[OSGeo-Discuss] Greece follows INSPIRE (and attempts to go OpenGeo?)

Greetings to the list. (Apologies to the BCC-ed recipients since this might or might not be of your interest) The Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change [1] (yes, you read correctly) has decided to (finally) put on a public discussion the law that concerns a national

[OSGeo-Discuss] Richards Stallman was in Greece

(I know this is half-way on-topic but might be of your interest) Richard Stallman was in Thessaloniki [1] and in Athens [2] a few weeks ago. You can just skip the (boring) intro's (which are in Greek anyway) and jump to Richard's talk(s). Nikos --- [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling - Springer Advances in GIS series

G. Allegri wrote: Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling - Springer Advances in GIS series http://www.springer.com/series/7712?cm_mmc=other-_-Enews-_-PSE12813_V1-_-77 12 Hi! I have bought last year the (me thinks it is) 1st book of the series [1]. I liked the book and I would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling - Springer Advances in GIS series

Ian: don't sell many copies because they are expensive. :-( This is especially annoying as the authors give them the text for free. The problem is more or less known (I have experiences about (local) bookstores and their struggle with book in general and technical/specialised books

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling - Springer Advances in GIS series

Nikos: ... How about examining the potential to adapt Open Source Bussiness models in (e-)books bussinesses? I do not mean necessarily cost-free, but accessible e- books (=reader-friendly pricing policy). Helena M: you can always publish with lulu.com (I bought the MapWindows

[OSGeo-Discuss] geodata.gov.gr (beta) is up and running on foss

Might be of your interest that, http://www.geodata.gov.gr/ is (beta) up and running. Public data, Open data is the motto. For non-Greek speakers a sub-link perhaps worth looking at: Χάρτες(=maps) [1]. Services might be a bit slow since it partially runs on virtual machines (keeping the budget

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Greek Inspire Metadata Editor (gimed)

Cameron: Why was gimed developed rather than extending GeoNetwork? Angelos: - When developing for HEMCO project, the time frame was very limited and I estimated that a clean implementation would be faster. - The project's specifications were also requiring C# because other non FOSS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

Greetings to the list. I need to process a few data.frames() in R [1] (18.000 observations, 6 variables and some grouping factors) using the mrpp() function [2] implemented in the R-package vegan [3]. I just posted something short about it on grass- stats [4]. It is a heavy process for my home

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

On Thursday 06 of January 2011 17:17:51 Dheeraj Chand wrote: Nikos, Amazon is giving away a year of free EC2 services. You should be able to spin up an Ubuntu box, install R, geo stuff, etc., and go to town on it. Enjoy! -dx Dheeraj, thank you very much for your speedy (as I see now)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

On Thursday 06 of January 2011 18:59:19 Duarte Carreira wrote: This may interest you: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/a-525-2048-core-cluster-in-45-minutes/121 9?tag=nl.e539 They built and used a 2048 cluster for only $525. The trick is to use it as quickly as possible so it will be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

On Friday 07 of January 2011 05:40:18 Dheeraj Chand wrote: Nikos, I'll help. Find me on chat? AIM = dheerajchandwork Dheeraj Hi! Thank you. I'll wait first a bit to have some feedback from a very kind person working on a big cluster. If it doesn't work out, I will bother you. I have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

On Tuesday 11 of January 2011 09:31:33 Dheeraj Chand wrote: Nikos, Did you get this taken care of? Dheeraj Hi! My apologies for not seeing this post earlier. Too much stress and lots of stuff to read and write here. I finally have some results based on 3000 observations for each of my

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

On Monday 24 of January 2011 01:41:10 Sylvain Maillard wrote: Hello, Hi! I'm glad to see that you get some results ! how much time did it take to compute your data? Please have a look at this post: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-stats/2011-January/001315.html i would be very

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

Hopefully I'll be sooner or later in place to support this in practice. +1 for a Greek GFOSS, we can do it! The FOSS session(s) in the latest HellasGI conference gave me the impression that GFOSS is slowly, yet steadily, growing in Greece. Kind regards, Nikos On Friday 15 of June 2012

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting Angelos Tzotsos, nominating Dimitris Kotzinos

Greetings OSGeo - list(en)ers :D Herewith I'd like to express my support for Angelos Tzotsos' nomination. I met Angelos in November 2010, during the 1st GeoDataCamp organised by a core team behind geodata.gov.gr. No second thoughts, his profile fits into the OSGeo frame. His knowledge upon

[OSGeo-Discuss] Translating the page Open Source Geospatial Foundation Officers and Board of Directors in Greek

Folks, I can't find my way through to aGreek entry in: http://www.osgeo.org/node/73/localizernode? Any help appreciated, Nikos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Translating the page Open Source Geospatial Foundation Officers and Board of Directors in Greek

Folks, I can't find my way through to aGreek entry in: http://www.osgeo.org/node/73/localizernode? Any help appreciated, Nikos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS related tutorials on handling File Formats in GLCF's web-page

Dear all, in GLCF's web-page about File Formats [1], there are several tutorials provided (see table on the bottom of the page) on handling these file formats with various (mostly, if not all) proprietary tools. I miss to see GFOSS-related tutorials (like GDAL, GRASS-GIS and, of course, much

[OSGeo-Discuss] Spectal librairies integrated in any GFOSS?

Dear OSGeo community, I have seen several times, as you have probably done many more than myself, that there are projects-to-apply for, which, simply put, are profiling specific Geospatial and Remote Sensing capable applications. An example _was_ an open international call for a project

[OSGeo-Discuss] Spectal librairies integrated in any GFOSS?

Dear OSGeo community, I have seen several times, as you have probably done many more than myself, that there are projects-to-apply for, which, simply put, are profiling specific Geospatial and Remote Sensing capable applications. An example _was_ an open international call for a project

[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS community sprint in Genova, Feb 2nd to Feb 9th, 2013

Dear OSGeo community, the GRASS GIS community sprint starts next weekend. For those who don't know the details yet, please have a look at the GRASS-Wiki: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013. Herewith, I share some personal thoughts. Please, consider to join

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS related tutorials on handling File Formats in GLCF's web-page

Nikos Alexandris wrote: [..] I miss to see GFOSS-related tutorials (like GDAL, GRASS-GIS and, of course, much more). I've mailed them directly and asked if they will accept user- submitted material. Will post here their reply. [..] 2nd request (and 2nd reply below) --%--- From: n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS related tutorials on handling File Formats in GLCF's web-page -- 1st reply from GLCF

Nikos Alexandris wrote: [..] I've mailed them directly and asked if they will accept user- submitted material. Will post here their reply. [..] 1st request (and 1st reply below) --%--- From: n...@nikosalexandris.net [mailto:n...@nikosalexandris.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:03 AM

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

Hi list! I am searching for an OSGeo implementation (at the very least simply FOSS will do) of the ISODATA clustering algorithm [*]. I want to avoid using a commercial tool. Currently I have reviewed the following options: GRASS-GIS GRASS has a modified k-means implementation in its

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

On Saturday 23 of February 2013 19:23:32 Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi Nikos, Hi Angele! This is a GPL3 implementation of ISODATA: http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/Free_As_Freedom_Software/isodata.c I remember this from the last discussion on the grass-user ML. Sorry that I forgot to mention

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

G. Allegri wrote: I imagine you're aware of this page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/Projects/ISODATA/ Thanks. Yes I do -- but I can't compile it. The code is C++ and a) I am not a C++ expert, and b) I don't the time currently to study it. Some quick attempts failed. It requires tweaking

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

Nikos Alexandris: .. I am searching for an OSGeo implementation (at the very least simply FOSS will do) of the ISODATA clustering algorithm [*]. I want to avoid using a commercial tool. Nikos Ves: I've seen the R package biOps has also implemented the clustering method of ISODATA I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

(Again, correcting typos -- when rushing only mistakes come across!) G. Allegri wrote: I imagine you're aware of this page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/Projects/ISODATA/ Thanks. Yes I do -- but I can't compile it. The code is C++ and a) I am not a C++ expert, and b) I don't have the time

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

Himanshu Singh wrote: Hi Nikolas, Hi Himanshu :-) Last year, I implemented ISODATA clustering plugin for Optickshttp://opticks.org. It is available for download as an Opticks extension here: Machine Learning Tools for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

On Monday 25 of February 2013 14:19:49 Nikos Alexandris wrote: .. Yes -- it compiles without errors!! Great -- now after trying to use it. Does anyone has any examples (from the past)? Does it work with GeoTIFFs? Supports other formats? Just fyi -- I've found something from the past: http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo ISODATA implementation?

Himanshu Singh wrote: Hi Nikos, Hi :-) Nikos: Only Windows support for this extension (right?). The extension will compile and work in Linux 64-bit too. I can send you the build instructions if you have a 64-bit Linux machine. I hesitated to try since I have limited time ahead (deadlines

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] forestry at OSGeo

Burned area mapping here. Pure forestry background in the beginning. Cheers, Nikos ps- Awesome stuff has been going on in Portland from what I can read in the ML. Too much workload here, so apologies for not contributing yet, in any direction as a (new) charter member. On 23.09.2014

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please add GRASS GIS Addons to OSGeo on OpenHub

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

Jorge Sanz: Dear OSGeo community and charter members This is a reminder that there's still some days for nominations to the Board of Directors elections. We have already nine great candidates, including all the present Board members running for re-election. Take a look at [1] for an overview

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where to hire a FOSS4G freelane developer?

* Luí­s Moreira de Sousa [2017-05-11 08:35:31 -0400]: Hi everyone, Is there any resource within the OSGeo cosmos to help hiring freelance developers from our community? For instance, an index of folk certified by Arnulf? A quick web search only comes up with

[OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting nominations

Dear community, it is great to see so many nominations (currently 65 [0]) Dear CRO, I support the nominations of Paulo van Breugel (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ecodiv), Manuel Grizonnet (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Grizonnetm), Daniele Strigaro

[OSGeo-Discuss] Rules about nominations and elections

Dear OSGeo community, can someone send a (reminder) e-mail/link-to-wiki with formalities that apply to how nominations, and later on the elections, work? Thank you, Nikos signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

* seven [2017-10-22 18:33:57 +0200]: After reading latest posts I agree that canceling the elections might open Pandora's box (which is not going to happen because we are all grown up and work towards the same goal, right?) Gruess Dich Arnulf, But of course it's not going

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] Suggestions for a background image for next OSGeoLive - with an African theme

* Maelle Vercauteren [2018-07-29 17:01:25 +0200]: Hello, I take this occasion to share this map of Africa that I like. It was Africa if colonialism had not occurred as imagined by Nikolaj Cyon : https://www.cyon.se/#/alkebulan-1260-ah/ Apologies for the off-topic. This map is an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] okay foss4g time to move off of Flickr

* Nicolas Roelandt [2018-11-02 22:42:23 +0100]: Maybe an instance of pixelfed? https://pixelfed.social/ This is really a good one! Just registered and tried it. It seems pixelfed is Instagram done right (although I have no Instagram account to know what it really is). Thanks for sharing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code Sprint 2020 in Athens: Pick the dates

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