Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Ramsey
Mapserver, of course, is probably rife with great case-study candidates... the ideal ones are large government organizations or corporations, because the point is to establish "brand credibility". I believe Apache is good because I know IBM uses is. I believe Mapserver is good because I kno

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Ramsey
There are not very many extant descriptions of case studies of the kind I consider useful, namely the "traditional IT shop examines options and makes a change" sort. gvSIG in Valencia makes a poor case study because it's so "big bang"... I mean, it's amazing a whole province decided to plu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Cameron Shorter
I've added the following line to the wiki: # Postings can range from Full Time positions, down to short contracts: "Can someone help me configure my database". Feel free to remove of I'm missed the vibe. Lorenzo Becchi wrote: I would like to add the URL of the tentative text we could add the t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

2008-01-31 Thread Cameron Shorter
Daniel, here is some feedback from one of the Australian agencies, I'm hoping for more feedback in the next day or so: I'd like to see where an organisation has successfully implemented OS Spatial products, including: - what drove them to do this - what evaluation they did - what benefits

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Digital Nautical Charts

2008-01-31 Thread Frank Warmerdam
John Griffiths wrote: I am a total newbie to GRASS. I have searched trying to find information about Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) data and importing it or reading the DNC data into GRASS. I tried orginfo and it could not get any information about the data. Can GRASS or GRASS with an addon re

[OSGeo-Discuss] Digital Nautical Charts

2008-01-31 Thread John Griffiths
I am a total newbie to GRASS. I have searched trying to find information about Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) data and importing it or reading the DNC data into GRASS. I tried orginfo and it could not get any information about the data. Can GRASS or GRASS with an addon read/import DNC data? If

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Landon Blake
I think that this is a good idea Lorenzo. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Becchi Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:26 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation I would like to add the URL

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Dave Patton wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Hi, We have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] mailing list dedicated to post job offers by companies looking for FOSS/GIS specialists. The list is moderated. We've talked with Lorenzo a bit about what should the moderation process look like. What criteria should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Dave Patton
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Hi, We have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] mailing list dedicated to post job offers by companies looking for FOSS/GIS specialists. The list is moderated. We've talked with Lorenzo a bit about what should the moderation process look like. What criteria should we use to accept or

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Bruce, Bob (CON)
Hi: I'd suggest that we restrict it to GIS jobs related to FOSS. There already are many other sites devoted to jobs in GIS in general, we don't need to put another one out there. Bob Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ma

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
I would like to add the URL of the tentative text we could add the the list main page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Jobs_List Lorenzo Mateusz Loskot wrote: Hi, We have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] mailing list dedicated to post job offers by companies looking for FOSS/GIS specialists. The list

[OSGeo-Discuss] Job offers moderation

2008-01-31 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, We have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] mailing list dedicated to post job offers by companies looking for FOSS/GIS specialists. The list is moderated. We've talked with Lorenzo a bit about what should the moderation process look like. What criteria should we use to accept or not a job posting. So