There are points for populated places and a few other cultural feature types in
Natural Earth. 1:10 million. Very liberal (public domain) license.
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
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On Beha
The Program Committee had a healthy discussion about the pros and cons of
structuring the community review process so that presentations are evaluated
solely on the title and abstract description. We decided as a group that the
potential positives outweighed the potential negatives.
The commun
I don't know what scale that you want to work at, or if you need inland water
data also, but you might want to check out the Natural Earth data set. The
license is very liberal (PD).
Here is a link to the 1:10M scale oceans data:
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/
I am completely with Howard on this. +1
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On Behalf Of Howard Butler
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Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Kat
And how detrimental the license change exercise has been to the project and its
community...
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On Behalf Of Lester Caine
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:46 AM
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+1
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I would like to nominate Doug Ne
This could also likely be scripted using OGR’s Python bindings.
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On Behalf Of Micha Silver
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a sh
I don't know of any good summaries, but there has been considerable discussion
within the OpenStreetMap 'community' regarding licensing for spatial data. OSM
data was originally published under a CC-By license, but based on the decision
of the OSM Foundation, it has adopted a new license under
Another related project is Geodict: https://github.com/petewarden/geodict
David.
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This page is a little more up to date. It includes Cascadia, New Mexico, and
Twin Cities (MN).
http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html
David.
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On Behalf Of Razy Kased
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:29
I am working on a demo app to 'harness the crowd' to improve locational data
for features.
My goal is to improve the data, but also to test multiple validation
algorithms. If anyone is aware of some good research on the
evaluation/validation of crowd-sourced data, I would greatly appreciate
I added a SpatiaLite section to the list of potential FOSS4G breakout sessions
on the OSGEO wiki to gauge whether there is enough interest to hold a session.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Breakout_Sessions#SpatiaLite
If you are going to be at FOSS4G and are interested, please add your
I don't know if 1:10,000,000 is a large enough scale for you, but if it is, you
might want to look at Natural Earth. Public Domain
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
You could also look at OpenStreetMap data. www.openstreetmap.org Most of the
coastline data was imported from the Prototype Glob
Bob,
To georeference your images, you could use an online app like
Map Warper: http://warper.geothings.net/
Or, you can use one of the georeferencing plugins for QGIS.
Here is a blog post that talks about using QGIS for georeferencing:
http://geo.distortions.net/2010/11/georeferencing-wi
Bob,
You might want to look at the Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at
Austin.
Here is a link to their historical maps.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
There are actually a ton of WWII era maps of the Pacific.
According the the FAQ, most of the maps are
Have you seen the mind map that Bruce Bannerman put together a few years ago?
There is a link to it and more info on this page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bruce.bannerman
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I think that this kind of FAQ would be very valuable.
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En/na Fawcett, David (MPCA) ha escrit:
Is there a central location with links to presentations and workshop materials
from FOSS4G 2010?
I understand that materials from every workshop won't be made available, but it
would be great to have a location to brows
Is there a central location with links to presentations and workshop materials
from FOSS4G 2010?
I understand that materials from every workshop won't be made available, but it
would be great to have a location to browse and see what is available.
Also, have the WMS Shootout results been post
Micha Silver has a timely blog post: http://www.surfaces.co.il/?p=782 (via
Planet OSGeo)
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On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:11 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [O
Thanks to the few of you who had comments.
Really, none of the rest of you want to brag about or promote your OSGEO
project?!
Come on, any new features, optimizations, data formats, case studies, etc.?
David.
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From: Fawcett, David (MPCA)
Sent: Tuesday, August 17
I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource
Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most familiar with
the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in
OpenSource.
My goal is to introduce people to cool project
Essentially, yes. The .mxd does not store the actual geometry or attributes of
a spatial data set, it just stores a path (or database connection info) to the
data source.
So, the data that you are viewing in ArcMap may already be in a shapefile
format. To determine the source of the layer t
-Discuss] OSGEO project based Web app for watershed land use?
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA)
wrote:
> I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use
> information calculated for the upstream area. It is based on some OSGEO
> projects and
I have seen a Web app that allows a user to click on a map and get land use
information calculated for the upstream area. It is based on some OSGEO
projects and is quite a cool app.
I have found and lost the URL to this app several times. If this sounds
familiar, I would appreciate it if you
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