Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Israel and Romanian local chapter?

2008-02-26 Thread Micha Silver
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,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Israel and Romanian local chapter?

2008-02-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
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:

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
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

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
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

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
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