[OSGeo-Discuss] Bed and Breakfast room available in Barcelona to take over

2010-08-17 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi all, I have a surplus reservation for a bed and breakfast place in Barcelona. Someone can take it from me, I did a small downpayment for the room already. Booking is from 5 to12 september and the room has a double and a single bed. Details: http://www.guesthousejardinets.com/ The room is the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

2010-08-17 Thread Brent Fraser
Peter, If all you want to do is render a shapefile to a png image using a command line (once? twice? many times?) then mapserver's shp2img is a good solution, or even GDAL's gdal_rasterize (http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html). But if you need a web mapping framework (html,

[OSGeo-Discuss] uDig 1.2.0 Released

2010-08-17 Thread Jody Garnett
The uDig 1.2 release process is complete and we are pleased to offer uDig 1.2.0 for download. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 2.6.5. The uDig 1.2.0 release is available from the main download page. INSTALLATION Download the package appropriate to your platform, unzip and run:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

2010-08-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, Well, one could go old school, and just store the SHP files as the sourced data. Have mapserver read them directly, either via a dynamically modified index file, or via dynamically built MAPFILE. This would be just about the least amount of moving parts and still get you what you are

[OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
I am working on a presentation focused on, What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in OpenSource. My goal is to introduce people to cool projects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Bob Basques
David, I've been working on something (I think is interesting) with Linux Phones. I have GeoMoose/Mapserver running on a phone as a standalone server, and can even print over bluetooth/wifi from the phone. It's a little research project, but it's interesting to see that most things are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Ravi
To add one of the strongest Ability of Open GIS.. Translation of front end into Local languages.. In India it is Indic translation.. No proprietary GIS can compete. --- On Tue, 17/8/10, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: From: Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us Subject: Re:

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and I think it has been helpful to some of us. -mpg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel Morissette
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and I think it has been helpful to some of us. The statements from the others who provided one are *after* the nomination

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Ah, sorry, I scanned the first couple too quickly then jumped to the end too fast. But, still, there's little or nothing there from too many of the candidates. By this metric, so far Daniel and Paolo get my votes... -mpg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Ah, sorry, I scanned the first couple too quickly then jumped to the end too fast. But, still, there's little or nothing there from too many of the candidates. By this metric, so far Daniel and Paolo get my votes... Michael, I certainly think this would be a great

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

2010-08-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: I am working on a presentation focused on, What's New and Cool in OpenSource Geospatial for a group of GIS professionals.  This group is most familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a