[OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello OSGEO enthusiasts

I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space
is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible
offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do
georeference tagging and mapping.
When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to
2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server
available.
So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps
offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of
using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS
and Geoserver.
I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the
images dont have any type of projection information with them.
I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current
projection system.
Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get
this done correctly?

Thanks for any kind of help.

Carlos Sousa
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:58 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello OSGEO enthusiasts

 I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space
 is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible
 offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do
 georeference tagging and mapping.
 When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to
 2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server
 available.


Assuming you have a laptop, why not just install whatever you want on
it and point your browser to http://localhost/mybigfatmaprepository/

I have MapServer, Apache, PostGIS/PostGres, Perl, PDL, OpenLayers,
jQuery and just about everything else installed on my 4.5 lbs MacBook.
I have a little snippet of code in my application so I can turn Google
Maps on or off as needed before I even launch my programs (I use
Google Maps terrain maps as a base layer). I even have the
documentation for all these programs installed in html form, heck,
even minicpan. No need for Internet at all. The only thing I can
continue to have is unlimited power, but as long as I can turn my
computer on, I can get to all my data. No Internet, no x.5G, no
problem.

 So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps
 offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of
 using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS
 and Geoserver.
 I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the
 images dont have any type of projection information with them.
 I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current
 projection system.
 Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get
 this done correctly?

 Thanks for any kind of help.

 Carlos Sousa
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Andy Turner
Hi,

Is there more to this than loading the data and the data server technology onto 
a machine you take into the field and configuring the clients on that machine 
to use the local data and server technology?

Do you take a network with you? You could for example network and rely on one 
server which talks to many client machines using that network?

I don't know about using Google clients cached with Google data, but if the 
data is free, or you have license for use and can take them, I'm sure you can 
configure the client/servers so long as they too are open or you have a license 
for their use and are installable on the machines.

Good luck Carlos!

Andy
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

Hello OSGEO enthusiasts

I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space
is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible
offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do
georeference tagging and mapping.
When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to
2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server
available.
So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps
offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of
using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS
and Geoserver.
I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the
images dont have any type of projection information with them.
I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current
projection system.
Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get
this done correctly?

Thanks for any kind of help.

Carlos Sousa
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
there are in the repository.

Thanks

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:58 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello OSGEO enthusiasts

 I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space
 is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible
 offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do
 georeference tagging and mapping.
 When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to
 2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server
 available.


 Assuming you have a laptop, why not just install whatever you want on
 it and point your browser to http://localhost/mybigfatmaprepository/

 I have MapServer, Apache, PostGIS/PostGres, Perl, PDL, OpenLayers,
 jQuery and just about everything else installed on my 4.5 lbs MacBook.
 I have a little snippet of code in my application so I can turn Google
 Maps on or off as needed before I even launch my programs (I use
 Google Maps terrain maps as a base layer). I even have the
 documentation for all these programs installed in html form, heck,
 even minicpan. No need for Internet at all. The only thing I can
 continue to have is unlimited power, but as long as I can turn my
 computer on, I can get to all my data. No Internet, no x.5G, no
 problem.

 So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps
 offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of
 using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS
 and Geoserver.
 I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the
 images dont have any type of projection information with them.
 I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current
 projection system.
 Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get
 this done correctly?

 Thanks for any kind of help.

 Carlos Sousa
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
 everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
 possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
 there are in the repository.


I thought I listed all the software I use.

All my data are in either PostGIS/PostGres, or as files. I use
shapefiles, geotiffs, regular images (gifs and pngs). I also have data
in raw binary format that I manipulate with PDL (Perl Data Language, a
scientific programming extension to Perl, kinda like IDL but free and
open source). PDL allows me to query the raw binary data and also
NetCDF data, and convert to images on the fly.

The data served by a combination of Apache/MapServer.

The browse client is coded in Perl (Perl Dancer and DBI), JavaScript
(jQuery and OpenLayers) and CSS.

I also use QGIS or uDig. The latter is more attractive, the former is
more capable.

Everything I need to use my data is on my laptop.

I can disconnect Ethernet, turn off Airport, and happily see all my data.



 Thanks

 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:58 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello OSGEO enthusiasts

 I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space
 is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible
 offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do
 georeference tagging and mapping.
 When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to
 2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server
 available.


 Assuming you have a laptop, why not just install whatever you want on
 it and point your browser to http://localhost/mybigfatmaprepository/

 I have MapServer, Apache, PostGIS/PostGres, Perl, PDL, OpenLayers,
 jQuery and just about everything else installed on my 4.5 lbs MacBook.
 I have a little snippet of code in my application so I can turn Google
 Maps on or off as needed before I even launch my programs (I use
 Google Maps terrain maps as a base layer). I even have the
 documentation for all these programs installed in html form, heck,
 even minicpan. No need for Internet at all. The only thing I can
 continue to have is unlimited power, but as long as I can turn my
 computer on, I can get to all my data. No Internet, no x.5G, no
 problem.

 So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps
 offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of
 using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS
 and Geoserver.
 I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the
 images dont have any type of projection information with them.
 I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current
 projection system.
 Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get
 this done correctly?

 Thanks for any kind of help.

 Carlos Sousa
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yes that, and how you obtain the GMaps terrain without the internet.


I don't. It is impossible to do that. You can't cache those as that
would violate Google TOS even if you figured out how to do that.

I just live without it. Gmaps data are *not* free (as in speech), so I
don't have the right to access them my way.

In any case, my data are very usable even without Gmaps baselayer.


 Thanks,

 AS

 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
 everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
 possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
 there are in the repository.

 Thanks


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Ian Turton
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
 everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
 possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
 there are in the repository.


Install GeoServer and GWC and add all your data as usual and all will be fine.

A more complex approach is to install GeoServer 2.1 and cascade the
WMS you usually use through GWC and make sure to visit all the main
areas of interest you might want to see later before you leave the
network and every thing will be in the cache. This might even work
with a slow link back to base to fill in any new areas you visit.

Ian

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello Ian and Kishor,

It's strange you refer to google's TOS, which kinda reminds me of
microsofts agreements on the stickers of original software, you have
to buy but is never yours.
To run around with the data in your cache isn't illegal? Anyways, I
was wondering about other kinds of data freely available on the net,
like yahoo's, usgs, nasa, etc.
Aerial photographs that lie around the net are scarce but theres a
large repository of ground based and altitude information that I don't
know how to use and Kishor's solution is really cool but out of the
reach of the non scientific realm, and for you average geek.
Regarding geoserver, it's that easy to roll out tiff's at it because I
have several free tif's and other generated from gdal's merge feature
that he simply refuses to serve as wms.
By the way I do use opengeo's and gisvm's solution for single laptop
access to wms served data.
Another problem is that there are alot of images that aren't georenferenced.

Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Carlos

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
 everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
 possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
 there are in the repository.


 Install GeoServer and GWC and add all your data as usual and all will be fine.

 A more complex approach is to install GeoServer 2.1 and cascade the
 WMS you usually use through GWC and make sure to visit all the main
 areas of interest you might want to see later before you leave the
 network and every thing will be in the cache. This might even work
 with a slow link back to base to fill in any new areas you visit.

 Ian

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Ian and Kishor,

 It's strange you refer to google's TOS, which kinda reminds me of
 microsofts agreements on the stickers of original software, you have
 to buy but is never yours.


Nothing strange about it. It has always been that way. Its just that
there is more awareness of these issues. Almost all copyrightable
material is never really yours, and when it is, there are limitations
on what you can do with it. Even in the physical realm (atoms not
bits) you can resell a book or a CD that you purchased, but you can't
make a 1000 copies of it and resell all of those.

In the digital realm (bits not atoms), you almost always pay for a
license to use the thing not to own it.

On top of that, stuff like EULA and TOS are contracts between you and
the vendor/provider that you become party to soon as you click on that
button or check that checkbox (I didn't read the long boring stuff
is not a good defense).


 To run around with the data in your cache isn't illegal? Anyways, I
 was wondering about other kinds of data freely available on the net,
 like yahoo's, usgs, nasa, etc.

Even if stuff is freely available on the net doesn't mean that it is
free. There are limits to what you can do with it, and those limits
are spelled out in the terms of service (or equivalent agreement).

I am pretty sure that Google prohibits offline caching of their data.

 Aerial photographs that lie around the net are scarce but theres a
 large repository of ground based and altitude information that I don't
 know how to use and Kishor's solution is really cool but out of the
 reach of the non scientific realm, and for you average geek.

It is not that difficult actually. Should you decide to do it, there
is enough help available from the user community. That is the very
nature of open source. You have to roll your sleeves and do some
lifting, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, but always have to do some
lifting.


 Regarding geoserver, it's that easy to roll out tiff's at it because I
 have several free tif's and other generated from gdal's merge feature
 that he simply refuses to serve as wms.
 By the way I do use opengeo's and gisvm's solution for single laptop
 access to wms served data.

There you go. You already have a solution. Just learn more about it
and use it to the fullest.


 Another problem is that there are alot of images that aren't georenferenced.

Yes, that is another problem.


 Thanks for sharing your ideas.

 Carlos

 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw
 everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it
 possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters
 there are in the repository.


 Install GeoServer and GWC and add all your data as usual and all will be 
 fine.

 A more complex approach is to install GeoServer 2.1 and cascade the
 WMS you usually use through GWC and make sure to visit all the main
 areas of interest you might want to see later before you leave the
 network and every thing will be in the cache. This might even work
 with a slow link back to base to fill in any new areas you visit.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Arnie Shore
A semi-minor point, re  ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data.
... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may be
used *only* with their API.

OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
code.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 A semi-minor point, re  ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data.
 ... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may be
 used *only* with their API.

Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't
run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should
do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not.

Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available
without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to
know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult.


 OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
 code.

 AS


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Batty
The terms of service prohibit offline caching of Google Maps tiles. This is
one major advantage of OpenStreetMap, which does permit you to do this.

The terms are at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html

Relevant items are:

You must not ...


   10.3 pre-fetch, cache, or store any Content, except that you may store
   limited amounts of Content for the purpose of improving the performance of
   your Maps API Implementation if you do so temporarily, securely, and in a
   manner that does not permit use of the Content outside of the Service;

   10.6 use the Service in a manner that gives you or any other person
   access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content, including but not
   limited to numerical latitude or longitude coordinates, imagery, and visible
   map data;


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote:
  A semi-minor point, re  ... Google prohibits offline caching of their
 data.
  ... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may
 be
  used *only* with their API.

 Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't
 run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should
 do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not.

 Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available
 without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to
 know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult.

 
  OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
  code.
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello again, sharing ideas really can be fun sometimes.

The general data I come across, every once in a while is like this:

ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/bmng_arcview/

and here too:

ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/topography/

or even these:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO1/data/ice_surface/cell_registered/georeferenced_tiff/

These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on
are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very
hard to come by in download terms.

Thanks again

Carlos

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:36 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 A semi-minor point, re  ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data.
 ... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may be
 used *only* with their API.

 Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't
 run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should
 do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not.

 Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available
 without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to
 know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult.


 OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
 code.

 AS


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello again,

Don't forget that i'm looking at this from the educational point of view.
In the general royalty department, lets not forget the open source
premises, that i'm gonna do a job for a determine customer, and the
data i'm gonna generate will be, in the ultimate instance be shown, on
a internet hooked computer, using the google/whatever api to be
viewed.
So where does the contractual impossibility of storing google's maps
weight in this case, it's really blurred for me.

Sorry for the dashing  comments

Thanks,

Carlos

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello again, sharing ideas really can be fun sometimes.

 The general data I come across, every once in a while is like this:

 ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/bmng_arcview/

 and here too:

 ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/topography/

 or even these:

 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO1/data/ice_surface/cell_registered/georeferenced_tiff/

 These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on
 are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very
 hard to come by in download terms.

 Thanks again

 Carlos

 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:36 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 A semi-minor point, re  ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data.
 ... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may be
 used *only* with their API.

 Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't
 run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should
 do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not.

 Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available
 without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to
 know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult.


 OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
 code.

 AS


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Peterson
 These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on
 are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very
 hard to come by in download terms.

My sense is that there are quite a lot of Landsat 7 data available for free 
download.  Scenes, though, not swaths.

Try these:
http://www.glcf.umd.edu/
http://glovis.usgs.gov/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Thanks a million Marc!

Glovis is a treasure box ... i'm gonna role up them sleeves to put the
images in my geoserver box.
I'll post the result here!

Thanks

Carlos

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Marc Peterson marc.peter...@gmx.net wrote:
 These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on
 are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very
 hard to come by in download terms.

 My sense is that there are quite a lot of Landsat 7 data available for free 
 download.  Scenes, though, not swaths.

 Try these:
 http://www.glcf.umd.edu/
 http://glovis.usgs.gov/

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