Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The depth of FOSS Spatial Data Infrastructure

2010-08-03 Thread dirk frigne
Hi Ravi, Can you mail the document to me also? I will give my 2c in return. Dirk Chris Puttick wrote: Sounds like an excellent document! Email it on and I'll have it neatly butchered. The web portal claim is remarkable, as are claims of limited analysis capabilities. Regards Chris

[OSGeo-Discuss] 1 week to test the OSGeo-Live DVD before we burn it

2010-08-03 Thread Cameron Shorter
The OSGeo-Live DVD is looking great, with 43 pre-configured GeoSpatial Open Source packages and marketing documentation. It will be sent to the printers next week, Monday 9 August, and we are calling on all projects to test their applications and documentation and verify everything is working

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mapguide 2.1 and ESRI ARCGis

2010-08-03 Thread Erik Heinze-Milne
Has anyone tried to install Mapguide 2.1 and ARCGIS on the same server before? When I try Mapguide seems to take over ARCs connections, causing ARC not to work. -- Erik Heinze-Milne heinz...@gmail.com Home: (902)-442-6180 Cell: 300-2187 Programmer Landmark

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapGuide and Xamp

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Bray
This list is for general OSGeo discussions and not for project specific questions. For MapGuide support sign up for the mapguide-users mailing list here: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users. Then send your question to

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapguide 2.1 and ESRI ARCGis

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Bray
This list is for general OSGeo discussions and not for project specific questions. For MapGuide support sign up for the mapguide-users mailing list here: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users. Then send your question to

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Superficial review of copyright issues related tocollection and publication of education material on OSGeoWebsite (LINK)

2010-08-03 Thread Landon Blake
Simon, Thank you for the hard work you have put into summarizing the copyright issues related to OSGeo content. I have a personal goal of preparing some articles and tutorials related to FOSS geospatial software. I didn't give enough consideration to the licensing of the (1) tutorial text, (2)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Superficial review of copyright issues related tocollection and publication of education material on OSGeoWebsite (LINK)

2010-08-03 Thread George Silva
Regarding images used in the tutorial, specially where it was asked to license the pictures/images that are a product of spatial analysis or some procedure: Couldn't we make a few stub images representing basic operations and give them away for free? Without actual data? I know it doesn't cover

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] mxd to other format (i.e. shapefile)

2010-08-03 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
Essentially, yes. The .mxd does not store the actual geometry or attributes of a spatial data set, it just stores a path (or database connection info) to the data source. So, the data that you are viewing in ArcMap may already be in a shapefile format. To determine the source of the layer

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing AGU Session N19. Information Technology Infusion Success Strategies

2010-08-03 Thread Karl Benedict
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the following session for the Fall 2010 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting being held in San Francisco, California from December 13-17 (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/). N19. Information Technology Infusion Success Strategies

[OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-03 Thread berryman
Hello, I am hope to use GIS for a traffic analysis program that I am involved with. After having looked at a couple weeks worth of GIS resources, I still feel like I haven't found what I'm looking for and it's time to get some human input. The main source of my frustration is that all of the