Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] do you already feel as an ambassador for FOSS4G?!?
Hi Lorenzo - personally -and up to Feb 2010 within the GFOSS.it association- I have been promoting the Barcelona event since the location was announced. the official pitch (which was used also during the GFOSS day in Bolzano) is something like: if you can go to Barcelona, go...if you can't talk to somebody who can! in particular, I am interested in seeing the convergence of a well represented community from EU countries (and EU accession countries), Mediterranean area etc. ...with INSPIRE rolling and other important European issues, the Barcelona event seems like a natural place to try and meet, and possibly further consolidate a common basis for action Regards Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org 2010/3/14 Lorenzo Becchi lore...@ominiverdi.com: I'm sure I don't need long sentences to convince you: - FOSS4G is fundamental to OSGeo. - 50% of attendees at FOSS4G have heard of it through a friend or a colleague. - the conference in Barcelona will be amazing for size, interest, contents, fun, ... - we all want this conference to be cool let's keep the informal networking alive, think about who can be interest in it and feel free to promote it the way you like. Contact your communities, your geospatial-friends, your colleagues and explain why going to Barcelona worth to you. be creative and inspired, Barcelona is the town of eclectic artists! [1] [2] [3] [4] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
Hi Landon, If you just want to share a visualization of some 3D model you maybe can go with 3D-PDF (see example [1]). There is an opensource toolchain using meshlab [2] and LaTEX to compile those 3D PDFs from 3D models (from all formats which you can load into meshlab). If you want to share 3D geometries, there is for example KML and GML/CityGML as a format for more complex models. For those model you need a viewer or some sort of client which procecsses the information suitable for you, there are several out there for KML you would most probably choose Google Earth for viewing. For CityGML, ok here it is expensive or not that easy with OS or free software (for now), so it is not suitable for just showing some people who are not familar with that kind of technology, but in CityGML there are some OS applications out there (for example the deegree framework[3]) you can store all kind of information, which you can't with KML... So, you have to know what you want to do/provide with/from the data... There are also more sophisticated possibilities to share 3D GISdata over the web. One of those possibilities would be for example the open standards based technology of GDI3D [4]. best regards, Christian [1] http://www.epromod.de/images/stories/-bilder-/showroom/3d-pdf/hohe-munde-3d.pdf [2] http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.deegree.org/ [4] http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/gdi-3d/technologie.en.htm Am 29.03.2010 22:20, schrieb Landon Blake: I'm curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps. Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its adoption? I know that Adobe PDF has become a fairly common way to share 2D maps digitally, but I didn't see a lot on the web about a PDF solution for 3D maps. If you build 3D maps and models as part of your work, how do you share them with your clients and the wider public? Thank you for your thoughts. Landon P.S. - Here are a couple of links I ran across for what appear to be open file formats for 3D models. I'm not sure how applicable they would be to 3D maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA http://www.web3d.org/about/overview 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 -- Christian Willmes AG GIS Fernerkundung | GIS RS Group Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234 Fax.: +49 (0)221 470 2280 http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/gis http://www.sfb806.de ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] deegree day 2010 - Call for Abstracts
deegree day 2010 - Announcement and Call for Abstracts (deutsche Fassung am Ende der Mail - German version below) 16 - 17 November 2010, University Club, Bonn Website: http://deegreeday.deegree.org The University of Bonn and lat/lon are proud to present you the fifth deegree day, annual community meeting for the open source geospatial project deegree. The event is taking place November 16-17 in Bonn, Germany. We are inviting you to join us in our celebration of the 10 anniversary of deegree at this year's event. Look back on a most inspiring and exciting time, both challenging and motivating, leading to successful and ongoing development of the deegree project. We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for this year's deegree day. Presentations are 25 minute talks plus 5 minute question and answer. Presentations cover the use of deegree services and applications as well as the development of deegree itself and deegree-based products and projects. Anyone can submit a presentation proposal and take part in the community meeting as a presenter. We are looking forward to hear many interesting stories about deegree. Please note: The conference language is both German and English. Presenters may choose their preferred language. Based on experience from past events, you should expect the larger part of presentations to be held in German. A translation of presentations will not be possible. For more information see the deegree day site at: http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/presentation Submission guidelines: * Abstract submissions (max 500 words) are due May 16, 2010. * Authors will submit their abstracts through the online form http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/cfp * Abstracts will be made available to the participants online. * Presenters agree to provide their presentations as PDF for download after the conference. ### deutsche Fassung ### deegree day 2010 – Ankündigung und Aufruf um Beiträge 16. - 17. November 2010, Universitätsclub Bonn Homepage: http://deegreeday.deegree.org Die Universität Bonn und lat/lon präsentieren Ihnen den fünften deegree day. Das jährliche Community-Treffen des Open Source Projekts deegree findet statt am 16. und 17. November in Bonn, Deutschland. Wir laden Sie hiermit herzlich ein, bei der diesjährigen Veranstaltung den zehnten Geburtstag des deegree-Projekts mit uns zu feiern. Schauen Sie mit uns zurück auf eine äußerst inspirierende und spannende Zeit, die anspruchsvoll wie motivierend war und zu einer anhaltenden und erfolgreichen Entwicklung geführt hat. Deshalb freuen wir uns, Ihnen heute die Einladung zur Einreichung von Fachbeiträgen zum diesjährigen deegree day zusenden zu können. Die Vorträge dauern 25 Minuten, mit anschließender 5-minütiger Diskussionsrunde. Präsentationen befassen sich mit den verschiedenen deegree-Diensten und -Anwendungen, mit der deegree-Entwicklung sowie mit deegree-basierten Produkten und Projekten. Jede(r) ist willkommen einen Beitrag einzureichen und am Community-Treffen aktiv als Vortragende(r) teilzunehmen. Wir freuen uns schon jetzt auf viele interessante Präsentationen über deegree. Bitte beachten Sie: Die Veranstaltungssprachen sind sowohl Englisch als auch Deutsch. Redner können ihren Vortrag in einer der beiden Sprachen präsentieren. Die Erfahrungen der letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass mit hauptsächlich deutschen Vorträgen zu rechnen ist. Eine Übersetzung der Beiträge wird nicht möglich sein. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungsseite unter http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/presentation Leitfaden für Beitragseinreichungen: * Einreichungen in Kurzfassung (max 500 Worte) sind bis zum 16. Mai 2010 möglich. * Die Autoren reichen ihre Kurzfassungen über das Online-Formular ein: http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/cfp * Die Kurzfassungen werden im Netz zur Verfügung gestellt. * Die Vortragenden stellen ihre Vortragsfolien als PDF bereit. Diese werden am Ende der Konferenz ebennfalls online zur Verfügung gestellt. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining
Hello, Do we have any Open Source tool which can do Spatial Clustering/Data Mining? Regards Kumaran ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining
Hi Kumaran, OSGeo, As part of the SPIN!-project funded by the European Commission I was involved in developing a cluster component to a suite of spatial data mining tools. It is a standalone java implementation of numerous spatial clustering routines including GAM/K. Ian Turton, now at Penn State may have developed this further or taken parts to integrate with GeoVISTA Studio. I think Ian checks this list and hopefully he can point you to something more up to date. Anyway, the source code is available via the following URL: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/src/andyt/java/projects/Spin/spin-cluster/cluster.zip At the web page at the following URL you can find a tutorial and some supporting documentation: http://www.ccg.leeds.ac.uk/software/gam/ Best wishes, Andy http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Kumaran Narayanaswamy Sent: 30 March 2010 12:55 To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining Hello, Do we have any Open Source tool which can do Spatial Clustering/Data Mining? Regards Kumaran ___ 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: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
Landon, We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to be a little more end-user friendly. VTP does a good job of providing an interactive 3d environment of DEM and texture (e.g satellite image), and optionally 3d structure models. On the downside, you have to author your datasets carefully (using VTBuilder) to get good performance, and you have to limit your map/model to an extent (it doesn't model a globe, only a projection). There's a ton of 3d modeling info on the VTP web site. 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). While we've seen some interest in 3D mapping environments, one difficulty is ease of use from the end user's perspective. They're OK with rendered 3d perspective images, and they LIKE fly-thru movies of terrain. But they LOVE interactive 3d environments, as long as they navigate with ease (and this can be a big problem). They mainly care about the terrain (dem+image) and overlaying map data like points, lines, and polygons (with styling and annotation). While we've shown demos of including 3d structures models (buildings), it hasn't generated much interest. But then we talk to mapping depts, not engineering/construction. Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Landon Blake wrote: I’m curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps. Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its adoption? I know that Adobe PDF has become a fairly common way to share 2D maps digitally, but I didn’t see a lot on the web about a PDF solution for 3D maps. If you build 3D maps and models as part of your work, how do you share them with your clients and the wider public? Thank you for your thoughts. Landon P.S. – Here are a couple of links I ran across for what appear to be open file formats for 3D models. I’m not sure how applicable they would be to 3D maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA http://www.web3d.org/about/overview *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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Brent Fraser bfra...@geoanalytic.com wrote: Landon, We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to be a little more end-user friendly. VTP does a good job of providing an interactive 3d environment of DEM and texture (e.g satellite image), and optionally 3d structure models. On the downside, you have to author your datasets carefully (using VTBuilder) to get good performance, and you have to limit your map/model to an extent (it doesn't model a globe, only a projection). There's a ton of 3d modeling info on the VTP web site. 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). While we've seen some interest in 3D mapping environments, one difficulty is ease of use from the end user's perspective. They're OK with rendered 3d perspective images, and they LIKE fly-thru movies of terrain. But they LOVE interactive 3d environments, as long as they navigate with ease (and this can be a big problem). They mainly care about the terrain (dem+image) and overlaying map data like points, lines, and polygons (with styling and annotation). While we've shown demos of including 3d structures models (buildings), it hasn't generated much interest. But then we talk to mapping depts, not engineering/construction. Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Landon Blake wrote: I’m curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps. Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its adoption? I know that Adobe PDF has become a fairly common way to share 2D maps digitally, but I didn’t see a lot on the web about a PDF solution for 3D maps. If you build 3D maps and models as part of your work, how do you share them with your clients and the wider public? Thank you for your thoughts. Landon P.S. – Here are a couple of links I ran across for what appear to be open file formats for 3D models. I’m not sure how applicable they would be to 3D maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA http://www.web3d.org/about/overview *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 -- Brian Russo / (808) 271 4166 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
Brent Fraser wrote: We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to be a little more end-user friendly. VTP does a good job of providing an interactive 3d environment of DEM and texture (e.g satellite image), and optionally 3d structure models. On the downside, you have to author your datasets carefully (using VTBuilder) to get good performance, and you have to limit your map/model to an extent (it doesn't model a globe, only a projection). There's a ton of 3d modeling info on the VTP web site. You're bringing back some good old memories for me Brent! I used VTP a lot in my last job and it produced some wildly beautiful product and exciting fly over animation abilities (among other things). Ecologists especially liked the function allowing you to draw/digitise onto the terrain in 3D mode. We had Python scripts that did all our dataset prep for us, and if my memory serves me right, we even had ways of converting the digitised stuff back into a shapefile for use in our other apps. 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). Binaries are available for download for most platforms. Then you probably want to get a terrain model (just one big download) and put it in the right folder. Other than that it's pretty easy to get started with WMS or file datasources. Thanks for the memories :) Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
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/installers/ Cheers Norman___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
And also Ratman: http://ratman.sourceforge.net/ which even includes the data streaming server software. Markus On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Brian Russo br...@beruna.org wrote: World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Brent Fraser bfra...@geoanalytic.com wrote: Landon, We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining
Hi Kumaran, R using sp and the various other spatial and clustering packages available through R. Dan On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 04:54 -0700, Kumaran Narayanaswamy wrote: Hello, Do we have any Open Source tool which can do Spatial Clustering/Data Mining? Regards Kumaran ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Spatial Clustering/Data Mining
You may also have a look at GeoDa - which is free-of-cost and I think they develop also an open source version right now (OpenGeoDa): http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software PirolJUMP (i.e. a version of OpenJUMP) had a k-means clustering function too - not sure, however, if the plugin is still available (but I have it on my desktop somewhere). If you are able to program on your own, WEKA may be a place to start too: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ and finally GRASS has i.cluster and maybe similar functions. stefan Dan Putler wrote: Hi Kumaran, R using sp and the various other spatial and clustering packages available through R. Dan On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 04:54 -0700, Kumaran Narayanaswamy wrote: Hello, Do we have any Open Source tool which can do Spatial Clustering/Data Mining? Regards Kumaran ___ 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
