RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocating Reasonable Public Access to PubliclyFunded Geospatial Data

2007-11-12 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks Helena. I will subscribe to the OSGeo Geodata Mailing List and post some questions there. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:48 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocating Reasonable Public Access to Publicly Funded Geospatial Data

2007-11-12 Thread Helena Mitasova
Landon, You can find a nice example of how agencies already provide free access to publicly funded geospatial data released in formats that are readable by OSGEO software stack at http://www.nconemap.org/ You need to work with your state and local governments because they are the ones who fund

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocating Reasonable Public Access to Publicly Funded Geospatial Data

2007-11-12 Thread David William Bitner
Landon -- Please look at http://www.osgeo.org/geodata and join the mailing list. The OSGeo Geodata committee has been a part of OSGeo pretty much from the beginning of OSGeo. David On 11/12/07, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any effort at the OSGeo to advocate for "reason

[OSGeo-Discuss] Advocating Reasonable Public Access to Publicly Funded Geospatial Data

2007-11-12 Thread Landon Blake
Is there any effort at the OSGeo to advocate for "reasonable" access to publicly funded geospatial data? By reasonable I mean: [1] With an affordable price reflecting the actual cost to reproduce the data. [2] Released in a format that doesn't require expensive proprietary software. For ex

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G e-primer first draft

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Holler
Hi Franck! I think your e-primer gives a good introduction into the world of FOSS4G - thank you! If you're searching for a very comprehensive overview of GIS-related open source projects, have a look at freegis.org [1]. Currently there are 376 listed projects: * category software: 325 * cat. Geo-D

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G e-primer first draft

2007-11-12 Thread Nahmsath YABOURI
Congrat Frank! Maybe you need to update QGIS screenshot to reflect version 0.9 as stated in your primer. Hope to see translated versions of the primer in others languages. Warm regards, 2007/11/12, Miguel Montesinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Franck, > > congratulations for your intiative! We ma

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G e-primer first draft

2007-11-12 Thread Miguel Montesinos
Hi Franck, congratulations for your intiative! We mantain a similar work for the Spanish-speaking community, but it's only in Spanish at the moment, sorry. I see some useful projects which could be added to your report: * Desktop GIS: - gvSIG [1], the project I take part in. - Nasa World