[OSGeo-Discuss] The call for presentations for Pista ng Mapa 2020 has been extended until October 10, 2020
EXTENDED! The call for presentations for Pista ng Mapa 2020 has been extended until October 10, 2020. Share your research, ideas, community projects, and more at this year's conference! You may submit your presentations at bit.ly/pnm20cfp You may visit https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/ for more information. We wish to let you know that Pista ng Mapa 2020 is offering incentives to accepted session proposals. #PistaNgMapa #PnM #PistaNgMapa2020 #PnM2020 #OSM #OpenStreetMap #FOSS4G The incentives for accepted presentations are: PhP 4000 - 55+ minute Presentation/Workshop PhP 2000 - 25-minute Presentation PhP 800 - Lightning Talks Notes on the incentives: 1. Incentive offer is valid only for presenters with a local bank account, or local digital wallet. 2. Non-local presenters may opt to receive a digital gift voucher -- cheers, maning -- "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden https://github.com/maning http://twitter.com/maningsambale -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for sponsorship for Pista ng Mapa 2020
Dear everyone, We are organizing our annual Pista ng Mapa Conference on May 27-29, 2020. Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) is a free-of-charge outreach activity to generate public interest, advocate the use of open (geo) data, promote free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G) applications, gather and grow enthusiasts, users in the public and private sector, and local communities in the Philippines. https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/ We are looking for sponsors to the event: https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/call-for-sponsors is there a way for OSGeo to support? Who do I ask? -- cheers, maning -- "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden https://github.com/maning http://twitter.com/maningsambale -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [talk-ph] Pista ng Mapa 2019
Hi everyone,
Sharing this event happening in the Philippines this August 1-3. If
you are close by, please come! It's a nice way to connect with
mappers in the country. This is also our first community
event/conference outside of the nation's capital! So we hope to spread
the open mapping love to more people!
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From: Eugene Alvin Villar
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:57 AM
Subject: [talk-ph] Pista ng Mapa 2019
To: OpenStreetMap Philippines
Hello all!
Are you a fan of open geo datasets and free and open-source geospatial
software and tools? Pista ng Mapa ("Feast of Maps"), the open mapping
conference in the Philippines, will be held at Foundation University,
Dumaguete this coming 1–3 August 2019. Registration is free! (Travel
and accommodations not included.)
Please register and reserve your slot here:
https://ti.to/PistaNgMapa/2019
We would like to thank our generous sponsors:
Kaart – http://kaartgroup.com/
Grab – https://www.grab.com/
Mapillary – https://www.mapillary.com/
We would also like to acknowledge the support of our host:
Foundation University – https://www.foundationu.com/
See you there!
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in State of the Map Asia 2017 in Kathmandu
Forwarding invitation from the SotM-Asia Organizing team, see you in Nepal! Dear OSM community members, We want to welcome you to State of the Map Asia 2017, which will be organized in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 23 - 24, hosted by Kathmandu Living Labs and OSM community of Nepal. The event website is now live at: http://stateofthemap.asia/ A call for session proposals is now open. We will be opening calls for travel scholarships and event registration soon. You are invited to propose creative and informative sessions (presentations, workshop etc.) including your country's state of the map. We need your support to make this a successful event and help foster the growth of OSM in Asia and beyond. Please refer to the website for further details. With best regards, Kshitiz Khanal Researcher, Open Data and OpenStreetMap Kathmandu Living Labs -- cheers, maning -- "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden https://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/maningsambale -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Join State of the Map Asia October 1-2, 2016 in Manila, Philippines
Dear everyone, [crosspost] We are happy to announce that the 2nd State of the Map Asia will happen in Manila, Philippines on October 1-2, 2016. Two days in the Philippines with talks, discussions, and workshops all around the free and open map of the world. This is a free event (no registration fee), if you plan to join, head over to the website to register. http://stateofthemap.asia/ Call for proposal/prsentations is here: http://stateofthemap.asia/program.html In the coming weeks, we will announce the scholarship applications and other details. We are also looking for sponsors to cover for food and other expenses needed to make this awesome. If you are interested, please contact: osmpilipinas+sotmasia2...@gmail.com We hope the OSM community in Asia and all over the world can join. Maning Sambale In behalf of the SOTM-Asia 2016 Organizing Team ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and webpage ready
[apologies for cross-posting] Just a reminder, FOSS4G-PH 2014 will happen this Saturday November 29, 2014 at GE Theater 4th Floor Melchor Hall College of Engineering, UP Diliman (map) from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/ On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:36 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear everyone, The page at PhilGEOS site [0] and survey [1] are now ready! Thanks to Please share the news. And let us know what workshops you would like to join. See you all November 29! [0] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/ [1] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/wpgforms/foss4g/ -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and webpage ready
Apologies for cross-posting. Just hoping there are PH-based memebrs of this list. -- Forwarded message -- From: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:36 PM Subject: [FOSS4G-PH 2014 at PhilGEOS Workshops] Workshop survey and webpage ready To: osm-ph talk...@openstreetmap.org, philippi...@lists.osgeo.org philippi...@lists.osgeo.org Dear everyone, The page at PhilGEOS site [0] and survey [1] are now ready! Thanks to Please share the news. And let us know what workshops you would like to join. See you all November 29! [0] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/ [1] http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/wpgforms/foss4g/ -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Philippines 2014
Dear Jeff, Thanks for your support. So I'll take this as an approval that we can use the FOSS4G name? As to the official recognition of the local chapter, we will add this as one of the agenda during the event. I'm watching this talk [0] as I think about moving forward to official recognition. :) [0] https://vimeo.com/106232256 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Maning, Please also consider sending the OSGeo Board a request to become an Official local chapter (see the guidelines[1]). This might be nice news for your FOSS4G event! :) [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines#Chapter_Formation -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2014-09-24 12:32 PM, maning sambale wrote: Dear everyone, We are in the planning stage again for the FOSS4G track in the philgeos 2014 this coming November. We have been hitching with the PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already [0, 1]. Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost (to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops. One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to brand this as FOSS4G Philippines? Are there official channels to toalk and disuss? [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Philippines 2014
Dear everyone, We are in the planning stage again for the FOSS4G track in the philgeos 2014 this coming November. We have been hitching with the PhilGEOS conference already as a FOSS4G track for two years already [0, 1]. Piggybacking on other conferences allow us to reduce the cost (to nearly 0) of running open source geospatial workshops. One question, is it in the spirit of OSGEO to brand this as FOSS4G Philippines? Are there official channels to toalk and disuss? [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2013 -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G
Dear everyone, A couple of colleagues are asking me this. Are there any MS/scholarship GIS programs that focuses on the use of FOSS4G? -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G
Could you tell us what MS means here, since I first read it as Microsoft. Do you mean Masters level (as in something like a one-year MSc course typically taken after a first degree)? Or something else? Sorry, I meant Masters. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G
You might actually start by browsing the OSGeo/ICA labs forming in programs across the globe, there you will likely find active FOSS4G programs and faculty. http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Thanks, jeff. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Gérald Fenoy
+1 for this nomination! Maning Sambale (mobile) On Aug 16, 2013 7:19 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: I second Gérald nomination, what a great candidate! -- Jorge El 16/08/2013 13:02, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com escribió: +1 Dne 16.8.2013 11:54, Anne Ghisla napsal(a): On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:21:36 +0200 nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I second Gérald's nomination and strongly support it. I believe that he would be an excellent OSGeo director. Let me also second Gérald's nomination. His worldwide perspective and long time professional experience with open source geospatial software is extremely valuable. I met Gérald many times at FOSS4G events and every time we had eye-opening discussions about OSGeo. I really hope to see him among Board members. Dr.Nicolas Bozon Best Best, Anne 2013/8/16 Peter Baumann p.baum...@jacobs-university.de very much supported from my side! I know Gerald personally as an enthusiastic, competent, and consensus oriented person with strong visions. -Peter On 08/16/2013 11:00 AM, maria.brovelli@diiar-topo.**polimi.it maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.itwrote: Dear All I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors elections. Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004. He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation activities and its software projects. Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to leverage for both community and business related issues. Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France (http://geolabs.fr). Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with patches, translations, ideas and more. Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa. Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe and in Asia. Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and open source good practices, but also about international collaborations and community management. More info on Gérald: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_**Fenoy http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy Many thanks and best regards to All of You. Maria --** Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus Politecnico di Milano Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 Mob. +39-328-0023867 fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail: prorettr...@como.polimi.it e-mail:maria.brovelli@polimi.**it e-mail%3amaria.brove...@polimi.it --**--** This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Dr. Peter Baumann - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen www.faculty.jacobs-university.**de/pbaumann http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann mail: p.baum...@jacobs-university.de tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178 - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793) www.rasdaman.com, mail: baum...@rasdaman.com tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882 Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata. (mail disclaimer, AD 1083) __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?
Can chapters-in-formation submit reports? -- cheers, maning in behalf of OSGeo Philippines ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?
Thanks Arnulf! Will put up some report for our chapter. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maning, absolutely, we are happy to. This is the whole point (well, at least one important aspect) of the Journal. We do good things around Open Source, Data and Education and we should also talk about them. The Journal helps to spread word and get others interested. Best regards, Arnulf On 04/03/2013 09:04 AM, maning sambale wrote: Can chapters-in-formation submit reports? -- cheers, maning in behalf of OSGeo Philippines ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - -- Seven of Nine http://arnulf.us/Seven Exploring Body, Space and Mind -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFb5U4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2dGACeI4AuRAMqm5NDbNiosH3aMp7Y q6oAn3ps1m6G6UQdoLgVH51JKESrf2jq =+lwe -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] First FOSS4G event in the Philippines at PhilGEOS 2012
Dear list, We had our very first FOSS4G event in the Philippines. The FOSS4G workshops was not part of the original schedule of activities but we were able to hitchhike a pre-conference day for the workshops. ;) Short summary: OSGEO Philippines (OSGeo-PH), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the PhilGEOS 2012 last November 23-24, 2012 at Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City (map). This is our first FOSS4G event in the Philippines. Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. More info here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/philgeos2012 === -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Certified software policy within international aid agencies
Dear everyone, While manning our OSGeo booth in a geo conference today. An employee of an international aid agency approached me and said while they very much like to try many of our software, they can't easily install them because they have strict IT policy that requires that a software should be certified by their organization. I know this is not OSGeo specific but more of FOSS in general. I am also aware that large businesses may have similar IT policies. However, what concerns me more is that these aid agencies are directly working with many organizations specifically with developing countries like ours. They have limited view on what FOSS options are available and it can influence any advice they on what technology developing country organizations can use. Just a thought. Maning Sambale (mobile) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Convert a scanned map to vector format
A good starting point would be QGIS and GRASS. Here's an article on Trace vector contours from a scanned map with GRASS. You can QGIS via the GRASS plugin. http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Trace_vector_contours_from_a_scanned_map On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:26 PM, mrmmsilva marcelo.da.si...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I need suggestions for software open source that allows me to convert a scanned map to vector format. thank you very much. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Convert-a-scanned-map-to-vector-format-tp4994361.html Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
cool idea! i love to bring this book to my regular fossgeo promotion rounds. On Jul 28, 2012 8:46 PM, nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Great ideas ! I think if the input format is generic enough (LateX, or Sphinx may be..), we would be able to provide such a maps collection (images+txt) as both Print, HTML, EPub or what ever (may be at different prices too). It'd be a great tool to promote both open source geospatial software and open geospatial data according to me, and yes, as Barry suggested, why not try to make profit out of this, for OSGeo. My 0.02 € Best, Nick 2012/7/28 Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: .. Great idea, but a physical book in today's day and age? Perhaps... That said, what about http://www.radicalcartography.net http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14 -- Puneet Kishor ___ 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] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting
I support this proposal. We are already doing this for the Charter Membership election [0]. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process#Voting On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Stefano Costa st...@iosa.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto: But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter will react to this. Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method as used by the Debian project? Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too. Ciao, steko -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQDuB+AAoJEDBz7sDeHMxY4lgP/3NAK/MOfaKcpTed25Obtxd1 7uCiw4qJIaVILy9pOcDeFCFRC56rt7C95GnkiLy1FZLmCYPOrPaSjJ3XDQW6yxgF 4WKPlMb1SIr/syesF2EnMHUQedBFYf6yOInF230fLGA4MaOLRr7anHNEglRkO6ix UXU8kIdKwkDbIT503J7Pos2KRM/I6+pAr2zP9qsq/94aIO+gYkKsHxqbH3yk69lU EuBtqNfq1qdUN3IijuqmwMqX8knoqi+WABAgahHkYQgS3h4ck4P5I6b9nXSiGsVf 4muS5F/RZgnA1FncJHdw52QsWgzqyOFDJXUlmezRrmc+1lDHIMl8QIuLvT0TeJ5A YQROeC9wkX1CPBJt3fxlgQYuoQZ/y8+0C4aXRxA84mdj5z4l62HGfi6u6+KzQxvU c4gFpBkNN7GpjeCRkCgUdJEW+NtFojyGaKO6LEJvVAcLklPy8z4hahv4+yWmDcT4 SfFWiByUkeX8lTrfSDpd5UiPaYf/Cjixcs9YQeV41mT10i9JMvHy6D8KTwUlODR+ MJezvS8e+V3byrJsFUkgJvK46JuAuoKO9hzjItB6W5EzyZ2r9VKeTQ2VqEnDVTAE duxrRkL3piEzbvT2W6wq6tPQcHjJWcloLkD3RlEOhXBytlc8bxjMUCvd3lMOk06I dY4OlT4/FwphS35Tj5TZ =FGDp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-SEA a sucess
Dear everyone, I am happy to announce that (personally) foss4g-sea 2012 [0] was a success. This event was in conjunction with the partner conference AGSE 2012 [1]. I personally thank UTM, Dr. Behr and Dr. Thuy for making this a success. Everyone got their very own OSGeo Live-DVD. OSGeo Malaysia Local Chapter convened during the event and I expect more activities from the LC will move afterwards. Many of the participants have heard of open source but I'm amazed to see that many where surprised of what it can actually do. Lots of new converts in my opinion (including the Malaysian national mapping agency who attended my QGIS workshop). :) Dr. Behr and Dr. Thuy can provide more details. Thanks again. [0] http://foss4g-sea.org/ [1] http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections
Thank you Noli and Jorge. This is what I need. Dated but good enough for this crowd. https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/mindmaps/project-relationships-diagram/ -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] chart/diagram of all osgeo projects and library connections
My websearch skills are failing right now. I beleive it was mentioned here before of very big flow chart/diagram of all OSGEO projects. I distinctly remember that almost all projects connects to GDAL. I need for a presentation about osgeo. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members
Dear everyone, Thank you for the opportunity to be a Charter Member. As a simple user and non-coder/developer, I am very happy to be part of this family. Me and my institute [0] are actively promoting OSGeo in the Philippines in the last 2 years. This coming year, we are planning to be more involved in the formation of the PH local chapter [1]. We just had one of our osgeo-ph meetup last Saturday and I thank Venka and Nicolas Bozon for joining us via skype. I hope other OSGEO members can also join us in future meetings to share insights. [0] http://www.essc.org.ph/ [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:19 PM Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members Dear OSGeo Colleagues, I am greatly humbled and thankful for this opportunity to be Charter member of OSGeo. I will strongly continue in my efforts with the aim to get Open Source GIS its rightful place in geospatial education worldwide. It is a long road but i am confident with all of our joint efforts and hardwork we will achieve this aim. Having strong agenda and result oriented plans for Education and training is very important for the long term sustainability of OSGeo and our aim to help bring the benefits of geospatial technologies to all especially for the economically disadvantaged communities worldwide. Well, and hope to see a better future.. Ravi Kumar Thanks to Jo and Mike for nominating me and all charter members for giving me this opportunity. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute 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.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Kumar Sent: 01 December 2011 06:35 To: osgeo-discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members Welcome to all new charter members. Now it is time to hear from them their plans for OSGeo in general and their domain, local chapters in particular. Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too. Old charter members: It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members. Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter. Ravi Kumar 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. Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Kumar Sent: 01 December 2011 06:35 To: osgeo-discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome new Charter members Welcome to all new charter members. Now it is time to hear from them their plans for OSGeo in general and their domain, local chapters in particular. Links to their blogs/web-pages will help too. Old charter members: It is very disturbing seeing the percentage of voting from charter members. Let us try and see that only those interested remain in the charter. Ravi Kumar 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live lightening presentation now updated to 5.0
Thanks! I will use it for our first osgeo-ph meetup. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: I've updated the OSGeo-Live lightening presentation up to version 5.0. This is a 30 to 40 minute presentation about all the applications on OSGeo-Live. It also happens to be a very useful source of material for anyone heading back from foss4g who will be giving a presentation to co-workers about what foss4g is all about. The presentation is available here: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation/ -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Live-demo mailing list live-d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO-PH first meeting 20110923
Dear everyone, We will be having our first informal meeting of OSGEO-Philippines this coming Friday (September 23, 2011) from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the ESSC Conference Room Manila Observatory Building, Ateneo de Manila University Campus, QC. This is a very informal meeting just to get a feel of who are using or interested with OSGEO technologies. Initial agenda: * Presentation of OSGEO * The OSGEO-Live project * Brainstorming of ideas for the OSGEO-PH local chapter If anyone is interested, please send me an email offlist. map to the venue: http://osm.org/go/4zhTgtGB_-- OSGEO-PH wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Local-chapters] OSGeo AGM on Friday September 16th
I cannot attend the foss4g but will be in Denver for OSM's State of the Map. I am very interested to learn more about what the local chapters in other countries are doing as we start organizing our own in the Philippines. Is the AGM still part of the conference? Do I still need to register to the conf to attend the AGM/local chapter lighnitng talks? On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Members of OSGeo, we will have our OSGeo Annual General Meeting on Friday, September 16th from 4 to 5 pm in the Grand Ballroom, right after the Closing Plenary of the conference. The AGM will be a firework of lightning talks by the Local Chapters, officers, chairs and members highlighting their achievements within OSGeo in the last year and the objectives for the next. Other than the typical AGM[1] it will be rather informal and fun. The latter depends a lot on your participation which is why we send out this email to remind you that this is your chance to speak up about what you have done for OSGeo and how you achieved it. The goal is to learn from each other and to better understand the scope of OSGeo and where we can still improve it. This will also be valuable input for the board of directors who will meet on Sunday for their annual face to face meeting to decide how to realize all of these objectives. If you are interested in presenting please add yourself to this Wiki list [2] and prepare a talk no longer than !four! minutes. That is 225 seconds of talking (the missing 14 seconds are for breathing and switching to the next speaker). The rule is first come first serve with final arbitration and ordering by the moderator (me). We will not be able to allow for any overrun so please check your talk against the clock. If you have questions or doubts please feel free to ask on this list (or contact me directly). If you are in a Local Chapter please make sure that at least your representative is subscribed to the Local Chapters mailing list [3]. Best regards, Arnulf Christl [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_general_meeting [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2011 [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters - -- OSGeo President http://www.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5kvSkACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b1FLwCfWg7ol0xk2u+z2tiIFtrtnYyX gHUAn0DflGR98eSZKTuazqDltwiCieE0 =HZut -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Local-chapters mailing list local-chapt...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?
+1 We conducted our own site specific comparison and we concluded that SRTM is much better especially those post-processed by CGIAR. Depending on where you are there are issues with ASTER GDEM: http://gis.cri.fmach.it/aster-gdem-quality/ Markus Or in flat tropical area... http://yepca.org/wp3/?p=303 Thanks! Shared and bookmarked this site! -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 30m SRTM worldwide?
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. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Sylvain Maillard sylvain.maill...@gmail.com wrote: 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 -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] advise on WYSIWYG sld editor
I am trying out several sld editors recently (udig, qgis, geoext styler). While some are very powerful, each has its own issues. QGIS - you can compose really nice layer symbolology using the New Symbology. There is a plugin to export to SLD but you can only export polygon and unique value symbology to SLD. GeoExt styler - I'm using the opengeo shipped Styler, I can produce SLDs which are automatically added in the geoserver list of styles but it is too limited. I. e. I cannot activate follow line in labels. Udig - probably the best sld editor. I'm using udig 1.2.2 on a mac but for some reason my rules are not persistently saved when I close a udig session. Are there other WYSIWYG options for creating SLD out there? I personally prefer QGIS as the main app for composing the layers and then export the style either the project file (.qgs) or the saved layer style (.qml) -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] planning for an osgeo local chapter in the Philippines
Thank you for the word of support. Venka started the wikipage and we'll take it from here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines I will post my Local Chapter related inquiries to the appropriate list. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Just to add to Arnulf's message: you might want to start by creating a wiki page your Philippine chapter, similar to the Vietnam chapter (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vietnam). Be sure to include the tag [[Category:Local Chapters]] in your wiki page so that your chapter page appears on: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Local_Chapters You can also request for your own mailing list hosted by OSGeo...and you can follow Arnulf's advice to ask these requests/questions on the Local Chapter list. I'm happy to see a new chapter forming in your country! :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ On 11-05-12 10:20 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maning sambale wrote: Dear everyone, We are planning to start the osgeo local chapter in the Philippines. I've been reading up on the osgeo wiki related pages. But it would be great for the established chapters to share here their own experiences. Osgeo projects like grass, geoserver, qgis and postgis are slowly penetrating the small but budding geo-industry in the country and it would be nice to consolidate marketing/advocacy efforts. Thanks! Maning, thanks for your interest. You might want also to join the local chapters mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters Currently not much going on there but this list is exactly intended to talk about local chapters find out what this is and how it can work out. Feel free to ping this list about anything related to OSGeo Local Chapters. Best regards, Arnulf. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] planning for an osgeo local chapter in the Philippines
Dear everyone, We are planning to start the osgeo local chapter in the Philippines. I've been reading up on the osgeo wiki related pages. But it would be great for the established chapters to share here their own experiences. Osgeo projects like grass, geoserver, qgis and postgis are slowly penetrating the small but budding geo-industry in the country and it would be nice to consolidate marketing/advocacy efforts. Thanks! -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time
IMO, listing bugs vis-a-vis response time can be counter-productive. Generally, we have more bugs than being squashed because a lot of people are reporting them (which is a good thing btw). I prefer concrete examples when highlighting bug response time. For example, during one of our training, a participant noticed a simple bug in QGIS. I promised to report them to the devs which was fixed in less than 24 hours. Come next training, I shared the incident to other participants. With an encouragement that if they can find some bug during the workshop, we will then report it to the devs this way they already contributed to the open source community. Works for me. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: Just to put myself on the line ... For GeoTools the bug tracker is here: - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT The initial page shows the current open vs close rate. If you click on Reports you can get a resolution time report; you will need to sign in first. Jody On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: You can often export the bug database out into excel for analysis. You may need to play with the results to focus on problem reporting. Why? Often open source projects end up with wish list bugs that do not fall within anyone's funding or mandate. Personally I would love to see the difference not between open source and proprietary software - as I think that sells us short (we are more amazing than that!). The true test would be the track record for paying customers - getting a bug fixed with an open source product vs a proprietary product. Since a common open source model is to pay for support; it would be great to show the amazing service provided. Now that *would* be an impressive difference. Jody On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Sjur Kolberg sjur.a.kolb...@sintef.no wrote: Hello, Is there any mechanism in the bug tracking systems being used, that can export the distribution (histogram or mean) of time taken from a bug report is filed to it is declared successfully closed? I guess I could figure that out manually by reading through all tickets; that is probably not going to happen... I am trying to convince people that open source GIS is a better solution than buying proprietary software. Such discussions follow a well-known path (is it mature/stable? How about support? All our clients use ..., Nice for programmers, but...) etc. Conclusions precede arguments, and some hard numbers could be of great help in all the religion. Best regards, Sjur K :-) ___ 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 -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: git like for geodata management
This is cool! Thanks Noli! Anyone tried this already? (can't compile source while in the middle of a critical project) (cross posted to qgis list) On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, FYI, there is a new offline plugin for QGIS that synchronizes data source ( e.g. PostGIS or WFS-T) to a spatialite database and storing the offline edits to dedicated tables. http://www.sourcepole.ch/2010/9/29/offline-editing-plugin-for-qgis Screenshot http://www.sourcepole.ch/assets/2010/9/27/screenshot1.png Noli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: git like for geodata management
Perhaps the only online service I can think of that is similar to what I mentioned is openstreetmap's API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Kalyan Janakiraman kalyan.janakira...@lpma.nsw.gov.au wrote: Hi Versions are also used to demarcate the the geospatial transaction boundary. I didn’t see this point articulated. We have been sucessfully running replication of ArcSDE geodatabase from data maintenance environment to different geodatabase repositories (about 150 repositories) for many years now through event-driven mediation framework. Because we had used the event-driven mediation approach, we could replicate irrespective of the version or the vendor. Because ESRI didn’t support robust replication before, we did this ourselves. In gist the version is boundary of each geospatial transaction. When a version is posted, the transactions in it are picked up and shipped across as XML event feeds. I published this as a paper. I can send it to anyone interested. - Kalyan From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ragi Burhum Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 4:06 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Noli Sicad Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: git like for geodata management Hi Noli, thanks for the link. That is definitely a step in the right direction, but it is hardly comparable to git ArcSDE versioning at that. The article and sample code you describe above generates hashes for all rows and tables in the db and compares them to the target db. So 1 million rows in a db, regardless if the two dbs are identical, would cause 1 million hashes to go over the wire. Every single time you ask to sync you pay the price. Git and ArcSDE keep track of changesets, and when it is time to synchronize, they exchange that changeset and apply it. One insert? That is all that needs to be sent. Another issue is that there is nothing about conflict resolution there (what happens when you delete one row in one db and modify it in another one?). There is also the problem of allowing multiple versions of the data in the same db (Like having multiple heads). Regardless, thank you for the link, - Ragi Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:22:17 +1000 From: Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: git like for geodata management To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: aanlkti=3anc4baand4hk9uuzfsasxn-8ybpnkyong...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 PostgreSQL Synchronization Tool --- psync [1] The article introduces a method of synchronizing two PostgreSQL databases. Although, this seems to be an easy task, no product (slony, londiste, ...) really satisfied the needs within the maps.bremen.de project. Either they have special prerequsits that didn't apply for our problem or they didn't support synchronizing of large objects. Large objects are used to store tiles of a street/aerial map within PostgreSQL. My GIS-server queries the database and gets the tiles out. By using this construction we are getting a flexible infrastructure for updating and maintaining different versions of the maps. Everything was working fine until the service needs to be spread over three servers. How can we easily synchronize the databases? I really found no really working solution that is clean and easy to use. [1]http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/psync.aspx Noli On 9/23/10, Ragi Burhum r...@burhum.com wrote: Are you looking for an alternative to (1)ESRI's versioning, (2)ESRI's disconnected editing, or a mix of both (3)git like? the scenario that you described first was more like (2), but this one fits (1). I would love to see something like (3), but truth of the matter, AFAIK, there is nothing like that implemented for geo (yet). On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:00 AM, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:10 +0800, maning sambale wrote: Any real world cases for this? Imagine the following scenario: * 50 ~ 70 digitizers * 5 QA * 1 Manager Each QA has 10 digitizers assigned. After all the data is validated, the manager merges it and generates the geodb. All users work against the same DB, most of them linked. This causes disconnections, duplicated data, and lots of random errors. Also, they can't be forced to work on different DB's because they are all working on the same project, at the same time. This is the real scenario of GISWorking (http://www.gisworking.com/), a company we are working with. It would be perfect to have smaller groups (ideally 1 person), working against separated databases, but that can be synchronized with the rest of the data when needed. Then each QA merges data from the people he supervises. After it's validated the manager merges the complete dataset, and generates the final
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] git like for geodata management
Any real world cases for this? Use case: 1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days. Coming back from field work, I sync the edits to the main data server. An application takes care of the merge like git does. 2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area. An application manages the conflict before merging to main data server. Hi, for the sync part you should have a look at CouchDB [1]. Though it doesn't do the hard part of resolving conflicts. This part would need to be coded. [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/ Cheers, Volker ___ 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 -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] git like for geodata management
Hi, Just something for brainstorming. Use case: 1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days. Coming back from field work, I sync the edits to the main data server. An application takes care of the merge like git does. 2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area. An application manages the conflict before merging to main data server. -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)
No luck so far looking for a converter. Basically, I want to export geometry and attributes without the styling from an Arc's mxd format to shapefile. Any workaround here (other then looking for an ArcGIS installed machine)? -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)
George, To get this right, mxd are actually just a styling file similar to Arcview's apr and avl? On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, George Silva georger.si...@gmail.com wrote: You must be confusing things here Maning, Mxd is the format that ArcGIS uses to store mapdocuments, while shapefiles/database geometry data/coverages/rasters are displayed on that map. If you only have the mxd you won't be able to convert anything to shapefile. You need the original data. A Mxd is much like an HTML. It provides information on how content is organized, but it's not content itself. George On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:21 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: No luck so far looking for a converter. Basically, I want to export geometry and attributes without the styling from an Arc's mxd format to shapefile. Any workaround here (other then looking for an ArcGIS installed machine)? -- 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 -- George R. C. Silva Desenvolvimento em GIS http://blog.geoprocessamento.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS-Geo users in the Philippines?
I would like to know if there are Philippine-based osgeo users here (other than me). :) Would be nice for us to share some experiences.= or organize some osgeo related event. send me a private mail. -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] listings of foss-geo training services
(cross posted to qgis user list and osgeo discuss) Hi, I posted our FOSS-Geo training program in several of my list, the training service is based in the Philippines: http://essc.org.ph/content/view/314/1/ There are a couple of inquiries regarding a similar training program in the UK and Africa. I gave them the following links for reference: http://qgis.org/en/commercial-support.html http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile Related to OSGEO's service provider's dbase, it would be nice to have a search field to specific type of support the listed individual/companies is providing (i.e. training, customization development, etc. ) . On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Georges Thierry Handja georgesthier...@rainforestuk.com wrote: Dear Mr Sabale, It will be great if you could help to do this. I really like to learn how to use open source mapping softwares. Thanks in advance Georges Thierry Handja Programme Advisor, Participatory GIS Congo Basin The Rainforest Foundation UK Imperial Works, 2nd Floor Perren Street; London NW5 3ED ; United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7485 0193 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7485 0315 Registered Charity No. 801436 www.rainforestfoundationuk.org -Original Message- From: Maning Sambale [mailto:emmanuelsamb...@essc.org.ph] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:23 AM To: Georges Thierry Subject: Re: Application - Found word(s) Congo in the Text body Georges, The foss-geo training we provide is based here in the Philippines. If it's OK with you, I can post your inquiry to the QGIS international mailing-list. For sure there are QGIS users and developers who are willing to help you either in the UK or Africa. On 06 12, 10, at 6:57 PM, Georges Thierry wrote: Mr Sabale, I will really like to attend on of these course, could please tell me what are the conditions. I'am in London and I'am working in supporting local NGO's in the Congo Basin region. Thanks for your help Georges Thierry Handja Programme Advisor, Participatory GIS Congo Basin The Rainforest Foundation UK Imperial Works, 2nd Floor Perren Street; London NW5 3ED ; United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7485 0193 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7485 0315 Registered Charity No. 801436 www.rainforestfoundationuk.org clip_image001.jpg image.gif stampa_girl_line_en.gif cheers, Maning Sambale Geomatics Associate Environmental Science for Social Change www.essc.org.ph -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] ESSC offers basic Geomatics Training Course
Hi, Some of your friends (based in the Philippines) maybe interested. We have a limited slot of 10 participants per session. ESSC offers basic Geomatics Training Course http://essc.org.ph/content/view/314/1/ == ESSC is offering a short introductory course for geomatics students, practitioners, and developers using free and open source software geospatial (FOSS-Geo) technologies. ESSC seeks to share its experience and techniques in its geomatics work using various geospatial technologies (both FOSS and proprietary software products). FOSS technology is gaining popular usage due to the high costs of proprietary geospatial products. This is also ESSC's contribution to expanding the adoption of FOSS and democratizing the access of software. Each course is designed as an introduction to several FOSS-Geo technologies and there are practical exercises for participants to accomplish. By the end of each course, participants should be able to install, navigate the basic interface of each application, and produce map products in paper or digital format. The course will run for a day for a minimum fee of PhP 1,500.00. The only requirement is a working portable computer that can accommodate loading of the software applications. Please get in touch with Mr Maning Sambale at emmanuelsamb...@essc.org.ph or Ms Freida Tabuena at freidatabu...@essc.org.ph for further information and scheduling. List of Courses and Schedule Introduction to Quantum GIS - June 30, 2010 This training/workshop is designed to introduce participants to Quantum GIS [link: www.qgis.org] as an easy to use FOSS-Geo application. This one-day training workshop focuses on the basic interface and data exploration tools of QGIS. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on several operating systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. What you will learn At the end of the training/workshop, participants should be able to: • install, navigate the basic interface of QGIS, • perform basic vector data processing and, • produce map products either in paper or digital format. = -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
Thanks for all the replies (here and in my private mail). I never expected such overwhelming response! This makes us even more comfortable in pursuing the FOSS route. I will individually contact those who responded to discuss our specific requirements. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:19 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
You can find a list of Open Source service providers in the OSGeo directory [1]. None of them are endorsed by OSGeo and the directory is self maintained, but it may serve as a starting point. Thanks for the link. I am looking at them at the moment. Please notice that although OSGeo.org sounds similar to OpenGeo.org the two organizations have a completely different background and are not directly related. OpenGeo is not the official service provider for OSGeo software but offer services like any another provider listed in the directory or elsewhere. Sorry for the potentially confusing names. I know the difference. :) I noticed opengeo because they seem to provide a complete package. I will look at the the osgeo service providers as well. -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Qgis-community-team] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus'
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:30 AM Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus' To: qgis-developer qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-community qgis-community-t...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org Dear QGIS Users Developers We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus', the next in our development release series. Our 'development' release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed at people who don't mind if the user interface changes from release to release. We are dropping the term 'unstable' in favour of 'development' to label our non-long term support releases since the 'unstable' moniker creates the incorrect impression that these releases are more crash prone. In reality the developer releases contain many bug fixes that should improve stability over previous releases. Binary and source code packages are available at: http://download.qgis.org A visual changelog for the release is available here: http://blog.qgis.org/node/142 Along with the release of QGIS 1.4.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.4. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available. QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen. If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so. Happy QGIS'ing! -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Qgis-community-team mailing list qgis-community-t...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] distributing read-only vector files?
Before anything else, let me introduce our dilemma. We are a non-profit geo-research institution. In many cases we produce geospatial datasets no other local institution can create in my country at the moment. What we create are sometimes benchmark info useful to various research and policy initiatives. At the moment we have two broad users the public (we provide free download of pdf maps) and special interest group (requesting for GIS data). We always want our datasets to be used by other geoshop. However, we have several concerns regarding the release of GIS data: 1. Securing data integrity - once released we cannot guarantee that the data will be distributed from other sources with alterations/changes. Some of this data may contain critical info that if used (coming from altered data), our institution might be blamed. 2. Ensuring corrections will be reported back to us for data enhancement. 3. Ensuring non-commercial use of the data I'm sure these concerns are not unique to us but also common to other institutions. I am hoping we can discuss options on how we can resolve the above concerns in areas both technical and institutional policy. Any ideas? -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] distributing read-only vector files?
Thanks! These are all good suggestions. If you are trying to be open, then be open! Look at OpenStreetMap and how they do it. They have a page of license violations also. I know about OSM and I consider myself an active contributor in my side of the hemisphere. On a personal capacity, I come from the let's open geodata camp. The work environment is another issue, culture needs to be changed (you know what I mean). fear the day when someone hacks you code and frees your data. I very well know this can happen, but such a proposition to the management isn't encouraging. We need to make some compromises for the moment. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies (hope this change in the future). 3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :) good luck! On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :) Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion point. I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will drive the point home :) Best wishes! Tyler original message- From: Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT) - And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is under the influence of the if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing although we're hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's going to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for London and some of the London councils. Chris - Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Matthew, It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our current economy. I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are Canadian companies, the second is in Australia. A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects. (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a couple of things right now.) :] Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help organizations get started with open source GIS. At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing list. That can?t hurt. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM To: discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London Hi, I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job / career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite hard to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area; which area is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting websites which are more attributed to OSGEO please? (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject pasted) Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Pulis URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com ICQ : 145951110 Skype : solutions-lab.net 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 -- 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.
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies (hope this change in the future). 3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :) good luck! On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :) Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion point. I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will drive the point home :) Best wishes! Tyler original message- From: Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT) - And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is under the influence of the if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing although we're hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's going to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for London and some of the London councils. Chris - Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Matthew, It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our current economy. I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are Canadian companies, the second is in Australia. A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects. (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a couple of things right now.) :] Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help organizations get started with open source GIS. At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing list. That can?t hurt. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM To: discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London Hi, I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job / career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite hard to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area; which area is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting websites which are more attributed to OSGEO please? (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject pasted) Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Pulis URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com ICQ : 145951110 Skype : solutions-lab.net 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 -- 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.
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to FOSS Geo solutions rather than the big Geo companies (hope this change in the future). 3. Coding or participating to OSGEO projects can greatly enhance your skill set and the network can probably land you a job. :) good luck! On 10/15/09, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :) Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion point. I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will drive the point home :) Best wishes! Tyler original message- From: Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT) - And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is under the influence of the if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing although we're hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's going to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for London and some of the London councils. Chris - Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Matthew, It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our current economy. I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are Canadian companies, the second is in Australia. A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects. (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a couple of things right now.) :] Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help organizations get started with open source GIS. At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing list. That can?t hurt. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM To: discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London Hi, I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job / career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite hard to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area; which area is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting websites which are more attributed to OSGEO please? (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject pasted) Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Pulis URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com ICQ : 145951110 Skype : solutions-lab.net 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 -- 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.
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Libraries and tools that can be used across different OSGEO apps. data format libraries - done! algorithm/analytic libraries = +1 . GRASS has an extensive collection. Would be good for other OSGEO projects to reuse them. cartographic libraries = +1 On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Helena Mitasova hmit...@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board. It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in the next 3-5 years are the following three items: - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't. - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we start to use it our central fundraising piece. - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter development and consolidation of the conference. +1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of cross-project collaboration Helena Howard ___ 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 -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:26 AM Subject: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis' To: qgis-developer qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-user List qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.2.0 'Daphnis' the next in our development release series. Our 'development' release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed at people who don't mind if the user interface changes from release to release. We are dropping the term 'unstable' in favour of 'development' to label our non-long term support releases since it creates the incorrect impression that these releases are more crash prone. In reality the developer releases contain many bug fixes that should improve stability over previous releases. Binary and source code packages are available at http://qgis.org/en/download/current-software.html A visual changelog for the release is available here: http://blog.qgis.org/node/137 Along with the release of QGIS 1.2.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.2. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available. QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen. If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so. Happy QGIS'ing! - -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqdn4EACgkQqk07qZdiYjf07gCgjfh2QwieJhayknhr/fvOV8FS OBwAnRn3SB25CU2ECkJeW7+MgTo+pZJc =6eF0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Qgis-user mailing list qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend
On 7/31/09, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@lisasoft.com wrote: Hi Ravi, Yes, you are so right, we do need to collect as much of the material from the FOSS4G conference as we can. One way we hope to facilitate this has been to give every attendee a LiveDVD which can be populated with all the material from the workshops. This means that if workshop presenters can get their data onto the DVD, then they know all attendees will receive it. So we have budget for the LiveDVD. We have an old version of the LiveDVD (based on FOSS4G 2008). What we need to continue through to completion is to have someone who will coordinate the compiling of the DVD. This is primarily a project management role, keeping track of what is on the DVD and what should be on it, contacting workshop authors, and project leads and helping them get their projects onto the DVD etc. Sound like you? It would be an incredibly valuable contribution to FOSS4G and the greater OSGeo community at large. Jody Garnett wrote: These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from FOSS4G2008 etc... Jody On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication of material on the website eagerly such that they can follow labs, workshops and presentations of choice. So the present organisers may please request those especially conducting labs/workshops to keep in mind the multitudes who browse them through the internet can have equal benefit. This can be achieved my keeping on the internet for download 1. All the binaries that are required for the exercise 2. All the data that are required for the exercise 3. All the printed material provided for the exercise 4. All the other material provided to the attendees, CD or DVD etc I agree that most of it is done each time, except for a few instances Example:'Download data from the CD provided', is given in the lab pdf.. but the data is not given for download... Example:'Run the pg_setenv.bat file first,' (FOSS4G2007).. even on date a nice archive is available from the FOSS4G2007 website, data, text etc.. but, the pg_setenv.bat, not there. This may be trivial for experts, but for those learning through the internet and depending on 'Discuss Lists', it will be a roadblock. Cheers Ravi Kumar See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.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 -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss If this doesn't require programming but more coordinating. How can I help? -- 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] experience using FOSS4G live-dvd in teaching FOSS GIS
Hi, I just want to share my experience teaching grass and qgis using the osgeo FOSS4G 2008 livedvd. I was invited by a non-profit organization to provide an overview of using FOSS Geo tools. The organization provides mapping services to Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through collaborative efforts like participatory mapping, resource mapping for asserting IP rights to resources and ancestral domain. The participants are in-house geo-analysts coming from Indigenous Communities as well (note that the participants, have no formal GIS schooling and has no experience using FOSS Geo thus far). I provided several exercise using QGIS and GRASS (no offense to udig and gvsig, I don't use them hence, I can't teach them). I didn't used the GRASS sample dataset, because I want local sample data for my exercise. My datasets are just a landsat image and a dem. The exercises are as follows: Part 1 Open GRASS and QGIS - load vector and raster layers, saving project files Part 2 Editing GRASS vectors and rasters (v.digit, r.contour, r.shaded.relief) Part 3 Remote sensing based-classification (v.to.rast, i.group, i.gensigset, i.samp, r.reclass, r.report) Part 4 Map layout and visualization (QGIS map composer, NVIZ) The initial plan was to do everything GUI, but I had to move to grass terminal when we did the image classification because QGIS doesn't have the i.smap in the grass toolbox plugin. Anyway, this provided me the opportunity to show the advantages of using the CLI. At the end of the session, I showed them that by understanding CLI commands of grass, you can actually paste every command to a text file, run a bash script, implement all the exercise including map layout we did for 3 hours, in just several seconds! The reaction was: Hey, I can do more work with GRASS while drinking my beer! Reminds me of xkcd: http://xkcd.com/303/ ;-) The overall experience was good and I believe I was able to demonstrate FOSS Geo's power over the $25,000 esri stack they currently have (the DVDs I bought and distributed was just a little over $1!). Some thoughts (and requests) on improving my subsequent FOSS Geo demos: 1. I can't get the live-dvd running laptop to display to the LCD projector. I had to use another windows laptop for the presentation and GRASS/QGIS demo. Is there way to fix that in the live-dvd? Or is it the projector? 2. If the live-dvd running laptop works on the lcd projector, I can't show my presentation slides because it has no openoffice impress (which is correct to strip down the size). Is it possible for future release of the live-dvd to at least add a pdf reader? This way I can convert my presentation slides to a pdf document and I won't be needing another machine for my slide presentation. 3. It is best to use local datasets, participants can relate to the data better. Although my sample data are just a landsat image and a dem, I was able to demonstrate how to produce several map layers with GRASS and QGIS (landcover, hillshading, contours, etc). 4. Never underestimate the power of showing newbies the CLI. I usually hide the CLI when introducing FOSS Geo to noobs for fear that they might be overwhelmed with the cryptic commands with no menus and icons to click-on. If others have some experience and tips in teaching FOSS Geo, please share them here. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] experience using FOSS4G live-dvd in teaching FOSS GIS
Helena, I will try out the barebones dataset. And try to prepare some data sets I can add. maning On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Helena Mitasova hmit...@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: Maning, I very much agree with what you have to say, especially about introducing students to CLI. I teach a semester long course on geospatial modeling and analysis with assignments in GRASS and ArcGIS and eventually the students find out that they can run the assignments and project in minutes from a text file - that is a big win especially for the project when I ask them to recompute everything because of some small mistake at the beginning. Regarding the need for running the tutorials and courses with local data I tried to start some initiative for building standardized data sets for different locations that can be used with the same tutorial by preparing a data set with generic names of map layers and a simple getting started tutorial - see my post to OSGeo Edu below. Some people responded, but we don't have any additional data sets yet. Maybe you can add few additional layers to your data set, give them the same names as in the data set below and try it out with the simple tutorial (I can add the imagery if needed) and provide some feedback whether this would be feasible. If the concept works, we can put the data sets on the osgeo web site (they are small) and it would make preparation of tutorials and courses for different locations worldwide much more efficient, thanks a for sharing your experiences, Helena - Following some discussions with Venka and the suggestion on Wiki about a need for local data sets for tutorials I have created the following as a basis for an experiment: 1. scaled down, basics-only version of the NC data set with generic names of map layers 2. getting started bare bone CLI GRASS minitutorial for this data set. It is here http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_basic_spm.tar.gz or here http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/gisdemo_international.tarz Now the experiment : The objective is - provide data sets for different regions with the same map layer names so that the same tutorials can be run with data in Japan, Trento or other location in US I see the main trouble with the attribute names - but those can be changed if there aren't too many, otherwise it may be worth to try the concept. I will be happy to modify the data set and of course the tutorial(s) can be much nicer - GRASS wxpython GUI-based tutorial would be a nice test case if we could provide it with data sets from all over the world. So if you think it is worth it, please create small data sets for other locations with the same names of map layers that would run with the minitutorial to test the idea. I can then further modify the data set to fit with the other ones so that we can create a working standard that can be easily expanded to many areas in the world, Helena On Feb 27, 2009, at 10:16 PM, maning sambale wrote: Hi, I just want to share my experience teaching grass and qgis using the osgeo FOSS4G 2008 livedvd. I was invited by a non-profit organization to provide an overview of using FOSS Geo tools. The organization provides mapping services to Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through collaborative efforts like participatory mapping, resource mapping for asserting IP rights to resources and ancestral domain. The participants are in-house geo-analysts coming from Indigenous Communities as well (note that the participants, have no formal GIS schooling and has no experience using FOSS Geo thus far). I provided several exercise using QGIS and GRASS (no offense to udig and gvsig, I don't use them hence, I can't teach them). I didn't used the GRASS sample dataset, because I want local sample data for my exercise. My datasets are just a landsat image and a dem. The exercises are as follows: Part 1 Open GRASS and QGIS - load vector and raster layers, saving project files Part 2 Editing GRASS vectors and rasters (v.digit, r.contour, r.shaded.relief) Part 3 Remote sensing based-classification (v.to.rast, i.group, i.gensigset, i.samp, r.reclass, r.report) Part 4 Map layout and visualization (QGIS map composer, NVIZ) The initial plan was to do everything GUI, but I had to move to grass terminal when we did the image classification because QGIS doesn't have the i.smap in the grass toolbox plugin. Anyway, this provided me the opportunity to show the advantages of using the CLI. At the end of the session, I showed them that by understanding CLI commands of grass, you can actually paste every command to a text file, run a bash script, implement all the exercise including map layout we did for 3 hours, in just several seconds! The reaction was: Hey, I can do more work with GRASS while drinking my beer
[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.0 'Kore'
apologies for the cross-post: Dear QGIS Users, Developers and FOSSGIS devotees We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair: - This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and graphics designers. QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability. QGIS has been translated into many languages by a dedicated internationalization team. At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application and plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success. -- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee - For more detailed release information, visit: http://blog.qgis.org/node/123 For Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows downloads, visit: http://download.qgis.org * * Source code and User's Guide are also available from this site. -- 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS radar (palsar)
Ned, Thanks! I'll look into these tools. maning On 11/21/08, Ned Horning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maning, The Alaska Satellite Facility (http://www.asf.alaska.edu/sardatacenter/?q=softwaretools) has a few tools and they maintain a list or other software. They are trying to get more community involvement so it would be helpful to them if you could comment on the tools or even get involved with development/documentation... Ned maning sambale wrote: Hi, I'm looking for FOSS tools for radar data (alos palsar). I've seen RAT radartools http://srv-43-200.bv.tu-berlin.de/rat/index.php But it depends on IDL. However, RAT is FOSS (mozilla license) so anybody can port it. Are there any other foss for radar we can use? cheers, maning ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- |-|--| | __.-._ |Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great. -Yoda | | '-._7' |Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ | | _)_/L I http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ | |-|--| ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoFOSS LiveDVD - test it before we burn it
Hi, A bit late, just finished the download after 2 days. Tried the Live DVD using minimal RAM config. Mac OS X 10.5.5 VirtualBox 1.6.2 Name geofoss-dvd OS Type Ubuntu Base Memory 512 MB Video Memory 8 MB Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk ACPI Enabled IO APIC Disabled VT-x/AMD-V Disabled PAE/NX Disabled Hard Disks IDE Primary Master geofoss-dvd.vdi [Normal, 8.00 GB] CD/DVD-ROM Image FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha4.iso Seems to work OK for a brief explore GRASS with NVIZ: OK QGIS, pluging/grass modules: OK Udig with sample dataset: OK GVSig with sample dataset: OK mapserver.bash: connection timeout downloading mapserver.tar.bz2 mapserver demo (australia): no map displayed in the html template. cheers, maning On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Tim Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:52 +0200, graeme mcferren wrote: Hi Tim, I have downloaded a copy of the .iso locally and will make a Live DVD of it + a DVD with the .iso on it, so we at least have a South African copy of it. Graeme Thanks Graeme, Much appreciated. I didn't get it all downloaded before I left home, but I'm now sitting in Changi Airport (Singapore) where I've discovered the *free* wireless internet access is *much* faster than my adsl at home. The download will be finished before I catch my next flight. I wasn't expecting that. I'm planning on dropping a copy of to www.multiskillmedia.co.za when I get there in the morning. Regards, Tim On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:58 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote: Mark, Please don't let that cutoff slip. How long will your upload take? I've got to start a download as soon as it's finished (note to self- I wonder if I can start slurping shortly after you start uploading? Is there an rsync daemon on the server? That might make it quicker). I'm taking a hard copy with me in case the duplication house has issues with the download size (they've flagged this yesterday as the size has grown a bit). I'll be leaving tomorrow at lunchtime, so that's cutting it fine as is. If there is anyone already in Cape Town on a fast link who can download in a timely manner, please drop me a line. I prefer to have more contingency plans ;-) Regards, Tim On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:04 +1000, Mark Leslie wrote: Lorenzo, That would be much appreciated, and I'll get the mapfile in right away. We are planning on starting to build the 'final' image this afternoon, so we've got an effective cutoff of 3pm AEST. Anything you can get in before then we'll be sure to add. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9day=24year=2008hour=15min=0sec=0p1=240 I've put together a quick, and not especially impressive, mapfile and cgi template using some australian data, so that will be in there as well, but the cgi interface doesn't look too impressive. -- Mark Leslie Geospatial Software Architect LISAsoft - Ph: +61 2 8570 5000 Fax: +61 2 8570 5099 Mob: +61 Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf 19-21 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 - LISAsoft is part of the A2end Group of Companies http://www.ardec.com.au http://www.lisasoft.com http://www.terrapages.com Lorenzo Becchi wrote: I've made a mapfile to show mapserver with the Alaska dataset: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc:mapfile_for_mapserver#WMS_calls what time is the deadline to close the final ISO? If I have time I'll try, on Wednesday, to do a zip file containing: * a home page for localhost with links to: ** Mapserver WMS getCapabilities, getMap, getLegend ** a page with OpenLayers showing available layers ** geoserver demos ciao lorenzo Tim Bowden wrote: I'm planning on using the live-DVD to load the OSGeo booth PC. If anyone wants to take advantage of the provided stack for loading some demos, please drop me a line. The plan atm is to have the PC wired to the local lan, so it can offer web services etc locally if it is set up in time. Regards, Tim Bowden On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:04 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote: Correct, please test FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha3_4.iso From now on we plan to only fix bugs and address cosmetic changes (like populating an index.html). We don't plan to add features. Also, we have extra testing time until Wednesday 24 September, but please test earlier rather than later so we have time to turn around any fixes. Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Just to clarify, it is the file: FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha3_4.iso then is the latest for testing, right? Tyler On 19-Sep-08, at 4:21 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: LISAsoft have built a LiveDVD containing a stack of quality, Open Source, Geospatial
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoFOSS LiveDVD - test it before we burn it
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mark Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops. The mapserver.bash script is one I put together to load some configuration settings into Stefans development image. It should have been deleted before making the image. No major harm in it, but it will delete the Mapserver icon from your desktop :) Did you find the 'experience' was adequate with only 512 RAM? Overall, I think its quite OK on a 512 RAM, though my mouse is a little bit clunky probably due to my virtualbox settings. I intentionally configured it with a small RAM, so we can guarantee its running on most machines. I'll test it in another PC with a much smaller RAM (256?). The DVD is just in time for an upcoming conference I will attend. Not entirely geospatial, but might be worthwhile sharing and discussing OSGE stacks during coffee breaks. cheers, maning -- Mark maning sambale wrote: Hi, A bit late, just finished the download after 2 days. Tried the Live DVD using minimal RAM config. Mac OS X 10.5.5 VirtualBox 1.6.2 Name geofoss-dvd OS Type Ubuntu Base Memory 512 MB Video Memory 8 MB Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk ACPI Enabled IO APIC Disabled VT-x/AMD-V Disabled PAE/NX Disabled Hard Disks IDE Primary Master geofoss-dvd.vdi [Normal, 8.00 GB] CD/DVD-ROM Image FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha4.iso Seems to work OK for a brief explore GRASS with NVIZ: OK QGIS, pluging/grass modules: OK Udig with sample dataset: OK GVSig with sample dataset: OK mapserver.bash: connection timeout downloading mapserver.tar.bz2 mapserver demo (australia): no map displayed in the html template. cheers, maning On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Tim Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:52 +0200, graeme mcferren wrote: Hi Tim, I have downloaded a copy of the .iso locally and will make a Live DVD of it + a DVD with the .iso on it, so we at least have a South African copy of it. Graeme Thanks Graeme, Much appreciated. I didn't get it all downloaded before I left home, but I'm now sitting in Changi Airport (Singapore) where I've discovered the *free* wireless internet access is *much* faster than my adsl at home. The download will be finished before I catch my next flight. I wasn't expecting that. I'm planning on dropping a copy of to www.multiskillmedia.co.za when I get there in the morning. Regards, Tim On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:58 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote: Mark, Please don't let that cutoff slip. How long will your upload take? I've got to start a download as soon as it's finished (note to self- I wonder if I can start slurping shortly after you start uploading? Is there an rsync daemon on the server? That might make it quicker). I'm taking a hard copy with me in case the duplication house has issues with the download size (they've flagged this yesterday as the size has grown a bit). I'll be leaving tomorrow at lunchtime, so that's cutting it fine as is. If there is anyone already in Cape Town on a fast link who can download in a timely manner, please drop me a line. I prefer to have more contingency plans ;-) Regards, Tim On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:04 +1000, Mark Leslie wrote: Lorenzo, That would be much appreciated, and I'll get the mapfile in right away. We are planning on starting to build the 'final' image this afternoon, so we've got an effective cutoff of 3pm AEST. Anything you can get in before then we'll be sure to add. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9day=24year=2008hour=15min=0sec=0p1=240 I've put together a quick, and not especially impressive, mapfile and cgi template using some australian data, so that will be in there as well, but the cgi interface doesn't look too impressive. -- Mark Leslie Geospatial Software Architect LISAsoft - Ph: +61 2 8570 5000 Fax: +61 2 8570 5099 Mob: +61 Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf 19-21 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 - LISAsoft is part of the A2end Group of Companies http://www.ardec.com.au http://www.lisasoft.com http://www.terrapages.com Lorenzo Becchi wrote: I've made a mapfile to show mapserver with the Alaska dataset: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc:mapfile_for_mapserver#WMS_calls what time is the deadline to close the final ISO? If I have time I'll try, on Wednesday, to do a zip file containing: * a home page for localhost with links to: ** Mapserver WMS getCapabilities, getMap, getLegend ** a page with OpenLayers showing available layers ** geoserver demos ciao lorenzo Tim Bowden wrote: I'm planning on using the live-DVD to load the OSGeo booth PC. If anyone wants to take advantage of the provided stack for loading some demos, please drop me a line. The plan atm is to have the PC wired to the local lan, so it can offer web services etc locally if it is set up in time
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project management software (foss) for GISprojects
Thank you for all the tips. I'm trying the trac for the meantime. I thinks it meets some of the functions we need like detailing the roadmap for tasks and activities. As well as assigning who is in charge. This would work for us in the meantime. We'll try other PMS as well. cheers, maning On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Milo van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more ;-) http://www.openworkbench.org Most important thing in project management is managing. If the ultimate project tool would exists, we would have less project-managers (Am I having a pleasant dream?) You might consider looking at PRINCE2 and ITIL methodology. If you manage to translate these methods to practice, your project might become a success. Regie Alam wrote: A good GIS project management is perhaps the product by GeoCue (http://www.niirs10.com/Products/geocue.htm). Haven't actually used the software yet but have been looking at it for a while. Is there something similar in the FOSS world? Would it be possible to customize the Gantt Project and/or Dot Project to be similar to GeoCue's? Regie --- Marco Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also could try dotproject as PM: http://www.dotproject.net/ dorProject is an ordinary Project Management Software. What special features, in general, should a PMS have to support GIS-projects? Marco Gavin Fleming schrieb: Good general purpose FOSS (Java) project management tool is http://www.ganttproject.biz/ Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maning sambale Sent: 05 August 2008 04:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project management software (foss) for GISprojects Alex, Thank you for your reply. The versioning for postgis seems a good one. However, what I'm looking for is a general purpose PMS for planning, coordinating GIS projects. I'll try postgis versioning though. Thanks! maning On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alex Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maning sambale wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a FOSS PMS for managing GIS projects. Are there any you can recommend? I'm looking at trac, it's primarily for managinf software projects. Is there anybody here who have used it for managing GIS projects? cheers, maning Trac/svn really isn't a good option since it would keep copies of every version of the binary. Poking around a little I found something based on versioning of Postgis data. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Versioning+Postgis Maybe that's more what you're looking for, it would track individual record http://www.dotproject.net/changes within your spatial layers. Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss begin:vcard fn:Marco Lechner n:Lechner;Marco org;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:Universit=C3=A4t Freiburg;Institut f=C3=BCr Physische Geographie adr:;;Werthmannstr. 4;Freiburg;;79085;Deutschland email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+49(0)761/203-3548 tel;fax:+49(0)761/203-3596 url:http://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de version:2.1 end:vcard ___ 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 -- *Milo van der Linden* GIS and web3D specialist View Milo van der Linden's profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/3b3/a76 *3DSite* http://www.3dsite.nl Joachimikade 3F http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Joachimikade+3F%2CGoes%2CZeeland+4461BG%2CThe+Netherlandshl=en Goes, Zeeland 4461BG The Netherlands *Phone: * +31113751508 *Mobile:* +31616598808 *Email: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Skype: * milovanderlindenMy status skype:milovanderlinden?add * Mapserver hosting http://www.mapserv.nl * GoogleEarth business solutions * Geo-exposure ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- |-|--| | __.-._ |Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great. -Yoda | | '-._7' |Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |-|--| ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
