Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
Happy birthday GRASS ! Sylvain 2013/7/31 Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0900 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote: Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive and kicking for the last 30 years. Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations in the year 2033. Cheers and Kampai!! Venka Happy birthday GRASS! Congratulations to the generations of developers, translators, testers, users and enthusiasts that have build up such a long-lived open source project. I am always impressed by the fact that some developers are younger than the codebase! Long live to GRASS spirit - let it be a reference for younger projects! Best, Anne On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause.. It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with. It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated FOSS4G events Ravi From: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org To: GRASS-announce list grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: GRASS user list grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS developers list grass-...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS! Press release 29 July 2013 Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled GIS Version 1 Reference Manual was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available online. In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual international development team made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: * A new modern graphical user interface complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [CrisisMappers] Re: Who's interested in collaboration project management tools? And...
Hi, Actually, I've spent a good part of my career working on military projects, and this project stems from some work on tools for mission planning and coordination that seem to have applicability for crisis management and more general project management. you may try to contact the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/). I don't know how they usually work, but it's almost always during crisis and with people from all around the world ... cheers, Sylvain ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] main annual rainfall map of Alps
the worldclim data (http://www.worldclim.org/) contains maps with data from current climate (average on the last 50 years), and also predictions according to GIEC models ... there are free data, and already in GIS format ;) Sylvain 2011/11/22 Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:27 AM, marco.donn...@tiscali.it marco.donn...@tiscali.it wrote: Hallo! I would like to draw a map of the main annual rainfall of the Alps usable with GRASS/QGIS. Someone know if exists something like? Yes, check here for hints: http://gis.cri.fmach.it/climate-data-analysis/ Markus ___ 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] geological maps
Hello, for geological data in France, you will have to work with data from the BRGM agency ... there is a website with online maps ( http://infoterre.brgm.fr/viewer/), and also a WMS access ( http://infoterre.brgm.fr/spip.php?article31) the website is in french, and I didn't find a way to have it translated in an other language ... they say that all the data are public data that are freely available, but if you want to use them for a publication or to sell the resulting maps, I think it would be better to ask the brgm about what is possible to do ... cheers, Sylvain 2011/10/21 marco.donn...@tiscali.it marco.donn...@tiscali.it Hallo, I'm searching geological maps at small scale (like 1:1.250.000, for large areas) for Austria, Croatia, France, Germany and Slovenia. For Italy I have found this [1] and it exists also in *shp format. I would like to realize a semplified map of Alps so I would like to start from geological map of each nations. Thank you very much Marco [1] http://www.apat.gov.it/site/it-IT/Progetti/Nuova_Carta_Geologica_d% 27Italia_alla_scala_1a_125 E' nata indoona: chiama, videochiama e messaggia Gratis. Scarica indoona per iPhone, Android e PC: http://www.indoona.com/ ___ 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] 30m SRTM worldwide?
Hi, you can also download them from the earthexplorer ui from the USGS ( http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov) more informations on http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/SRTM cheers, Sylvain 2011/8/22 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com I got this news recently, from this website, one can download ~30m SRTM data: http://eoweb.dlr.de:8080/index.html The X-band SRTM DEM data are provided in DTED format. Detailed information on the DTED format can be found in the document 'Product Description of the SRTM DTED-Format' (SRTM/PD-03/11/03) available at http://www.dlr.de/srtm/docs/SRTM-XSAR-DEM-DTED-1.1.pdf. The DEM and HEM data are in geographic (Lat/Long) projection, datum WGS84. The elevation values are also WGS84, as specified in the product description of the SRTM DTED-format. The DEMs inside the compressed archive are distributed as individual files, i.e. they are not mosaicked into one large DEM file. Each DEM covers an area of 15' by 15'. The filename of the individual DEM file specifies the bottom left coordinate of the corresponding 15' by 15' DEM tile. One pixel of the DEM files corresponds to approximately 25 m x 25 m on the ground. The elevation values are provided at a resolution of 1 m. The horizontal accuracy of the SRTM X-band DEMs is ±20 m (abs.) / ±15 m (rel.), both 90% CE. The vertical accuracy is ±16 m (abs.) / ±6 m (rel.), both 90% LE. Precise information on vertical and horizontal accuracies for individual tiles can be found in the accuracy description record (ACC) of the DTED file. I tried to access the public portal, but I just got the Loading java virtual machine message. Anyone here, who can access the data and is it really available to the public? -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ 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] 30m SRTM worldwide?
2011/8/22 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Dear Sylvain, The USGS site, provides ~30m SRTM only for the US. I'm looking the 30m worldwide coverage. That was mentioned in the link I provided. In fact the SRTM data is available at 1 arc-second for the US, but there is only 3 arc-second data fot the global coverage ! see http://eros.usgs.gov/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/SRTM on section SRTM Data regards, Sylvain ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Now - Geostat 2011 Livestream
Argh, my internet bandwith is too small to watch it live ... do you know if it is only real live stream or if the stream will be recorded and available later as video ? cheers, Sylvain 2011/7/25 Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org FYI - right now Roger Bivand speaking... best Markus - Von: Ralf Schäfer schaefer-r...@uni-landau.de Datum: 13. Juli 2011 22:17:05 MESZ An: grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: LIivestreaming during GEOSTAT summer school - Free analysis of spatio-temporal data including GRASS GIS Dear all, the GEOSTAT Summer school 2011 in Landau will run from the 24th to the 31st of July in Landau and focuses on important aspects of statistical analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data using open source / free GIS tools: R, SAGA GIS,GRASS GIS, FWTools, Google Earth and similar. The course participants learn how to move data back and forth between the different environments; how to produce scripts and automate analysis. The summer school will include a 1 day course of GRASS GIS by Markus Neteler and Markus Metz. The complete summer school will be broadcasted live over Ustream and this will give you the opportunity to follow the seminars for free. See here for details http://www.geostat-course.org/Live and here http://www.geostat-course.org/Landau_2011 for more information on the summer school and the exact program. Please distribute this information to all people who may be interested in following this summer school. Thank you very much for your attention. Best regards, Ralf Schäfer Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Bernhard Schäfer Juniorprofessor for Quantitative Landscape Ecology Environmental Scientist (M.Sc.) Institute for Environmental Sciences University Koblenz-Landau Fortstrasse 7 76829 Landau Germany Mail: schaefer-r...@uni-landau.de Phone: ++49 (0) 6341 280-31536 Web: http://tinyurl.com/6dnpxna ___ 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] Live webcasts of the Third Open Source GIS Conference- OSGIS 2011
The stream was working for many people (my brother watch me), perhaps did you try just during session when the live stream was down ... all the session were recorded, and the video files will be quite soon available on the OSGIS website ;) cheers, Sylvain 2011/6/22 Alex Borrell borrella...@gmail.com me too! Alex Borrell Mexico On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: The live video link is not working for me. I have tried it in Chrome 12 and IE8. Anybody else having a problem with the live video link? http://uiwapmds01.nottingham.ac.uk:8000/winnov ** ** Bernie. -- *Bernie Connors, P.Eng* Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ ** ** *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Suchith Anand *Sent:* Friday, 2011-06-10 13:08 *To:* OSGeo Discussions *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Live webcasts of the Third Open Source GIS Conference- OSGIS 2011 ** ** Dear All, ** ** As done over the previous years, we have made arrangements for the live webcasts of this year's Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2011) at the Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham so that the excellent work done by the open source GIS community reaches more people across the world, have greater impact and benefit the wider community not just the conference delegates. ** ** To view the live webcasts please click on the Live webcast link at the conference webpage at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html * *** ** ** The link will be active when the streaming starts (09:00 GMT on 22nd June 2011). ** ** The conference provisional agenda is at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/Agenda.pdf ** ** We look forward to welcoming you for joining us in our vision and mission on further building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open data research.** ** ** ** Best wishes, ** ** Suchith ** ** Dr Suchith Anand** Centre for Geospatial Science The Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htmhttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Elgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ ** ** Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide ** ** ** ** ** ** This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Support for '@' field type in a Shapefile.
There is a function like this for raster in GRASS : *r.timestamp* - Print/add/remove a timestamp for a raster map http://grass.osgeo.org/grass65/manuals/html65_user/r.timestamp.html I don't know if it's using @, but it should be visible in the source ... @+ Sylvain 2010/1/12 Ariel Nunez ariel.nu...@geo-solutions.it Hi everyone, I am currently working on adding support for reading and writing timestamps on a Sapefile using GeoTools [1]. On a talk with FrankW on #gdal I learned that the timestamp field (code: '@') is not supported by ogrinfo and also that it does not enjoy much widespread use. My question is, apart from ESRI software, is anyone aware of a OS library or software package that supports such field type? Best, Ariel. [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2903 [2] http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/data_types.html -- Ariel Núñez // GeoSolutions http://www.geo-solutions.it/ ___ 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
