Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models
For everyone's interest. I have worked on the idea of community models for years. I have even converted a lot of the ESRI (for they are community models NOT ESRI models) in to schemas for deployment on Oracle or PostgreSQL. In addition I have been working with Sparx Systems to enhance their ESRI GeoDatabase Extension so that a geoDatabase can be seen as a view of a corporate data model. This work is to be executed for release, hopefully, in the next release of Enterprise Architect. Count me in on any project to make (spatially enabled) data models available on the web as an open source, Creative Commons Licensed project. regards Simon On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:33:46 +1000, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Landon, Sounds interesting. Please keep me in the loop as you move forward. bobb -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:14 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models I recently started work on a GIS for a small sewer district at my day job. I'm currently using diagrams I created in Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/) to illustrate the following elements of my GIS data model: 1) Simple Feature Attributes 2) Individual Feature Level Metadata When the data model documentation process is complete I hope to also have diagrams for the additional elements of my GIS data model: 1) Topology Data 2) Feature Relationships 3) Feature Editing History The diagrams will be combined with a short written guide to document the data model. I plan on sharing all of the data model, including its design, the SVG and PDF files of the diagrams, and the written guide. I'd like to release all of that under a Creative Commons License. If I can find time, I'll tweak the diagrams to create templates that could be easily applied to other data models. Is there any interest among other OSGeo members in these data model documents and templates? If there is, I'd love to gather feedback from interested parties. If there was enough interest, I'd like to talk about hosting an open data model page similar to the one here: http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel I'd could commit to maintaining the data for the sewer data model, and hope to add data models for the Public Land Survey System and Flood Control Infrastructure before the end of the year. If there isn't interest in doing that as part of OSGeo, I'll put up a set of GIS data model pages here: http://www.ccvgpg.org/ Ultimately my goal is to encourage better documentation and sharing of GIS data model design. Inkscape is a really wonderful vector graphics program that makes it possible to do this in a beautiful way using common templates. If there is any interest, I'll share what I've got so far, and will move the conversation to the OSGeo standards mailing list. Thanks. Landon ___ 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 -- Holder of 2011 Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Education and Research. SpatialDB Advice and Design, Solutions Architecture and Programming, Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Associate; Oracle Database 10g SQL Certified Professional Oracle Spatial, SQL Server, PostGIS, MySQL, ArcSDE, Manifold GIS, FME, Radius Topology and Studio Specialist. 39 Cliff View Drive, Allens Rivulet, 7150, Tasmania, Australia. Website: www.spatialdbadvisor.com Email: si...@spatialdbadvisor.com Voice: +61 362 396397 Mobile: +61 418 396391 Skype: sggreener Longitude: 147.20515 (147° 12' 18 E) Latitude: -43.01530 (43° 00' 55 S) GeoHash: r22em9r98wg NAC:W80CK 7SWP3 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith
Hello everyone, I have the honor to nominate Michael Smith for OSGeo Charter membership. Mike is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Remote Sensing GIS Center, and has been a longtime supporter of FOSS. Most recently he is working very hard with Howard Butler to develop an Open Source point cloud translation library, PDAL[1]. Mike is also very active in the MapServer[2] community, as one of its most vocal power users, and in 2011 he was named to the MapServer Project Steering Committee[3]. I also had the pleasure of giving a MapServer workshop with Mike at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver; many attendees said that it was a wonderful workshop, and I attribute that to Mike's thorough knowledge of MapServer and its recent changes. Mike is often one of the first to sign up for Code Sprints, and register for FOSS4G events, which to me says everything about his passion for this community. He may not prefer to be giving fancy presentations and taking the glory, but scratch the surface of many OSGeo communities and you'll find Mike supporting it in every way he can. I feel that Mike Smith would be an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] http://www.pointcloud.org/ [2] http://www.mapserver.org/ [3] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Karel Charvat
Hi, I would like to nominate Karel Charvat as charter member of OSGeo. Karel is long-time GIS visionary and supporter for Open Source GIS development in both - private activities as well as business. He is also active on the European level, working on various projects, always looking at Open Source GIS and its improvement. He is also closely related to INSPIRE movement, with experiences of practical life with this directive. Karel is always looking for the ways, how to bring practical features, required by users, to developed software packages. He was chair of first FOSS4G-CEE Conference in Prague 2012 (even though he could not participate personally). Jachym -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Jan Jezek
Hi, I would like to nominate Jan Jezek for OSGeo Charter member. Jan is long-time Java developer, being active mostly in the Geotools community. Jan is currently working at University of West Bohemia and in Help Service Remote Sensing company - so he has connection to both - academic and private business worlds. Jachym -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Vasile Craciunescu
Hi, I would like to nominate Vasile Craciunescu for OSGeo Charter Member. Vasile is long-time active supporter of Open Source GIS movement. He is the key-person in Rumanian Geo-spatial.org community, which is organising various events regarding Open Source GIS. Vasile is also known for his old-maps activities. He and his team is going to organise FOSS4G-CEE 2013 in Bucharest. Jachym -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort
Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith
I second Michael's nomination, and was quite surprised when I found out that he was not a charter member yet. Mike and the team he works with have been long time users and active supporters of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and several other OSGeo projects since long before the creation of OSGeo. Actually, we're so used to seeing him around and actively involved that we just assumed that he was already a charter member when he is not. (That's probably the case of a few other individuals) Daniel On 12-06-28 8:48 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello everyone, I have the honor to nominate Michael Smith for OSGeo Charter membership. Mike is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Remote Sensing GIS Center, and has been a longtime supporter of FOSS. Most recently he is working very hard with Howard Butler to develop an Open Source point cloud translation library, PDAL[1]. Mike is also very active in the MapServer[2] community, as one of its most vocal power users, and in 2011 he was named to the MapServer Project Steering Committee[3]. I also had the pleasure of giving a MapServer workshop with Mike at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver; many attendees said that it was a wonderful workshop, and I attribute that to Mike's thorough knowledge of MapServer and its recent changes. Mike is often one of the first to sign up for Code Sprints, and register for FOSS4G events, which to me says everything about his passion for this community. He may not prefer to be giving fancy presentations and taking the glory, but scratch the surface of many OSGeo communities and you'll find Mike supporting it in every way he can. I feel that Mike Smith would be an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] http://www.pointcloud.org/ [2] http://www.mapserver.org/ [3] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort
I'd like to second Thomas' nomination. Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed that he was already charter members. As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that many of the performance gains made in recent FOSS4G benchmarking exercises in both MapServer and Mapnik can be tracked down to the great coopetition[1] spirit that Thomas (for MapServer) and Dane Springmeyer (for Mapnik) put into the benchmarking game, effectively exchanging hints and tricks to help boost the performance of each other's (competing) software. That's open source at its best. Daniel [1] Coopetition = Cooperative competition On 12-06-28 1:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka On 2012/06/29 5:20, Daniel Morissette wrote: I'd like to second Thomas' nomination. Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed that he was already charter members. As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that many of the performance gains made in recent FOSS4G benchmarking exercises in both MapServer and Mapnik can be tracked down to the great coopetition[1] spirit that Thomas (for MapServer) and Dane Springmeyer (for Mapnik) put into the benchmarking game, effectively exchanging hints and tricks to help boost the performance of each other's (competing) software. That's open source at its best. Daniel [1] Coopetition = Cooperative competition On 12-06-28 1:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ 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
