Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Hi Tyler, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: 1. To lead training courses that may also come with a certificate or be part of a larger program. (e.g. for users, developers, integrators to gain personal knowledge and show it off, maybe in a GISP style?)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 09/06/2011 21:38, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises are currently offering, -1. We want OSGeo to support our work, not to compete with it. This

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Andy Turner
3. To technically certify a product or application - (e.g. as a sort of endorsement that the technology meets some OSGeo standard) I don't understand this. The following standards come to mind: Does the product output OGC compliant data? Uses compatible versions and licenses? Maybe to do

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-06-09, at 11:00 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote: 3. To technically certify a product or application - (e.g. as a sort of endorsement that the technology meets some OSGeo standard) I don't understand this. The following standards come to mind: Does the product output OGC compliant

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-06-09, at 11:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises are currently offering, -1. We want OSGeo to support our work, not to compete with it.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I appreciate all these varied viewpoints, so keep them coming! It's not my recommendation, so I don't have anything to defend thankfully ;-) Stepping back, I wonder if maybe the high response on this survey question more reflects an innate need that some feel is not being currently met. That

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 10/06/2011 09:18, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Stepping back, I wonder if maybe the high response on this survey question more reflects an innate need that some feel is not being currently met. That is, how wide really is the grasp of current trainers to meet the global demand? IMHO, the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
We have a data set of orthophotos. The specs are: · 51,971 images, (1.92 Terabytes total) · 30 cm GSD · Cut in 2km x 2km grid · No overlap between images We are an ESRI shop and we are using version 9.31 on the desktop and the server. We do not have the ESRI

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [AtlanticCanada] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Koordinates.com offers hosting of orthophotos on their servers (as they do for Land Information New Zealand), there is also an API option available. I don't know the detils, you'll just need to ask the developers of it. cheers, Sam On 6/10/11, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [AtlanticCanada] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
Sam, Thanks for the info but I must host the images on our own servers. Bernie. -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ -Original Message- From: atlanticcanada-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1? Tilecache (tilecache.org)? Then if Arc can consume wms-c services your are good to go. cheers -- G -- ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 3:08 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: On 10/06/2011 4:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 09/06/2011 21:38, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Charlie Schweik
I'm not going to weigh in on the certification question -- I don't understand the companies out there doing training and the issues raised by Cameron and others. Apologies in advance for a long posting. But I find myself puzzling about how this is linked to universities (our edu group) and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/10/2011 9:29 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1? Tilecache (tilecache.org)? Then if Arc can consume wms-c services your are good to go. You might want to look at mod_geocache[1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Daniel Ames
I tend to agree with Cameron on this one. There is already the GISci certification process that we don't want to compete with. Plus which particular tools from the OSGeo stack would one be required to be proficient in to be OSGeo Certified. I think that if a particular project wanted to create a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G speakers selected and program to be published shortly

2011-06-10 Thread Silvia Franceschi
Dear Peter, just to be sure, is the deadline for the early registration really extended to June 30th? I checked the website (timetable) and there is still the 17th June. Thanks in advance for the reply Regards, Silvia On 06/08/2011 02:15 AM, Peter Batty wrote: After a lot of hard work from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm liking this thread. Seems like a long time coming to tell the truth. I think this training aspect needs to happen no matter what. I'm still foggy on the details to implement, same as everyone else. It needs to be thought about in the context of moving projects as well as the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Basques
All, Sorry, I thought of another piece to this conversation that might stimulate the conversation. Here at the City we're currently pursuing a Public Works Accreditation for use of Best Practices. My question to the group would be, what would a theoretical response be from OSGEO on the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Julia Harrell
Clarification: ArcGIS desktop is *NOT* able to consume wms-c natively, and probably won't ever. Maybe WMTS someday. ArcBruTile will fix that. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Help building a tile cache from a large dataset of orthophotos

2011-06-10 Thread Julia Harrell
Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1? Tilecache (tilecache.org)? Then if Arc can consume wms-c services your are good to go. Or GeoWebcache. ArcGIS desktop is able to consume wms-c natively. At one point last

[OSGeo-Discuss] Live webcasts of the Third Open Source GIS Conference- OSGIS 2011

2011-06-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear All, As done over the previous years, we have made arrangements for the live webcasts of this year's Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2011) at the Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham so that the excellent work done by the open source GIS community reaches more people

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mapguide 2.1 - Windows 7 - Gdal Raster freezes over 4GB

2011-06-10 Thread Troy Miller
I have a problem I am experiencing were the mapguide server becomes unresponsive and locks up with raster datasets over 4GB. The strange part is the same setup with the same dataset works with Windows XP but does not work in Windows 7 32 bit. I cannot stop the MGServer process so I have to kill

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2012 Call for Hosting

2011-06-10 Thread Jeff McKenna
The OSGeo Conference Committee is happy to announce the call for hosting the FOSS4G 2012 event. With the excitement building for the upcoming event in Denver, and after such a wonderful event in Barcelona last year, OSGeo again plans on making the 2012 event *the* geospatial conference of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Media Sponsorship

2011-06-10 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
On 06/09/2011 10:35 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: Hi everybody, I've been working on an idea to start a Media Sponsorship opportunity for OSGeo. We already do this same idea for FOSS4G each year, so why not try it for the organisation in general? I already know of a few media companies that would

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Media Sponsorship

2011-06-10 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
+1 here too. I like the idea of providing an avenue for us to pitch articles, etc. I know that in principle anyone can submit a piece to most of the industry pubs, but in practice the editors tend to favor those they have a pre-existing relationship with. -mpg -Original Message-

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G program published and new web site launched

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Batty
We are pleased to announce the publication of the FOSS4G 2011 program. You can view the program details herehttp://2011.foss4g.org/program/session-schedule. Selection was very competitive - we had almost 300 submissions for around 150 sessions. So congratulations to those who made it, and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G program published and new web site launched

2011-06-10 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the hard work; the improved website is a joy to navigate. -- Jody Garnett On Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 8:27 AM, Peter Batty wrote: We are pleased to announce the publication of the FOSS4G 2011 program. You can view the program details here