Good point Jody. This is the reason why I think that OSGeo should put effort
into fundraising for code sprints first, and project marketing to users with a
lower priority.
Andreas.
On Nov 10, 2010, at 07:41 , Jody Garnett wrote:
The other side of promotion is helping to attract new
Hello everybody,
I am forwarding this email from one of our IT guys (Federico). It would be
great if someone could help us with this issue. Everybody knows the encodings
come from the hell and we can't dodge ArcGIS in this case.
Thank you very much.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Federico
I have find one solution to that using Fusion template. With small
modification i have in my project my vector layers and Google maps. But,
there is problem with projections...
First i have put vector data in WGS85 - LL84 coordinate system on the Google
aps, and it seams that google map data are
Haha - only one response, I'm guessing there isn't general interest (only 1/10
of 1%) or that local chapters are filling that need well enough... and that's
great!
If anyone does want to meet up, ask questions, share encouraging stories, just
say hi, etc. I know I'll be available following
If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and district,
for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these, but all are going
to take lots of cleaning up.
Cheers.
P.
Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population:
You can try geonames: go to http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ and
download NZ.zip.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter web...@pl.net wrote:
If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and
district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these,
I'd suggest asking on the Australia-New Zealand mailing list if you haven't
already. Getting access to local might be easy enough and others may have
reformatted your local sources for you.
http://lists.osgeo.org
Tyler
On 2010-11-10, at 5:38 PM, Peter wrote:
If i wanted to make a list of
