Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-07 Thread Jody Garnett
I was not in Africa for FOSS4G but i understand. Your point was actually part of my assumptions - let me try again. I have a Java API (very simple String + Extent) that I have backed on to that http://geocoder.us/ and then onto customers shape files as uDig based projects require. You are welcome

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data Hosting For OSM PD?

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Turner
What about S3? Wouldn't be very expensive. TeleScience may be another option. > > On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, "Landon Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been working with a few of the folks from the Open Street Map. We are a > group within the OSM community that is very interested in setti

[OSGeo-Discuss] Introducing Google.org Geo Challenge Grants

2008-11-07 Thread Karin Tuxen-Bettman
Hello OS-GEO Community, If you work at a non-profit organization, keep reading for information about Google.org's Geo Challenge Grants! You can also get more information at their blog posting . Also, if you know others tha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data Hosting For OSM PD?

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Basques
Landon, I'm part of a non-profit recently put together to try to help promote this same sort of data sharing, we want to take it a bit further than you describe though, by allowing the option of setting up data feeds for WMS/WFS services. These resulting services would be intended as seamless

[OSGeo-Discuss] Data Hosting For OSM PD?

2008-11-07 Thread Landon Blake
I've been working with a few of the folks from the Open Street Map. We are a group within the OSM community that is very interested in setting up a repository or pool to host the map data we contribute in a separate space, before it is uploaded to OSM. We'd like to do this so we can collaborate on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Turner
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Judit Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jody Garnett schrieb: >> Fair enough - one thing I am interested in is having an API to interact >> with a range of geocoder implementations. I know the [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> list will remind me of OpenLS - but I am not sure if

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-07 Thread Judit Mays
Jody Garnett schrieb: > Fair enough - one thing I am interested in is having an API to interact > with a range of geocoder implementations. I know the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > list will remind me of OpenLS - but I am not sure if that has seen any > adoption in the wild (although it looks like their is a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-07 Thread Alvaro Zabala
We evaluated OpenLS, and discarded it because there isnt any standard or implementation to support it, at least in remote distributed environments. If I publish a geocoder API, I have to think in tools for possible "API consumers" to use it. We decided to use SOAP for pragmatism (almost all develo