On 5/6/08, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Dirk Frigne wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some
strange
reason all that I do
On 4/27/08, Arnulf Christl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
have the skills, and don't need it yesterday, it might be better in the
long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
easy way out
On 4/26/08, Andre Grobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that is probably another aspect us proprietary experienced people do
not remember, there's a ton of stuff I don't need in ArcView that I'm paying
for… What I do need from it unfortunately comes from the whole spectrum of
its
On 4/25/08, Arnulf Christl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Legacy GIS Architect
In the world of neogeography punks, this is a nice throwback to the future.
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On 4/18/08, Gao Ang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all:
I'd like to test a new location service provided by Yahoo!
It's called fire eagle
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
And want to test it with the Ruby gem: http://fireeagle.rubyforge.org/
But fire eagle is still in alpha version.
I
On 4/16/08, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thought this might be of interest:
..Tom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kate Lance
Sent: 15 April, 2008 1:02 PM
To: SDI technical
Subject: [GSDI
On 3/19/08, Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
For those who do not monitor the Slashgeo, a very detailed and
interesting comparison of FOSS GIS for desktop has been compiled by
Stefan Steiniger:
http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/
Indeed, a commendable compilation. Sure to
On 2/22/08, Gilberto Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear OSGEO
I also beg to differ with Paul about the number of cases where image data
handling in RDBMS is useful or necessary.
In corporate applications where vectors and raster live together, and data
processing and editing
On 2/12/08, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto:
Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until
now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless
suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad,
but
on the program committee, I would love to see some OSGeo participation.
Puneet.
The original CFP follows --
On 1/9/08, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Below is the call for papers for the First International Workshop on
Location and the Web in Conjunction with the WWW 2008 Conference. I
hope some
volks,
Below is the call for papers for the First International Workshop on
Location and the Web in Conjunction with the WWW 2008 Conference. I
hope some of you will consider
submitting papers and boosting the OSGeo presence. Disclaimer: I am
one of the organizers.
Greetings,
I posted my brief summary of the recently held VGI workshop on the
geowanking list, and am reposting it here as well. I hope you find
this useful --
Workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information
Dec 13-14, 2007
Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA
Approximately 30 participants. The
On 12/26/07, Miguel Montesinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to everybody,
A round-table with subject free software, propietary software and GIS was
held at Madrid, Spain, last december, the 18th of 2007, with people talking
from the propietary side (top managers from ESRI and Intergraph in
On 11/14/07, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:12:21AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would just love to click open and see something nice, specially if
someone has already taken the time to make it beautiful.
Think of it as the output of a word
disclaimer: I speak from a position of complete ignorance about SDF,
so everything I might say could be wrong.
On 11/14/07, Robert Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A little clarification on SDF, since it comes up once or twice in this
thread. Jason's earlier descriptions of it's capabilities are
On 11/14/07, David William Bitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never (I think I never did) argued that Shapefile is not open. I
argued that it is not Free. I could be wrong.
Here's the open published specification:
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
yes,
for accessing and working with
this new format as it would only make the format more widely used and
adopted.
Ok, enough for now.
On Nov 13, 2007 8:52 AM, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I am thinking, Shapefile is the de facto data standard for GIS
data. That it is open (albeit not Free
On 11/13/07, Frank Warmerdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P Kishor wrote:
So, I am thinking, Shapefile is the de facto data standard for GIS
data. That it is open (albeit not Free) along with the deep and wide
presence of ESRI's products from the beginning of the epoch, it has
been widely
to design an ontology... and choose
a name... and on some sunny distant day make a map.
On 13 Nov 2007, at 17:09, P Kishor wrote:
On 11/13/07, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Puneet,
You wrote: Should be easy to transition to. By building the new
format
This is triple-list posted... many members are not common, so please
bear with me if you receive duplicates. Here is a roundabout
invitation to get you to come to my website and pick up the podcasts
of the summer NAS seminar on IPR.
29 Sept - 3 Oct 2008
www.foss4g2008.org
many thanks
Gavin Fleming
conference chair
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of P Kishor
Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 5:22 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: Aust-NZ OSGeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events
On 10/14/07, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar?
Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar.
It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't
clash.
This is a very relevant and interesting topic to pursue further.
On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sorry for cross posting
I have been involved in a number of discussions over the last year or so
where people representing organisations have expressed an interest in
I came across Globalbase earlier today. http://www.globalbase.org
Does anyone in the OSGeo community have any insights/opinions on this effort?
--
Puneet Kishor
http://punkish.eidesis.org/
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
posted to two lists... some will get this twice.
Friends,
I have been invited to a workshop in Paris on common use licensing of
scientific data products. The workshop is jointly organized by CODATA,
GBIF, and Science Commons, and will be held at the Sorbonne on Sep 24,
25. I am writing this
the default application for building the high end analysis
and cartography functionality.
Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
- Original Message -
From: P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:24 AM
Very well written Howard. In tribute to your writing, I will promptly
snitch some ideas from your writing below.
I have been tackling this issue of selling open geospatial,
particularly to agencies for whom generally financial cost is a
non-issue. I try to tell them that in most classes open
Actually, hit me please if I am being silly.. but why this foss4g
business (which seems so contrived to me... I recently came across
GITS... geog. info. tech. and systems! that really got my eyes
rolling). Why can't we just have
www.osgeo.org/conferences/year
?
On 8/23/07, P Kishor [EMAIL
On 8/17/07, Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P Kishor wrote:
I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing
I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an
ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a
charter member only
On 8/10/07, Steve Lime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent
desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in
the future we might consider regionally based board seats.
This is absolutely the most
This is not a definitive weigh-in, and frankly, I had not even
thought of seeing the vote count until the suggestion, but it might be
worthwhile (I am not saying do it; I am saying, think about doing
it... there might be benefits).
In the spirit of openness, it would be worthwhile seeing where
This is not a definitive weigh-in, and frankly, I had not even
thought of seeing the vote count until the suggestion, but it might be
worthwhile (I am not saying do it; I am saying, think about doing
it... there might be benefits).
In the spirit of openness, it would be worthwhile seeing where
:
P Kishor wrote:
In the spirit of openness, it would be worthwhile seeing where the
charter members thought it best to cast their votes. While
embarrassment is a possible consequence, I believe if I were running
for a Board member, and if I lost, I would still like to see the
votes... I
Besides Jeroen's counter-questions it would also help if you answer,
How do you define a GIS? That would be a good start to answering the
original question.
On 7/18/07, Jeroen Ticheler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Broad Sky (?)
A lot ;-) Browse www.osgeo.org and other sites like
Chris,
Please see my response below --
On 5/21/07, Chris Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4. After 5 days of meetings, I visited Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espacias (INPE) http://www.inpe.br/ingles/index.php/, the premier
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research at the
[I have put the following report on the wiki as well. It may not be
the most appropriate place, but I don't seem to have access to a Tyler
Mitchell-style blog ;-) ]
The second week of May I attended three different but related meetings
of interest in Atibaia, Brazil (São Paulo). Here is a brief
I am following up on this thread, and cross-posting to several lists
-- sorry for the noise -- to inform you all of my related activities.
I have spent the past five days in Atibaia, Brazil at a
CODATA-organized (http://www.codata.org) workshop on Open Access to
Scientific Data
On 18 Apr 2007, at 08:35, I asked:
Dear all,
In a workshop I will be attending in Brazil in a few weeks time, I
have been asked to propose a cooperative activity that would improve
access to digital scientific data, particularly in Latin America.
Well, I turn to your collective and
Dear all,
In a workshop I will be attending in Brazil in a few weeks time, I
have been asked to propose a cooperative activity that would improve
access to digital scientific data, particularly in Latin America.
Well, I turn to your collective and collaborative brainpower to come
up with ideas
On 4/6/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was talking to some folks involved with the Libre Graphics Meeting
(below) and I think it'd be interesting to try to find some synergies
between our geospatial visualisation needs and their applications:
Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Krita,
sorry to bung into this conversation given that neither am I
organizing, nor presenting, not even being there in person.
Nevertheless, I echo Dan's viewpoint about the relative value of 20
mins presentations vs. longer workshops. I have been a few conferences
in the lifetime, and I just can't
On 3/12/07, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working on an article that will introduce readers to the topic of
spatial relationships for the first issue of the OSGeo Newsletter. I was
hoping I might find someone that would be willing to do a brief review of
the article before I
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