[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS Podcasts

2008-01-21 Thread Landon Blake
Did you know that Directions Magazine has GIS podcasts online? http://www.directionsmag.com/podcasts.php This has inspired me to try a couple of FOSS GIS podcasts. I bought a microphone and book on podcasting this weekend. I also downloaded Audacity to use for the podcast editing. I

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-21 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks for the e-mail Luis. You wrote: " in gvSIG we're using a quite diferent approach to projections support. We're using a JNI wrapper over proj4, due to the accuracy of this library in the case of spanish datum changes (ED50-ETRS89)." This sounds like a good approach for your project, but I w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-21 Thread Luis W. Sevilla
Hi Landon, in gvSIG we're using a quite diferent approach to projections support. We're using a JNI wrapper over proj4, due to the accuracy of this library in the case of spanish datum changes (ED50-ETRS89). Normative operations use a NadGrids grid, and geotools does not (or at last did not) su

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction

2008-01-21 Thread Landon Blake
Mike, I'd like to extend a personal welcome to you from OSGeo. (I'm sorry it has taken me so long to do this.) I think it is great to have someone from a company like Bentley on board. You mentioned that you believe there is a role fro both proprietary and open source software. I think we would a

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-21 Thread Landon Blake
I've spoken with a couple of the GeoTools folks about helping to maintain their projection code, which uses the ESPG database. This is of interest to me because it is a comprehensive (and working) projection library written in Java that we can incorporate into OpenJUMP. I don't know if there are a