Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open-Source Geolocator??
Ted , Ravi and OSGeo, If you are using yahoo web-based mail system, you will see that there is pop-up map frame appears whenever there is a place names. whenever there is a time description, it will pop-up a web-based yahoo calendar. The latter is time-stamps while the former is spatial-stamps which is called Geotagger, GeoTagging, Geotag etc. you can tag photos, documents, rss , photos, etc geospatially. so now we already have 3 terms, geocoder, geolocator, geotagger. Is someone can clarify their differences or any further like their implementation and value to us? brian - Original Message From: RAVI KUMAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 12:50:47 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open-Source Geolocator?? Hi All, reading loation from a text file and locating them on a GIS can be accomplished by OpenJUMP Qgis or for that matter any Open Source GIS.. But the best is GRASS.. How ever If one wishes that Locations to be picked up from various kinds of text inputs (news on internet) and attached to their locations, this will be a nice Research and development. Some food for thought.. Data mine --> To Isolate locations --> Attach corresponding Lat Longs to these --> Input to an Open Source GIS Ravi Kumar Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia
This might be more appropriate for the marketing mailing list, but I thought all members might want a chance to comment. I've been doing a little work on a dictionary of GIS terms with some of the folks from the education committee. At this point I'm only defining terms I run across while writing my Metadata chapter of the Free GIS Book. My work on the dictionary got me thinking about Wikipedia. Would there be any benefit to having a coordinate group of OSGeo volunteers that create and maintain GIS and FOSS GIS entries on Wikipedia? I know that is one place a lot of people might get their first tidbit of information about GIS. I thought this might be a great way to get some positive public exposure, and to also provide a public service. We could set up a wiki page to coordinate Wikipedia entries we help to maintain, and I could start by migrating some of the appropriate definition entries from the dictionary to Wikipedia. Any thoughts or comments? Is anyone else interested in this? (Is it a good idea?) The Sunburned Surveyor 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] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia
On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Landon Blake wrote: This might be more appropriate for the marketing mailing list, but I thought all members might want a chance to comment. I’ve been doing a little work on a dictionary of GIS terms with some of the folks from the education committee. At this point I’m only defining terms I run across while writing my Metadata chapter of the Free GIS Book. My work on the dictionary got me thinking about Wikipedia. Would there be any benefit to having a coordinate group of OSGeo volunteers that create and maintain GIS and FOSS GIS entries on Wikipedia? I know that is one place a lot of people might get their first tidbit of information about GIS. I thought this might be a great way to get some positive public exposure, and to also provide a public service. Landon, the OSGeo entry is already there along with entries for several of the OSGEo projects (GRASS, etc) We could set up a wiki page to coordinate Wikipedia entries we help to maintain, and I could start by migrating some of the appropriate definition entries from the dictionary to Wikipedia. I think that wikipedia entries for GIS terminology (with links to relevant osgeo web pages where appropriate) would be more useful than a dictionary of GIS terms maintained on OSGeo web site. There are probably quite a few entries already, although I found a lot missing when we were trying to cleanup the terminology used in our book. If you are thinking more about dictionary entries, Wiktionary may be a good place, but I am not sure that is what you are trying to do, Helena Any thoughts or comments? Is anyone else interested in this? (Is it a good idea?) The Sunburned Surveyor 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
