From spatialhydrology at hotmail.com Sat Feb 3 02:59:58 2001 From: spatialhydrology at hotmail.com (Ashok Verma) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:59:58 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] call for paper(s) Message-ID: Dear list members: The first debut issue (Volume 1, No. 1) of the Journal of Spatial Hydrology (JOSH: ISSN: 1530-4736) is due for in-line publication by June 2001. Any paper(s) received after March 15, 2001 will be scheduled for publication in December 2001 (Volume 1, No. 2) issue. Instructions for Authors: http://www.spatialhydrology.com/journal/submit.html Spatial Hydrology is in process of accepting manuscripts in following areas: Watershed management and planing Agricultural Hydrology Wetland modeling and restoration Watershed based decision-making Groundwater quality and modeling Hydrologic modeling Water quality monitoring and modeling GIS in water resources Stormwater management Land use and land suitability planning GIS in Rangeland management Natural hazardous management GIS in health Natural resources management Decision support systems for watershed management We are pleased to invite you to join this endeavor as a peer reviewer. Your acceptance as a reviewer will require reviewing approximately 2 or 3 articles per year. If you are interested in becoming a member of the newly formed peer review committee for this innovative electronic journal. If you are unable to become part of the peer-review committee, please nominate a colleague or associate from your department to become part of the committee. Please fill out an application form at http://www.spatialhydrology.com/journal/editor_reviwer.htm. Yours Sincerely, Ashok Verma Principal Investigator http://www.spatialhydrology.com/journal/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From warmerdam at pobox.com Sat Feb 3 06:09:19 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:09:19 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: New C DGN Reading Library Available Message-ID: <3A7B927F.83B337D2@pobox.com> Folks, I would like to announce the release of DGNLib 1.0. DGNLib is a simple C library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also sometimes known as ISFF format). The library is release under an X style license. The library has some limitations (currently read-only, 2D only, no raster support), but should be useful to anyone wanting to extract vector data from DGN files. I would appreciate feedback, bug fixes, samples of files it chokes on, and so on. More complete information, a link to the source, and the documentation for the API is available at: http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/dgn/index.html Best regards, ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From whitewolf_42 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 3 15:11:13 2001 From: whitewolf_42 at yahoo.com (Beverly White) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 06:11:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Freegis-list] EDUCATIONAL DISCIPLINES USING GIS Message-ID: <20010203141113.10565.qmail@web901.mail.yahoo.com> Hello the list!: I am a student, presently finishing an A.A.S. degree in Computer Science. GIS has captured my interest and I have taken 2 classes in this area of study, and I am just starting an internship with my local city community development department. I plan to pursue a 4 year degree in this area of study, however, my instructor tells me that I will need to select a discipline that incorporates GIS in order to obtain a 4 year degree. Since I am interested in several areas, can anyone tell me what discipline in the U.S. currently is experiencing the most demand for graduates? I would also be interested to know what the predictions are for about 2 years down the road. I have been reading your listserv messages for a couple of months and it sounds like there is a lot to learn in this area, but it's sooo interesting! Thanks, Beverly S. White whitewolf_42 at yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? - Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - only $35 a year! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010203/64886e90/attachment.html From neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de Sun Feb 4 18:08:13 2001 From: neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de (Markus Neteler) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:08:13 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] EDBS/ATKIS to some useful GIS-format converter wanted! In-Reply-To: <20010118183522.A32608@abnoba.intevation.de>; from jan@intevation.de on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:35:22PM +0100 References: <20010118170617.E9891@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> <20010118183522.A32608@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20010204170813.A6694@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> Hi EDBS-"lovers", is there any news on the proposed EDBS-someting converter? Jan, could you convince the person offering the routines to release them under an open source license? BTW: Freegis translated to Korean: http://www.gis-kr.org/ :-) Ciao Markus From fnievinski at cpovo.net Mon Feb 5 02:54:10 2001 From: fnievinski at cpovo.net (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:54:10 -0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: New C DGN Reading Library Available Message-ID: <200102042354100610.01D262AE@smtp.cpovo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank, I found today a project called QCAD. AFAIKN, it is the only quality free= (GPL'ed) software for CAD (www.qcad.org) The point is it supports DGN files. Jan Van Sweevelt is the name of the= one who has programmed and maintains the DGN format support. Maybe you can= cooperate. =3D) Best redars, Felipe Nievinski. [Freegis-list] ANN: New C DGN Reading Library Available Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:09:19 -0500 Folks, I would like to announce the release of DGNLib 1.0. DGNLib is a= simple C library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also= sometimes known as ISFF format). The library is release under an X style= license. The library has some limitations (currently read-only, 2D only,= no raster support), but should be useful to anyone wanting to extract= vector data from DGN files. I would appreciate feedback, bug fixes, samples of files it chokes on, and= so on. More complete information, a link to the source, and the documentation for the API is available at:= http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/dgn/index.html Best regards, ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------= -- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam,= warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From jan at intevation.de Mon Feb 5 10:12:12 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:12:12 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: New C DGN Reading Library Available In-Reply-To: <3A7B927F.83B337D2@pobox.com>; from warmerdam@pobox.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:09:19AM -0500 References: <3A7B927F.83B337D2@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20010205101212.A32606@abnoba.intevation.de> On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:09:19AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > I would like to announce the release of DGNLib 1.0. DGNLib is a simple C > library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also sometimes > known as ISFF format). The library is release under an X style license. DGNLib is added to FreeGIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Feb 5 12:45:12 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:45:12 +0100 Subject: Freegis in Korean (was: [Freegis-list] EDBS/ATKIS to some useful GIS-format converter wanted!) In-Reply-To: <20010204170813.A6694@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de>; from neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:08:13PM +0000 References: <20010118170617.E9891@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> <20010118183522.A32608@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010204170813.A6694@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <20010205124512.J445@abnoba.intevation.de> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:08:13PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote: > BTW: Freegis translated to Korean: http://www.gis-kr.org/ Please note that this is not an official site affiliated with Intevation. The translation effort is not completed (Last modified: October 9th) and still contains some parts which might let readers get the impression that it was done by Intevation. (This is just for clarification. We have no one here who speaks Korean, btw.) We are of course welcoming the translation effort and hope that we can spread more information about Free GIS software in the world, this way. If you want to translate texts from our freegis.org pages or the cd, please do not hesitate to contact us or fell free to just go ahead. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010205/942ad86b/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Mon Feb 5 12:46:52 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:46:52 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free icons. In-Reply-To: <008201c08a16$4b5243d0$0f0110ac@felipe>; from fnievinski@cpovo.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:09:51PM -0200 References: <3A72CA8F.21A39CBD@worldonline.es> <008201c08a16$4b5243d0$0f0110ac@felipe> Message-ID: <20010205124652.A1189@abnoba.intevation.de> Dear Felipe, On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:09:51PM -0200, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote: > There is a website at www.mapsymbols.com with a lot of icons and symbols for > map production that can be applicable for buttons too. > > Their data is not GPL'ed, although "This resource relies on the donation and > generosity of users throughout the world". Maybe a talk with Brian T. > Sheahan (the site maintainer) could make it right. Jan? thanks for this hint. I have sent Brian an email but did not receive an answer by now. If there are people out there strongly interested in Free GIS-related icons and symbols and if there are also some people willing to develop such icons, I will setup a page on FreeGIS to link these guys, to summarize needs and opinions and to share the icons with all for use and discussion. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From silke at intevation.de Mon Feb 5 17:40:23 2001 From: silke at intevation.de (Silke Reimer) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:40:23 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] RPM for GPSMan Message-ID: <20010205174023.A2597@abnoba.intevation.de> Hallo Miguel and everybody! I'm pleased to announce that I now build a package for GPSMan (a GPS Manager) Version 5.3.1. It would be nice if someone (Miguel?) could test it because we don't have a GPS-Device. :-) You can download it from ftp://freegis.org/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/updates/ Ciao Silke From smaffulli at inwind.it Tue Feb 6 11:38:10 2001 From: smaffulli at inwind.it (Stefano Maffulli) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:38:10 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] free portable map viewer? Message-ID: Hello everybody thank you for freegis.org, it's a valuable resource. I just received my new linux-powered PDA and noticed that there is FREE solution for visualising maps on a pda. Am I right? I went trough all known (to me) sources: freegis, sourceforge, freshmeat, tucows (in the pda sections) and various searches on google et sim. No success, at most I could find some freeware, closed source. Do you know if such a free program exist? are there efforts on porting some of the freegis listed programs on a pda (any)? Thanks Stefano Maffulli ********************************************* Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety TP 650 - Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy Tel: +39 0332 789061 Fax: +39 0332 789394 work: http://commongis.jrc.it/ leisure: http://www.zoomata.com ********************************************* From bernhard at intevation.de Tue Feb 6 16:49:35 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:49:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] [becker@geophysics.harvard.edu: Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing]] Message-ID: <20010206164935.K27583@abnoba.intevation.de> Here is a mail from Thorsten about the iGMT licensing. (Forwarded with permission.) Bernhard -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Thorsten Becker Subject: Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing] Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:01:38 -0500 Size: 4967 Url: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010206/e4047542/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010206/e4047542/attachment.bin From bernhard at intevation.de Tue Feb 6 19:41:11 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:41:11 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing] In-Reply-To: ; from becker@geophysics.harvard.edu on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0500 References: <3A6BF9FB.782566A9@gfz-potsdam.de> Message-ID: <20010206194111.B5087@abnoba.intevation.de> Thorsten, thanks for sharing iGMT with us. Let me again say that it is not my attention to question your intention in licensing iGMT in the way it is. I am just trying to explain it a bit, why I think that a different license might even be more useful. Feel of course free to disagree. On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0500, Thorsten Becker wrote: > thanks for your remarks about iGMT. We appreciate your interest > and are happy that you like our software. Please let me reply to your > comments by quoting below. > > From bernhard at intevation.de Thu Feb 1 09:46:22 2001 > > From: Bernhard Reiter > > Subject: iGMT licensing > > * You have changed the licence from GPL to GPL with an addition > > which reads as following: > > > > | In addition, iGMT is not to be used for any military purposes or for > > | any other activities that are against the spirit as expressed in the > > | Student Pugwash Pledge (www.spusa.org/pugwash/pledge.html). > > > > I am a bit worried, because this renders iGMT non-free software > > to be strict. I agree with your political goals stated in the > > Pledge, but freedom of software cannot depend on much more > > political strings than its freedom. > > It would be sad if igmt is not free software anymore, because we > > (people interested in free gis software) will have to work with the > > latest version which came with a free software license and could not > > profit of your good scientific work. > We regret that we deviate from the FSF policy in that respect. It is not only the FSF's idea, but also the same idea from the Debian social contract and the Open Source Initiative'S view upon what Free Software is. So there is a broad consensus about when Software can be called free. Personally I think that the freedom of software is helping peace as it brings power of the computer to the masses, which includes development countries and other people which cannot affort high priced proprietory software. > Even though we can appreciate the reasoning behind it, we simply do not > want our software to be used for general military and other purposes we do > not support. The G in iGMT is for doGmatic. Thinking a lot about this, I cannot see how this restriction can be useful in practice. The distinction between military purposes and purposes you allow is not sharp. A lot of research is done which ultimatly leads to military use. You also will not be able to really enforce these restrictions in reality. Another question about military purposes being morally good or bad is a matter of the situation. There are situations were you also will agree that military force is needed. I might add a small story here. The Forein Minister of Germany Joschka Fischer is a member of the green party which is known be pacifistic. In the Kosowo crisis he was caught in a conflict between agreeing to military actions or oppose them. It was a hard decision as if you buy into the view that some slaugthering of a ethic minority was going than not taking action would be a military decision to tolerate this. > If you are concerned by our deviation from the GPL, I suppose you > will have to take iGMT off your next release of the free GIS disc. We will use the latest version which was Free Software, if we have to other choice. :( Do you know which was the last one you have published under GPL? > You might want to include a link to our newest version, however, > to inform users about the availability of a restricted license > version. Coming to think of it there might be a problem with the restricted license for you, too: iGMT is completly dependant on GMT and GMT is released under GPL. Based on the legal interpretation on what a derived work is, iGMT might be a derived work and therefore you would not be able to legally use iGMT with GMT under a non GPL-compatible license. Regards, Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A lot of research is done which > ultimatly leads to military use. You also will not be able to really > enforce these restrictions in reality. Another question about > military purposes being morally good or bad is a matter of the situation. > There are situations were you also will agree that military force is > needed. > > I might add a small story here. The Forein Minister of Germany > Joschka Fischer is a member of the green party which is known be > pacifistic. In the Kosowo crisis he was caught in a conflict between > agreeing to military actions or oppose them. It was a hard decision > as if you buy into the view that some slaugthering of a ethic > minority was going than not taking action would be a military > decision to tolerate this. > obviously we have no means of enforcing any of the licensing restrictions. we therefore leave it to the user to decide if his usage of igmt is ethically compliant with the license of igmt or not. as you might see on our user list, we have some military organizations on them. if these people use igmt for mapping their gardens in their spare time, we are happy with that. however, we prefer to express our personal ethical bias in the licensing. > > > If you are concerned by our deviation from the GPL, I suppose you > > will have to take iGMT off your next release of the free GIS disc. > > We will use the latest version which was Free Software, > if we have to other choice. :( > Do you know which was the last one you have published under GPL? > 1.1. > > You might want to include a link to our newest version, however, > > to inform users about the availability of a restricted license > > version. > > Coming to think of it there might be a problem with the restricted > license for you, too: > iGMT is completly dependant on GMT and GMT is released under GPL. > Based on the legal interpretation on what a derived work is, > iGMT might be a derived work and therefore you would not be able to > legally use iGMT with GMT under a non GPL-compatible license. > i interpret 'derived' as including gmt source or something like that which we don't. i therefore consider it appropriate that igmt has it's own license. > Regards, > Bernhard > -- > Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) > The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) > Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) > FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) > Thorsten W. Becker_________________becker at geophysics.harvard.edu Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University phone: 1.617.495.8986 20 Oxford Street fax: 1.617.495.8839 Cambridge MA 02138, USA www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker From bernhard at intevation.de Tue Feb 6 20:26:18 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:26:18 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing] In-Reply-To: ; from becker@geophysics.harvard.edu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:02:48PM -0500 References: <20010206194111.B5087@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20010206202618.D5087@abnoba.intevation.de> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:02:48PM -0500, Thorsten Becker wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > obviously we have no means of enforcing any of the licensing restrictions. As author you can take legal actions against anyone who voilates your licensing terms. This is hard to do for military organisations because they usually do have a special legal situation. > we therefore leave it to the user to decide if his usage of igmt is > ethically compliant with the license of igmt or not. as you might see on > our user list, we have some military organizations on them. if these > people use igmt for mapping their gardens in their spare time, we are > happy with that. however, we prefer to express our personal ethical bias > in the licensing. If you did that as a recommendation would that be enough? > > > If you are concerned by our deviation from the GPL, I suppose you > > > will have to take iGMT off your next release of the free GIS disc. > > > > We will use the latest version which was Free Software, > > if we have to other choice. :( > > Do you know which was the last one you have published under GPL? > 1.1. This is not true as I do have a tarball for 1.2, which we used for the FreeGIS CD rpms, which only has the GPL license included. > > Coming to think of it there might be a problem with the restricted > > license for you, too: > > iGMT is completly dependant on GMT and GMT is released under GPL. > > Based on the legal interpretation on what a derived work is, > > iGMT might be a derived work and therefore you would not be able to > > legally use iGMT with GMT under a non GPL-compatible license. > > > > i interpret 'derived' as including gmt source or something like that which > we don't. I wish it would be as simple as this, participating in several discussions on gnu.misc.discuss I know that it is complicated. iGMT is not useful without GMT and therefore creates a combined product with it, I think that US legal interpretations consider the combination as a product a derived work. > i therefore consider it appropriate that igmt has it's own license. 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Becker_________________becker at geophysics.harvard.edu Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University phone: 1.617.495.8986 20 Oxford Street fax: 1.617.495.8839 Cambridge MA 02138, USA www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker From fnievinski at cpovo.net Wed Feb 7 03:04:31 2001 From: fnievinski at cpovo.net (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:04:31 -0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] gstat Message-ID: <033001c090aa$54a58e70$0f0110ac@felipe> http://www.gstat.org/ Do you know it? (sic) "Gstat is a computer program for geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation. Gstat works at least on the following platforms: Linux, hp-ux (9.x, 10.x), aix (3.2, 4.1), OSF/Alpha, SunOS, SGI, win32 and MS-DOS (dpmi). Gstat is Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (meaning it's freely available in binary and source code form). " Although it is not a GIS, it can be classified as a 'GeoInformatics' software, and therefore I think it can be in FreeGIS.org software list. Best regards, Felipe Nievinski. From jan at intevation.de Wed Feb 7 17:04:35 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:04:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] free portable map viewer? In-Reply-To: ; from smaffulli@inwind.it on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:38:10AM +0100 References: Message-ID: <20010207170435.C16754@abnoba.intevation.de> Hi Stefano, On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > thank you for freegis.org, it's a valuable resource. I just received my new > linux-powered PDA and noticed that there is FREE solution for visualising > maps on a pda. Am I right? I went trough all known (to me) sources: > freegis, sourceforge, freshmeat, tucows (in the pda sections) and various > searches on google et sim. No success, at most I could find some freeware, > closed source. > > Do you know if such a free program exist? are there efforts on porting some > of the freegis listed programs on a pda (any)? I am also not aware of any GIS software for PDAs though it would be quite to helpful since some PDAs have GPS incorporated. I had a loose discussion on this last December with some PDA Linux Kernel hackers and developed some ideas, but we found no one who was interested enough to finance that. I am also not aware of any Free GIS Software been tested on a PDA. So please if anyone has experiences or just will have fun to test it ... please report here :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From mboehm at stud.uni-goettingen.de Thu Feb 8 07:47:36 2001 From: mboehm at stud.uni-goettingen.de (Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hm?=) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 07:47:36 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] gstat References: <033001c090aa$54a58e70$0f0110ac@felipe> Message-ID: <3A824108.BFEB7AFB@stud.uni-goettingen.de> Freegis-list, Felipe, "Felipe G. Nievinski" wrote: > http://www.gstat.org/ > Do you know it? > > (sic) > "Gstat is a computer program for geostatistical modelling, prediction and > simulation. Gstat works at least on the following platforms: Linux, hp-ux > (9.x, 10.x), aix (3.2, 4.1), OSF/Alpha, SunOS, SGI, win32 and MS-DOS (dpmi). > Gstat is Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU > General Public Licence (meaning it's freely available in binary and source > code form). " > > Although it is not a GIS, it can be classified as a 'GeoInformatics' > software, and therefore I think it can be in FreeGIS.org software list. > > Best regards, > Felipe Nievinski. > nice hint, I think. I used gstat for my master thesis in combination with other GIS operations. Particularly I had very few success with the geostatistical modules of GRASS GIS 5x (BTW (to Markus Neteler?): will these modules get further developement?) so I had to try different programs to do the geostatistical interpolations. gstat did the job very well and the file exchange with GRASS was not really a problem because gstat supports a lot of Grid map formats (for example idrisi, ArcInfo/View, ER-Mapper, GMT grid maps, Surfer). As you can see there is missing the GRASS raster format which would make the combined use of these programs even more comfortable. Perhaps it is possible to develop an interface :-) In my opinion the documentation of gestat is quite good as well. So I can say that it would be a further good thing for the FreeGIS-CD Regards, Markus B. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Markus Boehm mboehm at stud.uni-goettingen.de http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~mboehm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From jan at intevation.de Thu Feb 8 08:55:55 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:55:55 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] gstat In-Reply-To: <3A824108.BFEB7AFB@stud.uni-goettingen.de>; from mboehm@stud.uni-goettingen.de on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:47:36AM +0100 References: <033001c090aa$54a58e70$0f0110ac@felipe> <3A824108.BFEB7AFB@stud.uni-goettingen.de> Message-ID: <20010208085555.B31534@abnoba.intevation.de> Dear Felipe, Markus, > > http://www.gstat.org/ > > Do you know it? I was not aware of it. Thanks for the hint. I looks really good and it is definitely Free GIS Software. So I added it to FreeGIS. > So I can say that it would be a further good thing for the FreeGIS-CD Good idea. Perhaps we can improve the GRASS-gstat interchange a bit. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Thu Feb 8 09:00:53 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:00:53 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] EDBS/ATKIS to some useful GIS-format converter wanted! In-Reply-To: <20010204170813.A6694@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de>; from neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:08:13PM +0000 References: <20010118170617.E9891@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> <20010118183522.A32608@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010204170813.A6694@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <20010208090053.C31534@abnoba.intevation.de> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:08:13PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote: > is there any news on the proposed EDBS-someting converter? > Jan, could you convince the person offering the routines > to release them under an open source license? I am trying hard, but don't rely on success. So please don't stop looking for alternatives or for people interested to invest in the development of a free EDBS reader to be linked to GRASS and other free GIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de Thu Feb 8 10:06:55 2001 From: neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de (Markus Neteler) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:06:55 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] gstat In-Reply-To: <3A824108.BFEB7AFB@stud.uni-goettingen.de>; from mboehm@stud.uni-goettingen.de on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:47:36AM +0100 References: <033001c090aa$54a58e70$0f0110ac@felipe> <3A824108.BFEB7AFB@stud.uni-goettingen.de> Message-ID: <20010208090655.D4848@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> Hi Markus, hi all, On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:47:36AM +0100, Markus B?hm wrote: > Freegis-list, Felipe, > > "Felipe G. Nievinski" wrote: > > > http://www.gstat.org/ > > Do you know it? > > > > (sic) > > "Gstat is a computer program for geostatistical modelling, prediction and > > simulation. Gstat works at least on the following platforms: Linux, hp-ux > > (9.x, 10.x), aix (3.2, 4.1), OSF/Alpha, SunOS, SGI, win32 and MS-DOS (dpmi). > > Gstat is Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU > > General Public Licence (meaning it's freely available in binary and source > > code form). " > > > > Although it is not a GIS, it can be classified as a 'GeoInformatics' > > software, and therefore I think it can be in FreeGIS.org software list. > > > > Best regards, > > Felipe Nievinski. > > > > nice hint, I think. > I used gstat for my master thesis in combination with other GIS operations. > Particularly I had very few success with the geostatistical modules of GRASS > GIS 5x (BTW (to Markus Neteler?): will these modules get further developement?) > so I had to try different programs to do the geostatistical interpolations. The GRASS 5beta11 s.* modules are somewhat better than in past. Generally we'll continue to work on the "R statistical language" interface (Roger Bivand) - no need to re-invent the wheel in GRASS. But... > gstat did the job very well and the file exchange with GRASS was not really a > problem because gstat supports a lot of Grid map formats (for example idrisi, > ArcInfo/View, ER-Mapper, GMT grid maps, Surfer). As you can see there is > missing the GRASS raster format which would make the combined use of these > programs even more comfortable. Perhaps it is possible to develop an interface > :-) It's already there :-) I have been to Italy last week, the Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Maria Brovelli) has been developing a small gstat interface to GRASS. I'll try to get that. General agreement is there. > In my opinion the documentation of gestat is quite good as well. > > So I can say that it would be a further good thing for the FreeGIS-CD I agree. Cheers Markus Neteler From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Feb 9 10:18:56 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:18:56 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing] In-Reply-To: ; from becker@geophysics.harvard.edu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:08:25PM -0500 References: <20010206202618.D5087@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20010209101856.C11901@abnoba.intevation.de> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:08:25PM -0500, Thorsten Becker wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:02:48PM -0500, Thorsten Becker wrote: > > iGMT is not useful without GMT and therefore creates a combined > > product with it, I think that US legal interpretations consider the > > combination as a product a derived work. > > > > > i therefore consider it appropriate that igmt has it's own license. > > > > Maybe we have to ask for legal advice here. > well, if you convince me that we have to use th gmt licence, we use the > gmt license. I asked RMS from the FSF about advice about the legal situation. He agreed with me and thinks that iGMT has to come under GPL as a combined work. He also sympathizes with your goal, but notes that the restriction is incompatible with free software, as well as with the GPL. He added that: | In addition, this is legally unenforcible (at least in the US). In | the US, under copyright law, anyone who obtains a lawfully-published | copy is legally entitled to run it for any purpose--including a | military purpose. The developer has no legal right to impose | conditions on the activity. I see no reason for you to keep an uneffective restriction which is even legally doubtful in the license for iGMT. You might make it a strong suggestion so that your cause is heard. 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His repackaging efforts let to the GEOTRANS library publication, from: http://www.jps.net/egm2/libgeotrans/ Note the GEOTRANS software is already listed on the freegis pages, because ImageLinks has a version in its cvs tree. Has somebody experience with both versions and can comment on the differences? Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As all the other packages you find it on ftp://freegis.org/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/updates/ Cheers Silke From bernhard at intevation.de Sat Feb 10 16:44:51 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:44:51 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Fwd: iGMT licensing] In-Reply-To: ; from becker@geophysics.harvard.edu on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:03:27PM -0500 References: <20010209101856.C11901@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20010210164451.A23907@abnoba.intevation.de> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:03:27PM -0500, Thorsten Becker wrote: > we have modified the copyright notice, deviations from gpl now read > > # In addition, we strongly suggest that iGMT users comply with the goals # > # as expressed in the Student Pugwash Pledge (www.spusa.org/pugwash/). # > > the american igmt web site has been updated accordingly, the new > distribution is > > igmt_v1.2-20010209.tar.gz > > thanks for letting me get back to work. Thanks for making igmt free software again. 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Hi, I've exhausted all of my avenues trying to find a copy of the source for InfoLib, which is apparently a method of accessing INFO tables from outside of Arc/Info. If anyone has a copy of this, could they please let me know? In case a lot of people have it, please don't send attachments right away. If InfoLib is available under a public domain or open source license, I would be pleased to make it available on a personal ftp server for anyone who might come looking for it in the future. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Birch Spatial Data Analyst BC Environment, Lands and Parks, Surrey Phone: 604.582.5399 Fax: 604.930.7119 From jan at intevation.de Tue Feb 20 20:14:02 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:14:02 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability? In-Reply-To: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D075308ABC915@raptor.gov.yk.ca>; from Matt.Wilkie@gov.yk.ca on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:02:26PM -0800 References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D075308ABC915@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Message-ID: <20010220201402.C32732@abnoba.intevation.de> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:02:26PM -0800, Matt.Wilkie wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Birch, Jason ELP:EX [mailto:Jason.Birch at GEMS5.GOV.BC.CA] > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:05 PM > To: ESRI-L at ESRI.COM > Subject: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability? > > > Hi, > > I've exhausted all of my avenues trying to find a copy of the source for > InfoLib, which is apparently a method of accessing INFO tables from outside > of Arc/Info. > > If anyone has a copy of this, could they please let me know? In case a lot > of people have it, please don't send attachments right away. If InfoLib is > available under a public domain or open source license, I would be pleased > to make it available on a personal ftp server for anyone who might come > looking for it in the future. It used to be at ftp://ftp.esri.com/pub/misc but it has gone. I am pretty sure InfoLib is neither available as PD nor as Free Software. Moreover, ESRI has AFAIK never published a specification for INFO. I heard rumors that ESRI even made legal actions against reverse engineering of the ArcInfo format... Any hints, comments on the situation of the proprietary coverage format? Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From cfasshauer at web.de Wed Feb 21 09:19:53 2001 From: cfasshauer at web.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q? Cornelius=20=20Fa=DFhauer ?=) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:19:53 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] new project for sewer-systems Message-ID: <200102210819.f1L8JrY05363@mailgate3.cinetic.de> Dear list-members, I am a german civil engineer working on sewer-management-projects. I think, there?s a need for simple remote data-access tools for this and not much software available. Therefore i?d like to launch a new OpenSource-project concerning the internetwise-management of sewer-systems using Java and SVG/XML-Standards. The first step will be the development of the following components: -a net-viewer (Java-Applet) showing SVG-Drawings and XML-Data, based on existing software like the CSIRO-SVGViewer or maybe the batik-project by the apache-group (some good wheels are invented). -an input converter to read the ISYBAU-Formats (ASCII-Formats, german standard for the exchange of sewer-data)and put it into some GIS/Database (GRASS/POSTGRESQL ?) -an output converter to produce appropriate XML/SVG-files out of the GIS/Database. The structure of these files still have to be discussed. I?d like to invite everybody interested in sewer-systems to join the project or just to tell me, that he or she cares about that kind of stuff. The concepts may as well be used for example for water-supply-nets or other things i have no idea of. I am planning to start a WebSite of my own this summer. Up to then I?d like to post a brief HTML-Outline (German language, translators welcome) of the project in some place where it can be found by the right people. Could it be placed in the freegis-projects-category?? By the way: I?d like to call the project "INKA", which stands for "INternet KAnalmanagement". Are there any conflicts with names of existing projects, software or organisations?? So long, thanks for your interest C.Fasshauer Nordereng 1 D-24873 Havetoft Phone +49 4603 710 Mail cfasshauer at web.de ______________________________________________________________________________ Die Fachpresse ist sich einig: WEB.DE 18mal Testsieger! Kostenlos E-Mail, Fax, SMS, Verschlusselung, POP3, WAP....testen Sie uns! http://freemail.web.de From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Feb 21 11:56:14 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:56:14 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] new project for sewer-systems In-Reply-To: <200102210819.f1L8JrY05363@mailgate3.cinetic.de>; from cfasshauer@web.de on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:19:53AM +0100 References: <200102210819.f1L8JrY05363@mailgate3.cinetic.de> Message-ID: <20010221115614.M3953@abnoba.intevation.de> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:19:53AM +0100, Cornelius Fa?hauer wrote: > I think, there?s a need for simple remote data-access tools for > this and not much software available. Therefore i?d like to launch > a new OpenSource-project concerning the internetwise-management of > sewer-systems using Java and SVG/XML-Standards. Starting a free software project is of course a good idea. > I am planning to start a WebSite of my own this summer. It is very important to get a couple of pages or even the summary up so that people know were to find the project and how to contact you. > Up to then I?d like to post a brief > HTML-Outline (German language, translators welcome) of the project > in some place where it can be found by the right people. Could it > be placed in the freegis-projects-category?? If you send us a short summary, we are happy to include it and your project in our freegis pages. I really recommend that you translate the summary, too. > By the way: I?d like to call the project "INKA", which stands for > "INternet KAnalmanagement". Are there any conflicts with names of > existing projects, software or organisations?? Google.com is a very good test for it. Just type in "inka".... It looks like the name is used by a couple of organisations (even two german ones) and some projects. For me this is would be name-showstopper. ;-> Good luck for the project and keep us posted. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010221/50c4ef71/attachment.bin From gpezzuchi at sidic.pol.gba.gov.ar Wed Feb 21 12:24:35 2001 From: gpezzuchi at sidic.pol.gba.gov.ar (Gaston Pezzuchi) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:24:35 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability? References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D075308ABC915@raptor.gov.yk.ca> <20010220201402.C32732@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <003f01c09bf8$df21c1a0$0d013d0a@gba.gov.ar> Well, well I do have found that infoLib is Public domain software: "This software is being released into the public domain. It may be freely used whole or in part or distributed as a whole as long as this notice remains attached to the source code. The author and ESRI do not assume any liability or responsibility in the use or distribution of this software." was the original author's statement... The Environmental Protection Agency site has some software mentions about Infolib... And there is even a "free" translation utility info2dbf at: http://www.epa.gov/Region10/dbf2info.html#contents Anyway, and even though I do not use ArcInfo I do have downloaded some time ago the InfoLib... if I could rememeber from where or where did I have stored it... But... I have some dead links refering to the EPAFTP were the infolib was supposed to be stored and ready to be downloaded... Perhaps someone can contact them and ask about it... ftp://ftp.epa.gov/pub/gistechs/programs/ also, there must be a copy of the InfoLib out there (NOT in Esri's web site... :-)) ), yet, if the InfoLib is really PD, perhaps some of this list gurus would be able to start working on it and provide an updated and revised version... perhaps a "supported one"... Yours, Gast?n Pezzuchi Ofl. Subinsp. Crime Analyst DGEIPD La Plata Argentina (El server de gobierno puede no funcionar, en ese caso, enviar a: gpezzuchi at way.com.ar ). ----- Original Message ----- From: Jan-Oliver Wagner To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] FW: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability? > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:02:26PM -0800, Matt.Wilkie wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Birch, Jason ELP:EX [mailto:Jason.Birch at GEMS5.GOV.BC.CA] > > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:05 PM > > To: ESRI-L at ESRI.COM > > Subject: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've exhausted all of my avenues trying to find a copy of the source for > > InfoLib, which is apparently a method of accessing INFO tables from outside > > of Arc/Info. > > > > If anyone has a copy of this, could they please let me know? In case a lot > > of people have it, please don't send attachments right away. If InfoLib is > > available under a public domain or open source license, I would be pleased > > to make it available on a personal ftp server for anyone who might come > > looking for it in the future. > > It used to be at ftp://ftp.esri.com/pub/misc but it has gone. > > I am pretty sure InfoLib is neither available as PD nor as Free Software. > Moreover, ESRI has AFAIK never published a specification for INFO. > I heard rumors that ESRI even made legal actions against reverse engineering > of the ArcInfo format... > > Any hints, comments on the situation of the proprietary coverage format? > > Jan > > -- > Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ > > Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ > FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Feb 21 18:01:45 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:01:45 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered Message-ID: <20010221180145.A3953@abnoba.intevation.de> Hi FreeGIS interested people, as you probably have noticed there is a lot to be improved on the freegis.org webpages. I implemented a small improvement in the last hours: The entries have an oder now. :) My attempt to order the entries tried to : - bring the entries of broadest interest first. - bring more complete and higher quality products first. If you feel strongly about the new order of entries, please feel free to give us your suggestions. Cheers, Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks for re-ordering! Still I feel that separating GIS from GPS into two sections would be a good idea :-) Regards Markus From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Feb 21 19:33:00 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:33:00 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered In-Reply-To: <20010221174836.C65@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de>; from neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:48:37PM +0000 References: <20010221180145.A3953@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010221174836.C65@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <20010221193300.A7490@abnoba.intevation.de> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:48:37PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:01:45PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > The entries have an oder now. :) > Thanks for re-ordering! Still I feel that separating GIS from GPS > into two sections would be a good idea :-) Yes, definatly. We will offer the contents of the big pages in little subpages first, I think. Then we can start to mange the categories better. We should also add a search capability. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010221/3a531d29/attachment.bin From acuster at nature.berkeley.edu Wed Feb 21 20:18:46 2001 From: acuster at nature.berkeley.edu (Adrian Custer) Date: 21 Feb 2001 11:18:46 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered In-Reply-To: <20010221193300.A7490@abnoba.intevation.de> References: <20010221180145.A3953@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010221174836.C65@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> <20010221193300.A7490@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20010221191806.C26E12211F@nopause.berkeley.edu> On 21 Feb 2001 19:33:00 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > We should also add a search capability. I still clamor for a set of "new in last two months" tags, or perhaps a subpage with those entries. It makes it much easier on the return visitor. Right now I only visit the page when I have a chunk of time in which to sort through all the entries and figure out which ones I have already seen. thanks , adrian From jan at intevation.de Wed Feb 21 20:34:07 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:34:07 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered In-Reply-To: <20010221191806.C26E12211F@nopause.berkeley.edu>; from acuster@nature.berkeley.edu on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:18:46AM -0800 References: <20010221180145.A3953@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010221174836.C65@hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de> <20010221193300.A7490@abnoba.intevation.de> <20010221191806.C26E12211F@nopause.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <20010221203407.A7654@abnoba.intevation.de> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:18:46AM -0800, Adrian Custer wrote: > I still clamor for a set of "new in last two months" tags, or perhaps a > subpage with those entries. It makes it much easier on the return > visitor. Right now I only visit the page when I have a chunk of time in > which to sort through all the entries and figure out which ones I have > already seen. right, we must have a news section where short messages hint on new entries and changed entries. Just like many portals have. Tagging is also nice and should be fairly easy with zope. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From fnievinski at cpovo.net Thu Feb 22 17:13:45 2001 From: fnievinski at cpovo.net (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:13:45 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered References: <20010221180145.A3953@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <00fa01c09cea$70ab03b0$0f0110ac@felipe> Hi. It would be good to have a small paragraph in the main page (above the software entries) explaining the project (ala About FreeGIS page). Regards, Felipe Nievinski. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernhard Reiter" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered From M.Spring at gmx.de Thu Feb 22 20:33:37 2001 From: M.Spring at gmx.de (Markus W. Spring) Date: 22 Feb 2001 20:33:37 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Mapserver running on Digital REgional Atlas Muenchen Message-ID: Hello list! Our german website DREAM - Digital REgional Atlas Muenchen is online. You find it under http://dream.lrrl.arch.tu-muenchen.de It shows environmental and planning informations for the city and region of Munich/Bavaria. At the moment it contains about 10 maps served with the UMN mapserver (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu), the next 70 are work in progress. DREAM is a cooperation between the "LRRL Lehrstuhl fuer Raumforschung, Raumordnung und Landesplanung" of the technical university of munich and the department of health and environment of the city of munich. The mapping system uses a tranformation tool between ArcView .odb-files and mapserver .map-files which is going to be published under GPL - it still needs some finishing and documentation. - Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------ Markus Spring Department of Health and Environment City of Munich Bayerstr. 28a D-80335 Munich From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Feb 23 15:35:36 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:35:36 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] gpstrans 0.37 Message-ID: <20010223153536.I17890@abnoba.intevation.de> Hi, there was a new version of gpstrans 0.37 released. The changelog reads like: * Code clean-up and some minor code correction. * Added command line time support for etrex (and other models like) * Added install/uninstall * Documentation updated * Added a TODO Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I have added this GEOTRANS version as a library to FreeGIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Feb 26 14:48:32 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:48:32 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] GeoGratis Message-ID: <3A9A5EB0.488D0369@pobox.com> Folks, Another possible entry in the free data section is the Canadian "GeoGratis" site. This includes various free datasets from various federal government departments. The licensing terms is generally free with a credit requirement. http://www.geogratis.ca/ Note, alot of the data I found was in e00 format. Some data isn't available online, but may be ordered for free, or cheaply. Best regards, ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Feb 26 22:46:49 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:46:49 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] OGDI 3.1alpha2 Source Released Message-ID: <3A9ACEC9.2E4F8324@pobox.com> Folks, The 3i (Information Interoperability Institute) is pleased to announce the first 3i source release for OGDI. OGDI is the Open Geographic Datastore Interface, an application programming interface (API) providing local and remote access to geospatial data products in a variety of raster and vector formats. The open source OGDI core technology, and the OGDI interface standard is currently maintained by the 3i. The OGDI core includes a C client library, a server, and drivers for RPF, VPF, ADRG and DTED file formats. The 3.1alpha2 source release is the first 3i managed release of OGDI, and is essentially a bug fix release based on the more widely used, but never officially released, OGDI 3.0beta source. This release is primarily targetted at the developers of commercial and free GIS and remote sensing packages interested in taking advantage of the capabilities of OGDI. It is intended that a 3.1 beta, and final release will be prepared by 3i in coming months. The 3.1 final release should include additional support for version/extension negotiation, and layer discovery metadata. Future releases will also include additional "end user" tools, and pre-built binaries. Developer material, mailing list subscription info, and the 3.1alpha2 source release may be found at: http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/ Information on the 3i, including it's mission and membership options is available at: http://www.3i.ca/ Best regards, ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From pedro at inovagis.org Wed Feb 28 13:28:28 2001 From: pedro at inovagis.org (Pedro Pereira Goncalves) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:28:28 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Going opensource... Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010228121816.00b02080@pop.si.fct.unl.pt> Hi all, I've been developing the freeware inovaGIS library of COM objects for a while in Borland Delphi (Object Pascal) After a few versions the new version 3 has reached a stable ground and with the development of Delphi for Linux I was thinking about going opensource, however all the projects I see out there are in C or C++ ... Do I have to wait for the development of Delphi for Linux or can I start now with the windows version that in fact uses borland proprietary code ? So my real question is can Delphi code be applied to your rules of opensource? best regards Pedro Pedro ------------------------------------------ Pedro Pereira Goncalves inovaGIS Project - http://www.inovagis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Feb 28 14:50:16 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:50:16 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Going opensource... In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010228121816.00b02080@pop.si.fct.unl.pt>; from pedro@inovagis.org on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:28:28PM +0000 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010228121816.00b02080@pop.si.fct.unl.pt> Message-ID: <20010228145016.B28843@abnoba.intevation.de> Hi Pedro, Delphi code can be released under a free software license. It is true that a lot of free software projects are done in C and run on GNU/Linux systems, but free software can be written in (almost) any programming language. It also does not matter if it runs on a special platform, some free software only runs on Windows machines. It can be a drawback if a free software requires proprietary code (in this case the Borland compiler) to build the software from the source, but it is no show-stopper. I also assume that the resulting binaries can be distributed without restraints, so there is no problem. Best, Bernhard On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:28:28PM +0000, Pedro Pereira Goncalves wrote: > I've been developing the freeware inovaGIS library of COM objects for a > while in Borland Delphi (Object Pascal) > After a few versions the new version 3 has reached a stable ground and with > the development of Delphi for > Linux I was thinking about going opensource, however all the projects I see > out there are in C or C++ ... > Do I have to wait for the development of Delphi for Linux or can I start > now with the windows version that in fact uses > borland proprietary code ? > > So my real question is can Delphi code be applied to your rules of opensource? -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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