[OSGeo-Discuss] strange issue PostGis + Mapserver

2010-07-16 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Hello everybody and excuse me for the crossposting, I'd like to report a strange issue I have with Mapserver and PostGis in order to get some new ideas on the problem. [Environment] * Ubuntu Karmic Server * Mapserver 5.4.2 * Postgres 8.3.9 * Postgis 1.5.1 * Postgis table with +3 Multipolygon

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [mapserver-users] strange issue PostGis + Mapserver

2010-07-16 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Hello Yves, yes, it was one of the things I tried (but I forgot to mention) I checked the SHP geometry with ArcGis and also the Postgis geometry. I've even used the Tim Sutton cleangeometry function. There wasn't any variation :( Thanks, -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (EspaƱa)

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo UK IRC channel

2010-07-16 Thread Joanne Cook
Dear All, Thanks for the pointers with setting up #osgeo-uk on freenode- it worked a treat (as far as I could tell). Logging would be good, if it's possible to set that up for us (or tell me how to set that up) Thanks Jo -- - Joanne Cook

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK IRC meeting on Monday

2010-07-16 Thread Joanne Cook
Dear All, I'm pleased to announce a meeting of OSGeo:UK on IRC on Monday 19th at 3pm. All are welcome to attend. How to join: 1) Join the irc.freenode.net network 2) Join the #osgeo-uk channel If you need more information on IRC then the OSGeo page is here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IRC and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G

2010-07-16 Thread Yves Moisan
Hi Folks, I noticed there were no priviledged hotel for FOSS4G (which is a drag IMO) so I was wondering where attendees are intending to go so we try and book our hotel room or apartment (there seems to be quite a few of those for weekly rents) close to at least one signficant group of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G

2010-07-16 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Hey Yves, I agree it's a shame there is not more coordination when it comes to accommodation. I myself booked the Vincci Arena Hotel, and I heard of some others booking the Onix Fira. Best regards, Bart Hi Folks, I noticed there were no priviledged hotel for FOSS4G (which is a drag IMO) so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G

2010-07-16 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Hi, There is a section with a list of places to stay at wikipage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Barcelona_Local_Chapter_-_helping_FOSS4G_2010#Hostales.2Fbed.26breakfast . I created a separate wikipage listing the place and the persons planning to stay there.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G

2010-07-16 Thread Yves Moisan
Thanx Chaitanya for the reply. This looks more like a list of places. I didn't find *where* people go, which is what I'm really looking for. Thanx anyways, Yves There is a section with a list of places to stay at wikipage at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: OneSpace2010

2010-07-16 Thread P Kishor
- Final CALL FOR PAPERS: OneSpace2010 [ apologies for multiple copies ] - 3rd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2010) http://onespace.kmi.open.ac.uk/2010/ In conjunction with

[OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-16 Thread cruiserad
am in a quandry, have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a datset. 1. have tried GVsig and quantumGIS, but neither seems to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-16 Thread Brent Fraser
You could use GDAL's ogr2ogr (I think it's packaged in FWTools) to convert CSV (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html) to a shapefile. Or, depending on what your plans are for the data, you may want to load the points into PostGIS/Postgres for better performance, more flexibility in querying, etc.