[OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview

2011-10-02 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Can anyone point me to a sort of OpenGis Overview .. anything that can support me in choosing which GIS-tool/s is best suited for a particular problem and what sort of problems the available GIS-tools best tackles?I have a strong interest in general GIS, and a very limited user-experience ..

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview

2011-10-02 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi Carsten,Some years ago I made this graphic to illustrate that, including a legend: http://eos.geocat.net/download/SDI-Architecture.pdf (to big for inclusion in the email)Although there are a few outdated and a few new components around today (OpenLayers is not yet listed in thin-clients for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview

2011-10-02 Thread se...@arnulf.us
Carsten, you find these most simplistic categories right on the OSGeo web site on the right hand: http://osgeo.org Another good starting point might be OSGeo Live at: http://live.osgeo.org/ which also includes short descriptions in several languages and projects not directly related to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview

2011-10-02 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.10.2011 12:50, Carsten Troelsgaard wrote: Jeroen, it looks very promising - I look forward to delve on it and will surely keep it for further reference. Arnulf, the osgeo page has links to projects. The tab/ web mapping has an array of

[OSGeo-Discuss] help with catalog of OGC services

2011-10-02 Thread John Callahan
I have about 15 or so OGC services running with MapServer, mostly WMS but a few WFS and hopefully some WCS in the future. I'd like to have an easy way for users to browse through my services. Of course, I can manually create a web page listing my services but there should be something better.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview

2011-10-02 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Arnulf, Thanks for your thorough input CarstenT Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 15:53:06 +0200 From: se...@arnulf.us To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS Overview -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.10.2011 12:50, Carsten Troelsgaard wrote: