[OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread akshay gupta
Hi all, I am writing an application to load vector maps/shape files using gdal/ogr and display them onto a gui designed using Qt. I am new to dealing with vector files, I am not able to decide how to render them on GUI. Few approaches that come to my mind are: - To convert vector files to raster

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread Mohammed Rashad
Hi Akshay, There is QGIS[1] which does both raster and vector rendering and a lot of things more that you need. You can develop a small application using QGIS as library. You need to link your application with qgis_core and qgis_gui. There are some nice tutorials written by tim sutton[2]. and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2012) - Abstract deadline on 10 May 2012

2012-05-09 Thread Suchith Anand
Please note that abstract submission deadline for OSGIS 2012 is on 10th May 2012 (Thursday). FOURTH OPEN SOURCE GIS CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2012 4th - 5th Sep 2012 Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham OSGIS 2012

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-09 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for your thoughts and work. As everybody knows, the free GIS community is unfortunately split, more or less deeply, in two tribes (C/C++ and Java). I advocate the OSGeo foundation a model of how to get different tribes to collaborate. Admittedly we have a couple key advantages. A

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread akshay gupta
Thanks Rashad for those links, ill have a look. Akshay On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Mohammed Rashad mohammedrasha...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Akshay, There is QGIS[1] which does both raster and vector rendering and a lot of things more that you need. You can develop a small application using

[OSGeo-Discuss] CHARTER MEMBERS: please read

2012-05-09 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
In advance of OSGeo's 2012 election season, we are updated our database of charter members. We need at least an email address for each of the charter members, although we will optionally be happy to accept the following data from you as well: Last Name (surname) First and middle

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CHARTER MEMBERS: please read

2012-05-09 Thread Gabriel Roldan
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote: In advance of OSGeo's 2012 election season, we are updated our database of charter members. We need at least an email address for each of the charter members, although we will optionally be happy to accept the