Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo received its 501(c)(4) tax exempt status from the IRS

2013-09-12 Thread Norman Vine
Great news !! This should probably also be announced on osgeo-discuss Well done ! Norman On Sep 11, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > OSGeo Board and members > > I am extremely pleased to inform you that OSGeo just received a determination > letter from the IRS confirming its 501

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining a GIO position (or attmepting to . . .)

2013-10-16 Thread Norman Vine
disc On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:34 AM, "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" wrote: > Arnie, > > Vendor lock-in, or rather preventing it, would be a strong second as far as > reasons go, but it's not really applicable to describing a positions work > items (I don't think) and seems like it might be closer t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 18th October

2013-10-18 Thread Norman Vine
On Oct 18, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > Hi! > > looks like the system requirements for the platform chosen for the webinar do > not support Linux.. I just received the confirmation email with the specs. I > mean, are you kidding? > > :-/ Madi The web viewer might work se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What happened to planet.osgeo.org?

2013-11-24 Thread Norman Vine
On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > is it just me, or the blog aggregator at planet.osgeo.org has been down for a > few days now? > http://planet.osgeo.org/ > > Wondering what's happening? I haven't seen announcements of it being taken > down, or > moved. > > Cheers > An

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

2014-07-01 Thread Norman Vine
Dirk I have been struggling trying to write what you have so elegantly stated I whole heartily agree with what you have written Thank you Norman Founding Charter Member On Jul 1, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Dirk Frigne wrote: > Although I am not so active on the mailing list, I am an OSGeo's > advo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Opticks Website Down?

2016-03-08 Thread Norman Vine
On Mar 8, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Regie Alam wrote: > That happened to me too. > > Regie > Same here I have emailed the optics dev list of this Hopefully someone will get back to me > On Mar 8, 2016 4:12 PM, "Jeff Ruby" wrote: > Does anyone know what's up with the Opticks website? I want to d

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [otb-users] ORFEO Methodology meeting

2007-12-03 Thread Norman Vine
Thought I should pass this along http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/lien3_vm.htm """ ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) is distributed as an open source library of image processing algorithms. OTB is based on the medical image processing library ITK and offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image pro

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Norman Vine
Michael P. Gerlek writes: > > Someday I'd like to try and open a dialog with the OpenJP2 developers > about this topic, but last I heard they were completely > uninterested in supporting GB-sized datasets. > Michael H . Maybe the time is right :-) http://groups.google.com/group/openjp

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Norman Vine
Mateusz Loskot writes > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?) > > George Silva wrote: > > Hello lists, > > > > As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web > > (im sorry if thats a problem). >

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

2008-11-21 Thread Norman Vine
maning sambale writes: > > I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar). Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/lien3_vm.htm OSSIM http://www.ossim.org HTH Norman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.os

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - What Is Available?

2010-02-04 Thread Norman Vine
On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Landon Blake wrote: Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released under an open source license? I’m looking for something similar to: http://www.vextrasoft.com/vextractor.htm I found the Autotrace program (http://autotrace.sourceforge.n

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

2010-03-30 Thread Norman Vine
On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Brent Fraser wrote: > > > Ossim (www.ossim.org) has OssimPlanet which DOES model a globe but it can be > an effort to set up (I've never tried it). FYI there are downloadable binary OSSIM packages for Windows and Mac at http://download.osgeo.org/ossim/installer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Arne Kepp wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Mark Lucas wrote: >>> I think that most of the developers that actively contribute to the OSSIM >>> project are funded through government contracts. Having said that, most >>> all of them contribute well beyond the time

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any thoughts on the potential for using Seadragon as a map browsing interface?

2010-04-28 Thread Norman Vine
and yet another similar project http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/djatoka/index.php?title=Main_Page On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:52 AM, G. Allegri wrote: > Another tool in the basket: Zoomify. > http://www.zoomify.com/ > > One of the new features in Oopenlayers 2.9 is the support to its data >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Place names and Points of Interest -- Interest Group starting up

2012-04-19 Thread Norman Vine
Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: public-po...@w3.org > From: Raj Singh > Date: April 19, 2012 2:19:03 PM EDT > To: "public-po...@w3.org W3C" , > openpoidb-annou...@lists.opengeospatial.org > Subject: Place names and Points of Interest -- Interest Group starting up > > Over the past few

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Got a simple question, but can't seem to find the stuff I'm looking for.

2012-09-26 Thread Norman Vine
On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: > All, > > Anyone know where I might find a chart/list that shows when a particular > project was ratified by OSGeo, and added to the product list? > > I’m only looking for “year of” at this point. Would meeting minutes be the >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Howard Butler receives the 2023 Sol Katz Award at FOSS4G 2023 Prizren, Kosovo

2023-07-01 Thread Norman Vine via Discuss
Congratulations Howard ! Well deserved. > On Jul 1, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss > wrote: > > See News Item 2023-07-01 > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/howard-butler-receives-the-2023-sol-katz-award/ > > We are honoured to announce that Howard Butler is the recipi