Hi Tyler:
I'd certainly be pleased if there were more OSGeo activity here in
Israel (and adoption of other open source software as well). However
ESRI is very solidly implanted here. For the most part Israelis equate
GIS with Arcview, and are not aware of alternatives. In my estimation,
Micha Silver ha scritto:
ESRI is very solidly implanted here. For the most part Israelis equate
GIS with Arcview, and are not aware of alternatives. In my estimation,
there's an uphill climb before reaching the level where we can start
talking about a local chapter.
A more positive word:
François:
When you say Mega-Images (- geo-sized images), just how big are you talking
about?
If you are in the 10-100GB range, I/LizardTech would be very interested in
talking with you about the project, and also about supporting some of the geo
metadata conventions. (Especially if you can
IMO:
Michael,
Again, I don't pretend to be an expert on JPEG2000. However, I'd like to
know more about the format for future reference.
Does the wiki article at the following URL represent a good overview of
the format?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
If it is accurate, there is a
I've not read the whole Wikipedia article, but the statement images
have to be transformed from the RGB color space to another color space
is indeed incorrect. Images that are 3-banded MAY be encoded with the
YCC transform, but this is not required; images with some other number
of bands do NOT