[OSGeo-Discuss] Video sample

2010-06-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Good day, A few weeks back I put together a video presentation of OSGeo. Basically a slideshow with a voiceover. It was my very first attempt to have a 'virtual' presentation at an event that I couldn't travel to. I thought you might be interested: http://vimeo.com/12443877 I'm day dreaming

[OSGeo-Discuss] Greece follows INSPIRE (and attempts to go OpenGeo?)

2010-06-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Greetings to the list. (Apologies to the BCC-ed recipients since this might or might not be of your interest) The Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change [1] (yes, you read correctly) has decided to (finally) put on a public discussion the law that concerns a national

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD

2010-06-30 Thread Landon Blake
Leith, I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds. You might be able to create some type of live CD that they use to demo Linux distributions, but otherwise your map viewing software needs to be installed on the target computer. There are a few good open source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD? Bruce [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF On 1/07/10 2:53 AM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Leith, I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds. You might be able to create some type of live CD

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Video sample

2010-06-30 Thread Simon Cropper
On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:45:09 Tyler Mitchell wrote: I thought you might be interested Tyler, I enjoyed the presentation. Very good. Suggest you link this video to the OsGeo Homepage permanently or insert a link in the About the foundation page on the website. It is a good introduction and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Andrew Turner
Bruce Bannerman wrote: Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD? Hrm, GeoPDF... that's a fun one :) For Haiti, I took Chris Schmidt's HaitiBrowser [1] and modified it to run locally [2] by double-clicking the index.html file and loading local tiles. This was required as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Bob Basques
Leith, I've managed to have GeoMoose run from a USB drive, complete with MapServer and PHP, nothing get's copied, you run everything from USB, even Apache. Makes for a nice development environment, since you as a developer have complete control from front to back for the user experience.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Richards Stallman was in Greece

2010-06-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
(I know this is half-way on-topic but might be of your interest) Richard Stallman was in Thessaloniki [1] and in Athens [2] a few weeks ago. You can just skip the (boring) intro's (which are in Greek anyway) and jump to Richard's talk(s). Nikos --- [1]