of the program committee if they were charter members, second Steven's nomination wholeheartedly. I have known Steven for a number of years, and while he may not always have been a proponent of open source GIS, once he "saw the light" he has been one of it's strongest supporters. We need more people of his calibre on board! Jo On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Dirk Frigne wrote: > seconded by me also. > > Dirk > > On 24-07-14 22:06, Jorge Sanz wrote: > > Forwarding Steven Feldman nomination by Anne Ghisla > > > > Best regards > > Jorge > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Anne Ghisla > > Date: 2014-07-24 9:53 GMT+02:00 > > Subject: Nomination for Steven Feldman > > To: c...@osgeo.org > > Cc: Steven Feldman > > > > > > it is my pleasure to nominate Steven Feldman [0] from London, UK for > > OSGeo Charter membership. > > > > Steven has been involved in a combination of GIS, business and open > > source for many years [1], and is currently an External Lecturer at > > Nottingham University, a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, > > chairman of geo.me Solutions and Exprodat Consulting and a board > > advisor at OpenCage Data [0, 1]. > > > > Steven's most recent and substantial contribution to open source > > geospatial has been serving as Chair of the LOC of FOSS4G 2013 in > > Nottingham. At that event I started insightful discussions with him > > about OSGeo future and long term sustainability, that continue to the > > present date. > > > > Kind regards, > > Anne > > > > [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Stevenfeldman > > [1] http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/biog/ > > > > > > -- > Yours sincerely, > > > ir. Dirk Frigne > CEO > > Geosparc n.v. > Brugsesteenweg 587 > B-9030 Ghent > Tel: +32 9 236 60 18 > GSM: +32 495 508 799 > > http://www.geomajas.org > http://www.geosparc.com > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna < delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna < > jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > >> It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female >> nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the >> attention of the whole community. >> >> Thanks all, >> >> -jeff >> >> > Agreed. > > On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their > gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It > won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am > female and not because I worked hard.) > > I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this > stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech > organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to > school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) > > Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know > it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? > > Regards, > María. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi Gavin and Bruce,
To add to what Gavin said, we recently did a piece of work assessing how to
use PostGIS as a back end for ArcGIS and as well as the fairly major
constraint around writing to the database we also found issues with
case-sensitivity- all database objects (tables, schemas etc) need to be
lower-case for ArcGIS to see them, and you will need to use different
connection methods (query layers) to view data in tables with null values
in them.
Jo
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Gavin Fleming
wrote:
> 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] Save the date: PostGIS "show and tell" day- London- 20th November 2014
Dear All, Just a heads up to say that the OSGeo:UK chapter will be hosting a PostGIS "show and tell" day on PostGIS Day (20th November 2014). The venue is still being confirmed, but it's very likely to be in London. The basic idea is for people to do short talks about something cool they have done- it must include PostGIS, but otherwise all bets are off. Sales Pitches will be considered uncool though. We're planning to charge a nominal fee for attendance, with all proceeds going to PostGIS development. More details, including somewhere you can sign up for tickets or register an interest in speaking, just as soon as we have the details confirmed. Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11
Hi Ian, Certainly creating a new schema plugin will be one part of what we want to achieve, but there were some code changes made, and we need to assess whether they have been integrated already into the later releases of geonetwork. Jo On 26 Jun 2014 18:52, "Ian Edwards" wrote: > Hi Jo, > > Do you know whether you can achieve what you need by only creating a new > schema plugin, or is the work more complicated (i.e. involves modifying the > code base) > > > http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/2.10.3/eng/developer/schemaPlugins/index.html > > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Jo Cook > wrote: > >> Dear Lists, >> >> You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata >> standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite >> old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on >> Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor. >> My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work >> to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to >> make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of >> the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and >> will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released >> towards the end of 2014. >> >> Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions: >> >>1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have >>any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good >>opportunity to get them included in our plans. >>2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this >>project? >> >> Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jo >> >> >> -- >> *Jo Cook* >> Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, >> KT18 7RL, UK >> t:+44 7930 524 155 >> iShare - Data integration and publishing platform >> <http://www.isharemaps.com/> >> >> * >> >> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. >> Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. >> 864201149. >> >> <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/> > > > -- <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11
Dear Lists, You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor. My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released towards the end of 2014. Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions: 1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good opportunity to get them included in our plans. 2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this project? Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer. Regards, Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members
Hi List, Regarding the new proposal for voting in charter members- it's slightly off topic, but I doubt all existing Local Chapter representatives have been voted in by at least 3 charter members. That sets the bar quite high for new chapters as well- under the new regime if they have no existing chapter members it might not be possible for them to a) elect a chapter representative and b) get them elected as a charter member. Maybe I've misunderstood this part of the new rules? Jo On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > > 2014-06-15 1:52 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter : > >> Within 2 weeks we intend to start our annual process for selecting new >> OSGeo charter members. >> >> In previous years the Charter Member selection process has been a little >> contentious. We typically receive numerous nominations from high caliber >> members of our community, and insufficient positions to accept them all. >> This typically results in unnecessary disappointment and dissent. >> >> In response, the OSGeo board has agreed to trial tweaking the voting >> process. The aim is to automatically accept recognised OSGeo community >> leaders, while continuing with our existing process which attracts the many >> valuable community members who contribute in other ways. Community comments >> are encouraged, and will be considered over the next week. >> > > > No comments yet on this proposal on changing the Charter Members election > procedure, everything is OK? > > > -- > Jorge Sanz > http://www.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- <https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/> ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving
I disagree completely about the basecamp archive. The whole purpose of what I'm doing at the moment is to archive it in a useful format, with discussion threads linking to files rather than a bunch of wiki pages. I appreciate that preserving things on the wiki is a good idea, and that's what we have been doing, but it might be worth holding off from dismissing the basecamp archive as useless until the archiving has been done. You will of course get the logos and other files separately (see Barry's original post, which no one has answered yet). I also don't think that the lessons learnt page for 2013 is the right place to add personal opinions from the board about the archive- if you want to forbid the use of any communication tool for OSGeo conferences, apart from the mailing lists and wiki, then this should be specified in the RFP. Jo On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > As for the Basecamp archive, it's likely useless as-is, but what should > be done is to extract out the individual parts (docs, raw logos) then > upload them individually to SVN, and then move the discussions into > OSGeo wiki pages. Of course this is much easier to do from the > beginning of the event planning. We can add this to the 2013 lessons > learned page for sure. > > Thanks for taking this time to share your files. They are super > important for future FOSS4G local committees. > > -jeff > > > > On 2013-12-04 10:39 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > > The material for FOSS4G 2013 for possible archiving amounts to: > > > > 1. Static web site, including mapgallery HTML but not including > > mapgallery images: 74Mb > > > > 2. MapGallery imagery: 350Mb > > > > 3. Basecamp archive: ???Mb - contains discussions, documents etc > > > > 4. Google Docs: ???Mb > > > > I'm responsible for 1 and 2. Is that too much? I could take out the > > map gallery but it is quite nice. Someone else will perhaps be in > > touch about 3 and 4. > > > > Could someone on the exec kickstart the process whereby I can put > > these things, if OSGeo still want them, onto storage somewhere. > > > > I don't know if OSGeo would rather put them on a filesystem or have > > everything in SVN, in which case a new SVN repo for 1 and 2 would > > probably be the thing, then I'd push everything to it. > > > > If we don't get this done by end-of-year then I doubt it will get done > > afterwards. > > > > Barry > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving
There's already a repository for 2013 at http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2013/ it has some files in it (mainly bid documents at present that I uploaded at the start of the process). I'm currently wgetting the basecamp project that we were using, so I can verify that we will also be archiving that- however until it finishes I don't know how much disk space it's going to take up. Jo On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > The material for FOSS4G 2013 for possible archiving amounts to: > > 1. Static web site, including mapgallery HTML but not including > mapgallery images: 74Mb > > 2. MapGallery imagery: 350Mb > > 3. Basecamp archive: ???Mb - contains discussions, documents etc > > 4. Google Docs: ???Mb > > I'm responsible for 1 and 2. Is that too much? I could take out the > map gallery but it is quite nice. Someone else will perhaps be in > touch about 3 and 4. > > Could someone on the exec kickstart the process whereby I can put > these things, if OSGeo still want them, onto storage somewhere. > > I don't know if OSGeo would rather put them on a filesystem or have > everything in SVN, in which case a new SVN repo for 1 and 2 would > probably be the thing, then I'd push everything to it. > > If we don't get this done by end-of-year then I doubt it will get done > afterwards. > > Barry > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial
I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure out what's going to help you get a job etc. So I'd focus on the daft limitations of Acme Proprietary GIS- the license that means you can't use it at home, or anywhere if you come from particular countries, and the skills that are required in the workplace these days. Jo On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give > him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least > introduce his third year geography & environmental science > undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the > students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to > worry about the cost. > > So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50 > minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a > brain dump: > > Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial. > Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc. > > Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC, > general goodness of interoperability > > Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and > rejoinders to those. > > Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry. > > Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a > failure of openness? > > Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case > studies > > Open source in the UK: Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies > > - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd > probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an > hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an > earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...). > > Any thoughts? > > Barry > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
The newest version of Portable GIS doesn't require quite so many admin privileges, but I've also slimmed it down dramatically so it fits on a smaller USB stick, so it contains a lot less software (no gvsig, no mysql etc). It is used extensively for training courses in the UK, without too many problems, and the new version should be better again as I have a windows 8 VM to test on at last. I'd like to bring Portable GIS in line with OSGeo4W and OSGeo Live- I've spoken to both Alex and Cameron about this in the past- but I have some work to do before that's possible- namely around documenting exactly which files I change, and also the build process. It's all in a local mercurial repository at the moment, but I'd really like to get it online. To be honest, my big concern is that I don't always have time to focus on things outside of my core work (maybe that will change post FOSS4G) and I can't guarantee being able to pitch in at release time, or even respond to issues in a timely manner. That's the main reason why I've kept it as a little pet project- so I'm not letting anyone else down! Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this discussion! I think it makes sense to come up with an over-arching project/committee/whatever that covers both OSGeo4W and OSGeo-Live, and maybe PortableGIS at some point, rather than separate projects. It's always better to share work rather than replicate it. Does anyone have any objections to that idea? Personally, I'd then sketch out the workflows for each, and figure out what make-up of committee would be required to oversee that and go through incubation. Jo On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 09/24/2013 12:50 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos > wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi Daniel, > >> > >> I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks > >> incubation process. > >> > >> Best, > >> Angelos > >> > > My own impression is that if we want to reach out to non-geek GIS > > users the ideal way would be a system like portable GIS with the great > > documentation of the live dvd, ie run and test the programs without > > needing to be admin or having to install different programs. > > I've researched this problem, talked with Jo (Current author of > PortableGIS http://www.archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html) > > There is almost no way to make this work without Admin priveleges on a > windows machine. Some individual apps can be made to work by extensively > modifying how they look for libs but many require things like a jvm to > run on top of, or a mix of system an local libs (e.g. Visual C++ is > required for many OSGeo4W apps and requires an install, that's actually > about the only part that has to be installed vs just in the OSGeo4w > folder). > > This is actually why I settled on helping create OSGeo Live bootable > products and virtual machines. Of course this isn't perfect either as > figuring out how to boot a disk or usb seems beyond some users, and the > virtual machine still hits needing admin to install virtualization > software. > > I also agree there's no reason many of the documentation efforts can't > be shared. > > Thanks, > Alex > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGEO4W future
Just a quick email to say that I wholeheartedly agree with all the ideas here, and I want to be involved. I'm not sure how much I can help with right now as, post FOSS4G, I really want some time away from committees and organising :-) Jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Ian Edwards to the Board
Hi CRO and Discuss, I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3]. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom [1] http://2013.foss4g.org/ [2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html [3] http://live.osgeo.org/ Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Discussion about When for FOSS4G Code sprint in September
Hi Frank, The date of the code sprint is fixed, I'm afraid, but there's nothing to stop you meeting up with other developers throughout the week and doing some coding. There will be plenty of spaces where you can get together and plug in some laptops! Jo (on behalf of the LOC) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Frank Gasdorf wrote: > Sorry for cross-posting .. > > I'd like to start the discussion about the when the event takes place. > Right now the wiki page ( > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint) says Sunday, 22nd but > I'm not sure whether is a good idea to have it at the end of a fantastic > week: > - I guess some will leave earlier (like myself on Saturday) > - GeoHack (http://2013.foss4g.org/geohack/) on 17th and 18th > > I never had the chance in the past to join a code sprint, maybe there are > some unwritten rules (post sprint having a drink or something like that). > > What do you think about moving the OSGeo code print to Friday to have the > chance after the sprint getting one ore more beers? Other pro would be the > chance to talk to each other on the next conference day after a cool down > in the night > > Thoughts? Opinions? > > Cheers, > Frank > > ___ > Foss4g2013 mailing list > foss4g2...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2013 > > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for OSGeo Charter Membership
Dear All, I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for OSGeo charter membership. Ian is the current Chair of the UK local chapter, and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he's hoping to use on the WebCom committee (not that he needs to be a Charter Member for that of course) and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project. Many thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!
Let's add those addresses to the website then Jo On 5 Jul 2013 16:30, "Barry Rowlingson" wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jo Cook wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> There's a link from the accommodation page on the website to hotels in >> Nottingham if you want to book your own- here it is: >> http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay >> >> > That site is very sucky. All the links in the text (boutique+spa, > hostels, canalboats, farm stays) just bounce me back to that page. > > It might be easier for us to give a link to a search on laterooms or some > other hotel booking site, or at least provide direct links to hotel, > hostel, and B+B solutions from that site, ie: > > > Hotels: > > http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/searchresults?sr=1&cat=nottshotel&rloc=on&locaddr=1&loc=Nottingham&locprox=0&areaproxbands=0.5|2|5&areaproxdist=0.5 > > B+Bs: > > http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/searchresults?sr=1&cat=nottsbb&poly=321 > > Hostels: > http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/hostels-and-camping > > On LateRooms.com, a search for "Nottingham University" only returns the > Orchard Hotel, but "University of Nottingham" has 50 hotels listed... > > Barry > > > > > > > > > > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!
Hi Daniel, There's a link from the accommodation page on the website to hotels in Nottingham if you want to book your own- here it is: http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay For what it's worth, once you include transport from the centre of Nottingham, and parking, then the hotel cost is not so bad- but there are also student rooms (halls) on site at around 50 per night, all is linked from http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/. We're only running out of the Orchard Hotel accommodation- not the student halls. Most of the entertainment is on site, so we'd thoroughly recommend staying on campus if you can. Hope that helps Jo On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > Hi Jo, and FOSS4G LOC, > > The 140GBP/night rooms aren't exactly cheap. Do you (or other locals) have > recommendations for some good and cheaper hotels within walking or bus > distance of the conference venue, and also of the social life (pubs, > restaurants, etc.)? > > I think it is important for a FOSS4G to recommend a few hotels of varying > price range that are within walking distance of each other, so that > attendees can pick what fits best their needs and budget, and still be > located close to each other (not spread over the whole city) for the social > part of the event at the end of each day (a key part of FOSS4G). > > I am sure this information would be appreciated by many participants. > > Thanks in advance > > Daniel > > > On 13-07-05 8:36 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > >> Stop press! We're running out of on-site hotel rooms for FOSS4G. >> Accommodation in halls is still available, but if you want a hotel room >> booked through the conference you need to do this by Friday July 12th. >> After that time, you may need to book your own room. >> >> Go to the website link at >> http://2013.foss4g.org/**accommodation/<http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/>to >> book. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jo (on behalf of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC) >> >> -- >> ***Jo Cook* >> >> Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, >> KT18 7RL, UK >> t:+44 7930 524 155 >> iShare - Data integration and publishing platform >> <http://www.isharemaps.com/> >> >> >> >> >> *** >> >> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. >> Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. >> 864201149. >> >> >> __**_ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >> >> > > -- > Daniel Morissette > http://www.mapgears.com/ > Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 > > __**_ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!
Stop press! We're running out of on-site hotel rooms for FOSS4G. Accommodation in halls is still available, but if you want a hotel room booked through the conference you need to do this by Friday July 12th. After that time, you may need to book your own room. Go to the website link at http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/ to book. Thanks Jo (on behalf of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC) -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Early Bird Extended!
Hi Everyone, Just to let you know that we've extended the Early Bird deadline for booking FOSS4G until 14th June to take into account the additional workshop voting and to allow us to get a full timetable up for you to view. Details on the site: http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/. Details to come soon on the additional workshop voting, and on the full timetable. There's a lot of juggling of papers going on, believe me! Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in September, Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadline for Papers and Workshops for FOSS4G 2013 approaches!
Dear All, Just a quick reminder that the call for workshops and presentations for FOSS4G 2013 is open. The deadline for workshop submission is the 31st of March, and paper submission is the 12th of April. http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/ All the best Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Your weekly dose of FOSS4G 2013 News
Hi Jeff, We thoroughly agree with you and are trying to reach out to the SoTM community/organisers to get some good involvement there. We'll keep the lists posted with news when we have some. Jo On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > Hi Jo et al, > > I'm curious what (if any) current thinking there is on some joint > activities with the State of the Map conference attendees. Its a bit sad > that these events are so far apart temporally yet close spatially, but I > think there will be a pretty significant overlap and it makes sense (to me > at least) to try and do some activities together. I've personally been > preparing a set of workshops that includes a set of modules on using OSM > data with FOSS4G tools and I think this kind of thing is really powerful > and something we should be explicitly promoting some how. > > Jeff Johnson > OpenGeo > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> For those that haven't already spotted this on twitter (cue big >> fanfare...) registration for FOSS4G 2013 is now open! Early Bird Closes on >> 31st May, and there's a limited number of the on-site hotel rooms, so get >> in quick! See http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/ for all you need to >> know about the process. There are links to information about UK visas, and >> travel at http://2013.foss4g.org/map/information/ and >> http://2013.foss4g.org/map/travel/ but if you need any help then just >> give one of the committee a shout. >> >> The call for presentations and workshops is also open- at >> http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/, closing 31st March, >> and our free hackathon on the 16th and 17th September is also up on >> eventbrite http://hackathonfoss4g2013-es2005.eventbrite.com/?rank=1 >> >> We're just in the process of booking some really cool entertainment and >> after-dinner speakers, so come on, what are you waiting for? >> >> Jo >> >> >> -- >> ***Jo Cook* >> Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, >> KT18 7RL, UK >> t:+44 750 095 8167 >> iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> >> >> * >> >> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. >> Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. >> 864201149. >> >> ___ >> Foss4g2013 mailing list >> foss4g2...@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2013 >> >> > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Your weekly dose of FOSS4G 2013 News
Dear All, For those that haven't already spotted this on twitter (cue big fanfare...) registration for FOSS4G 2013 is now open! Early Bird Closes on 31st May, and there's a limited number of the on-site hotel rooms, so get in quick! See http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/ for all you need to know about the process. There are links to information about UK visas, and travel at http://2013.foss4g.org/map/information/ and http://2013.foss4g.org/map/travel/ but if you need any help then just give one of the committee a shout. The call for presentations and workshops is also open- at http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/, closing 31st March, and our free hackathon on the 16th and 17th September is also up on eventbrite http://hackathonfoss4g2013-es2005.eventbrite.com/?rank=1 We're just in the process of booking some really cool entertainment and after-dinner speakers, so come on, what are you waiting for? Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Last day for Academic Track Submissions for FOSS4G 2013
Hi All, Just a reminder that today (22nd) is the last day for submissions for the FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track. Get your paper in while you can! http://2013.foss4g.org/academic-track/call-for-papers/ Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track
Hi Jeff and the rest of the list, I'm speaking from a position of ignorance about this, but surely the academic track submission process will need to change from year to year depending on the journal that papers are to be submitted to? Surely the process is driven mainly by the demands and deadlines of the journal, rather than any arbitrary date chosen by a committee? I think the only way you could set the dates and process in stone would be to guarantee publication in the same journal each year (as well as the OSGeo journal). Happy to be corrected on any of these points though! Jo On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Here's another thought for our "lessons learned" wiki: For the next > FOSS4G event, the first step in the Academic submission process could be > an "extended abstract" due for something like Feb 1st. How I am coming > up with that idea? On this past Friday was a deadline for a "CoastGIS" > event, and all presentation abstracts were to follow an "extended" > abstract template (min 2 pages max 4 pages, including listing your > peer-reviewed sources); selected extended abstracts will be invited to > submit full papers. Could this be the first step someday for a FOSS4G > Academic track? I've leave that to the FOSS4G Academic leaders to > discuss (again I am not one of those leaders). > > For the record here was the "extended" abstract template (sorry for the > M$ file, I have no relation to this event): > > http://coinatlantic.ca/coastgis2013/docs/CoastGIS_2013_Extended_Abstract_Template.doc > > Thanks for listening. > > -jeff > > > > On 13-01-27 11:49 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > > Hello Barend, Venka, Andy, Max, Nick, and Puneet, > > > > First I want to thank the Academic chairs Barend and Franz-Josef for > > volunteering for the management of the difficult process of the > > selection of papers for the FOSS4G 2013 event. I am impressed by their > > passion and dedication to getting papers published in the Transactions > > in GIS journal, this is very important. > > > > I want to make a strong reminder to all of the FOSS4G 2013 local > > committee (academic or otherwise) to make sure to be adding to your > > "Lessons Learned" wiki page as you travel down this path (the time to be > > adding thoughts is now not later when you have forgotten: as a > > documenter, I know those that say "oh I'll do that later" never ever do, > > ever). Please begin writing your thoughts for 2013 at: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Lessons_Learned You will notice > > that is is blank for 2013. These thoughts are very important to share, > > as future local committees will be reviewing these (take a look at all > > the wonderful lessons learned from previous events linked from that > > page, really wonderful to have). Thank you, and future event committees > > will thank you. > > > > Regarding the Academic track call for papers for 2013, of course we must > > respect the local committees decisions. I am listening to Barend's > > thoughts, as well as long-time FOSS4G academic leaders like Venka and > > Massimiliano. I feel that the 2013 committee could consider their > > feedback, and possibly extend the deadline by a month to March 1st. It > > would give researchers some breathing room to prepare their papers, > > which, yes is earlier than past FOSS4G events but if we all want papers > > within these journals we must respect these early deadlines. Of course > > the local committee doesn't have to make an extension, I am only making > > a suggestion. > > > > Another idea, or reminder, I have for the committee is to be as open as > > possible; for example, there is a mailing list setup just for FOSS4G > > Academic discussions (I believe this was probably last used in 2010, but > > it is there to discuss openly with academic FOSS4G leaders). Again, > > there is no official requirement for local committees to use these > > mailing lists. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-academic > > > > Finally, I just now went back to examine the FOSS4G 2011 Academic Track > > process used. In fact that year I was also on the Academic Selection > > committee, which was led wonderfully by the hard-working Rafael Moreno. > > On February 1st a "Call for Papers" was released for the Academic > > track, and the call was actually for abstracts (yes google archives can > > trick you sometimes, as the title was for "Call for Papers" but if you > > read the release the first step was abstract submission). The deadline
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping advice
Hi Maxi, I'm not sure which comment you're referring to with this- but I don't think either myself or Randal are being impolite in our responses. Certainly, all I meant was that for a beginner, using GRASS would require a steep learning curve. I use GRASS when I need advanced functionality, but I think the learning curve may put new users off, that's all. Jo On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Massimiliano Cannata < massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote: > Pls, let me say that I don't like the approach: don't sue this software! > > Many software can do the job, suggesting your preferred approach without > reference to what not to use (in your questionabile opinion) may result > more polite and in line with open source collaboration. > > Regards, > Maxi > Il giorno 04/gen/2013 14:57, "Jo Cook" ha > scritto: > >> +1 for using QGIS without GRASS- it should do everything you need. >> >> Just one thing- you need Mapserver (or Geoserver as an alternative) and >> something like OpenLayers to form the online mapping component. Mapserver >> does the work of serving up your geospatial data, then the actual user >> interface (the map, with the options to switch layers on and off) is done >> using openlayers. >> >> Since you're in the UK, can I point you at the OSGeo UK local chapter? >> http://www.osgeo.org/uk we have our own mailing list, which is where you >> might have more luck getting information about UK-specific datasets- you >> will also find a few companies on there who provide training in the various >> components that you're looking to use. (Disclaimer, the company that I work >> for- Astun Technology) is one of those. >> >> Hope that's useful, again, feel free to shout if you need more >> help/advice. Also, it's great that you're looking at open source options- I >> wish more people starting out would do the same! >> >> Jo >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Randal Hale < >> rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote: >> >>> Good Morning/Afternoon >>> >>> If it were me - I would do everything in QGIS. It will be much easier to >>> work with and you won't have any of the oddness of GRASS - I like GRASS - >>> but it's not the easiest thing in the world to work with. QGIS also >>> translates data over to mapinfo very well. You should be able to do >>> everything in QGIS without programming. >>> >>> There is a plugin to QGIS for Mapserver - so once the project is set up >>> You could publish it there. I would try to keep it as simple and as well >>> documented as possible. >>> >>> Hope that helps some - yell if you need help >>> >>> Randy >>> >>> >>> -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping advice
+1 for using QGIS without GRASS- it should do everything you need. Just one thing- you need Mapserver (or Geoserver as an alternative) and something like OpenLayers to form the online mapping component. Mapserver does the work of serving up your geospatial data, then the actual user interface (the map, with the options to switch layers on and off) is done using openlayers. Since you're in the UK, can I point you at the OSGeo UK local chapter? http://www.osgeo.org/uk we have our own mailing list, which is where you might have more luck getting information about UK-specific datasets- you will also find a few companies on there who provide training in the various components that you're looking to use. (Disclaimer, the company that I work for- Astun Technology) is one of those. Hope that's useful, again, feel free to shout if you need more help/advice. Also, it's great that you're looking at open source options- I wish more people starting out would do the same! Jo On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Randal Hale wrote: > Good Morning/Afternoon > > If it were me - I would do everything in QGIS. It will be much easier to > work with and you won't have any of the oddness of GRASS - I like GRASS - > but it's not the easiest thing in the world to work with. QGIS also > translates data over to mapinfo very well. You should be able to do > everything in QGIS without programming. > > There is a plugin to QGIS for Mapserver - so once the project is set up > You could publish it there. I would try to keep it as simple and as well > documented as possible. > > Hope that helps some - yell if you need help > > Randy > > > > On 01/04/2013 08:12 AM, Rachel Forrest wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am starting a new project that will use mapping software and consist of > various components, I have been doing research about the best programme to > use, but some advice from someone who has an overview of all of these > programmes would be great. I'm new to mapping, so if explainations could > be pretty straightforward that would be great. > > The project will basically involve mapping economic data from a variety of > UK sources in the area that I'm concerned with (the Highlands and Islands > of Scotland). The goal of this project is to have the maps (with various > layers that can be available to all within the organisation and user > friendly) that they automatically update, or are easy to update. So I was > thinking of a web-based application as the end product, such as Open Layers > or Map Server? For the making of the maps QGIS and getting the data > through GRASS GIS. Am I correct in my thinking that GRASS GIS is the best > for getting the data in, and can access external files? I want to draw > together data from various external sources and from the agency's own > external COGNOS system, any advice with that? > > Also, is there any existing data hub that draw together economic, > population data etc for the UK? I know where to go to download the various > bits and pieces I need but if there is any way to automatically extract the > data without manually downloading that would be great. > > The organisation has MapInfo on one computer, I would prefer to use open > source software as skills gained will be more transferable, plus the only > computer is based in another office and is a bit of a pain to get to. > > For me this all seems quite daunting and it doesn't help that I haven't > had any experience with programming languages or mapping about from quick > dabbles. I have a training budget with my placement and have already been > approved to do QGIS training but if anyone can offer training relating to > all the problems and things I have to tie together for my specific project > that would be great and I'm sure we could get something arranged. > > Rachel Forrest > Economics Intelligence Officer > Highlands and Islands Enterprise > Cowan House > Inverness Retail and Business Park > Inverness IV2 7GF > > +44(0) 1463 244 433 > Email: rachel.forr...@hient.co.uk > www.hie.co.uk > > > -- > > This document is confidential and intended solely for the use of the > addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the > sender immediately. Any unauthorised use of this document is strictly > prohibited. HIE uses filter software to protect its staff and will > automatically delete any email that contains offensive or profane content. > > > Tha an teachdaireachd seo diomhair agus 's ann dhan neach-ainmichte > a-mhain a tha i. Ma 's e is gun d'fhuair sibh le mearachd i, feuchaibh is > leigibh fios sa spot dhan neach bhon tainig i. Tha cleachdadh &
[OSGeo-Discuss] Latest FOSS4G planning meeting
Dear All, Just to let you know that we had another of our FOSS4G 2013 planning meetings this afternoon- and the minutes are here http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Planning_Meeting_December_21st if anyone is interested. The highlights are: We have some confirmed sponsors, but we won't be announcing them until after the New Year. Our contract is very nearly finalised, and waiting for some final prices before we send it to the board. We're also getting close to having a submission system for both academic track and standard papers, and we'll be announcing that in the new year too. We'll keep you posted- as always get in touch if you have any questions or concerns. Happy Festivities Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Call for Papers and shiny website
Dear All, On behalf of the FOSS4G 2013 organising committee, I'm super-excited to announce our shiny new website *and* preliminary Call for Papers. Go to 2013.foss4g.org for more details. We're not actually opening the submission system for papers just yet- so there's no pressure just yet. We'll be opening this in early January, then the call for papers closes in April, with some sort of fiendish community vote after that (details to come). Plenty of time to come up with some good ideas! Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 update
Hi All, Just a quick update to let you know that all is well with FOSS4G 2013 organisation. We're having planning meetings every 2 weeks at the moment, and all the minutes can be found on the wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013 The big news at the moment is that we have a sparkly new website just waiting to be unveiled- we're just mopping up broken links and styling problems with it at the moment but would hope to have that ready in a couple of weeks. Expect loads of other exciting news round about the same time! All the best Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-UK] Open Nottingham Awards, University of Southampton Open Source Geospatial Lab, OSGeo Live 6.0 Launch - OSGIS 2012
I'd like to personally thank Suchith and the team at Nottingham for a really great conference. It was a good mix of academic and non-academic, the workshops and talks were great, the venue was lovely, and a good time was had by all. The weather was also lovely, proving that it can be nice in the UK in September :-) Jo On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > Thanks to efforts of many colleagues at the University of Nottingham and > the OSGeo UK Local Chapter we had another successful OSGIS conference this > year. In addition to all our presenters, workshop organisers, sponsors and > delegates, I would like to specifically thank Donna Astill, Lesley Gray, > Jeremy Morley, Mike Jackson, Amir Pourabdollah, Corinne Cassidy, Steve > Moore and IT support team for Workshops, Sally Hanson and Webcasting team, > Catering staff, Halls of Residence staff at UoN who all put lot of efforts > to help make OSGIS 2012 a great success. > > The recorded webcasts of the conference will be made available for the > benefit of the wider community soon at > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx > > > *Winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best Presentation awards 2012* > > > “Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions” - Ken Arroyo > Ohori , Hugo Ledoux, Martijn Meijers (TU Delft, Netherlands) > > “Building a OS MasterMap tile service on an Open Source geostack” - Matt > Walker (Astun Technology, UK) > > “Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements” - Andrea > Aime, Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions, Italy) > > Well done to all winners. > > > > *OSGeo Live 6.0 Officially launched at OSGIS 2012* > > We also officially launched Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software > collection at OSGIS 2012. Details at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307 > > Over 120 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, > documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building > the packaged software. We are very thankful for the efforts of thousands > of volunteers who worked for the latest release of OSGeo Live 6.0 > > There is whole range of excellent software (DesktopGIS, Databases, > Webservices etc) available free for the benefit of everyone. > > Full list of software available at > http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html > > > > *University of Southampton to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab* > > Prof. David Martin who was the keynote speaker at OSGIS 2012 announced > University of Southampton's aim for the establishment of Open Source > Geospatial Lab to build up research in this strategic area at the > University of Southampton. Onbehalf of OSGeo and ICA, we strongly welcome > this initiative. We look forward to work with colleagues in Southampton for > building research collaborations for the future. > > I am also in discussions with other key research universities for the > establishment of Open Geospatial Labs and will announce more details in due > course. Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. > These new research labs are strategic to help us accelerate research > developments in this area for the future. If your university wishes to > establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be > pleased to discuss details. > > We look forward for your continued support for building up Open Source, > Open Standards, Open Data research globally and seeing you at FOSS4G 2013 > at Nottingham for building further research collaborations. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > Dr Suchith Anand > Nottingham Geospatial Institute > Nottingham Geospatial Building > University of Nottingham > Tel: (0)115 82 32750 > > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm > > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx > http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ > http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ > > Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source > Geospatial Technologies > > Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for > bridging the digital divide > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and > may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in > error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not > use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any > attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do > not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingha
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 mailing list
Hi All, Just to let you know that there's a mailing list for FOSS4G 2013- subscribe here: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2013. We also have some brief information on the wiki here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013 We have had to get up and running slightly quicker than anticipated, but we will have the beginnings of a website available shortly. We'll keep you posted! Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 (no not a typo)
Dear All, With respect to the sad news that FOSS4G 2012 has been cancelled, I'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate that FOSS4G is not dead, and that there will be a global FOSS4G in 2013, in Nottingham UK. As a result of the news of the cancellation of the Beijing event we're going to move things forward more quickly than we had anticipated- we have a planning meeting tomorrow (Thursday) in which we will discuss this- and we'll keep the community posted. Jo (Deputy Chair of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC) -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role
Hi Cameron, Sorry I couldn't make the meeting- I'm happy with the change of name, so +1 from Jo on OSGeo Advocate as a name for this new role Jo On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Minutes of this meeting are here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2012-06-04#Minutes > > Consensus was that the role should be created as outlined [1], with a > change of title from "OSGeo Ambassador" to "OSGeo Advocate", as > "Ambassador" implies that the OSGeo board has assigned the role to someone > after a selection process (which is not the case for this volunteer role). > > Voting will remain open for the next 48 hours if people who couldn't make > the meeting wish to vote. > > +1 Cameron Shorter to accept the "OSGeo Advocate" role. > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador > > On 30/05/2012 6:59 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > I've set up a meeting next week to discuss then finalise the setting of an > OSGeo Ambassador role. Hope to see many of you at the meeting, or if you > can't make it, please share your thoughts (and vote?) on email before hand. > > Location: irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo > Time: > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012&month=6&day=4&hour=20&min=30&sec=0&p1=264&p2=240&p3=215&p4=179&p5=224 > > Location Local time > > Wellington <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=264> (New > Zealand) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 8:30:00 AM > > Sydney <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=240> (Australia > - New South Wales) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 6:30:00 AM > > Rome <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=215> (Italy) Monday, > 4 June 2012 at 10:30:00 PM > > New York <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179> (U.S.A. > - New York) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 4:30:00 PM > > San Francisco <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224> > (U.S.A. > - California) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 1:30:00 PM > > > The current proposal is here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador > > This topic has been discussed by many of you on discuss, marketing and > board email lists. Here is a summary of comments, along with my suggestions: > > 1. There has emerged to be two roles which people have been categorising > under the title of "OSGeo Ambassador" > a. Someone knowledgeable in OSGeo, who can speak at conferences and the > like. This is what we are focusing on for this definition of the role. > b. Someone who can negotiate MOU and similar on behalf of the OSGeo board. > This is proposed to be treated separately, with the OSGeo Board delegated > to someone they see fit to do the job, on a case-by-case basis. > > 2. There has been concern (from FrankW?) about defining a role which is > exclusive and prevents people from just stepping up an volunteering. This > is addressed by letting anyone who believes they have OSGeo experience and > thinks them self worthy can step forward and volunteer. > > 3. There has been concern (from Arnulf?) that our categorisation is too > complicated. (We are proposing Board Members, Charter Members, Voted > Positions, Community Members). I believe that we do need some way to define > OSGeo experience, because that is one of the key criteria that conference > organisors look for when selecting speakers and key notes. We can > potentially de-emphasise the categorisation by moving it into the > "Description" field rather than making a heading out of it. > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open > Sourcehttp://www.lisasoft.com > > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open > Sourcehttp://www.lisasoft.com > > > ___ > Marketing mailing list > market...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role
Hi Dan, Any that you have spare would indeed be useful. If we could just check on postage costs to ship them to the UK first, that would be great. My address is in my email footer. Thanks Jo On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > If you could kindly send the unused LiveDVDs for OSGeo UK Chapter that > will be greatly appreciated. We need them for promoting at various events > in the UK. You can post to Jo Cook or myself . We will pay for the postage > costs. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > -- > *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] > On Behalf Of Daniel P. Ames [dan.a...@isu.edu] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:41 AM > *To:* Cameron Shorter > *Cc:* OSGeo Marketing; Jo Cook; OSGeo Discussions > *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise > definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role > > Would someone be able/willing to give such a talk at the MapWindow/Open > Source GIS conference in Velp, The Netherlands next month? See > http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012/ > > We have a box of live DVD's to give out. Actually we have about 800 Live > DVD's but will probably only give out 100 or so at the conference. So if > someone wants some already burned DVD's let me know. > > - Dan > > -- > Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE > Associate Professor, Geosciences > Idaho State University - Idaho Falls > dan.a...@isu.edu > geology.isu.edu > www.mapwindow.org > > > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role
Can't make the meeting, I'm afraid- this weekend is a long holiday weekend in the UK! I'd also prefer to vote after the meeting rather than before, when (I presume) the proposal will have been discussed and potentially re-formulated. My thoughts- initially I thought the idea was too complicated, but if we envisage outside organisations/conferences coming to us for speakers, then we will need something like you suggest. I wonder, in all honesty, how much that is going to happen, but at least we will have somewhere to point them to. Jo On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > I've set up a meeting next week to discuss then finalise the setting of > an OSGeo Ambassador role. Hope to see many of you at the meeting, or if you > can't make it, please share your thoughts (and vote?) on email before hand. > > Location: irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo > Time: > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012&month=6&day=4&hour=20&min=30&sec=0&p1=264&p2=240&p3=215&p4=179&p5=224 > > Location Local time > > Wellington <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=264> (New > Zealand) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 8:30:00 AM > > Sydney <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=240> (Australia > - New South Wales) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 6:30:00 AM > > Rome <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=215> (Italy) Monday, > 4 June 2012 at 10:30:00 PM > > New York <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179> (U.S.A. > - New York) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 4:30:00 PM > > San Francisco <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224> > (U.S.A. > - California) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 1:30:00 PM > > > The current proposal is here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador > > This topic has been discussed by many of you on discuss, marketing and > board email lists. Here is a summary of comments, along with my suggestions: > > 1. There has emerged to be two roles which people have been categorising > under the title of "OSGeo Ambassador" > a. Someone knowledgeable in OSGeo, who can speak at conferences and the > like. This is what we are focusing on for this definition of the role. > b. Someone who can negotiate MOU and similar on behalf of the OSGeo board. > This is proposed to be treated separately, with the OSGeo Board delegated > to someone they see fit to do the job, on a case-by-case basis. > > 2. There has been concern (from FrankW?) about defining a role which is > exclusive and prevents people from just stepping up an volunteering. This > is addressed by letting anyone who believes they have OSGeo experience and > thinks them self worthy can step forward and volunteer. > > 3. There has been concern (from Arnulf?) that our categorisation is too > complicated. (We are proposing Board Members, Charter Members, Voted > Positions, Community Members). I believe that we do need some way to define > OSGeo experience, because that is one of the key criteria that conference > organisors look for when selecting speakers and key notes. We can > potentially de-emphasise the categorisation by moving it into the > "Description" field rather than making a heading out of it. > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open > Sourcehttp://www.lisasoft.com > > > ___ > Marketing mailing list > market...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G "Themes"
Hi All, A question really to previous FOSS4G organisers- did you think about having a theme for the event, or did you just stick with the "Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial" tag-line and leave it at that? Do people think that conference themes are useful/beneficial? Do they help with coming up with clearly defined tracks for papers? Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Migrating to Postgres 9 for replication?
I would love to hear success stories or horror stories about migrating from Postgres 8.3 or 8.4 to 9, in order to get replication working. At least that is what I have been told we need to do. One master database and two failover copies. It would save a lot of maintenance time, I am imagining! -- Phone: +44 (0)131 6502973 Skype: metazool Service Manager, Unlock, EDINA National Datacentre Unlock places from text and data: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] (PDF Geotagging) Re: Fwd: Discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 16
hello OSGeoids! Thank you very much, I will try your API as soon as possible. Is there a way to have access to the source code behind your web service ? Or isn't it open source ? El 2012-01-17 12:11, James Reid escribió: You could check out our Unlock Text service at: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction James nudged me in the direction of this thread. The Edinburgh Geoparser is open source *in principle* (GPL). In the short term the best way to get hold of a copy is to email Claire Grover ( gro...@inf.ed.ac.uk ) of the Language Technology Group, for a distribution which includes both source and binaries. Bootstrapping issue; more work is needed on packaging and documentation. But project based funding means effort goes into new features & improvements rather than maintaining the core. What would *help* is a trickle of people knocking on our door and crucially *offering feedback* on how easy/hard the Geoparser was to get running, and where doc/install improvements would be most helpful. The door is ajar and now is a good time to give it a push, as LTG are migrating to a new cleaned up subversion repository. I would love to see LTG to bring the project to OSGeo Labs, they are researchers and the software is more of a side-effect than a product. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Bylaws
Dear Discuss, The BOD have decided that it's about time we took a look at the Bylaws of the foundation, to see if they can be modernised and made a bit more user-friendly. We'd like to involve the wider community in this- in particular you new Charter Members out there! If anyone's interested in being part of an informal working group to help with this process, then there's a page on the wiki ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Bylaws) where you can take a look at the existing bylaws and some examples of possible ones to follow. You can also sign up if you're interested in being more involved. Cheers, and have a good Christmas one and all! Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards<http://astuntechnology.com/customers/awards-and-commendations/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Membership Nomination: Suchith Anand
Dear All, I would like to nominate Suchith Anand as an OSGeo Charter Member. His tireless enthusiasm in promoting OSGeo in the UK has been immensely beneficial to the UK chapter. His work to promote open source geospatial software use in education (see http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/) is of great importance and benefit to OSGeo globally. Furthermore, his work securing an MOU between OSGeo and the Centre for Geospatial Sciences at the University of Nottingham, and more recently with the International Cartographic Association should be recognised. Suchith is exactly the sort of pro-active, enthusiastic person that we need in OSGeo! Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards<http://astuntechnology.com/customers/awards-and-commendations/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo design
Hi All, Responding to Arnulf's tweet about the new site design ( http://twitter.com/#!/sevenspatial/status/128711440596078592), I think it's a really good start. I do like the fresher new look, however I found some of the fonts a little hard to read on google chrome. When you've clicked on a "theme" and you see the "theme headings" as a second level set of headings (below "about us", "participate" etc) these are pretty small! Unless we're planning to add more themes, could they be spread out a bit more and made larger? There's also an awful lot of whitespace if you have a large monitor and go to full screen- could the background fill the whole page a la twitter? These are just minor points really, and I'm quite excited by the new design! Cheers Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards<http://astuntechnology.com/customers/awards-and-commendations/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK meeting tomorrow (20th September) at AGI Geocom
Sure, no problem! Jo On 19 September 2011 11:07, Saber Razmjooei wrote: > Unfortunately I (and some of other IRC regulars, I guess) will not be able > to make it. Would it be possible to send around minutes from your meeting? > Or a couple of lines on what has been discussed to keep us updated. > > Cheers > Saber > > > Dear All, > > > > This is a reminder that there will be an informal meeting of the OSGeo UK > > chapter at lunch time tomorrow (1pm BST, 20th September) at the East > > Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. All are welcome. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jo > > > > -- > > ***Jo Cook* > > Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, > KT18 > > 7RL, UK > > t:+44 750 095 8167 > > iShare - Data integration and publishing > > platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> > > See the new Helpdesk and Customer > > portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> > > * > > Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better > > Connected > > 2010 > > > > See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> > > > > Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. > > Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. > > 864201149. > > ___ > > UK mailing list > > u...@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk > > > > > -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK meeting tomorrow (20th September) at AGI Geocom
Dear All, This is a reminder that there will be an informal meeting of the OSGeo UK chapter at lunch time tomorrow (1pm BST, 20th September) at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. All are welcome. Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate's statement: Jo Cook
Dear All, Firstly, it's an honour to be even nominated, so many thanks to Antony and Saber for that! I recently heard someone say that in terms of the overall information technology "sphere", geospatial is such a small niche part that it's like a pimple on IT's bottom. However, we've all heard the fact about the amount of corporate data with a geospatial component! If you take those two statements together, along with the slightly uncertain financial market at the moment, there's a lot of room for growth for geospatial technology, particularly open source. I think OSGeo should be facilitating that growth, as an enabler for coders and end-users alike. I think OSGeo does need to grow as an organisation- both in terms of sheer numbers, but also in terms of profile. I would like to get to the point where I don't have to start every discussion about OSGeo with a quick translation of what the name stands for, and what it's all about. I think opportunities at governmental level are being missed, or left to local chapters, whereas high-level involvement by OSGeo globally could be incredibly useful and persuasive. I want people (as individuals, companies, or even governments) to come to OSGeo to find out about good, sustainable, well-managed software, reputable training courses, meet-ups and mailing lists. OSGeo doesn't have to provide all of these things itself, but (at the risk of repeating myself) can act as an enabler- providing the infrastructure and the "brand", drawing people in, to the benefit of everyone involved. We do still (unfortunately) need to prove that open source geospatial software is sustainable and viable- our proprietary friends have not stopped the FUD, and OSGeo is best placed to provide the reassurance that end-users need. The challenge is, how to do all of this with not a lot of cash! I don't propose any radical changes to how things work- I'd like to see whether there would be some benefit for spreading the pot of money for sponsoring events around a little more to raise the profile of the organisation outside of the US. I'd like to see more infrastructure in place to help local chapters (this is ongoing, so not a criticism), and I'd like to look at whether more can be done to promote company involvement in OSGeo- be that in terms of sponsorship or some other way. I guess these are both the goals I have for the organisation, and the kind of things I'd like to look at if I was elected. I'm not a coder, I'm a facilitator, and I want to make OSGeo a success by contributing in any way I can. Thanks for reading, Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Summer work placement working with web-based maps
Dear All, We (Astun Technology) are looking for a recent graduate in GIS or possibly a GIS student looking for some experience through the summer. They would work on a specific project generally around testing of our iShareGIS product, which is built on the openlayers/mapserver/postgresql stack. There would be a lot of support from our staff here and the student should learn a lot! Hours are flexible (though minimum 3 days equivalent /week would be prefered). This is not a paid role as such but we would consider funding the travel to the office from a local base (Surrey, UK). If you can advertise this for us, or you know someone who might be interested, then get them to send a c.v. along with a few words on what they are looking for (summer placement / full time / part time / what they are looking to acheive at a placement / what they are looking to do after their studies etc. etc.) Our web site tells you what we're about. http://www.isharemaps.com/ Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information. Thanks Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM agenda
Dear All, The 3rd AGM for the OSGeo:UK local chapter will be happening this afternoon (Wednesday 22nd June) at 5pm BST after OSGIS 2011 at the Centre for Geospatial Sciences in Nottingham, UK. The informal agenda is as follows: 1) Report on the 2010-2011 year from local chapter representative 2) Strategic focus for 2011-2012 3) Reports or comments/questions from the general membership 4) Any other business Hope to see as many people there- and we'll report on the outcomes via the usual mailing lists as soon as possible after the event. Regards Jo -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform<http://www.isharemaps.com/> See the new Helpdesk and Customer portal<http://support.astuntechnology.com/home> * Over 35% of the 4 star council websites use iShare - SOCITM Better Connected 2010 See our customer commendations and awards <http://www.isharemaps.com/> Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] are there Charter Member elections on?
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 45, Issue 21
Collecting some thoughts... On 12/09/2010 17:00, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: OSGeo-women has been created as a chapter, similar to local chapters. > The final aim is to promote participation of women in OSGeo groupings, like most others, are entirely artificial I signed up, despite some misgivings which i outlined here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Women_Chapter#Thoughts_about_this_sort_of_thing In essence, "That the root causes are not about women but about all of us, and not about software but about society..." Where to, OSGeo? members and partners in the broad sense can give money... new revenue stream from events or other new products. > How much OSGeo should care and work for FOS data, FOS education > OSGeo should encourage going beyond the baseline, > but that should not be in its main mission. I had a ramble at the board list on vaguely this topic: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2010-September/003566.html In essence, cross-subsidy of time commitment with other organisations who do have a more focused mission about different related subjects (geodata and foss4g in education, or open standards and open government) love, jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Good news for open source and open geodata from the UK
dear all, (pls forgive excited cross-posting), The UK Government's response to the consultation on opening national mapping data has been published. A selection of datasets will be available from tomorrow, April 1st, free for re-use with no restrictions. This includes postcode coordinates, administrative boundaries and geographic names. A nice summary of the government response can be seen here: http://ernestmarples.com/blog/2010/03/government-response-to-ordnance-survey-consultation-published/ There's also positive news for Open Source GIS in the small print; OS is going to take on the national-level INSPIRE data services, build them with free software, and make their work available. "3.28 Ordnance Survey will design, specify, create and acceptance test repeatable INSPIRE compliant hosted data services, together with an overarching portal to support the View and Metadata Services. These platforms will then be offered back to the community as Open Source software." The open data release is not "the works", the largest scale data for which OpenStreetmap is the competition (branded MasterMap) is not yet included. But it is a great start and sets a terrific precedent for public access to state-collected geodata worldwide. As postal code areas here typically span a few houses, and there's been a lot of contention about the "ownership" of the postcode data, this is a particularly valuable resource to see open licensed. On the whole, w00t to the power of w00t. jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] use of OSGeo software within regional/national SDI efforts
dear all, Next month I've been asked to give a talk about the OSGeo stack to a group responsible for planning Scotland's Spatial Data Infrastructure. I'm keen to hear of examples of use of OSGeo software packages in SDI projects, especially with an INSPIRE focus. For instance I have heard that several Scandinavian countries are collaborating on patches to GeoNetwork to provide a "member state geoportal" service whose backend can be maintained in common. Particularly relevant are experiences of (semi-)autonomous regions which are feeding data in to national infrastructure but also maintaining what they consider to be their own SDI. I just asked this on the Spanish list as well. Any examples of OSGeo software use (anything from GDAL/OGR and PostGIS through OpenLayers and beyond) that could serve as a few-slides "case study" would be much appreciated. cheers, jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
dear a...@osgeo, In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by Ordnance Survey. There's been some discussion on the OSGeo-UK list and the Open Knowledge Foundation discuss list about a shared response to the consultation. Here's the basically final draft - wording could change a little. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATJnv_t9ROmXZGN0Yjk3ampfMjBmM2ZqZnpkMg&hl=en The consultation outlines 3 options: 1) is Do Nothing, 2) is Open Everything, 3) is "staged release" of some products including postcode geolocations (critical in the UK as a postal code is typically less than a city block in size) and adminstrative boundaries. The response sets the case for a modified Option 2, all raw vector data. Deadline for the response is March 17th, but it would be great to publish it within the next week, so it can be circulated and perhaps have a chance of influencing others' responses. This would be a shared response with the Open Knowledge Foundation. [[During a period of 3 days (72 hours) the OSGeo community will have an opportunity to respond with comments indicating why OSGeo should or should not explicitly support the project. If more information is required that should be stated during this review period.]] Still accepting edits, but don't plan to change the intent of the doc. be well all, jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO code
Hi,
I apologise if this is out of topic, but I don't know where else to post
this question.
I'm implementing the OSGEO Tile Map Server
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification
<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification>and I came across
a SRS named "OSGEO:41001";
since I don't know this authority and code, I was wondering if it is the
same as Google Mercator ("EPSG:900913").
This was also suggested to me from reading in other places:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoCGDAL2Tiles#NewsuggestionsforTMSStandard
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoCGDAL2Tiles#NewsuggestionsforTMSStandard>If
it is the same, maybe it would be a good idea to change the code for EPSG
(update the spec), for a matter of inter operability and compatibility with
other services?
If it is not the same, I would really appreciate if you could point me to
other places where I can get more information about this SRS.
Thanks in
advance,
best regards,
Jo
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Development of INSPIRE data application profile support in GEOFOSS
Hi Jeroen, I won't be at FOSS4G but I'm trying to gauge the interest for this in the UK at the moment, though it's at early days. I think, having spoken to both some developers/FOSS suppliers and to some governmental people in the UK that there's definitely interest in a solution. I think it makes a lot of sense to jointly develop something under the banner of OSGeo rather than have lots of little initiatives all trying to reinvent the wheel. So count me in as very interested! Jo Jeroen Ticheler - GeoCat wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have submitted a BOF for FOSS4G2009 where I would like to invite > those of you present in Sydney and with interest in the topic > "Development of INSPIRE data application profile support in GEOFOSS". > > Details are here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather#INSPIRE_Data_Profile_Support_in_FOSS4G > > Other things may be coming up, but I hope this provides a good > starting point for some discussion and possible collaboration. > > Please add your points to the list and feel free to modify/improve > those I already listed. > > Ciao, > Jeroen > > Jeroen Ticheler > GeoCat bv > Grotenhuisweg 61 > 7384 CT Wilp > Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 > http://geocat.net > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Development-of-INSPIRE-data-application-profile-support-in-GEOFOSS-tp3754265p3754447.html Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Thoughts on standing down from the Board of OSGeo
dear all, I have been meaning for ages to write a long reflective mail on standing down from the board of OSGeo, but realise if I don't write something short I'm in danger of writing nothing at all. The role I have filled on OSGeo's Board has been an amazing learning experience for me. I have felt honoured to be in a representative position for such a large and powerful community. FOSS4G is reaching a real maturity; I have seen a conservative ops manager decide that this year it's safe to migrate the big systems to PostGIS, and rebuild the interface with OpenLayers. OSGeo can work on turning the most recent wave of adopters into advocates and supporters. There is more work to be done for documentation and packaging than there is for code, now. There is a lot to be done in education, convincing people that free software is fine for coursework, that skills transfer. OSGeo has quite a unique structure now, with the flourishing of local user groups and the solid, ASF-like core of projects. Decision-making is delegated so comprehensively that a lot of the Board business is rubber-stamping. Correspondingly it's been quite an activist Board with at least a couple of members on each committee; rather than a hands-free advisory style Board attempting to set "strategic" direction. The question of how does OSGeo Foundation support itself financially has always recurred at Board meetings. This year due to the general cuts in sponsorship and marketing budgets we have had a significant financial shortfall, and next year may be little better. After that, though, the "market" potentially there for open source geographic applications will have grown, and OSGeo will be a great store of kudos. How can we change OSGeo to sustain its running costs - whether we try to generate more income from the conference (restricting where it can be held), or we partner to run workshops commercially, or do some consultancy work (and on what terms), or seek more or bigger sponsors (which has proved precarious) - this is my biggest question to the next Board. Recently I've not been as engaged with OSGeo as I would like and don't really feel that I am representative now; so I won't re-stand this year in the Board elections. I am grateful to have had this concern for three years, and will try to stay involved through OSGeo-Scotland, OSGeo-UK, and ongoing effort towards open geodata. be well! jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] database replication
Hi Carlos, I wrote that round-up, and there are a couple of things I would add. The first is that, of the packages I talk about in that blog post, I'd go with dbreplicator as it seems a little more active in terms of development and response to emails. However, these days I would actually choose sqlsync http://silvercoders.com/index.php?page=sqlsync This works very well as a cross-platform (cross-database too) command line tool, so once you're familiar with the syntax it can easily be incorporated into a script to run whenever you need it to. Hope that helps Jo Chris Puttick wrote: > > This might help: > > http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/11/21/database-replication/ > > Regards > > Chris > > - "carlos sousa" wrote: > >> Kind Sirs, >> >> Being a novice postgreSQL user, i'm currently transfering from our >> current esri/arcsde/arcims/mssqlserver solution to a >> postgres/postgis/mapserver/ >> openlayers solution. >> After this is down, the real server will be using software that is >> replicated in virtual machines used on external harddrives with a copy >> of the real server database. >> What I need to know is how should I execute a command, be it in the >> command line (prefferable because of scripting) or using some kind of >> gui tool like pgadminIII >> to let the virtual database get in sync with the real database when >> the external harddrive is connected to the real server. >> I've looked up sqlworkbench (no ubuntu binary) and slony (has to be >> compiled). >> I'm considering asking Ricardo from the GISVM project if he is >> available to help me think up a solution for this, you never know. >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Carlos >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > -- > Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open > Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit > http://iso26300.info for more information. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/database-replication-tp3211446p3213862.html Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo Board Election Nominations by Friday 20th
dear all, A reminder that nominations to the Board of OSGeo should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and this list, by the end of this Friday, 20th June 2008. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2008 This lists the nominations currently received; so far, for * Howard Butler * S. Narendra Prasad * Arnulf Christl * Frank Warmerdam * Paolo Cavallini There are four seats to be filled in this year's elections. For more details of the whole process, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008#Board_Election cheers, jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2008 - Nominations open Friday 13th June
dear all, The Charter Members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation are now responsible for electing new members to the Foundation's Board. The Board consists of 9 members who are elected to serve a 2-year term. This year there are four seats to be allocated, next year five. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008#Board_Election has more of the details. Nominations will be accepted from this Friday (13th) through to the following Friday 20th of June. Now would be a fine time to have a think about who you would like to see representing OSGeo at Board level. You should confirm with a potential nominee that they wish to stand, before sending public mail; so it's worth contacting them right away, so they have time to think it over. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_Procedure#Board_Criteria Nomination emails should be sent from Friday both to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and please also cc'd to this list (discuss@lists.osgeo.org) jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Election 2008 Results
dear all, As a result of last week's voting process, the following people have become new Charter Members of the OSGeo Foundation in 2008. Wolf Bergenheim Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas S. Narendra Prasad Charlie Schweik Luis W. Sevilla Paolo Cavallini Markus Lupp Athina Trakas Andrew Ross Geoff Zeiss Yves Jacolin Thierry Badard Julien-Samuel Lacroix Martin Davis Andrew Turner In a strange twist of fate, there was a four-way tie for last place. So, the 15th person on the list was selected by a random process. Thus there is absolutely no sense in which this election was a popularity contest; it's just an arbitrary way of assuring continuity of the Foundation's ethos and a representative Board, year on year. Thanks to all who voted. Based on feedback, for the Board election round I will extend the "window of opportunity" a few more days and try to send more lastminute reminders of when it is closing. cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Voting for new OSGeo Charter Members open until 6th June 2008
dear all, The list of nominations for new OSGeo Charter Members is here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 >From today until the end of Friday 6th June 2008, votes for 15 new Charter Members are being accepted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote! * Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a list of names 15 lines long (one vote per new member slot) * Votes can be for 15 different people, or the same person 15 times, or any balance in between. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 has more links. Charter Members are responsible for electing the Board of the OSGeo Foundation. The initial group of Charter Members was the 25 people in the Free and Open Source Geospatial community who attended the "startup" meeting of the Foundation in Chicago on 4th Feb. 2006 This group later selected another 20 Charter Members and they in turn elected the first complete Board in the summer of 2006. In 2007 another 15 Charter Members were elected to the Foundation (one stood down). The current list is at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members http://www.osgeo.org/membership explains why the Charter Membership exists, basically as an attempt to guarantee the ongoing integrity of the Board as representative of the community at large. This is seen as more stable, and less liable to "hijack", than granting a vote in exchange for payment (like the OpenStreetmap Foundation) or in exchange for measurable contribution (like Wikimedia's Foundation) This year's nominations again, for those who read this far: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Elections 2008
dear all, It's time for OSGeo elections again. I'm Chief Returning Officer this year. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 The OSGeo annual elections come in two phases. Firstly, the election of new Charter Members to the Foundation. This group is in turn responsible for electing members to the Board of Directors. I intend to open nominations for 15 new Charter Members tomorrow, Friday 23rd May 2008, for a period lasting one week, until the end of next Thursday, 29th May. Nominations should be in the form of a name, email address and paragraph on why you are recommending the person, and sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Voting for new Charter Members can then begin next Friday, 30th May. Please see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 for links to the details of the process and how it runs. I'll send followup reminders. cheers, jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should OSGeo get involved in the Information Architecture realm and nurture the development of definitive spatial ontologies?
dear Bruce, all, On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:20:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Rob Atkinson has proposed that OSGeo may be the right body to nurture the >development of a set of consistent ontologies describing commonly used >spatial entities. >This could make it much easier for us to build targetted applications in >the long term. >This suggestion has merit and should be explored further. Your suggestion interests me but it sounds *so abstract*. It would benefit this discussion to have a clear example and description of what an "ontology describing commonly used spatial entities" would consist of, who it would be intended for, how it would be re-used. I am not sure that OSGeo is an appropriate vehicle for this, though. >> > This "profiling pattern" is possibly within the OGC purview, but its >> > not handled well at the moment IMHO because its something that >> > affects deployers, not technology developers: the need to maintain a >> > consistent _information architecture_. OGC is a technology vendor >> > association primarily. OSGeo would have the same issues to quite an extent - it is an association of developers and people closely connected to developer communities. Though this is changing, especially through the local chapters, I think it would be hard to harness such a "loose association" for a concerted effort - unless it was *really* clearly set out as a marketing initiative that could provide OSGeo members with more decision-making influence in their everyday working lives. >> > GSDI could own a SDI reference architecture - but doesnt seem geared >> > up for it. Really? Why not? I thought that data infrastructure building best practise was at the heart of what GSDI was all about - the "cookbook", efforts at formalising design decisions in a way as to keep big institutions happy, etc: http://www.gsdi.org/Association%20Information/Committees/TechnicalWorkingGroup.asp >> > OSGEO should at least consider the commonality between its projects, >> > out of business sense. If databases and services and clients and >> > registries dont handle common metadata, the pieces dont fit together >> > well. Every time I get asked to advise someone on building tools I >> > have to warn them they have a huge job gluing the pieces together >> > into a coherent whole, and there will huge amounts of redundant >> > information scattered across the configurations of each component >> > that will make it all expensive to build, test and maintain. >> > >> > Proprietary systems do tend to be better at this, since inter- >> > component interoperation is often the key to marketing success. >> > Peopele want an application - and they buy all the components with >> > the expectation the application will work. IMHO OSGEO could >> > significantly improve its offerings by having a common information >> > architecture (without necessarily mandating all projects use it). Well, proprietary vendors may be better at marketing inter-operation, and OSGeo could benefit from marketing cross-project success stories. But I don't see we have the kind of technical impedance you describe. Hearing many "we're using projects X, Y and Z" stories was a common feature of last year's conference. The open-source "stack" *is* coherent and a lot of cross-project collaboration goes on behind the scenes. This tends more and more to the quiet, usage-driven development of common components and interfaces when they prove really necessary. In any case these decisions emerge from practise and "formalisation" comes along with the right "rough consensus and running code" and it would be counter to "the OSGeo way" to propose anything different. Upfront formalisation could easily be the appearance, if not the reality, of an "information architecture". It would start to look somewhat like the OGC Abstract Specification. This takes so much effort - time, money, brainpower - to maintain, and needs a kind of process overhead to keep it stable that slows it down, that it winds up being neglected and not updated. New efforts (like GeoRSS, KML2.N) skip over it on the grounds of bypassing cultural conflict. Over time it loses its valency as a marketing tool. jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:53:16AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > >You must not mean a "M$" Office Open XML document since it is of course > >and open standard. *shrug* > > Well since M$ do not have any software that actually produces OOXML > documents yet At least not to the format submitted to ISO ;) > The main problem THERE of cause is that ISO standards are not free and open > anyway. HOW much does a copy cost :) Well, free-as-in-speech does not have to imply free-as-in-beer. Also, some ISO standards *are* available gratis/free (such as WMS, which also is both libre/free and gratis/free available from OGC); I can usually find gratis/free versions of ISO "open standards" by searching the web for the DIS (draft) version, and my rights to implement and discuss them remains gratis/free. Whether the ISO approach is appropriate or successful - either at helping businesses or promoting "best practise" - is definitely another, awkward question :) Another problem here is talking as if we agree on what a "free and open" standard is. Even http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition does not clearly, to my reading, differentiate between libre/free and gratis/free. http://blog.okfn.org/2008/05/14/dispatches-from-digistan/ elaborates on this and on their idea of "openness metrics", and on a draft "open format definition" which some OSGeo members have contributed to - though clearly Digistan's plans go a lot further than formats. As for "force and exclude", the Digistan definition does not go much further than the European Commission have already gone, cf http://www.openstandards.eu/definition The question then becomes more one about decision-making and planning processes for "non-profit organisations", and how to build models that will prevent inter-organisation "stewards" from tending to serve their own interests rather than those of wider business and technical communities. Cool, OSGeo has collectively to think about this as well! jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:14:40PM -0500, P Kishor wrote: > On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially successful > > software project is *shipping working code*. > > Until a developer does that, the discussion of whether or not his/her > > project needs or deserves institutional/organizational support That is not what this discussion is about, though. (And the point seems self-evident, given this is a discussion about open source software projects, defined by having working code "in the wild") > Steve Coast (OSM) echoed the same sentiment very elegantly -- "Real > artists ship. For everyone else, there is wanking." > After a short hesitation, I have really come to appreciate it. Yup, > unless there is working code, everything else -- sponsorships, > organization, standards, committees, mailing lists -- is pointless. I really enjoyed the recent discussion here about non-developers contributions to open source projects and communities. Writing documentation and tutorials and maintaining translations, in particular. That code-jockey primacy attitude is potentially alienating to people wanting to contribute this kind of hard work. For many it is easy to write software. There is a lot of code out there, a lot of abandon-ware, projects that are "free" by a legal definition but with none of the supporting infrastructure that helps them to get used and to acquire a client base. At least Autodesk, for example, saw this and made bona fide effort to "build community", rather than dropping millions of lines of undocumented, hard-to-configure code onto the net, hoping an imaginary "open source community" would sprinkle pixie dust onto it, as Sun did at first - as if the time and goodwill of potential contributors were inexhaustible. There is this cultural pressure on "standards" to be marketing tools. Because of the government and military context for GIS, this pressure is particularly intense for us. It starts to loop back on itself somewhat like this, http://frot.org/on_standards/statements.html This does have a countereffect on innovation in software and it also probably does prevent "bona fide" standards developing in a natural way. As well as creating this terrific and largely justified backlash against some of the in-a-vacuum work done by OGC, ISO. (GeoDRM anyone) However the process of working things out by rough consensus and running code takes longer, business process says, "first to market -> "natural monopoly| de facto standard". It is unfortunate, because proper interoperability can be such a force for good - cf MetaCRS, and the future time and hassle that is going to be saved for many people, once the inevitable initial round of talking is done. I know, this argument has gone round and round in the past, and many are impatient with philosophising. I hope that philosophising can sometimes provide energysaving insight, or i wouldnt engage in it. But repeating "without code, you are nothing" grates on the nerves after a while. jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects
Increasingly the projects that OSGeo accepts into incubation are ones that have been created and supported by a large organisation - a company or agency - now seeking to get more people from "outside", who they are not directly supporting, properly involved. In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful open source projects now need serious organisational backing. They can't be built by a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors alone. (There *are* noble exceptions, but those are projects which either have been around for a good long while, or which are libraries reused and maintained by several projects as "collective infrastructure") "This project is mature enough to be used for the task, without fear it's going to disappear without a trace... that's part of what OSGeo incubation is all about" I wonder about a cultural climate generally - NOT an OSGeo-specific one - in which projects have to have a certain amount of institutional support in order to even get *into* the incubation process, let alone graduate out of it. I heard this complaint from a few Apache Software Foundation people a couple of years ago. They were getting so many applicants for incubation - and had several dozen projects in the incubator at once - the only was to really assess quality going in, and commitment to future maintenance, was to focus on projects with 40+ committers and existing corporate support. (This "culture change" in turn led to core ASF'ers keeping their newer projects *out* of the foundation. Now there are more "ASF brings you Yahoo!'s..." projects like http://hadoop.apache.org/) If a project has a given amount of momentum, marketing resources applied to it, a contributing user community; is there any sense in "competing" by building something new with a lot of conceptual overlap? If there isn't, don't de facto monopolies start to develop inside FOSS as much as they do in proprietary software systems? A situation where a very few projects make it into broad and stable use, and a very many just spike, flutter and fade - well perhaps the open source ecology has always looked this way. But the more a few projects gather monopoly momentum, the less likely it is that newer projects can build up sufficient scale to challenge them. The kind of incubation process run by OSGeo, ASF, then serves to accentuate and promote this. If this is inevitable, why? Is innovation less possible outside the "enterprise"? Is this even a FOSS problem or a computing-in-the-broad one? (Please note i *don't* intend any criticism of the projects that are coming through incubation at the moment. It's great news that latlon.de now see more potential value in deegree becoming an OSGeo project than in being marketed as a latlon project. hooray!) I would appreciate hearing any thoughts that this provoked. jo -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Support for AGIRN - African Geo Information Research Network
dear all, While this is an inter-National Mapping Agency knowledge sharing effort, http://www.agirn.org/nma , it seems likely that local institutions and NGOs would have useful information about equipment techniques and support arrangements to share. It could also be a great subject for a BOF session at FOSS4G2008 to catch a selection of African mapping agency people. (And perhaps some OSGeo or GISSA members are already involved with this AGIRN?) - Forwarded message from Roger Longhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - >From the ISPRS Newsletter: At the Cambridge Conference, held from 15th - 20th July, at Univ. of Cambridge, UK, it was decided to develop two geospatial knowledge portals for National Mapping Agencies (NMAs) to exchange information. The first, to be developed by GSDI, will be a global portal which will include specific pages for NMAs. The second is an African Portal and is developed within AGIRN, developed by the South African Human Science Research Council (HSRC) and EIS Africa. Participants at the Cambridge Conference, led by Ordnance Survey, agreed to support the portal, and the Joint Board of geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS) agreed to coordinate the portal, and help to populate it. I am writing now on behalf of JBGIS Committee for Capacity Building in Africa to ask you to support the AGIRN portal by providing reports or documents which may be of use to African NMAs and by posting details of any support that you may be able to provide in the way of training, consultancy or equipment. You can do this by visiting the website: http://www.agirn.org/nma and entering the information. I am also writing to all NMAs globally to ask for their support and contribution in order to assist African NMAs. Information provided may be shared with the GSDI portal to reduce duplication. If you have any questions on comments on AGIRN please contact Gina Weir-Smith at HSRC [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Ian Dowman, Chair JBGIS It would be good if list members could also spread this message within their organisations and local NMA contact points. Kind regards Roger Longhorn EGIP Archive: http://www.ec-gis.org/egip/ - End forwarded message - -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:41:53PM -0500, Chris Holmes wrote: > >committee has a remit to run a public geodata registry / repository; > >so we ideally *should* be able to offer this kind of answer. > > > Yeah, my thought was that ideally that list would have a bunch of people > who are really good at finding GIS data, and when someone asks a > question like that if it's not already in the repository they would have > good leads on how to hunt it down, and then be able to easily add it to > the repository. But I realize that's not how it's set up now, which was > why my answer was unconvincing. Recently when i run across unusual sets of particularly boundary and other vector data, I've been noting them down in the CKAN index - http:/www.ckan.net/ - at least this provides a way of publically noting name, url, keywords, that is guaranteed to stay around awhile. It has no spatial properties or query but is a place to start. http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/geodata I *have* been working on a CKAN-inspired spatial metadata/search project for a little while and would love to test out an open source release on OSGeo's systems but i don't want to talk about it too much yet Of course there's GeoNetwork, OSGeo's own "metadata catalog" system, I see they have a new release candidate due out very soon. It raises the bar somewhat, offering support for OGC and ISO standards which may be overkill for simple web mapping use cases. The more the merrier though, and there are plenty of systems resources to run all this stuff on, what's missing is peoples' time to setup and contribute to a repository effort that'll make future questions easier to answer without repeating ourselves :) cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:22:38PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote: > A friend of mine is building a website and wants to add a map of > India. He asked me today where he could find some good map data on > India and I had to reply that I have no clue. You could try the freemap.in list - http://lists.freemap.in/mailman/listinfo/freemap - this is more a source of high-resolution data for particular cities than an india-wide effort. e.g. http://mumbai.freemap.in/ There's also an OSGeo-India local chapter, and i bet some overlap between these lists. http://mappinghacks.com/2005/08/22/open-geodata-policy-shift-in-india/ is an old blog entry with a bunch of India-policy links, but not data ;P I'm sure others will have more concrete suggestions. > and could point me in the right direction? Cholmes sort of > unconvincingly suggested [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone else > have a thought? Well, it's interesting to hear about use cases there. And the committee has a remit to run a public geodata registry / repository; so we ideally *should* be able to offer this kind of answer. cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] relevance of Sun's acquisition of MySQL, and promoting support for open source
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/ - Sun says, "we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP." What are the implications of this for OSGeo and friends? Maybe some of Sun's resources will go into bringing MySQL spatial support up to scratch, at last, "spatially enable" a million web apps. Perhaps more relevant is the emphasis Sun's rhetoric places on *support arrangements* - taking quality of and demand for open source software for granted. A "platform vendor" becomes more of a consulting vendor offering "mission critical global support" for a whole stack of stuff, platform through application. MySQL's dual-licensing stance is unusual, in some sense Sun have relly bought the right not to have to relicense, who else will now take this license model more seriously for their product, especially for data. The SPD There's been a lot of setup work done on a directory of organisations offering support for OSGeo software projects. Just another 20% would make it actually useful. http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile is an interesting "advanced" interface but no-one's going to use it as-is, none of the SPD gets indexed by search engines because it's all query-based. A link-based browsable index to it would help catch people who type in phrases like "geoserver support" to yahoo and google. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SPD_Prioritization has some plans to highlight companies who employ committers, and of course Foundation sponsors, which would take this effort to the next level. But right now it's not at the first level. What is needed to move this effort forward, to get it linked from the main OSGeo page, to encourage contributions and make it easier to find? Who is focusing time on this right now? cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
