Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do youXXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Jody Garnett
Hey Mike: I am not sure about other projects; but for uDig we have a "tasks" section; and we depend on our contributors to populate it. You will find that many of the contributors have not used ArcMap and are not in a position to write a from this perspective. For uDig the tasks section is in

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Harvesting from a Geoportal Extension 9.3.1

2011-02-03 Thread jforne
Hi Marten - thanks for your advice - much appreciated! Ian, do you know what the URL is for the CSW interface? Cheers, John John Forne New Zealand Geospatial Office | DDI: +64 4 496 5404 www.geospatial.govt.nz Land Information New Zealand l Toitu te whenua La

[OSGeo-Discuss] How does GeoNetwork generate UUIDs?

2011-02-03 Thread John Forne
Hi there I've using GeoNetwork v2.4 and gather that the GeoNetwork software somehow automatically generates UUIDs. Can anyone explain/direct me to some documents that explain exactly how the UUID is assigned to a particular record? Thanks in anticipation, John John Forne New Zealand Geospatia

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] not spam :)

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Lucas
Amazing what has happened in those 5 years. It was great to be in that first meeting and see the organization grow. Happy Birthday OSGEO mark On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > Happy birthday to all of you! > > -mpg, who was happy to be able to attend on that Chicago day

[OSGeo-Discuss] Anniversary Celebrations!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Is it anniversary or birthday? Ah, maybe both! I started putting some of the ideas for celebrating onto the wiki page - add your ideas, challenge others, have some fun! http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anniversary_Celebrations_2011___ Discuss mailing list

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] not spam :)

2011-02-03 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Happy birthday to all of you! -mpg, who was happy to be able to attend on that Chicago day five years ago > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:38

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] not spam :)

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Oh darn, they put a silly subject line :) Believe it or not, this is not SPAM... much tastier! On 2011-02-03, at 9:35 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > > My 2 minutes cake decorating. You can better, I challenge you!! :) > > Tyler > > To check the card, click here: > > http://www.theoworlds.com/

[OSGeo-Discuss] Tyler Mitchell sent you an e-card through TheoWorlds.com!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
My 2 minutes cake decorating. You can better, I challenge you!! :) Tyler To check the card, click here: http://www.theoworlds.com/birthday/index.php?CardID=146004 --- TheoWorlds.com - make your message fun! Flash games, e-cards, applications...

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do youXXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Mike
I've often thought a document like this would be quite useful. http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165 This one says "You do this in ArcMap, here's how to do it in Manifold" Is there a guide like this for some of the OSGeo applicatio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 2011-02-03, at 3:50 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > Ok as Tyler is apparently very busy I'll post here some ideas (without > of course any time to implement some) Hehe, yes running behind on a few things, but I know your ideas would be better than mine anyway ;-) > * A metapixel[2] im

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do youXXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Bob Basques
All, Could an expanded version of something like this comparison work: http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=257&Itemid=59&lang=en I really like this comparison, and the fact that there are many versions available, each with added content, makes the whole proce

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Erickson
I don't think a FAQ needs to point to one "single best tool". As Frank noted in his examples, the answer could be a list of tools if more than one provides the capability. Answers that include links to a description of the capability (and/or examples of usage) in the project documentation would b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Borrell
Here is a link, somehow related, hope it helps: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/WhitePaper/tsou_free-GIS-for-educators-whitepaper.pdf

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Local-chapters] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!

2011-02-03 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
El 03/02/2011 10:36, Yves Jacolin escribió: > Hello, > > Le jeudi 03 février 2011 10:32:14, Seven (aka Arnulf) a écrit : >> [..] >> >> Join the party? > yes! > >> Local Chaps, >> this is a great opportunity to have a news item and maybe some thoughts >> of your own role in your local chapter list

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Local-chapters] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!

2011-02-03 Thread Yves Jacolin
Hello, Le jeudi 03 février 2011 10:32:14, Seven (aka Arnulf) a écrit : > [..] > > Join the party? yes! > Local Chaps, > this is a great opportunity to have a news item and maybe some thoughts > of your own role in your local chapter lists and web sites too. I have some idea but it still too soon

[OSGeo-Discuss] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!

2011-02-03 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
Folks, I added another agenda item which I believe is really important. Thanks for Tyler and Jorge to remind us! We have an anniversary tomorrow. Five years ago OSGeo was born in it's current incarnation. Since then we have served the vision of promoting and supporting Free and Open Source Sof

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Board] Helpers at FOSS4G

2011-02-03 Thread Ravi
Great news Tyler. All the best Ravi --- On Thu, 3/2/11, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: From: Seven (aka Arnulf) Subject: Re: [Board] Helpers at FOSS4G To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thursday, 3 February, 2011, 2:03 PM On 02/01/2011 11:31 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a hea

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Has anyone written a "How do you XXX with Open Source GIS?"

2011-02-03 Thread Hamish
Jody: > This request comes up yearly; and was > one of the ideas for content for the osgeo website. The > difficulty is finding resources to produce the content. > > The trouble is just because a request is common, and makes > perfect sense from a marketing open source geospatial point > of view,