From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Sep 4 17:32:48 2000 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:32:48 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CD 1.0.4 released Message-ID: <20000904173248.G15100@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Good morning FreeGIS world, I have the honor to announce the release of: FreeGIS CD v1.0.4 for GNU/Linux (i586 and ppc) http://freegis.org/order.en.html The minor increase in the version number might look small, but it took us more work than anticipated in the last weeks to finalise this release. Now we can feature the known stable Free Software GIS tools in the latest version and for a new architecture (PowerPCs). This shows the power of Free Software: It even scales well on several hardware platforms, securing your investment for years to come. The changelog: 1.0.3 ? 1.0.4 * In addition to the intel-compatible (i586) binaries the power pc architecture(ppc) is supported. * Basic documentation of the FreeGIS CD in French. * GRASS: new version 5.0beta8 replaces 5.0beta6 (taken out: nviz due to licence issues. r3.showdspf.openGL from the g3d subpackage which requires a self-compiled version of Mesa which is not available as standard RPM.) * GMT: new version 3.3.5 * mapserver: new version 3.3.011 * gen2shp: new version 0.3.0 Reminder: This CD is still aimed at experienced GIS users and interested developers. It helps funding our FreeGIS project, though any other help is welcome, too. We prefer that you order the CD, but the images and rpms will be available from our ftp site with a limited bandwidth (we are still looking for mirrors). The freegis webpage and this mailing list shall be an information headquarters for truely free GIS and Geo Data. This is a service for you, and we like to know how to improve it. Thanks for your support, Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 236 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20000904/d5880669/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Sat Sep 9 10:48:13 2000 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:48:13 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] update FreeGIS Message-ID: <20000909104813.A28071@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Dear all, just one info today: The development on GeoTools is going on. A new version 0.7.8.1 is available. GeoTools has also now a sourcforge entry. At http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/ you will find the project details. Cheers Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Sep 11 10:55:24 2000 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:55:24 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] DGPS found Message-ID: <20000911105524.I24832@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Found on a freshmeat stroll: "DGPS is a project to put together a low cost hardware and software solution for Differential GPS (in both real time mode using RTCM correction format and in post processed mode)" http://www.wombat.ie/gps/ License: GPL Bernhard From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca Tue Sep 19 18:45:03 2000 From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:45:03 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [ogdidev] Various Developments Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530663EF34@raptor.gov.yk.ca> -----Original Message----- From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerda at home.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:58 AM To: ogdidev Subject: [ogdidev] Various Developments Folks, I thought I should give people heads up of a few things I have been working on. o I have incorporated support in GDAL (http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal) for reading OGDI raster data. The work is preliminary, but it makes transparent use of ecs_SetRegion() to read back overview data when requested by the application. This means that OpenEV (http://openev.sourceforge.net) can now be used as an OGDI raster viewer. OpenEV understands that the OGDI raster source can produce overviews at any level efficiently (well more efficiently than loading full-res data into the application, and downsampling there). It takes full advantage of this. o I have implemented a simple OGDI driver for GDAL, so that I can access any GDAL supported raster format from an OGDI enabled application. I mainly did this because I didn't think that any of the free OGDI drivers were likely to generate overviews of rasters efficiently. The GDAL driver will do so, if the underlying file has pre-built overviews. GDAL includes utilities for generating overviews for a variety of raster formats in associated GeoTIFF files. o Amoung other things, the above implementation include implementation of a PROJ.4 to OpenGIS Well Known Text projection translation module. Code to translate from OGC Well Known Text to PROJ.4 format was implmented some time ago. o Daniel Morissette has implemented read support for OGDI vectors within my OGR library (a subtree of GDAL). In theory this means that OGR enabled applications can read OGDI vector sources. Daniel also recently upgraded the popular UMN MapServer to use OGR as one source of vector data. OpenEV can also use OGR to read vectors. While performance accessing vectors in MapServer through OGR and OGDI layers may not be great, it is an interesting proof-of-concept of the technology. I must stress that my recent work on OGDI <--> GDAL compatibility is preliminary. It is a proof of concept. I haven't bundled binaries of any of this, but the source is all in CVS. If anyone is interested in using some of these capabilities they can contact me for further details on what was done, and how to get access to the code. When (if?) I get binaries of OpenEV with OGDI support built on Windows (my work has mostly been on Linux) I will make an announement here. Both the work that I did, and the work that Daniel did are somewhat limited by our ongoing problem with identifying layers available from an OGDI datasource automatically. We made it possible for a user who knows what layers they want to get access to them, but it is not generally possible at this time to get a list of available layers from a data source since there hasn't yet been any standardization of how to do this as has been discussed at length here, and elsewhere in the past. Best regards, ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ -- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerda at home.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://members.home.com/warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From julian_binev at yahoo.com Wed Sep 20 16:29:57 2000 From: julian_binev at yahoo.com (Julian Gyokov Binev) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) Message-ID: <20000920142957.25823.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, All! I am new in the list and have a following question. Is there some utility that can convert .bin files to .mif files? Julian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From jan at intevation.de Tue Sep 26 18:32:38 2000 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:32:38 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] updates Message-ID: <20000926183238.A26453@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Dear list, this time we have two updates for GDAL (abstraction library for spatial data, now 1.1.1) and PROJ (projection support, now 4.4.2), both maintained by Frank Warmerdam. Below you find the changes in detail. Jan GDAL 1.1.1: o Support for reading GRASS raster layers (via libgrass5). o Improved GeoTIFF support, including auto-translation of 1bit files, YCbCr and some other odd files into RGBA format on read. o Addition of OGDI Raster Support (not in default builds because of conflicts between OGDI PROJ.4 version and the current one). o Added projection, and georeferencing support for PCI .aux format, and Erdas Imagine format. o Added Supported Formats documentation. o Made some improvements for building. It mostly builds ok out of the box with Cygwin, though the shared library stuff doesn't seem to work properly. PROJ 4.4.2: * Update version to 4.4.2, in preparation for 4.4.2 release. * Ensure makefile.vc is distributed, and mention windows building in README. * Cast args to freev2() in bch2bps.c, and mk_cheby.c to avoid errors on the Cray. * Added "sphere" to pj_ellps.c. * Fixed bug in nad_init() with path for datum shifting files. * Implemented cs2cs program for transforming between coordinate systems including datum shifts. * Implemented proj=latlong pseudo-projection. * Implemented pj_transform() to transform from one coordinate system to another, including applying geocentric datum shifts, and NAD27 grid shifts. * Implemented 3/7 parameter geocentric datum shift support. * Added support for +datum, +towgs84, and +nadgrids parameters when defining PJ's (for pj_init()). Added datum_type, and datum_params to PJ structure. * Patched proj.c to handle binary io properly on Windows and DOS. Patch submitted by Thomas Knudsen . * Added #define USE_PROJUV to projects.h to allow apps to work properly against old and new version. * Patch from Craig Bruce (cbruce at cubewerx.com) for PJ_ortho.c to make INVERSE() work well for points near zero. * Added hard links for invproj->proj and invgeod->geod in src/Makefile.{am,in}. -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From joe at online.ie Thu Sep 28 15:26:41 2000 From: joe at online.ie (Joe) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:26:41 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Any software that allows uploads of maps to Magellan GPS receivers (eg Map 410) References: <20000926183238.A26453@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Message-ID: <39D34711.56173C8B@online.ie> I recently bought a Magellan Map410 GPS receiver while on vacation in the US. I found its highway maps useful, but now that I'm back in Ireland there is absolutely no data for this country. To the best of my knowledge, Magellan's MapSend software doesn't cover this country either. I have map data for this country, and I'm not afraid of writing software to convert from one format to another, but I have no idea of the protocols and format for uploading this to the Map410 unit. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Joe Desbonnet joe at galway.net From bernhard at intevation.de Thu Sep 28 16:30:03 2000 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:30:03 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Any software that allows uploads of maps to Magellan GPS receivers (eg Map 410) In-Reply-To: <39D34711.56173C8B@online.ie>; from joe@online.ie on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:26:41PM +0100 References: <20000926183238.A26453@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> <39D34711.56173C8B@online.ie> Message-ID: <20000928163003.I28743@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Hi Joe, being not very knowledgable about GPS interfaces I can only offer you general advice: You should check the GPS entries and the people behind them in the freegis.org site list. They might have more resources. Anyway a quick expert search of mine for protocols turned out, that magellan actually has published some documents about its GPS receiver's protocols. It has specifics for Map410. http://www.magellangps.com/downloads/transfer.htm Take the computer language of your choise (ours is python) and hack away. We hope to add your Free Software Component for Map410 soon. :) Regards, Bernhard On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:26:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > I recently bought a Magellan Map410 GPS receiver > while on vacation in the US. I found its highway maps useful, > but now that I'm back in Ireland there is absolutely > no data for this country. > > To the best of my knowledge, Magellan's MapSend software > doesn't cover this country either. > > I have map data for this country, and I'm not afraid > of writing software to convert from one format to > another, but I have no idea of the protocols and > format for uploading this to the Map410 unit. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Joe Desbonnet > joe at galway.net -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 236 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20000928/3c77729c/attachment.bin From warmerda at home.com Fri Sep 29 05:11:33 2000 From: warmerda at home.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:11:33 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] OpenEV 0.9.0 Release Message-ID: <39D40865.33C9DC6F@home.com> Folks, I am pleased to announce the 0.9.0 release of OpenEV. Binaries are available for Windows 98/NT/2000, Linux, Solaris and Irix. Source, further details, mailing lists and so forth are available at: http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV is an application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data. Objectives - OpenEV will: Run on popular platforms (Linux, Windows, Solaris, IRIX). Handle raster and vector data. Support 2d and 3d display. Gracefully handle very large (gigabyte) raster datasets. Support multi-channel, and complex raster datasets. Understand and interpret georeferencing information, and provide on-the-fly reprojection of datasets. Provide view manipulation functions (pan, zoom, rotate) at interactive frame rates. Provide a powerful image analysis tool. Serve as a component in a variety of image analysis applications. OpenEV utilizes OpenGL, Python, Gtk+, GDAL, and PROJ.4 technologies. I believe OpenEV's current strengths are: o High performance display of even very large images. o Support for 16bit, floating point and complex raster display with sensible scaling, and display access to the underlying raster values. o Highly customizable, and extendible since the GUI is written in Python. o 3D support. I think that OpenEV can grow into: o similar uses as IDL due to integration of GDAL, OpenEV and Numerical Python. o Sophisicated GIS vector display as improvements are made to rendering, and integration with OGR (my vector library) tightens up. o As a display front end for GRASS, as GDAL is upgraded to use libgrass, and some level of integration with GRASS commands is achieved. o As a data translator, and transformer as GDAL export capabilities are more fully utilized. o A very projection savvy environment, once a user projection definition dialog is implemented, and vector on-the-fly reprojection is implemented. Areas I think OpenEV is currently weaker than it could be: o It's dependence on OpenGL can cause a substantial performance hit on unaccelerated platforms, especially doing 3D viewing, and vector editing operations. Many of the difficult to fix, and reproduce bugs also seem to be OpenGL related. o It depends on quite a few packages, which can make it a bit of a job to build completely from source. o Programmer documentation is not up to the desired level. o Very limited image analysis tools available. o Vector integration isn't up to what you would expect of a vector focused package (which OpenEV is not). I believe OpenEV can be a very useful package as it stands today, and I encourage folks looking for a comfortable, customizable, extendable raster, and vector viewing environment to considering downloading and trying it out. I, and the OpenEV team are also keen on finding other developers interested in improving and extending OpenEV. Note, I have sent this to a number of lists, and newsgroups. I appologise to those getting this message multiple times. Best regards, ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerda at home.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://members.home.com/warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From j_n_gomez at teleline.es Sat Sep 30 19:34:23 2000 From: j_n_gomez at teleline.es (JOSE MANUEL NARANJO GOMEZ) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:34:23 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] application geomedia Message-ID: <000101c02b0a$f0d2fb80$bc45533e@prompt-pc> I need help about making application geomedia with vb . I need help urgently . Please send me help . Jos? Manuel Naranjo G?mez University of Extremadura (UEX) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20000930/55060511/attachment.html