Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

Oh one more note. It's a raw dump, in the custom data model I'm using for best performance. It's not in the draft standard available here, but that's my next task: http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/documents/Core/latest --- Raj On Jan 28, at 2:28 PM, Raj Singh wrote: > I&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

3C recommendation or do you > already do that? > If not and if you need some involvement for the semantic part I would also be > happy to participate. > > Best regards, > > Dimitris > > > > Raj Singh wrote: >> Hi Dimitris. I'm the host/develo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

o) > do you plan to follow/adapt the corresponding W3C recommendation or do you > already do that? > If not and if you need some involvement for the semantic part I would also be > happy to participate. > > Best regards, > > Dimitris > > > > Raj Singh wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

t will allow content providers to add to the database. That should be ready in a few weeks. I'd be happy to get you a postgresql/postgis database dump at any time if that would be useful. --- Raj Singh r...@rajsingh.org http://www.rajsingh.org/ On Jan 22, at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw Receives OGC Compliance Certification and Reference Implementation Status

Andrea, the RI policies have changed a bit in the last few years so it's worth taking a read through that new policy document and/or contacting Luis at OGC for clarification. --- Raj On Jan 15, at 4:33 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >> Wondering, what steps did you follow to have pycsw also becom

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source map server

SLD is Styled Layer Descriptor: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld "defines an encoding that extends the WMS standard to allow user-defined symbolization and coloring of geographic feature and coverage data. SLD addresses the need for users and software to be able to control the visual

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapQuery 0.1.0 released

; pursued, though one could directly access OpenLayers and do some of the > advanced stuff we're not providing. > > Steven > > > On Jul 29, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Raj Singh wrote: > >> What does MapQuery do beyond what OpenLayers does? Does MapQuery formally >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapQuery 0.1.0 released

What does MapQuery do beyond what OpenLayers does? Does MapQuery formally extend OpenLayers? In other words, does MapQuery include OpenLayers, but provide an interface familiar to jQuery developers, or was OpenLayers simply informal inspiration? --- Raj On Jul 28, at 3:56 PM, Steven Ottens

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Booth at FOSS4G...

Hi Tyler. I'm interested in having OGC share a booth with OSGeo, basically just as a place to meet people and hand out pamphlets. I'd be willing to man the booth and talk OSGeo in exchange! --- Raj On Jun 29, at 8:19 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, it's that time of year to think more ab

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using an OSGeo membership to work at the OGC

Within OGC staff we're looking to publish TC meeting summaries more publicly and in an easy to digest format -- like a blog. So stay tuned! --- Raj On Apr 15, at 7:17 AM, Adrian Custer wrote: > During the closing pleneray of every TC meeting (every 3 months), each > working group or ad-hoc me

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using an OSGeo membership to work at the OGC

I don't know what the guidelines are from the OSGeo side, but from the OGC side (as Jody mentioned) the primary guideline is that you can't be an employee of an organization that could get OGC membership the usual way. These OSGeo memberships are intended to accommodate the ad hoc nature of open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

ervices and strategy? --- Raj On Oct 7, at 3:46 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > On 6 October 2010 18:02, Raj Singh wrote: >> I think that's the most sensible idea. Geonames seems to be the gold >> standard right now. >> --- >> Raj >> >> >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

I think that's the most sensible idea. Geonames seems to be the gold standard right now. --- Raj On Oct 6, at 11:21 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > Thanks for all of the responses. > > After some careful consideration of the responses I received I realize > the challenges of trying to get real worl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Arnulf, that's exactly what the OGC Geosynchronization spec describes! Servers advertise their changes in a GeoRSS feed -- where the element describes the change in WFS-T XML. It's nicely loosely coupled, because as you eloquently state, clients can decide what they want to do with the "suggest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "git" like for geodata management

Just to add another option to the discussion, OGC has a Geosynchronization specification getting close to being finalize. It uses XML requests from the Web Feature Service - Transactional spec to describe actions on a spatial database such as add, modify, delete. Like CouchDB, it also doesn't sp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source OGC Sensor Web Enablementimplementations [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

titute > ul. Czartoryskich 8 > 24-10 Pulawy > Poland > www.erozja.ung.pulawy.pl > > > - Original Message - From: "Raj Singh" > To: "OSGeo Discussions" > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 5:56 AM > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source OGC Sensor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC + OSGeo > CSS Standards Problem?

OGC always takes a "survival of the fittest" approach to technology strategies. So if a large enough community desires CSS based map styling, it would certainly be considered by OGC for standardization. The way to insert this approach into the OGC process is to write a "discussion paper", which

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source OGC Sensor Web Enablement implementations [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

I encourage everyone to register their implementations at: http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource You can find all implementations registered with OGC by going to: http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/byspec and selecting, for example, "Sensor Observation Service v.1.0.0" from the drop

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ?

> but if it does 3.1.1? > > http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/deegree3/HowToWorkWithGML > the text in the page mentions version 3.1 > > stefan > > Raj Singh schrieb: >> I would love to know this too! >> --- >> Raj >> On Jun 15, at 10:00 AM, andre

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ?

't the whole point of 'complex > features' that they are combining app-specific data/formatting, > etc. into the GML? Or perhaps 'complex' means something different > in this case? > > -- Chris > >> stefan >> >> Raj Singh schrieb: >&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] displaying complex GML in web-based enviroment ?

I would love to know this too! --- Raj On Jun 15, at 10:00 AM, andrea giacomelli wrote: > Hi - I received a request from a team who is not (yet) on the discussion list > > -- > ...We are looking for free/open source package which can displ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Getting a .kmz into GIS

Looks to me like the PNGs referenced in the KML are 2 logos and a small image preview icon. The actual image file seems to be called 20100614151937_Envisat_VV.tif, but I can't figure out the full web URL. --- Raj On Jun 14, at 9:29 AM, Tim Waters wrote: > Hi Ezra, > > looking inside the kmz

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Searching proper schema constructs in layered GML application schema

OGC's GML discussion forum is probably the best place to ask this. http://feature.opengeospatial.org/forumbb/viewforum.php?f=9 Staff monitors the board and tries to make sure posted questions get looked at by topic experts within the membership. --- Raj On Nov 12, at 6:21 AM, Krzysztof FF wr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] distributing "read-only" vector files?

Look at the section called, "Copyright Information for use with Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO data" at http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/ScenarioAusBOM for an example of how the Australian government has approached the situation. --- Raj O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Options for sharing geodata symbology along with WFS?

clearly applicable to defining *just* styles The link for Symbology Encoding is: - http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/symbol The symbology encoding document does not really define any new concepts; it is just one document being broken into two ... Jody On 15/08/2009, at 4:52 AM, Raj Singh

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Options for sharing geodata symbology along with WFS?

SLD is usually thought of in conjunction with WMS because you don't see the effect of the styling until you make a map. But it certainly applies to WFS just as well in a situation like Chris mentions with Openlayers, where the client software is doing the portrayal. In addition to this: Sty

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC geospatial rights mgt. summit

But OGC could, as a service to its membership, work with SC to define standardized classes of licenses that would help geospatial data publishers with their licensing needs all along the permissions spectrum. --- Raj On May 30, at 4:53 PM, Ian Turton wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:09 P

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Open Indicators Consortium

The Open Indicators Consortium The University of Massachusetts Lowell announces the formation of a national open source consortium to develop a new system for integrating and visualizing neighborhood, municipal, and regional data Project Leaders: Georges Grinstein and William Mass, University o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where are all the FOSS OGC Client implementations?

Note that anyone can add to OGC's registered products listing here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/registration --- Raj On Jan 2, at 4:01 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: Hi On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 15:17 +0100, Miguel Montesinos wrote: Hi Tim, Do you mean apart from OGC Registered produ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] georss reader

Rome is a Java open source library that reads GeoAtom (Atom + GeoRSS). More readers are talked about at --- Raj On Sep 26, at 8:36 PM, Rushforth, Peter wrote: Hi, Does anybody have an idea if such a thing exis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time window request on OGC protocol?

If all you need are time and bounding box parameters, WFS Simple might be easier to implement than WFS: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/wfssimple Andrea does a good job of describing how to do a time query with WFS, but it requires using Filter Encoding, which is a bit heavy. I also have just cre

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AAG Boston OSGeo Social Meetup

I'll be there by 9! --- Raj On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: AAG is happening in Boston this week, and in an effort to make some things happen, I'm planning to have a social meetup this Thursday with anyone who is interested in coming. Time: Thur, Apr 17th, 7:45PM Place:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: OGC WPS and Amazon SQS

I just attended an Open Grid Forum event (http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/) where lat-lon and 52north showed off some very nice WPS work. OGC plans to work more closely with the Grid community to further improve our service offerings for distributed computing, but it won't be a quick and easy proc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open-Source Geolocator??

MetaCarta's Web services might do the trick. I'm not sure what the terms or costs are. http://ondemand.metacarta.com --- Raj On Dec 15, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Ted Habermann wrote: Hello OSGeo, Does anyone know of an open-source or inexpensive tool that can read text in a bunch of files, find

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] idea for an OSGeo project -- a new, open data format

Luis, good to hear support for a GML version of Peter Vretanos' BXML. When we were working on the WFS Simple API last year Peter and I did some more work on it here: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/189 (schema and examples) I think it's slightly different (simpler and geometry harmonized with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

Just to add another one to the list, OGC events are listed here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/event There's a small link in the bottom right to the iCal URL, which is: webcal://www.opengeospatial.org/event/ical --- Raj On Oct 14, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Has anyone set up (an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Integration test bed

I didn't feel the activity was well enough defined. OGC has done a lot of these types of things, and found that they work best when the participants have a pressing issue to tackle. In the future, I suggest that the integration issue is grounded in a real-world problem that is relevant to s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

But there is now officially an individual membership category. Info isn't up on the web site yet, but I think its $400/year. You can qualify if no one else (such as a full-time employer) has legal rights to all your work. --- Raj On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: That's not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

Also remember that OGC has made its Mass Market Working Group discussion list public: http://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/mass-market-geo This is the best way for non-members to get in on certain discussions, particularly the ones Jeroen mentions. That allows individuals to put

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Standards - The Ugly Truth

An angel investor is by nature too small and idiosyncratic a group to guarantee good results--isn't this the "benevolent dictator" argument ? If they happen to be both well-meaning and right good things can happen. But there's a much better

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any plans for OGR fdo to support GML

I recently had a cause to try this out. I wanted to translate GeoRSS GML. Turns out I couldn't do it until I changed the syntax to GML2 format and threw some extra tags around the element to make it more like a "real" piece of GML. You can grab my sample file from here (for a few days): h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Building Floorplan

How about Sketchup? Free but not OS. Go to File menu->3D Warehouse- >Get models and search for furniture. --- Raj On May 23, 2007, at 8:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does there exist a free application for quickly designing a building floorplan? One with drag-and-drop furniture, bench c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115

In the geospatial standards community (I work for OGC), ISO 19115 is sort of a bible. The problem with this, and most ISO documents, is that it's too abstract to design software around. You generally need to go to another level of specificity to do real coding. For example, the OGC catalog

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

Whether commercial or open source, this technology is difficult to learn. I think the problem is that academia doesn't know what these new tools are good for. Someone mentioned the Tomlin book. It's great if you need to do spatial analysis for landscape ecology or urban planning. If you're

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help with Where 2.0 and OGC

me closed-source players in the mix, there is plenty of room in there for the sorts open source solutions that our projects provide. On the OGC side, this is being coordinated by Raj Singh, someone who has an understanding and respect for the OSGeo community and what we're about. Raj and I