Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A FOSS Geo Project in India
Dear Sajith, Congratulations on this wonderful project in which you have used GIS so effectively. May I request you to present this project at the *7th International Conference on E-Government (ICEG-2010)* that we are organising at *Indian Institute of Management Bangalore* from *April 22 to 24, 2010*. The ICEG-2010 Conference will have 3 major themes: - Public Health - Micro-finance - E-Government and M-Government Details about the Conference are available at http://www.iceg.net/2010. Please review. I will be happy to provide any clarifications. If you or your team members could submit a paper or case study or a presentation on this major e-government initiative, your project would get tremendous exposure and would also be very topical. Looking forward to hearing from you, Regards, Shashank Garg Member, Organising Committee ICEG-2010 _ Shashank Garg Research Fellow CEO Handheld Solutions Research Labs 36, 20th Main 1st Cross, 1st Stage BTM Layout, Bangalore - 560068 [India] Email: shash...@handsrel.com, garg.shash...@gmail.com URL: http://handsrel.com 2007-Fellow, Digital Vision Program, Stanford University __ On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Sajith VK sajit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are proud to share with you that Keltron, a PSU under government of Kerala, has completed development of an integrated, GIS based total solution for Kolkata Police. This consists of, Development of Large scale map of the area A GIS based area traffic control system Vehicle Tracking system GIS based distress call response management system etc The complete solution is developed purely on Free and Open Source solutions, including PostGIS, OpenLayers, Mapserver, GRASS Geodjango. Technology demonstration and pilot run for all modules are over and large scale deployment is going on. AFAIK, this is the biggest FOSS Geo initiative in India, and one of the major GIS project in the government sector. I hope this project will help us in bringing other projects also into the FOSS way. Thanks to OSGeo. The very existence of the Foundation helped us to convince our client that FOSS Geo tools are matured, and are actively supported. We also thank the user and developer community around the major FOSS tools, for their fast response to our questions and clarifications. Thanks Regards, Sajith VK Freedom is not Free ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ICEG2010-Extended Call for Papers.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
Schuyler Erle wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:26 +0100, Jo Walsh wrote: dear a...@osgeo, In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by Ordnance Survey. Is everyone on this mailing list dead? Or asleep? How is it that no one has responded to this inquiry yet? Have we not, at least some of us, been agitating for the proposed outcome for years? Does this issue not, at least in principle, affect us all? Have you all forgotten that your software is awesome, but it's useless -- without data? I want to go on record as being 100% in favor of OSGeo providing a letter of support for this response to the OSGB consultation. The principle of Open Public Data is completely in harmony with the ideals and objectives of the OSGeo Foundation. This is a chance for us to see a change for the better in Ordnance Survey policy, a change that will serve as a signal example to other NMAs around the world. *Please* simply respond to the previous email with at least a +1 or a single word of support, if you'd like to see the OSGeo Board respond to this request in the affirmative. *Please*, for the love of God, don't let us as a community deserve to be ashamed of ourselves for our own ungenerous apathy. According to the Board's protocol for such things, you only have a few hours, so pipe up now, while you have the chance. Schuyler, I've reviewed the protocol for a letter of support, and I don't see any requirement for actual comment or +1's on the discuss list. Showing support is most important if anyone has spoken against a proposal or if it is likely the board will be inclined to do nothing lacking community support. In this case I think Jo's position paper is not controversial and the consultation with the community via discuss is being taken as pro-forma. I will state, for the record, that I strongly support the proposed submission and will support it at the board level. I forsee no problems with the board as a whole. The response is completely in keeping with OSGeo's position on the importance of there being a body of quality free geodata. The most obvious and critical source of such data is national mapping agencies which are already mandated to prepare and maintain base mapping layers. All they need to do is fine tune their licensing and financing models to unleash lots of innovation. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
Sorry Jo; Schuyler, personally I hadn't realised a response would be necessary. I'd assumed it would be a given that OSGeo would be supporting this... So +1 to what Jo said. And come to think of it, +1 to what Schuyler said too! Chris - Schuyler Erle schuy...@nocat.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:26 +0100, Jo Walsh wrote: dear a...@osgeo, In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by Ordnance Survey. Is everyone on this mailing list dead? Or asleep? How is it that no one has responded to this inquiry yet? Have we not, at least some of us, been agitating for the proposed outcome for years? Does this issue not, at least in principle, affect us all? Have you all forgotten that your software is awesome, but it's useless -- without data? I want to go on record as being 100% in favor of OSGeo providing a letter of support for this response to the OSGB consultation. The principle of Open Public Data is completely in harmony with the ideals and objectives of the OSGeo Foundation. This is a chance for us to see a change for the better in Ordnance Survey policy, a change that will serve as a signal example to other NMAs around the world. *Please* simply respond to the previous email with at least a +1 or a single word of support, if you'd like to see the OSGeo Board respond to this request in the affirmative. *Please*, for the love of God, don't let us as a community deserve to be ashamed of ourselves for our own ungenerous apathy. According to the Board's protocol for such things, you only have a few hours, so pipe up now, while you have the chance. SDE ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
Hi Jo, I am +1 on supporting this initiative. Thanks to Schuyler for waking us up! Best regards, Bart On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Jo Walsh wrote: dear a...@osgeo, In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by Ordnance Survey. There's been some discussion on the OSGeo-UK list and the Open Knowledge Foundation discuss list about a shared response to the consultation. Here's the basically final draft - wording could change a little. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATJnv_t9ROmXZGN0Yjk3ampfMjBmM2ZqZnpkMghl=en The consultation outlines 3 options: 1) is Do Nothing, 2) is Open Everything, 3) is staged release of some products including postcode geolocations (critical in the UK as a postal code is typically less than a city block in size) and adminstrative boundaries. The response sets the case for a modified Option 2, all raw vector data. Deadline for the response is March 17th, but it would be great to publish it within the next week, so it can be circulated and perhaps have a chance of influencing others' responses. This would be a shared response with the Open Knowledge Foundation. [[During a period of 3 days (72 hours) the OSGeo community will have an opportunity to respond with comments indicating why OSGeo should or should not explicitly support the project. If more information is required that should be stated during this review period.]] Still accepting edits, but don't plan to change the intent of the doc. be well all, jo -- ___ 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
Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
Ditto - it seemed sort of so obvious that I assumed Our Board would just Do the Right Thing. +2 .mpg On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote: Sorry Jo; Schuyler, personally I hadn't realised a response would be necessary. I'd assumed it would be a given that OSGeo would be supporting this... So +1 to what Jo said. And come to think of it, +1 to what Schuyler said too! Chris - Schuyler Erle schuy...@nocat.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:26 +0100, Jo Walsh wrote: dear a...@osgeo, In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by Ordnance Survey. Is everyone on this mailing list dead? Or asleep? How is it that no one has responded to this inquiry yet? Have we not, at least some of us, been agitating for the proposed outcome for years? Does this issue not, at least in principle, affect us all? Have you all forgotten that your software is awesome, but it's useless -- without data? I want to go on record as being 100% in favor of OSGeo providing a letter of support for this response to the OSGB consultation. The principle of Open Public Data is completely in harmony with the ideals and objectives of the OSGeo Foundation. This is a chance for us to see a change for the better in Ordnance Survey policy, a change that will serve as a signal example to other NMAs around the world. *Please* simply respond to the previous email with at least a +1 or a single word of support, if you'd like to see the OSGeo Board respond to this request in the affirmative. *Please*, for the love of God, don't let us as a community deserve to be ashamed of ourselves for our own ungenerous apathy. According to the Board's protocol for such things, you only have a few hours, so pipe up now, while you have the chance. SDE ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. ___ 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
Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
+1 for positive response to Ordinance Survey as requested by Jo. Awake, Alive and kicking in Japan. Venka On 2010/02/25 15:40, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Ditto - it seemed sort of so obvious that I assumed Our Board would just Do the Right Thing. +2 .mpg On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Chris Puttickchris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote: Sorry Jo; Schuyler, personally I hadn't realised a response would be necessary. I'd assumed it would be a given that OSGeo would be supporting this... So +1 to what Jo said. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data
I completely support the OSGeo/OKFN response. Good job Jo. This is a chance for us to see a change for the better in Ordnance Survey policy, a change that will serve as a signal example to other NMAs around the world. Thanks Schuyler for your comments, I really like this one. Cheers -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
