Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new geoparser services

2015-06-03 Thread James Reid
LitLong project - litlong.org. Hope that helps? Any questions please ask. regards James On 03/06/15 00:42, Brad Hards wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 04:14:33 PM James Reid wrote: All, for those interested in geoparsers I'm pleased to say that we (University of Edinburgh) have recently made updat

[OSGeo-Discuss] new geoparser services

2015-06-02 Thread James Reid
y with it could complete this : http://edin.ac/1dbC1IR Id be very grateful. Comments direct to this list also welcomed in the spirit of trying to improve our offerings... cheers -- James Reid Geoservices - EDINA - University of Edinburgh t:+44(0)131 6511383 m:0759 5116988 "Stay vig

[OSGeo-Discuss] very last chance to vote for a geo in Education idea

2015-01-12 Thread James Reid
All,very last chance to vote for a geo idea in education: http://researchatrisk.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cloud-Work-Bench/101899-31525 voting closes tonight midnight (UK local time) .. so hurry - do vote otherwise :'( -- James S Reid Geoservices, EDINA,University of Edinburgh t:+44 (0)131 651

[OSGeo-Discuss] last chance to vote for an Open geo in cloud proposal

2015-01-07 Thread James Reid
Apologies for cross posting but I'm hoping to garner a last spurt of interest in voting for an idea in the UK education sector to support the establishment of cloud based GI infrastructure. Just use you social media credentials to register a vote in favour of the idea outlined here: http://r

[OSGeo-Discuss] vote for a proposal for geo infrastructure for researchers

2014-12-18 Thread James Reid
Dear all, as a follow up to an earlier post about putting an idea in for some funding - if folks are interested in what's proposed (a cloud based open geo infrastructure for researchers) then please feel free to cast a vote for it at: http://researchatrisk.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cloud-Work-Bench/

[OSGeo-Discuss] possible idea for a funding opp?

2014-12-17 Thread James Reid
All, in the UK one of the educational funding charities is having an open door ideas pitch where you can pitch ideas relating to research data: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/get-involved/research-data-spring I'm on the cusp of submitting an idea to this but thought Id poll this list first to see if

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Codes

2014-11-28 Thread James Reid
All, a while back the new Google Open Location Codes spurred some interest. Whats the list current views on this? For interest we have put together a little play thing that lets you generate and resolve (mostly!) OLCs short and long form.. http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/unlock-open-location/ Folk

[OSGeo-Discuss] open source geotagger

2012-10-12 Thread James Reid
Dear list, I’m pleased to announce an initial release of some geotagging software we are open sourcing: https://github.com/xmichael/tagger Its built over the excellent Spatialite and Exfitool and in a nutshell allows anyone to set up their own web service API onto the Exiftool+spatialite back

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Automatic geocoding of PDF documents (slesage)

2012-01-17 Thread James Reid
On 17/01/12 16:11, James Reid wrote: You could check out our Unlock Text service at: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to >> au

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Re: Automatic geocoding of PDF documents (slesage)

2012-01-17 Thread James Reid
You could check out our Unlock Text service at: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to >> automatic >> geocoding of text documents ? The idea of that "black

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 40

2011-11-15 Thread James Reid
Can anyone point me at a current list of active CSW endpoints or know where such a thing might be found? thanka in advance On 26/11/09 17:00, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the Wor

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 53, Issue 7

2011-05-06 Thread James Reid
Can anyone point me at an OGC CSW installation that is actually implementing a query Filter? All instances we've looked at don't appear to either properly support a Filter or appear to have any Filtering capability? regards James On 06/05/11 00:19, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: Sen

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing availability of Open WMS stack for UK academics

2010-09-29 Thread James Reid
All, for your information. EDINA, Universty of Edinburgh is pleased to announce the release of a free open WMS stack based on Ordnance Survey OpenData which includes: * GB Overview * Miniscale * 1:25 Colour Raster * Vector Map District Raster * OS Streetview This is availab

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 45, Issue 24

2010-09-13 Thread James Reid
Re: statistical support R is a good bet but you might also want to check out PySAL http://geodacenter.asu.edu/pysal On 13/09/10 14:52, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
and M$ too but actually the Redlands Institute is a little wider than that (how independent is another matter)... Brian Russo wrote: Well of course, Redlands is ESRI's corporate HQ after all. - bri On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM, James Reid <mailto:james.r...@ed.ac.uk>> wr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
ey're not just a face shop for ESRI. But knowing how ESRI works I'm guessing they're very hand in hand. I only point it out to soften possible expectations for success. By all means though, steer the ESRI ship towards more open waters! regards, - bri On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Redlands SDS ?

2009-11-11 Thread James Reid
All, a colleague from our local chapter has recently been at Redlands Institute and emailed me the following link: http://www.institute.redlands.edu/sds/welcome.html#consortium His observation was that much of the extant content uses proprietary software for exemplars and that some contributio