Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] standard for pushing data from GPS device to a web service (iteration 2)

2007-04-13 Thread Brent Fraser
Anton, You could have a look at http://www.opendmtp.org/. I haven't tried using the protocol, but it looks promising... Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Anton Martchukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

[OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-06 Thread Brent Fraser
plotter (paper 24 inches wide or greater) So far I've looked at uDig, Quantum GIS, and gvSig. As far as I can tell, none of them can do Step 2, and only gvSig does Step 3 successfully. Any pointers would be appreciated! Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-06 Thread Brent Fraser
-Series quality cartography dead? Am I destined to print only pastel polygon diagrams on letter size paper if I adopt Open Source? ;) Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application thatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-07 Thread Brent Fraser
6.3 is moving along; I'll have to keep my eye on that... Thanks! Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source softwareapplicationthatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-07 Thread Brent Fraser
mean diagram). Thanks! Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:46 AM Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software applicationthatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-07 Thread Brent Fraser
application? The answers: From a programmer:Pretty close. Look, the contours are brown! From a cartographer: Not close at all. Where's the graticule?! (no offense meant to programmers or cartographers!) Ahh, so much work to do... Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source softwareapplicationthatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-07 Thread Brent Fraser
rotation angles as an attribute in the buildings point layer! Thanks to all... Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: Re

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an OpenSourcesoftwareapplicationthatwill draw a graticule on a map?

2007-09-10 Thread Brent Fraser
Landon, A wiki would be a great start. There doesn't seem to be much of a web-presence of a cartographic-techniques (style, color usage, page layout, plotting, etc) community. Maybe that should tell me something... Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] geo-referencing raster images (was OSGeo Labs)

2007-10-04 Thread Brent Fraser
Alvaro, From the gvSIG 1.0 doc: At the moment, this tool only generates basic georeferencing by calculating the image's source and pixel size. It cannot rotate, orthorectify or reproject. Is this true for v1.1 also? Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-07 Thread Brent Fraser
documents (mostly text with some map, multi-page) 4. Route Alignment Sheets (rotated (non 90 deg) to fit page) Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original Message - From: Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSGeo-discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
. Wouldn't it be great if data suppliers delivered a .sld (or something like it) with .shp? And Open Source software like Quantum, gvSig, OpenJump, and Mapserver actual read the styling and applied it? Other comments below... Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta - Original

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
ESRI seems to have .mxd files, which is their map definition file. It's a binary format and probably not documented. Then they have ArcXML (AXL) which serves the same purpose () as Mapserver mapfiles. BTW, mapfile format is a result of a lot of thought and practical experience. I believe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Access to DWG 2008

2008-09-04 Thread Brent Fraser
You could use AnyDWG (shareware and Windows only) to convert from DWG 2008 to DWG (or DXF) 2000. http://anydwg.com/dwg-dxf/ Brent Fraser Miguel Montesinos wrote: Hello, I need to access a DWG file in Autocad 2008 (dwg) format. Does anyone know how to do it with an open-source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)

2008-11-21 Thread Brent Fraser
Maning, There may be some applicable tools (Free but not Open) on the ESA site http://envisat.esa.int/resources/softwaretools/ Brent Fraser maning sambale wrote: Hi, I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar). I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200.bv.tu-berlin.de/rat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)

2008-11-21 Thread Brent Fraser
And ESA's PolsarPro seems to be Free and Open and can handle ALOS Palsar, but I haven't tried it: http://earth.esa.int/polsarpro/default.html Brent Fraser maning sambale wrote: Hi, I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar). I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200

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

2009-09-15 Thread Brent Fraser
be able to use VRT files, but I haven't done any performance testing... Best Regards, Brent Fraser Julia Harrell wrote: One thing I'll mention, in addition to all the other good comments that have already been posted, is that I have a really difficult time trying to get the GIS users in my

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

2010-03-22 Thread Brent Fraser
Steve, I did an implementation several years ago with PostGIS and mapserver (and a little scripting (in ASP!) to get positions from email and insert them into the database. If your needs are simple, I could dig up the db schema and map files for you... Best Regards, Brent Fraser Hi all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps

2010-03-30 Thread Brent Fraser
), it hasn't generated much interest. But then we talk to mapping depts, not engineering/construction. Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Landon Blake wrote: I’m curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps. Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best and simplest solution for setting up a raster map server

2010-04-12 Thread Brent Fraser
Depends on how your colleagues want to use them. In an image viewer? A desktop GIS? A web-based GIS? And are the georeferenced? If yes, then start with Mapserver using the WMS protocol. If not, then have a look at the georeferencer plugin in QGIS. Best Regards, Brent Fraser gis server

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source alternative to tracking analyst

2010-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
Have a look at VTP (www.vterrain.org) David March Morlà wrote: Dear list, I'm a newby in this list. I have been working with R language to produce a set of different analysis of animal movement. Now, I'm more interested in visualization issues of this king of data. I have wrote some scripts

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

2010-06-22 Thread Brent Fraser
boundaries, historical aspect of land tenure, etc). The good thing is they've already got a current system, so the Requirements Phase for the new system should be easier. Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. P Kishor wrote: Hi all, Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-16 Thread Brent Fraser
. Best Regards, Brent Fraser am in a quandry, have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a datset. 1. have tried GVsig

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

2010-08-17 Thread Brent Fraser
of vector data. I've just started to look into this myself by reading the Mapnik doc (http://mapnik.org/)... Best Regards, Brent Fraser Peter wrote: There is lots of documentation[2] and even a book[3]. Definition of a heavy app: one that requires a book. ;-) Honestly it sounds scalable

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries

2011-03-02 Thread Brent Fraser
Tyler, Hopefully your expectations aren't too high. Here it is... Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/2/2011 11:34 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: Brent, I'm sure a few of us are interested - sounds good! :) Tyler On 2011-03-02, at 8:28 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Brent, I can compile C

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A technical geodesic note about CommonMap - national vs international datums

2011-03-22 Thread Brent Fraser
opinions on the Proj4 mailing list... Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/22/2011 12:03 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi, OSGeo-discussion list, I just wanted to forward this message from Brendan, hopefully someone who knows enough about projections can help with this, so to decide on which coordinates

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] gdal_merge.py and transparent tiff's

2011-06-25 Thread Brent Fraser
To get rid of the black, set the nodata_value on the command line: gdal_merge.py -n 0 -o result.tiff -co COMPRESS=LZW -co TILED=YES 200k--n57-21_ozf-crop.tiff 200k--n57-22_ozf-crop.tiff Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 6/25/2011 8:24 PM, hatred wrote: Hi guys! I was prepare some amount

[OSGeo-Discuss] Is the login system working on Trac?

2012-01-25 Thread Brent Fraser
I get an Internal Server Error when attempting to log into http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver (and other OSGeo projects) Is it just me? Thanks! -- Best Regards, Brent Fraser ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource Location (Asset Management) Visualization Tool

2012-05-17 Thread Brent Fraser
DJ, It depends on how user-defined (or implementor-defined?) you want the system to be, but GeoMoose (www.geomoose.org) glues some of the best OSGeo projects (OpenLayers, Mapserver, PostGIS) together and provides a customizable web mapping application. Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 5

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Data, Open Source or Open Configuration, is there a method for Open Sourcing a particular configuration of Open Source projects?

2013-02-06 Thread Brent Fraser
there in FOSS (some even documented), I don't think there's a clear winner yet. I've been planning to look at OpenGTS/OpenDMTP. And of course there's the whole OGC Sensor thing... Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 2/6/2013 7:50 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: All, Seems like a simple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] easiest setup on Windows

2016-12-15 Thread Brent Fraser
://ms4w.com/ http://www.geomoose.org/ Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 12/15/2016 9:46 AM, P Kishor wrote: hello OSGeo, I am helping some friends migrate their work to a real GIS (from a hodgepodge of AutoCad and MS-Excel spreadsheets). Unfortunately, for me, they use Windows (the last time I used

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] easiest setup on Windows

2016-12-15 Thread Brent Fraser
Hey Jeff, No problem. I'm just happy Geomoose could build on your great work to make web mapping on Windows easy. And did I thank you yet for including Mapcache (and a sample mapcache.xml file) in MS4W? Thanks! Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 12/15/2016 10:29 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo, Open Source GIS, Open Hardware, Open (Geo)Data in Agriculture - examples wanted.

2016-12-29 Thread Brent Fraser
/UCzQ2X0G-L8M0p2M5Z-Ed7Mg Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 12/29/2016 1:09 PM, Peter Mooney wrote: Hello everyone, In my home region (http://osm.org/go/etihfKs--?m=) in the midlands of Ireland a local volunteer group has asked me to give a lecture/talk to the local farming community (and anyone else