Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G 2007 Workshop Submission

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Basques
All, Why not simply have an all OSGEO conference. No reason not to have or be a part of FOSS4G. But it sounds like there is enough interest in having a conference with a OSGEO bent as well. bobb Tyler Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28-Mar-07, at 10:36 PM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Libre Graphics Meeting - Montreal, May 4-6

2007-04-06 Thread Bob Basques
All, Interesting thread here. GIMP is very scriptable. I've used it for quite a while actually. A stripped down version for use as a CGI would be something that might be pretty slick as an add on to a Web Service. Something to add to a Client Layout Canvas product (of which I've been

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Integration test bed thingy at FOSS4G

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
the previous page if you ask me. Ok, this is a neat idea, but shouldn't there be one spot with a copy of the data someplace, even just a subset of smaller datasets would start folks going. It would make it much easier to get started on participation. bobb Jody Garnett wrote: Bob Basques

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Integration test bed thingy at FOSS4G

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
Dave, It wasn't immediately obvious that that was where the data was. bobb Dave Patton wrote: Jody Garnett wrote: Can you show me the ntdb_roads_50 layer? Why are you being asked this? Well it is because the fellow in front of you is wanting to see how well your software performs, and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data for the Integration Showcase

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
attempt at looking for the data sources next. bobb Jody Garnett wrote: Bob Basques wrote: Jody, Ok, I must be dense, I don't see a link to any data anywhere on this page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_IntegrationShowcase A lot of reference and catalog description links though

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data for the Integration Showcase

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
by Jody is more for people who can access the data directly from the postgis database. If you are looking to get at the original data you will have to contact the provider of the dataset: myself, Dave Patton, or Jason Birch. -Justin Bob Basques wrote: Jody, Not a big deal for me, just thinking

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data for the Integration Showcase

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
a thought though from my end. I'll go and download what I can and see what I can get up and running, maybe do a couple of layers first, then come back to the list for reaction on it to that point, before going to hard at it. Thanks everyone. bobb Dave Patton wrote: Jody Garnett wrote: Bob

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data for the Integration Showcase

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
, maybe _you_ are part of the process of making more of the data available ;-) http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_IntegrationShowcase Nope. Sorry, just trying things out. I may possible try and find some proxy to show our wares though, we'll see where it goes. Thanks bobb Bob

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, I've been reading this thread from the start. Very interested since I just submitted an application for a Incubation project. I have to side with Paul too, our application project is compared (on the surface) to OpenLayers to whom ever we show it to. While on the surface it looks to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-01 Thread Bob Basques
, 2007 at 11:35:58AM -0500, Bob Basques wrote: Also, I believe that there are some flaws with the coding approach in some cases for OpenLayers. I'm trying not to downplay Openlayers here, but I believe that Open Layers is at the point of a re-write as well. I'm wondering what makes you think

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-01 Thread Bob Basques
Ditto!! Thanks Howard. bobb ... and then look to OSGeo for promotional, infrastructure, legal, and other support. Howard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Turn around on new Incubation submittals.

2007-10-03 Thread Bob Basques
Ok, just sent it to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] bobb Robert Bray wrote: Bob, The turnaround is usually pretty quick, however looking now I never saw this appear in the incubator-applications mail list. Can you send it again? Thanks, Bob Bob Basques wrote: All, What's the turn around

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Turn around on new Incubation submittals.

2007-10-03 Thread Bob Basques
Frank, Actaully, I looked, and my application is already in the incubator_application archives. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator_applications/2007-September/15.html I joined both lists, awaiting the confirmation Emails. Thanks bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: On 10/3/07, Bob

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Turn around on new Incubation submittals.

2007-10-04 Thread Bob Basques
, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, What's the turn around supposed to be on incubation submittals? I sent in an application last Friday and never got any sort of reply. Even a confirmation of receipt would be something. Bob, I received the application. Normally I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geo Database

2008-01-16 Thread Bob Basques
All, Don't know the specifics about the engine being used, but we discussed using the Plone storage mechanism, a few times, for spatial data. Just didn't seem like a quick enough payoff to try anything out. At least not on the surface. There was a thought that there might be something to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Hmmm, Very thoughtful reply. :c) I wasn't trying to incite a riot or anything, it just seemed a bit vague on the press release page about what was appropriate (or not). bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? Or should there be another example added to the Conception section of the press Release page? That part on the bottom about costs for distribution is an interesting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Service Provider Directory: Prioritization

2008-02-02 Thread Bob Basques
for Incubation Houston Engineering The OpenMNND Project Bob Basques GeoMoose Plus The next contributor That project status etc. . . . . . Makes everything easy to added to and easy to identify who contributed to what. If the lists get

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Map of Wiki/OSGeo Members

2008-08-13 Thread Bob Basques
A thought . . . How about just doing something based on page access and downloading. Don't need to get into the details of exactly who looked at what, but you could generate some interesting map based reports of who is looking and downloading what. Just plot the geocoded points to a file

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubator Sponsor idea.

2008-09-12 Thread Bob Basques
... Bob Basques wrote: All, I have a question about a possible way to get some smaller projects into the system without the requirements of going full bore (as I perceive it now) I'm not really targeting any project per se at this point, but . . . What about have a Super project

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit, now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G

2008-10-28 Thread Bob Basques
Joe, From the municipal mapping side of things I would suggest you take a look at GeoMoose as a Web Front end. It hooks to MapServer currently, and future versions will be using the OpenLayers LIB for the Mapping aspects. It was designed from the ground up to facilitate publishing for the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit,now weening from Bentley MicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G

2008-10-29 Thread Bob Basques
Markus, What's all that stuff in there about managed and un-managed supposed to describe? Seems to be somewhat out of date. I think I would start over with the whole bottom section. Another thing with this page is, I wouldn't feel comfortable goin g in there and changing anything without

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] kicked the ESRI habit,now weening from BentleyMicroStation..looking toward FOSS4G

2008-10-29 Thread Bob Basques
referenced in a OSGEO page? You may be able to tell that I've thought about this somewhat in the past . . . . :c) bobb Frank Warmerdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/29/08 11:21 AM Bob Basques wrote: Markus, What's all that stuff in there about managed and un-managed supposed to describe? Seems

[OSGeo-Discuss] News submittal (I think)

2008-11-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, I was wondering who is handling the New item submitals. I sent in an Announcement for the GeoMoose project last week and still haven't seen it scroll by in the news Items on the OsGeo Page. I think Frank W. handled the last one that I sent in. They should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] News submittal (I think)

2008-11-17 Thread Bob Basques
: What's the Gage being used for saying something is not widespread. It's in widespread use around here. :c) Anyway, I'll send something along for Version 2.0 when it's ready. bobb Frank Warmerdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/08 4:27 PM Bob Basques wrote: All, I was wondering who is handling

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm interested in this question as well, since we have some similar business needs related to non-profits and open-source project funding, things like who can/should claim to be the owner for donation seeking and such. Just philosophical stuff right now, but who knows in the future.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Bob Basques
Hello, Is there a set of icons already available to start from? bobb Steven M. Ottens ste...@minst.net 12/22/08 2:31 PM Hi Robert, On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote: Hi Steven, Fate will that I just send a mail to the osgeo-discuss list with the proposal to use the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generating html clickable image maps from polygons

2009-01-05 Thread Bob Basques
MapServer can do this via Templates. We use it in our GISmo (GeoMoose) interface quite a bit for Popups. you can see it action here: http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/ Just zoom in a ways, a couple of blocks, turn on the Address Point layer, and then switch to the Visible Layers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] seeking OS client API to embed maps in desktop app

2009-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
All, GeoMoose doesn't do everything you're looking for, but it's a very good for connecting and presenting different data streams in a single interface. Combining it with something like QGIS is something we've looked at ourselves. bobb Tim Sutton wrote: Hi 2009/1/23 Judy and Chris

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Liability Issues For Companies Supporting OpenSource Development

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Basques
Landon, We've wrestled with similar issues, and took the stance that we either contract with the open-source project itself, one of it's developers or just plain old donate funds on a handshake agreement. I have to admit the handshake stuff is only for small quick turnaround types of things.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Liability Issues For CompaniesSupportingOpenSource Development

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Basques
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:56 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Liability Issues For Companies SupportingOpenSource Development Landon, We've wrestled with similar issues, and took the stance that we either contract

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] This Thread is Dead (was Re: Comparison between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS)

2009-06-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, This THREAD will never be dead, only the subject will change (I'm afraid.) :c) bobb Bill Thoen wrote: Message subjects, like diapers, need to be changed once in a while. Usually for the same reasons, too. Traian Stanev wrote: However, they (the US govt.) don’t even need a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Basques
Alll, You can count me as interested, I'm also interested in the emergency Management side of the equation. bobb Anton Patrushev anton.patrus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such thing and would

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any interest in open source AutoLISPcodeforgeospatial applications?

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Basques
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:17 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Basques
All, Chiming in here on this thread, good reading BTW . . . I would like to expand somewhat on the idea that Open Formats should be the number one consideration. I would personally like to see the data be primarily released in an open format, and then these other market related aspects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats

2009-08-21 Thread Bob Basques
) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:28 AM To: OSGeo Discussions; Ivan Lucena Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OpenFile

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Basques
All, Ok, I'm probably going to get someone irritated, but here goes . . . Why not approach this from the other end of the spectrum and work at making the original files smaller. Work with the providers to make the images smaller in the first place, or at least come up with a maximum

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Basques
0.02$ R Bob Basques wrote: All, Ok, I'm probably going to get someone irritated, but here goes . . . Why not approach this from the other end of the spectrum and work at making the original files smaller. Work with the providers to make the images smaller in the first place, or at least

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and ProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Basques
as a service to desktop GIS applications. Landon From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:33 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Basques
thinking on the run here, no detail (or ramifications though through [at all :c) ]) bobb Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Landon, It would be interesting to come up with a standard structure on a computer file system that could be used to accessed tiled raster data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Basques
Markus, What's the standard (OGC?) part of this, just the calling structure, and consequent responses? It looks like anything can be on the backenda s the processor, and the only enforcements are in the calling and results for the getcapabilities, maybe in the service(s) requests as well . .

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata as Public Record in U.S.

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Basques
Take the space off the end of the link %20, It works if you paste in this link: http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS%20Data%20as%20Public%20Record.pdf ( http://home.centurytel.net/wilsonlandsurvey/docs/GIS%20Data%20as%20Public%20Record.pdf ) bobb Bill Thoen

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Basques
-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:21 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats andProprietaryAlgorithms Landon, Just

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [mapserver-users] Updated MapServer flyer

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Basques
is required on the client - e.g. enter the info, press create and download a PDF. Anyone want to help put their CGI and PDF lib skills into this kind of thing? It could even be used for creating business cards, etc. On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:38 -0500, Bob Basques wrote: All, OK, probably a weird

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Next five years

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Basques
All, Related to Arnie's posting here. I would like to see some community organization around business specific products like the the items that Arie is describing here. Example that meet customers needs more readily than by requiring the first time implementer to assemble a bunch of pieces

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Board Election - Statements

2009-09-22 Thread Bob Basques
Is there anyone left to vote? What if everyone votes for themselves. :c) bobb Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@lisasoft.com wrote: A sign to me that the OSGeo Foundation is doing a good job is when we have such a large selection of high quality candidates standing for the board.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

2009-10-05 Thread Bob Basques
Eric, Now you're talk'in. Sure took this thread long enough to get here. :c) The Stick method allows for exactly what Eric describes, ease of use. The same sorts of things I'm running into for Emergency Preparedness materials, I'm currently putting together as a prototype. I've been

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009

2009-10-09 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there a list of the tests administered? I would be interested in the rendering speed of differently sized images and where the sweet spot is for a particular engine in size vs rendering speed. I did find the description of source data. Also any thing related to reprojection of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009

2009-10-09 Thread Bob Basques
Ok, ok, No problem. It can wait till afterwards. Just a thought. bobb Andrea Aime wrote: Bob Basques ha scritto: All, The reason i asked about the stability of the WMS links in the wiki, was I was thinking about setting up a GeoMoose interface for the WMS calls for each layer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mind Map - Open Source Spatial Projects

2009-10-12 Thread Bob Basques
All, What's the best Client for this MM stuff? A little research on it reveals there are more than one version of the file format as well as more than one version of client, and not all clients read all formats . . . bobb Bruce Bannerman bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote: I have

Re: Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mind Map - Open Source Spatial Projects

2009-10-14 Thread Bob Basques
A thought here . . . . How would you see something like this working from a Project meta-data perspective. I'm wondering about the possibilty of each OSGEO project handling their own branch of the MindMap diagram. Is there a way to link branches together? Another piece that is nagging at me

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] web mapping package

2009-12-28 Thread Bob Basques
/maptiler) or do rasters need to go through mapserver first? (I have some imagery and openstreetmap data I think would be best served through TMS tiles rather than mapserver raster data sources.) - John On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us mailto:bob.basq

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.

2010-01-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available to the public, ( http://, ) with ~170 layers that are not public. While there are some layers that won't be made available for security

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practicesand how it help to foster collaboration.

2010-01-19 Thread Bob Basques
( http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk )Don't forget to look at notes too, I did forgot first time. Haris On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

2010-01-26 Thread Bob Basques
All, I just tried up to submit a new profile here: http://www.osgeo.org/submit_profile, for SharedGeo, but it says that there is already a record, but if I list everything and go through the list, I don't see it returned for any combination of filtering. Anyone know who to contact about it?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-09 Thread Bob Basques
All, I've been doing some research and resource collection around the idea of doing something similar. I was planning on going it alone with some specific targets in mind, but I could throw into an effort if it could be made to be reuseable. bobb On 2/8/2010 8:15 AM, Charlie Schweik

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line. I was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as some somewhat higher level information about costs, in the short term/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Bob Basques
!!). bobb Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Bob Basques wrote: We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line. I was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web mapon the fly

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Basques
All, We went through this same exercise a few years back, and in the end just opted for Jpegs in a pyramid tile set behind the scenes with MapServer as the assembly service. We had specific needs of being able to assemble seamless images from the aerials in any size and paid a lot of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web mapon the fly

2010-05-24 Thread Bob Basques
All, Related to this . . . From our perspective, which was to allow for the most flexibilty with regard to queries in the size of the images, we were willing to sacrifice the highest level of performance. Most of the effort here was in organizing the tiles (tree index) behind the MapServer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPS Versus Maps

2010-06-01 Thread Bob Basques
David (and Peter?), Thanks for the pointer. I dont' know that Iagree 100% with the research conclusions, mostly on the grounds that I think a Digital map can be made to be as useful or more useful than a paper version. Forget about the GPS aspect for am minute, or put it into the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Mobile GIS applications

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Basques
Milo, You mentioned MEEGO in your post, I just ordered a N900 to do some testing for GIS related stuff on the N900. What types of functionalities are you focusing your efforts on for MEEGO? bobb miblon mob...@dogodigi.net wrote: I have been using navit and osm2go on moblin. There is a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Mobile GIS applications

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Basques
Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:25:45PM -0500, Bob Basques wrote: Milo, You mentioned MEEGO in your post, I just ordered a N900 to do some testing for GIS related stuff on the N900. What types of functionalities are you focusing your efforts

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Mobile GIS applications

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Basques
a charm Bob Basques wrote: Milo, You mentioned MEEGO in your post, I just ordered a N900 to do some testing for GIS related stuff on the N900. What types of functionalities are you focusing your efforts on for MEEGO? bobb miblon mob...@dogodigi.net wrote: I have been using navit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Bob Basques
to each other. bobb Yves Jacolin yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Boob, You mean something like this : http://www.ohloh.net/p?q=osgeo ( http://www.ohloh.net/p?q=osgeo ) ? Regards, Y. Le lundi 07 juin 2010 17:02:44, Bob Basques a écrit : All, Instead of a 5 star rating, what about using a small

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Bob Basques
Same here, I would also lik to compare all Javascript like things with other javascript like projects for example. I'm not sure what the best approach to this type of thing either, but the Product data sheet seems like a reasonable method of applying a product summary that could be useful

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Bob Basques
Additionally . . . Things like Services, vs Desktop, vs Web Frameworks don't seem to be defined for comparison purposes. Wouldn't it seem prudent to classify the projects before trying to compare them? bobb Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 07/06/2010 17:05, Yves Jacolin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Bob Basques
wrote: On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Bob Basques wrote: Wouldn't it seem prudent to classify the projects before trying to compare them? /me screams into a room that no one can hear. Stop it! This whole exercise is quite frankly, masturbatory, and does nothing to help the projects who would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-07 Thread Bob Basques
All, I guess it comes down to the argument of whether OSGEO stands for a state of mind, or should it be considered a brand only, not to be sullied by all those unwarmed projects? Move over Apple, there's a new brand in town . . . :c) bobb Mark Leslie mark.les...@lisasoft.com 06/07/10

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tickets and OpenStreetMap

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Basques
Arnie, I'm assuming you are talking to me?? I'm actually working on something right now in a very similar vein. The idea is to build out a standalone Web service (tile or non-tile, doesn't really matter in my Architecture, which will use something similar to LAMP) that can also update

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] land records management with open source GIS

2010-06-21 Thread Bob Basques
Puneet, This is a rather open ended process (or it can be) of managing cadastral records. There are so many directions that this type of work can go and they play into so many different types of work processes, that in my experience the development of systems have been fragmented in the past.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Bob Basques
Leith, I've managed to have GeoMoose run from a USB drive, complete with MapServer and PHP, nothing get's copied, you run everything from USB, even Apache. Makes for a nice development environment, since you as a developer have complete control from front to back for the user experience.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, I did some related research on this last moth, trying different packages and ideas about hoe to create GeoPDF(a little easier) and 3DPDFs(harder) while both options for output are indeed open standards, there are only a select few tools to generate the output, and all the (good) ones I

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

2010-07-28 Thread Bob Basques
Server (services) and Client (Interfaces), some are both, but I think a server component would win out in that instance. You could also go with a third category like server/client bobb On 7/28/2010 11:29 PM, Hamish wrote: Hi, I'm no expert in the Web Services side of things, but for the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Basques
Peter, Ok, this is all going to sound a bit heavy (to use your words), but in the end you'll have a lot more flexibilty with the end toolset. I would suggest loading the SHP file data into a Database, Mysql would work, but POSTGIS would be better. Then source that Spatial data via MapServer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

2010-08-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, Well, one could go old school, and just store the SHP files as the sourced data. Have mapserver read them directly, either via a dynamically modified index file, or via dynamically built MAPFILE. This would be just about the least amount of moving parts and still get you what you are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Bob Basques
David, I've been working on something (I think is interesting) with Linux Phones. I have GeoMoose/Mapserver running on a phone as a standalone server, and can even print over bluetooth/wifi from the phone. It's a little research project, but it's interesting to see that most things are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-09-02 Thread Bob Basques
David, The link to the last referenced item: http://proximity.houstoneng.net/webpage/proxfinder.html bobb On 9/1/2010 9:46 PM, Bob Basques wrote: David, Some stuff I've been involved with for the last few months (remember, you asked . . .): * Minnesota Structures Collaborative, has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support (Company profile improvement options)

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Basques
All, I know this has to be created and managed somehow, but here are some ideas on this: * Could there be some way of collecting business information related to not only OpenSource software but also a means for companies to describe themselves in their own words, even as it pertains

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support (Company profile improvement options)

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Basques
AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: All, I know this has to be created and managed somehow, but here are some ideas on this: * Could there be some way of collecting business information related to not only OpenSource software but also a means for companies to describe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support (Company profile improvement options)

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Basques
at the bottom of the OSGEO Projects widget on the right side of the front page. I know I've seen this go by the list more than once as a request, so I'm replaying the idea. bobb On 9/3/2010 1:02 PM, Bob Basques wrote: Frank, But the existing system doesn't get to the questions I've seen

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support (Company profile improvement options)

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Basques
All, Oops . . . Oh, dopey me, I searched for Support, when I should have searched for Service on the front page. disregard previous. bobb On 9/3/2010 1:02 PM, Bob Basques wrote: Frank, But the existing system doesn't get to the questions I've seen in this thread, namely, about

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support (Company profile improvement options)

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Basques
://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Web_site_design http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee Thanks, Alex On 09/03/2010 11:07 AM, Bob Basques wrote: All, Replying to my own posting to make an addition. There is still no indication on the front page about (commercial) Support providers. Should

[OSGeo-Discuss] question about Tile retriever, if such a beast exists. . . .

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Basques
All, I have a question about a tile maker routine that may or may not exist (or project about). I would like to be able to build a local cache of image tiles based solely on URL scripting, as in grab the tiles for an area automatically based on a Area of interest (BBOX) coordinate set.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] question about Tile retriever, if such a beastexists. . . .

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Basques
. (And the Open layers script that will call it.) Dunno if this is close? AS On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, I have a question ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] question about Tile retriever, if such abeastexists. . . .

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Basques
, there's a one-second sleep at 26 to avoid hammering OSM. AS On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: grab from where, . . . . . from any (raster) image server. Your script sounds close, although I'm interested in grabbing directly from MapServer

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

2010-09-13 Thread Bob Basques
Stephen, You didn't explicitly mention it, but TIME might be an additional item to include, as in different vehicles will take different amounts of time to traverse. Once you ave a good set of constants for the different types of vehicles, you could add in Time to Traverse as a graph

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

2010-09-14 Thread Bob Basques
All, One thought just occurred to me related to this thread, what would street construction type add to the equation? Dirt/gravel/blacktop/concrete, add on to that age of road/ADT and roughness might start becoming a factor as well. I know these are getting a bit right or left of the

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

2010-09-14 Thread Bob Basques
All, The view of road, got me thinking about auto-placement of bridges and their locations, and even what road is above what other road. While not being able to tell exactly how long a bridge might be, it would be usefull for locating (and styling) a bridge location along a roadway, at least

[OSGeo-Discuss] WMS and layer stacking.

2010-09-14 Thread Bob Basques
All, does anyone know if there is a layer hierarchy setting in the WMS service, which layers are on top of which layers (Z value=)? Thanks bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS and layer stacking.

2010-09-14 Thread Bob Basques
, 2010 at 20:59, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, does anyone know if there is a layer hierarchy setting in the WMS service, which layers are on top of which layers (Z value=)? Thanks bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS and layer stacking.

2010-09-15 Thread Bob Basques
, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, does anyone know if there is a layer hierarchy setting in the WMS service, which layers are on top of which layers (Z value=)? There is an opaque hint in the capabilities document that suggests that the layer should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] help with geotifcp usage

2010-09-15 Thread Bob Basques
Hmm, the help file doesn't say much does it. Did you try using a thrid file name on the end instead of b.tif (again)? bobb On 9/15/2010 4:07 PM, P Kishor wrote: I have a file a.tif with correct proj info embedded in it. I have another file b.tif with no proj info in it. I want to take the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPS with gvSIS and BeeGIS

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Basques
All, The Nokia N900 may be an option. bobb On 9/26/2010 12:49 PM, andrea antonello wrote: Hi Ravi, I guess there was a missunderstanding here. BeeGIS is a full gis for digital field mapping and works on a tablet. I will not work on a minor power hardware. Perhaps you want to use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-06 Thread Bob Basques
Allen, You need the Centimeter stuff to realize that something moved over the two years. Besides, that just ends up being a re-projection in the end anyway. :c) bobb Allan Doyle afdo...@mit.edu wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm a long time address

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Acid Maps demo

2010-10-19 Thread Bob Basques
I've been calling this type of thing Thermal mapping for a few years now. I suppose Intensity mapping would work too. bobb Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com wrote: Le 2010-10-18 11:12, Fabio Renzo Panettieri a écrit : Hi, I just wanted to let you know that we have put an Acid

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Incubator] Defining the Marketingrequirements for OSGeo Incubation

2010-11-08 Thread Bob Basques
All, This little piece has been nagging at me during this whole thread. Rules based on a project that didn't use the rules. (so to speak :c) I mean, if I just need to start under the OSGEO umbrella, and then everything is all incubated, well, I can work with that system. :c) (as and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seeking Articles, Reports, and Volunteers for Volume 9 of the OSGeo Journal

2011-01-16 Thread Bob Basques
Tyler, A couple of project that I've been working on that are (semi-)formally documented. http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/OPERA/ These might be of interest to some. bobb On 1/14/2011 9:28 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 2011-01-14, at 7:20 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I don’t think

[OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Sponsorship . . .

2011-01-22 Thread Bob Basques
All, is there a newer version of this somewhere: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2010/documents/sponsorship-prospectus-09122009.pdf Thanks bobb You can't be late until you show up. You never learn anything by doing it right. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for aliveness . . .

2011-01-24 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an I'm Alive function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting

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