From jan at intevation.de  Sat Jul  1 16:28:40 2000
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:28:40 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS update: JEEPS
Message-ID: <20000701162840.A10163@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Dear all,

a new revision of JEEPS has been released.
Thanks to Alan Bleasby who continously spends his spare time
to develop Free Software!

EEPS 
	The JEEPS library is intended as both a library and a development
	system for GPS and related software. It consists of documented C
	functions for communication with GARMIN GPS devices and for
	post-processing of the information received. The library also
	contains functions for conversion of datums using Molodensky and
	cartesian methods and mapping functions including transverse
	mercator projections. The UTM coordinate system is implemented
	as are other more parochial systems including the UK Ordnance
	Survey national grid (with map codes). Eighteen map projections
	and their inverses are given. NMEA data capture routines are
	included. An application (program) is distributed with the library in
	order to show the library functionality and how to use it.
	Version: 0.1.1
	License: LGPL 

Cheers

	Jan

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From peter at zankl.ch  Sun Jul  2 02:46:51 2000
From: peter at zankl.ch (Peter Zankl)
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:46:51 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Naive question
Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000702023100.00b05e30@mail.zankl.ch>

Hi all
I'm a newbie - sorry for my naive question.

Naive question first part:
After reading the messages in this list I can see there's
some code around. But how about the data ?
For example: If I want to display a city-map and highlight
some spots I'll find the code to handle the coordinates
(i'm able to write it myself if I have to) but I won't find
any geographical location data about streets and buildings.
Right ?

Naive question second part:
If I'd start writing code I'd prefer using a data format I can share with 
others.
Is there an XML definition around ?
I'd love something like:
<street name="5th Avenue">
   <coord long="...." lat="...." width="42m"/>
   <coord long="...." lat="...." width="42m"/>
   <coord long="...." lat="...." width="50m"/>
   <coord long="...." lat="...." width="50m"/>
</street>
The coord tags would describe the streets course.
Maybe even with the number of lanes per direction ?
Ant all the crossings... :-)
Did anyone care to write a DTD ?

Best regards
Peter Zankl




From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Jul  5 17:27:18 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:27:18 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] conicplanet, a better xglobe, xplanet
Message-ID: <20000705172718.C24661@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Just found
	http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/27/962135613.html

| Conic Planet 1.1.0
| 
| |   Conic Planet is a CGI application which renders a photo-realistic
| JPEG image of the Earth and other planets. It has support for Azimuthal,
| Mercator, Mollweide, Orthographic, and Rectangular projections. It is
| based on and is similar to other programs such as XPlanet and XGlobe. 

http://conic.sourceforge.net/conicplanet/

It more a toy, but a real GIS application. 
You could use it to demonstrate some project effects.
	Bernhard

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From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Jul  5 18:18:09 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:18:09 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Naive question
In-Reply-To: <20000704135804.B1903@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>; from jan@intevation.de on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:58:04PM +0200
References: <20000704135804.B1903@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
Message-ID: <20000705181809.D24661@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:46:51 +0200
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de
> From: Peter Zankl <peter at zankl.ch>
> Subject: [Freegis-list] Naive question

> Naive question first part:
> After reading the messages in this list I can see there's
> some code around. But how about the data ?
> For example: If I want to display a city-map and highlight
> some spots I'll find the code to handle the coordinates
> (i'm able to write it myself if I have to) but I won't find
> any geographical location data about streets and buildings.
> Right ?

Data is a major problem with GIS, so you identified it. 
But there is some free data around. Did you check the links from
	http://freegis.org ?

> Naive question second part:
> If I'd start writing code I'd prefer using a data format I can share with 
> others.
> Is there an XML definition around ?

Again you intuitively hit another big problem with GIS data.
Data exchange formats are a problem. There is no good standard.
And you need to do a lot of conversion. Most widely used formats are
proprietory or at least tightly controlled by GIS companies.

A lot of people had the idea to utilise XML to define new formats.

I found this nice article which talks about the advantages (I guess it
was written last year)
	http://members.home.net/houlding/XMLpaper/XML01.htm

I am not aware of widely used DTDs.
GeoVRML at least is an SGML application, but of course with a different
application.  http://www.geovrml.org/

	Bernhard
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From bernhard at intevation.de  Fri Jul 14 16:53:23 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:53:23 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] German FreeGIS Article online
Message-ID: <20000714165323.O19317@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

http://www.linux-community.de/News/story?storyid=48

	GEO-Informationssysteme unter GNU/Linux
	Bernhard Reiter, Linux Magazin 07/2000, page 89.

The above article is available online now. 
(I mentioned the paper version published by www.linuxmagazin.de.
Since there is a significant number of German speaking people on
the list, I thought it might be of interest.)

	Regards,
		Bernhard

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From bernhard at intevation.de  Sat Jul 15 14:35:27 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:35:27 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Hugo v1.2 released
Message-ID: <20000715143527.D29133@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

A new version of Hugo 1.2 was released:

Freshmeat lists the following changes:

   Changes: Datum conversion is enabled for maps which are neither WGS84
   nor NAD83, a datum shift table is provided for NAD27 CONUS, a
   configurable GPS daemon poll interval, fixes for View Director
   correctly greying out unavailable maps and a bug in map.db handling,
   cleanup of xmap.h began, and elimination of more static and global
   variables.


In that context I found that
	ftp://metalab.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/science/cartography/
might be worth watching, though not all there in free software.

Bernhard

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From jan at intevation.de  Thu Jul 20 09:51:13 2000
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:51:13 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] NCAR Graphics now LGPLed
Message-ID: <20000720095113.A22669@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Dear all,

as a result of a discussion in June, NCAR graphics
is now licensed with the LGPL!

Thanks again to Mary and her team.

Jan

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From bernhard at intevation.de  Thu Jul 20 17:11:00 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:11:00 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] routeplaner
Message-ID: <20000720171100.J23085@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Saw a routeplaner application called routeplaner.
I do not think that it will display maps graphically, but the
highway information or the algorithm might be interesting anyway.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/routeplanner/

"routeplanner is a highway trip planner, designed for planning trips
between cities. Currently includes two databases of North American
highways, with other areas planned for the future."

	Bernhard
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From fnievinski at cpovo.net  Fri Jul 21 00:10:18 2000
From: fnievinski at cpovo.net (Felipe G. Nievinski)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:10:18 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] GPS TrackMaker
References: <20000720171100.J23085@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
Message-ID: <001f01bff297$4a4c6f90$af0110ac@felipe>

GPS TrackMaker v. 10.0 (http://gpstm.com/)

TrackMaker  creates, edits and deletes tracklogs, routes and waypoints. Data
can be stored in either .txt, .gtm, and .grm formats. You can also calculate
areas delimitated by tracklogs, and instaneously calculate length and
average speeds. Includes "True-UTM" mode, recognizes PCX5, Waypoint+,
Map/Info and Arc/Info (E00) files, "Real Time Navigation" function.

Version #10 (Freeware)
- Makes possible the communication between PC and GPS
- Creates, edits and deletes tracklogs, routes and waypoints
- Database with 219 different datuns
- The data can be stored in .txt , .gtm and .grm formats
- Calculates length, instantaneous and average speeds in tracklogs
- Zoom in and Zoom out function
- Moves the whole drawn map, only with the right button of the mouse
- Shows on screen: the name, the comment or a personalized comment of the
Waypoint
- Makes possible to change the background color, grad lines and Waypoints
- Now, with total navigation on the map image !
- Makes possible to insert several scanned map images in the background
- Now, with "True-UTM" mode *
- Recognizes PCX5, Waypoint+,  Map/Info and Arc/Info (E00) files
- "Real Time Navigation" function
New Features
- Shows and Prints 100 different color icons (GPS III Plus, GPS 12, eMap,
eTrex, etc.)
- Print in Scale
- NMEA0183 Protocol for Real Time Navigation with others GPS models
- Option of Name, Style and Color for Tracklogs
- "Catalog" function that registers all the inserted images in GTM files
- "Autoload" function of automatic loading of map images at Real Time
Navigation (RTN)
- Communication Protocol for eMap, eTrex, StreepPilot and GPS12Map
* Not included special UTM zones between 0 degrees and 36 degrees longitude
above 72 degrees latitude and a special zone 32 between 56 degrees and 64
degrees north latitude.

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From frank.koormann at intevation.de  Fri Jul 21 10:55:43 2000
From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:55:43 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] GPS TrackMaker
In-Reply-To: <001f01bff297$4a4c6f90$af0110ac@felipe>; from fnievinski@cpovo.net on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 07:10:18PM -0300
References: <20000720171100.J23085@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> <001f01bff297$4a4c6f90$af0110ac@felipe>
Message-ID: <20000721105543.A29965@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Felipe, All,

* Felipe G. Nievinski (fnievinski at cpovo.net) [000721 00:09]:
> 
> GPS TrackMaker v. 10.0 (http://gpstm.com/)
> 
> TrackMaker  creates, edits and deletes tracklogs, routes and waypoints. Data
> can be stored in either .txt, .gtm, and .grm formats. You can also calculate
> areas delimitated by tracklogs, and instaneously calculate length and
> average speeds. Includes "True-UTM" mode, recognizes PCX5, Waypoint+,
> Map/Info and Arc/Info (E00) files, "Real Time Navigation" function.
> 
> Version #10 (Freeware)

GPSTrackMaker might be an interesting software, however it is not 
Free Software. This mailing list uses the term free in the meaning of
freedom, not gratis. This among others mean freedom to share the software, 
modify the software and distribute modified versions. Degrees of freedom
the licence of GPSTrackMaker clearly denies.
Software disussed on this list has to fulfil at least the criteria 
for licences as defined by Open Source Group
(http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). 

You already distribute the binaries for gratis. We are open to
discuss in personal communication if and how you might apply one of the
free licences to your software.

Regards,
        Frank

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From frank.koormann at intevation.de  Tue Jul 25 19:28:33 2000
From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:28:33 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] GMT(3.3.5) rpm-Packages
Message-ID: <20000725192833.A23663@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Dear List,

Paul Wessel has announced a new version of gmt (3.3.5).
Please read http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt for more information.

I have updated the related rpm-Packages for the FreeGIS-CD:
ftp://intevation.de/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/updates

The source rpm's are of interest only for those who want to build their
own binaries.

Regards,

        Frank

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From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Jul 26 19:48:12 2000
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:48:12 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] retepGraph, Java Map drawing library (freshly discovered)
Message-ID: <20000726194812.E12781@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Just found the retepGraph Java library,

	http://www.retep.org.uk/mapping/ 

depends on JDK1.2 and is under LGPL.

| The retepGraph library is a suite of classes that allow maps to be
| created from vector data, and either displayed on screen, or printed
...
| 
| it's primarily Astronomically biased, but this library can be used for
| anything that requires maps to be
|              generated. 
... 
| The library is comprised of five groups of classes: 
| 
|                   Features 
|                   Layers 
|                   Projections 
|                   Graph 
|                   Swing extensions 

	Bernhard
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From jan at intevation.de  Sat Jul 29 14:53:45 2000
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:53:45 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Gen2shp based on Avenue
Message-ID: <20000729145345.A6671@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

Dear all,

another Gen2shp conversion tool is now available.

It considers more shapes than my own tool (gen2shp)
and moreover it is implemented in Avenue, so it
can be included in AV projects.
License is LGPL.

Thanks go to Ron Wardenier who is the developer and
maintains Gen2shp at http://warden.www.cistron.nl/geo/

Cheers

	Jan

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