Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Aust-NZ] Geospatial Events Calendar?
There's another at http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index_Calendar.html I thought setting up a calendar would be a good idea at one point, too. Then I saw how many are out there already, and the enormity of the task sunk in. Not only are there a lot of calendars out there, but many events are already on many of the calendars. But they are on there with metadata that was interpreted by the calendar keeper from the source material about the conference. It's ironic that this is essentially the same kind of thing that plagues the geo data world. Lots of datasets get shipped around, slowly losing their ties to the source data set as people use and reuse the data. The ideal solution is the same. Standardized metadata attached to the source material in a crawlable way. Make sure the catalogs (in this case, calendars) retain pointers to the source material. Allan On Oct 14, 2007, at 23:43 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cameron, The GSDI people maintain a list of conferences at: http://www.gsdi.org/events/upcnf.asp This may help. Bruce Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/10/2007 01:16 PM To OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Aust-NZ OSGeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject [Aust-NZ] Geospatial Events Calendar? Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar? Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar. It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't clash. -- Cameron Shorter Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 ___ Aust-NZ mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz Notice: This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Allan Doyle Director of Technology MIT Museum +1.617.452.2111 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?
2007/10/15, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar? Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar. It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't clash. Hi, I maintain that calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ak1i8t86206kbg5njvv91ra43o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Mostly, but not only, Spanish events. I always try to add a url to the event website and a brief description. I also know that ones: A Very Spatial Podcast Calendar: http://www.veryspatial.com/calendar/publish.php/?user=public Hablandodesigs.com: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/oaakuqgoos9fnenq6dahpi4qo8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Regards, -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://www.geomaticblog.net http://www.prodevelop.es ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess rendering quality?
Gilles Bassière wrote: Hi list, I'm doing a comparative study of OpenSource cartographic servers (Mapserver, Geoserver and Mapnik). Beside raw performance and features, I'd like to assess the rendering quality, say how pretty produced maps are. Precisely, I'm interested in the quality of the drawing work, my point is not about symbology, nor styling of maps. I have some problems to find a set of objective criteria I could benchmark my servers against. So far, I have already identified the following: - sharpness of details - smoothness of lines I like how sharpness of details and smoothness of lines are in conflict :-) - uniformity of colors I'm open to any comments. Do you think these criteria are consistent regarding the purpose of my study? Does anyone have other criteria to suggest? All my advice falls under symbology / styling and how well a map communicates. It is going to be very difficult to access quality in an objective manner; here are a couple of ideas: - Compare the full colour PNG formats to close the applications can come to that using 8=bit PNG or JPeg - Compare ability to labeling (if you do not consider that styling) If you can load your own data into the different environments a range of different tests should open up for you: - compare image at different scales; notice when features cut out - see how well they do at rendering narrow polygons; subtract points if the resulting map looks invalid - zoom out and notice how well features (and labels) converge or are combined Best of luck for what should be a really interesting write up; I am looking forward to seeing how MapServer 4 does against MapServer 5. Jody ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning
I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post about starting a California Chapter. Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down Highway 99 from Stockton, so if this idea has support from other OSGeo members I can plan on representing the OSGeo there in some fashion. Would any other members of our fledgling chapter be able to help with that? I think it would be prudent to request a mailing list for almost-a-chapter from Tyler. I think we then need to accomplish the following tasks to get our chapter off of the ground: [1] Determine what needs to be done to meet the requirements for an OSGeo chapter. I imagine we might have to elect some chapter representatives and come up with some type of charter. [2] Decide on one or two well defined goals for 2008. Perhaps these will be software-related, perhaps they won't be. I'll send a subsequent post on this topic. I can do some research on the requirements at a booth for the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. Can Allan, Chris or Brad work on determining the requirements to become an OSGeo chapter? (Or, I can trade tasks with someone.) Landon -Original Message- From: Brad Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:20 PM To: Landon Blake Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter Has there ever been any discussion of forming a California chapter of the OSGeo? I would think with all the geo guys in the Bay Area that this would have been done already. I queried about it early in OSGeo history, but never received interest. I would be interested in helping out with this, although I don't know if I want to run and administer things on my own. Are there any other interested OSGeo members in California? I also had similar concerns. I was thinking we could form a chapter with one or two clear and simple goals. This would help our group to be focused and have something to actually work together on. I'm pretty flexible to what the goals might be, although I have a particular interest in a couple of areas. :] What did you have in mind? I'm a GRASS developer and reside in the South-east Bay (Fremont). It would be nice to work on something with someone who didn't drink the ESRI Koolaid for a change... -- Brad Douglas rez touchofmadness comKB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84National Map Corps #TNMC-3785 Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?
I have also been testing having a common/shared (via webdav) .ics file that we could use. Would that help? I was envisioning having one for tracking OSGeo meetings, but we could also use one for events in general. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning
I've contacted the administrative staff for the conference about requirements and costs for a booth. I'll report to the list when I have learned more. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Putler Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning Hi Landon, Sounds good. I registered for the conference since the price goes up $50 (from $125 to $175) tomorrow. Dan On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 10:32 -0700, Landon Blake wrote: Dan, The website for the conference is here: http://www.calgis.org/ I'll get a hold of the management to see what the costs/requirements are for setting up a booth. Landon -Original Message- From: Dan Putler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:23 AM To: Landon Blake Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning Hi Landon, It turns out that for complicated dual career reasons, I'm in NorCal about half of the time and Vancouver the other half (I guess making me eligible to be both in the California and British Columbia Chapters). I'm interested in helping out if I can. The CALGIS event seems particularly interesting (I grew up in Modesto, and much of my family is still there). What are the details on this event, and how can I (potentially) help? Dan On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 09:37 -0700, Landon Blake wrote: I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post about starting a California Chapter. Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down Highway 99 from Stockton, so if this idea has support from other OSGeo members I can plan on representing the OSGeo there in some fashion. Would any other members of our fledgling chapter be able to help with that? I think it would be prudent to request a mailing list for almost-a-chapter from Tyler. I think we then need to accomplish the following tasks to get our chapter off of the ground: [1] Determine what needs to be done to meet the requirements for an OSGeo chapter. I imagine we might have to elect some chapter representatives and come up with some type of charter. [2] Decide on one or two well defined goals for 2008. Perhaps these will be software-related, perhaps they won't be. I'll send a subsequent post on this topic. I can do some research on the requirements at a booth for the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. Can Allan, Chris or Brad work on determining the requirements to become an OSGeo chapter? (Or, I can trade tasks with someone.) Landon -Original Message- From: Brad Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:20 PM To: Landon Blake Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter Has there ever been any discussion of forming a California chapter of the OSGeo? I would think with all the geo guys in the Bay Area that this would have been done already. I queried about it early in OSGeo history, but never received interest. I would be interested in helping out with this, although I don't know if I want to run and administer things on my own. Are there any other interested OSGeo members in California? I also had similar concerns. I was thinking we could form a chapter with one or two clear and simple goals. This would help our group to be focused and have something to actually work together on. I'm pretty flexible to what the goals might be, although I have a particular interest in a couple of areas. :] What did you have in mind? I'm a GRASS developer and reside in the South-east Bay (Fremont). It would be nice to work on something with someone who didn't drink the ESRI Koolaid for a change... -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?
Mmm, I hadn't through the complexity of my request for this deceptively simple problem. Agreed, standardized structured data is part of the ultimate solution. Do you enter every event and swamp the user with noise? I guess a user would want to subscribe to a number of domain or geography specific calendars. Eg: For me I'd be looking for calendars for: OSGeo International Events OGC International Events OGC Testbed X Events (for the testbeds I'm involved in) Australian National Geospatial Events Aggregate of National Geospatial Events (Occasionally required to avoid classes when picking conference dates) Australian local Geospatial Events Mapbuilder meetings OpenLayers meetings Geotools meetings Ah - it is all too hard! Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: I have also been testing having a common/shared (via webdav) .ics file that we could use. Would that help? I was envisioning having one for tracking OSGeo meetings, but we could also use one for events in general. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning
Unfortunately, I will not be able to go to CalGIS. The requirements for a new chapter are available at http:// www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html: -- In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken: OSGeo Chapter should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. OSGeo Chapter should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). OSGeo Chapter should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. OSGeo Chapter should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative, legal form (incorporated?) and other supporting information. The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer. In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including: Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation? Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country) -- Chris Whitney On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I've contacted the administrative staff for the conference about requirements and costs for a booth. I'll report to the list when I have learned more. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Putler Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning Hi Landon, Sounds good. I registered for the conference since the price goes up $50 (from $125 to $175) tomorrow. Dan On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 10:32 -0700, Landon Blake wrote: Dan, The website for the conference is here: http://www.calgis.org/ I'll get a hold of the management to see what the costs/requirements are for setting up a booth. Landon -Original Message- From: Dan Putler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:23 AM To: Landon Blake Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning Hi Landon, It turns out that for complicated dual career reasons, I'm in NorCal about half of the time and Vancouver the other half (I guess making me eligible to be both in the California and British Columbia Chapters). I'm interested in helping out if I can. The CALGIS event seems particularly interesting (I grew up in Modesto, and much of my family is still there). What are the details on this event, and how can I (potentially) help? Dan On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 09:37 -0700, Landon Blake wrote: I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post about starting a California Chapter. Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down Highway 99 from Stockton, so if this idea has support from other OSGeo members I can plan on representing the OSGeo there in some fashion. Would any other members of our fledgling chapter be able to help with that? I think it would be prudent to request a mailing list for almost-a-chapter from Tyler. I think we then need to accomplish the following tasks to get our chapter off of the ground: [1] Determine what needs to be done to meet the requirements for an OSGeo chapter. I imagine we might have to elect some chapter representatives and come up with some type of charter. [2] Decide on one or two well defined goals for 2008. Perhaps these will be software-related, perhaps they won't be. I'll send a subsequent post on this topic. I can do some research on the requirements at a booth for the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. Can Allan, Chris or Brad work on determining the requirements to become an OSGeo chapter? (Or, I can trade tasks with someone.) Landon -Original Message- From: Brad Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:20 PM To: Landon Blake Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter Has there ever been any discussion of forming a California chapter of the OSGeo? I would think with all the geo guys in the Bay Area that this would have been done already. I queried about it early in OSGeo history, but never received interest. I would be interested in helping out with this, although I don't know
