AW: [OSGeo-Discuss] 52°North announces this year's Student Innovation Prize

2011-03-04 Thread Ann Hitchcock
You definitely have a point! Thanks for the eye opener. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Henning Lorenz Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. März 2011 15:55 An: OSGeo Discussions Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss]

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Montreal Code Sprint seeking more sponsors due to record participation

2011-03-04 Thread Daniel Morissette
The Montreal Code Sprint of March 15-18, 2011 has reached a record of 29 registered participants from 9 open source projects as of yesterday. This is awesome news for OSGeo and its projects that will get a significant boost of code and contributions during that week! The downside of this is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Jobs list

2011-03-04 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi! Maybe a good opportunity to discuss this :-) Traffic on the OSGeo Discuss list is not very high these days, but it has by far the largest number of subscribers. When posting a job opportunity you want to have a large crowd reading it. Maybe we should reconsider if it is indeed a problem

[OSGeo-Discuss] Metadata Server applications?

2011-03-04 Thread Ken
I am looking to see if there any new open source metadata server applications. I have looked into GeoNetwork, is there anything else? I currently use ISITE2 which is a great product, supported by a great individual. Is there anything new out there I can replace it with? What I need: - index

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Metadata Server applications?

2011-03-04 Thread Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]
Ken: you could use OGC CSW for discovery, which allows for spatial/aspatial search and present functionality, assuming you have some sort of standardized metadata (ISO, Dublin Core, etc.). Sounds like you need to connect and expose existing metadata to a search server. As for implementations,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Cloud-centered activities and implementations?

2011-03-04 Thread Jens Fitzke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I got an opportunity (well on very short notice) for a presentation on Open Source GIS stuff for the Cloud. I'd like to point to as many as possible OSGeo activities regarding this. I already found some information on Swisstopo (Mapfish stuff

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open-source project site construction

2011-03-04 Thread Alex Borrell
Hello Robert, I'm not sure if this will help, but I've been using OSGeo live dvd to start a production server. I'm doing it under Linux (Ubuntu), mainly for it multiuser, multitasking features (a server:)) Itś not a large project, but after configuring it, I've managed shared resources, users and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Cloud-centered activities and implementations?

2011-03-04 Thread Arnie Shore
Hello there. We have an Open Source Computer-Aided-Dispatch application we're making available on the cloud. While its mapping engine - for now - is one of the GYM geo-platforms, the balance is Open Source. On the cloud, it is free to public service agencies. See at www.ticketscad.org Arnie

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Metadata Server applications?

2011-03-04 Thread Julia Harrell
There's a recent report here comparing Buddata, Geonetwork deegree CSW capabilities http://www.envision-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/D5.1-FINAL.pdf And a number of articles about different CSW servers here http://lab.usgin.org/groups/csw-debug-blog/ one in particular

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Cloud-centered activities and implementations?

2011-03-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
This paper from the OSGeo Journal may be of interest: http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/174 Geoprocessing in the Clouds Bastian Baranski, Bastian Schaeffer, Richard Redweik Abstract Cloud Computing is one of the latest hypes in the mainstream IT world. Spatial