Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding
This is not traditional addressing/geocoding, but serves to locate places http://what3words.com 2015-04-21 17:54 GMT+02:00 Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) < bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us>: > Serena, > > You should definite mention US National Grid (or from the World > Perspective, I think Universal Grid is the pertinent label). > > It has already been demonstrated to work very well as an addressing method. > > You can find more info at these links: > > > http://usngcenter.org/ > http://www.usngstore.com/ > > bobb > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Serena Coetzee > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 3:10 AM > To: ICA-OSGeo Lab Network; discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to > addressing/geocoding > > Dear all, > > on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to > the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization > with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source > software or open data related to addressing and/or geocoding, let me know. > Anything that I receive by Wednesday evening, I could include in the > presentation. > > [1] www.upu.int > > Regards, > -- > Serena Coetzee > > Geography Building 3-5 > Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics > and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, > South Africa > email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis > Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 * Tel: +27 12 420 3823 * Fax: +27 12 420 6385 > > > ___ > 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 > -- Saludos, Bolo www.geoinquiets.cat ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Micho García
I totally support the nomination. Micho is a great advocate of OSGeo. At the OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter has done a great job to support and encourage initiatives in Latin America which is one of the outstanding issues of OSGeo. 2013/7/16 Micho Garcia > Thanks Jorge, > > is a pleasure to me to be nominated as OSGeo Charter Member. > > I am working in OSGeo from some years ago but almost always in the Spanish > Chapter and in the spanish-speaking world doing presentations, courses or > workshops with the OSGeo software and always evangelizing about the > benefits of the OSGeo Foundation. Like Jorge says, this year, with the > inestimable help of another OSGeo-es members, we organized in Vigo, Galicia > (a very nice place :-D) the first geocamp.es, an unconference about GIS > and geo themes. > > I am always trying to participate more actively in the OSGeo Foundation at > international level, I hope to do it soon > > Thanks again. > > Regards. > > > > Micho García > GIS Developer > michogarcia.org > geomati.co > > ** > > > 2013/7/16 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas > >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I want to nominate Micho García[1] as OSGeo Charter Member: >> >> Name: Micho García >> Contact email: micho AT michogarcia DOT org >> More details: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Micho_Garcia >> >> Micho is a FOSS4G freelance developer, part of the geomati.co[1] >> network. He has been a key leader at the OSGeo Spanish Language Local >> Chapter[2] (member of the board of directors from 2009 to 2012), doing >> advocacy about OSGeo, our Local Chapter and Free Software in general in >> many events, not only in Spain but also in South America. He is also one >> of the leaders of the Galicia micro-chapter Geoinquietos group[3] that >> recently have organized a small (but very promising) event in Spain >> called GeoCamp[4]. >> >> [1] http://geomati.co >> [2] http://es.osgeo.org >> [3] https://xeoinquedos.wordpress.com/ >> [4] http://geocamp.es/ >> >> - -- >> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas >> http://es.osgeo.org >> http://jorgesanz.net >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR5PZlAAoJEAOYD75lvHdBZngIAJJ0jekHiXatZ/OWnUwzLVBp >> PEs3ojFwi7HPD3uG5LwBNTeSq8bpHssvhcf7C0pXu58HtEKIjpbNTCze3VZcDX26 >> U5x/5/k/2Lb+u5ycspx2SsxbuUf6buPP+x9I/9XlTRrpmD0Gh0TzaCZkYs92wr1G >> pFdkMajHexzwHtiYQHuuLEOi2PgyCy8Kr9KhGTTzem7BHcCQb+IOLPT9VyGrFEtk >> lhN5w+qziiZlz/xmt/4nBCf5xKlkKP4LzrJLdnFjZ1zQQAWZ3dEIphAhFujO0eGv >> jnDlDNAOMYWL4TCaXRZiVQL/1HVzP2aKL4etNomiCaIEhoExbp5I6iXvT9J8Y1Y= >> =FBS7 >> -END PGP SIGNATURE- >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Saludos, Bolo www.geoinquiets.cat ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Maria Arias de Reyna as OSGeo Charter member
+1 I second the nomination of Maria Arias de Reyna. 2013/7/12 Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses > I totally support the nomination. > > Not only has been involved in the Spanish Speaking community but also > has a vast knowledge of many FOSS4G apps (and libs) and is always > willing to share her knowledge and guide «lost» people in the truly > FOSS path. > > And she also loves cats. > > Bests, > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas > wrote: > > On 12 July 2013 11:40, Jeroen Ticheler > wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I would like to nominate Maria Arias de Reyna as OSGeo Charter member. > >> > >> Maria is an active promotor of open source software and open data in > Spain and serves on the board of the Spanish local chapter of OSGeo. She's > a true FOSS evangelizer, Open Street Map evangelizer and hardcore Linux > Debian user. > >> > >> She has also been involved in FOSS development for quite some time, > first mainly on routing and at GeoCat on GeoNetwork opensource. She > develops plugins for gvSIG and works with many OSGeo packages on a daily > basis. > >> > >> You can read more about and from her at > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Delawen#Maria_Arias_de_Reyna and > http://delawen.com/ > >> > >> We need women like her in OSGeo that combine personal dedication, > technological knowledge and a drive to change the world we live in! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Jeroen Ticheler > > > > I want to highly support this nomintation and in fact I was planning > > to do it so thanks Jeroen. > > > > Maria has been an active member of OSGeo Spanish Language Local > > Chapter and recently re-elected by our community to continue leading > > the chapter. > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > -- > > Jorge Sanz > > http://es.osgeo.org > > ___ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses > Valencia (España) > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Saludos, Bolo www.geoinquiets.cat ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] online open source polygon mapping, like OSM?
Hi Nitin, Maybe you can contact those who made this map. http://geacron.com/home-es/?lang=es&sid=GeaCron860293 Perhaps you can get some collaboration. Bolo 2011/8/1 Nitin Gadia > Great!! > > So, I went forward and started a page on the OSGeo Wiki around the project: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Online_Polygon_Mapping_Communities > > *Does anyone else know of any other open polygon mapping effort or tools? > *It is very important that the full breadth of the efforts are inventoried > before i/we go forward with this.* > * > So far we have: > > *Openlayers > *Open Moose (uses openlayers) > > WMS-T: > *MapServer > *GeoSolutions > > There is also: > *Geocommons > *click2map > > > Anything else?? > Feel free to respond here or write on the wiki page :) > > > Thanks, > Nitin > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: > >> > Someone also told me you can do polygons in openstreetmap (parking lots, >> > buildings, etc.). Does anyone know how to do this? I can't seem to be >> able >> > to figure it out... >> >> Vector editing in OpenLayers (i.e. drawing points, lines and polygons). >> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-formats.html >> >> You can use OSM as your basemap for the editing. >> >> You need Geoserver and/or Mapserver for the timeline with OpenLayers. >> >> WMS-T Support in Geoserver and Mapserver >> >> http://underdark.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wms-t-support-in-geoserver-and-mapserver/ >> >> Noli >> ___ >> 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] Batch geocoding
Hi JP, I live in Barcelona and unfortunately there is no open geocoding service in Barcelona. In the group of geoinquietos (http://www.geoinquiets.cat/ or http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoinquiets_Barcelona) we are trying to get the ICC (http://www.icc.cat/) the official agency open the geocoding service they have. Cheers, BOLO 2011/2/4 Stark Hans-Jörg > Any initiative for OA is appreciated highly ;o) > > > > Best, > > hj > > > > *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 16:17 > > *An:* OSGeo Discussions > *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding > > > > There might be a data sharing initiative, there are several different > actors (city, regional government, etc.). I don't know all of what there is > out there, and the data was originally collected for another project. > > > > I think I will be Ok with Yahoo. If it works out, it shouldn't be difficult > to export the dataset for openaddresses. It isn't my data, though, so I will > have to ask permission first. It seems like a good idea, though. > > > > Cheers, > > JP > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg > wrote: > > > > *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 15:34 > > > *An:* OSGeo Discussions > *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding > > > > Hi Hans-Jörg, > > > > I am not aware that Barcelona (the city?) has a very open geodata strategy, > but that certainly would be nice. If you know of anyone in the area who > might know more, I am more than willing to contact them. > > *[shj] my mistake. I thought I had read something on this some time ago. > Maybe also because Spain has strong support in the FOSS domain.* > > > > I have the addresses, do you mean the coordinates? The address format is > not ideal, but I am pretty happy with them, as they seem to geocode well in > the tests I have done. > > *[shj] yes, addresses along with co-ordinates.* > > > > The Yahoo API allows geocoding of 50k addresses a day, which is plenty for > what I need. I am going to try to use that. > > *[shj] that’ll certainly do.* > > > > Cheers, > > JP > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg > wrote: > > Hi JP > > > > Barcelona is unfortunately not well covered yet in OA. But I thought that > Spain has a very “open” strategy in terms of providing geodata. If you > manage to get Barcelona addresses (perhaps from council or any other > “official body”) the OA team will insert these into OA and then you can use > the REST service. > > > > Good luck! > > -hj > > > > *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 15:24 > *An:* OSGeo Discussions > *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding > > > > Thanks for all the responses! I will track them all down and see how they > work. > > > > Stark, I have 146,472 addresses in the city of Barcelona. Many of them are > duplicates, but at the very least I have 31,514 that need to be coded, > although that would leave out many that I want to use. I am in the process > of developing filters to clean out apartment numbers, etc., to be able to > pull a single coordinate for a whole set of addresses, and there are at > least 6,000 that are invalid (from the original 146k, so 140k). It is a lot. > I will take a look at openaddresses and do some testing. > > > > Thanks! > > JP > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg > wrote: > > The OpenAddresses project (www.openaddresses.org) is supposed to solve > exactly your problem. > > You can use the provided geocoding services ( > http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/RESTService) > > > > OpenAddresses has some regions where data was donated – there you will get > high-quality results. Unfortunately this is not yet globally available… > > > > Hth > > -hj > > > > *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 14:34 > *An:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org > *Betreff:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a large set of addresses (around 150k) that I need to geocode for a > study (my Masters thesis on heat-related mortality). I am looking into > different solutions, but I can't find anything that seems like it would work > properly. > > > > I could script a solution using Google's map API, but there is a limit of > 2,500 addreses per day (I can get around them with a little patience). > > > > Right now the best solution I am looking at geopy for geocoding addresses ( > http://code.google.com/p/geopy/). It seems like a good system, I think I > can use it to pull addresses out of my database and write back coordinates. > There is one thing that I am not sure, about, though, is whether I am > actually allowed to
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for dedicated server recommendations
Hi, You can try whit Hostgis http://hostgis.com/home/. I know a person who has service with them and is very happy. Cheers, Wladimir 2010/10/3 Mateusz Loskot > On 03/10/10 20:06, Markus Neteler wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot > wrote: > >> On 03/10/10 19:51, Markus Neteler wrote: > >>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Just van den Broecke > >>> wrote: > Hi Mateusz, > > I have been using multiple (Root) servers from Hetzner > http://www.hetzner.de > the last 5 years and am very happy with their price/quality. best > regards, > >>> > >>> Another happy Hetzner client (7+ years)... > >> > >> Hetzner looks interesting to me. > >> > >> I'm just wondering if and how much "optional" features I will need to > >> buy to have full access to the machine resources :-) > > > > I didn't buy anything else than a standard package. They even offer > > 100GB backup space included. > > Perfect! > > >> Do you guys access the systems through SSH or VNC? > > > > Yes and yes. And you can order for free a temporary console if you > > mess up the boot sequence :) They have 1+ Gbit/s connection etc. > > Fantastic! > > > So it behaves like an own server, just in a different place. > > Lovely! ;-) > > Thanks Markus. > > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org > Member of ACCU, http://accu.org > ___ > 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Code Sprint
I take the email from Lorenzo to extend the invitation to the Code Sprint not only programmers, but to all those who want to collaborate with a project: translating, creating documentation, bringing new ideas, ... The only thing necessary is to add your name on the wiki page of the event http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint. If you want to collaborate on a project add your name in the project, if the working group of the project is not even created, you can create or simply add your name and the project in the section additional interested people. Also you can send me an email with your name and the project to bolosig at gmail . com with the subject codesprint participant Wladimir - If you are a geek or something very similar, the Code Sprint is one of the classical activities around the FOSS4G you should not miss. Subscribe your project to the wiki page of the event: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint if you want to participate, add your name under one of the project, it is important for us to understand how many people will come and calculate the right ammount of services. We don't want you to fight for a cup of coffee!! Lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
