From dtrillo at dap.es Mon Nov 5 10:16:50 2001 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:16:50 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] converting EPS to other vector file Message-ID: I was wondering if any of you know a program, script or whatever that allow me to convert *.eps files to vector files, such as shapes, dxf, dgn, dwg, ..... I will appreciate you help... david David Trillo Montero Dpto. Innovaci?n y Desarrollo. E.P. Desarrollo Agrario y Pesquero de Andalucia Telefono: 954938100 Ext 8481 Fax : 954938110 mailto:dtrillo at dap.es From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Nov 5 12:31:59 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:31:59 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] converting EPS to other vector file In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011105123159.F27387@intevation.de> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:16:50AM +0100, David Trillo Montero wrote: > I was wondering if any of you know a program, > script or whatever that allow me to convert *.eps files to vector > files, such as shapes, dxf, dgn, dwg, ..... Encapsulated postscript is a general format. If you need to batch convert a lot of old files I would look into them an think about writing a small script to do the convertion. Otherwise the pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit is your best bet to get a format which you can work with using other programs. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- 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/20011105/60ad2d48/attachment.bin From lehmann at fh-nuertingen.de Mon Nov 5 13:35:42 2001 From: lehmann at fh-nuertingen.de (DIETER LEHMANN) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:35:42 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] converting EPS to other vector file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3BE69664.9152.CE29F4A6@localhost> there is pstoedit. Look at http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit Dieter Am 5 Nov 2001, um 10:16 hat David Trillo Montero geschrieben: > I was wondering if any of you know a program, script or whatever that allow me to convert *.eps files to vector files, such as shapes, dxf, dgn, dwg, ..... > > I will appreciate you help... > david > > David Trillo Montero > Dpto. Innovaci?n y Desarrollo. > E.P. Desarrollo Agrario y Pesquero de Andalucia > Telefono: 954938100 Ext 8481 > Fax : 954938110 > mailto:dtrillo at dap.es > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From juradoe at supercable.es Mon Nov 5 18:30:24 2001 From: juradoe at supercable.es (Familia Jurado =?iso-8859-1?Q?Est=E9vez?=) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 18:30:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SMAC software Message-ID: <3BE6CCB0.2AD5C422@supercable.es> I need some advice about the Simplified Method of Atmospheric Correction (SMAC). I'd be grateful if any of you would send a information about a site where could be found this software. I want to test this method with a several numbers of NOAA-AVHRR images from different satellites. I really interested in the SMAC codes. I look forward to hearing from you From Markus.Spring at muenchen.de Tue Nov 6 12:31:23 2001 From: Markus.Spring at muenchen.de (Markus.Spring) Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:31:23 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] free software Message-ID: <3BE7CA0B.DB41B91D@muenchen.de> Hi, Imagine is a software from ERDAS. Details under http://www.erdas.com/software/productgroups.asp?GroupID=1 Markus From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca Fri Nov 9 19:19:11 2001 From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:19:11 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [vtp] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implementation Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530D047BE0@raptor.gov.yk.ca> -----Original Message----- From: Rob Hranac [mailto:robhranac at vfny.org] Sent: 2001 November 08 08:19 To: vtp at yahoogroups.com Subject: [vtp] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implementation VFNY has released an alpha version of an open source WFS implementation in Java, using PostGIS as the datastore. Installation of the alpha is recommended for the, um, adventurous only. We will have a beta by December and a 1.0 out by January that will both be more robust and much more user-friendly. However, we wanted to gauge developer interest in this project now rather than later. If you are interested in contributing, please let me know. Full details are given below - feel free to contact me with questions. Note that my hidden agenda in sending this to VTP is that some day I think it would be smart for the VTP tools to read data from a WFS. Regards, Rob Hranac Director / Senior Developer Vision for New York (VFNY) 377 Broadway 11th Floor New York, NY 10013 tel: (212) 219-6052 email: robhranac at vfny.org www.vfny.org ******************************************* RELEASE NOTES: Free Feature Server (FreeFS) 0.9 alpha release - www.sourceforge.net/projects/freefs from Vision for New York (VFNY) - www.vfny.org contact info: robhranac at vfny.org ******************************************* OVERVIEW: This is the first release of FreeFS, a product that VFNY has developed as an implementation of the OpenGIS Consortium's (OGC, www.opengis.org) Web Feature Server v0.0.13 (WFS) specification. VFNY develops FreeFS in order to spur the adoption of interoperable geographic data standards by data providers. FreeFS is intended to serve as a free, fast, easy to use, and comprehensive geographic vector data translator for geographic 'web service' applications. FreeFS aspires to be the primary translator between the current cacophony of geographic storage formats and Geography Markup Language (GML) for vector-based geographic data. ******************************************* LICENSE: FreeFS is currently released under the GPL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htm). However, VFNY is cooking up its own license, which is somewhat less restrictive than the GPL. When we have completed it (early 2002), we will change the licensing terms. We will, of course, fully honor the terms of the GPL when we do so. If you are interested is using the code and have objections to the GPL, please contact us. ******************************************* FUNCTIONALITY: This release is targeted more at the development community than the user community and functionality is quite limited; minimal testing has occurred exclusively on a single development server. However, FreeFS does follow the WFS v0.0.13 spec enough to lay claim to be the first bonafide, open-source implementation of the spec. Currently, FreeFS implements the WFS GetCapabilities, DescribeFeatureType, and GetFeature interfaces, but not the OGC Filter spec or any transaction interfaces. FreeFS serves data exclusively from PostgreSQL, using the PostGIS extension from the clever people at Refractions Research Inc. (www.refractions.net). Error handling in this version is essentially non-existent and documentation is limited to these release notes and the javadocs. The only feature implemented in FreeFS not mandated in the WFS spec are the metadata JSP pages, which mostly serve to help users understand what FreeFS is doing and give spiders a chance to index it. One note: almost no efforts have been made to implement security in FreeFS. If you have sensitive data that you do not want to grant public access to, do not use this alpha version of FreeFS to serve it. VFNY will likely add security features in future releases. ******************************************* FUTURE: VFNY will release a 0.9 beta version of FreeFS in December 2001, which will include the following improvements: Filter Capabilities Web-based Administration VFNY will release a 1.0 version in January 2002, which will include the following improvements: Error Handling User Documentation Minor Transaction Handling Connection Pooling Future releases, coming in early 2002, will focus on: Increased geographic storage format support Increased output type support Security and access control Full transactional support Cascading WFS support Advanced schema support Of course, VFNY will enthusiastically accept patches, functional extensions, critiques, comments, and love from other developers and interested parties, regarding FreeFS. We intend to play nicely with the open-source GIS development community and have no commercial interests in the development of FreeFS and other OpenGIS technology. When enough developer interest materializes, VFNY will begin to release nightly builds and set up a CVS repository. Please send comments/suggestions/flames to: robhranac at vfny.org. ******************************************* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: vtp-unsubscribe at egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Nov 9 20:45:52 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:45:52 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [vtp] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implementation In-Reply-To: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530D047BE0@raptor.gov.yk.ca> References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530D047BE0@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Message-ID: <20011109204552.B22797@intevation.de> Thanks Matt, both freefs and the VFNY-project are interesting. It is good to see that they already have FreeGIS prominent on the site. I wonder if I can find time to explain to Rob that they should go with a known Free Software license, because it has many advantages. GNU LGPL or X11 license come to mind if they want less protection of the freedom. Bernhard On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:19:11AM -0800, Matt.Wilkie wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Hranac [mailto:robhranac at vfny.org] > Sent: 2001 November 08 08:19 > To: vtp at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [vtp] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implementation > > > VFNY has released an alpha version of an open source WFS > implementation in Java, using PostGIS as the datastore. > Free Feature Server (FreeFS) 0.9 alpha release - > www.sourceforge.net/projects/freefs > from Vision for New York (VFNY) - www.vfny.org > contact info: robhranac at vfny.org > FreeFS is currently released under the GPL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htm). > However, VFNY is cooking up its own license, which is somewhat less > restrictive than the GPL. -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It may have as much or more to with other peoples (mis) conceptions as his own. _Starting_ with the GPL is a good sign. -matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From robhranac at vfny.org Thu Nov 8 17:20:18 2001 From: robhranac at vfny.org (Rob Hranac) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:20:18 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implementation Message-ID: <000b01c16871$424bc6a0$1400fe0a@matt> VFNY has released an alpha version of an open source WFS implementation in Java, using PostGIS as the datastore. Installation of the alpha is recommended for the, um, adventurous only. We will have a beta by December and a 1.0 out by January that will both be more robust and much more user-friendly. However, we wanted to gauge developer interest in this project now rather than later. If you are interested in contributing, please let me know. Full details are given below - feel free to contact me with questions. Regards, Rob Hranac Director / Senior Developer Vision for New York (VFNY) 377 Broadway 11th Floor New York, NY 10013 tel: (212) 219-6052 email: robhranac at vfny.org www.vfny.org ******************************************* RELEASE NOTES: Free Feature Server (FreeFS) 0.9 alpha release - www.sourceforge.net/projects/freefs from Vision for New York (VFNY) - www.vfny.org contact info: robhranac at vfny.org ******************************************* OVERVIEW: This is the first release of FreeFS, a product that VFNY has developed as an implementation of the OpenGIS Consortium's (OGC, www.opengis.org) Web Feature Server v0.0.13 (WFS) specification. VFNY develops FreeFS in order to spur the adoption of interoperable geographic data standards by data providers. FreeFS is intended to serve as a free, fast, easy to use, and comprehensive geographic vector data translator for geographic 'web service' applications. FreeFS aspires to be the primary translator between the current cacophony of geographic storage formats and Geography Markup Language (GML) for vector-based geographic data. ******************************************* LICENSE: FreeFS is currently released under the GPL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htm). However, VFNY is cooking up its own license, which is somewhat less restrictive than the GPL. When we have completed it (early 2002), we will change the licensing terms. We will, of course, fully honor the terms of the GPL when we do so. If you are interested is using the code and have objections to the GPL, please contact us. ******************************************* FUNCTIONALITY: This release is targeted more at the development community than the user community and functionality is quite limited; minimal testing has occurred exclusively on a single development server. However, FreeFS does follow the WFS v0.0.13 spec enough to lay claim to be the first bonafide, open-source implementation of the spec. Currently, FreeFS implements the WFS GetCapabilities, DescribeFeatureType, and GetFeature interfaces, but not the OGC Filter spec or any transaction interfaces. FreeFS serves data exclusively from PostgreSQL, using the PostGIS extension from the clever people at Refractions Research Inc. (www.refractions.net). Error handling in this version is essentially non-existent and documentation is limited to these release notes and the javadocs. The only feature implemented in FreeFS not mandated in the WFS spec are the metadata JSP pages, which mostly serve to help users understand what FreeFS is doing and give spiders a chance to index it. One note: almost no efforts have been made to implement security in FreeFS. If you have sensitive data that you do not want to grant public access to, do not use this alpha version of FreeFS to serve it. VFNY will likely add security features in future releases. ******************************************* FUTURE: VFNY will release a 0.9 beta version of FreeFS in December 2001, which will include the following improvements: Filter Capabilities Web-based Administration VFNY will release a 1.0 version in January 2002, which will include the following improvements: Error Handling User Documentation Minor Transaction Handling Connection Pooling Future releases, coming in early 2002, will focus on: Increased geographic storage format support Increased output type support Security and access control Full transactional support Cascading WFS support Advanced schema support Of course, VFNY will enthusiastically accept patches, functional extensions, critiques, comments, and love from other developers and interested parties, regarding FreeFS. We intend to play nicely with the open-source GIS development community and have no commercial interests in the development of FreeFS and other OpenGIS technology. When enough developer interest materializes, VFNY will begin to release nightly builds and set up a CVS repository. Please send comments/suggestions/flames to: robhranac at vfny.org. ******************************************* From bernhard at intevation.de Sat Nov 10 17:21:50 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:21:50 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FW: [vtp] freefs 0.9a released - os wfs implem entation In-Reply-To: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530D047DC5@raptor.gov.yk.ca> References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530D047DC5@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Message-ID: <20011110172150.E26296@intevation.de> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:33:53PM -0800, Matt.Wilkie wrote: > > I wonder if I can find time to explain to Rob that they should go > > with a known Free Software license, because it has many advantages. > > GNU LGPL or X11 license come to mind if they want less protection of > > the freedom. > > So far he hasn't specified exactly what the percieved problem with > the GPL is. It may have as much or more to with other peoples (mis) > conceptions as his own. _Starting_ with the GPL is a good sign. Yes, well spoken. -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- 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/20011110/a0ed68c2/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Mon Nov 12 16:12:24 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:12:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SMAC software In-Reply-To: <3BE6CCB0.2AD5C422@supercable.es> References: <3BE6CCB0.2AD5C422@supercable.es> Message-ID: <20011112161224.C13864@intevation.de> Hi Jurado, On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 06:30:24PM +0100, Familia Jurado Est?vez wrote: > I need some advice about the Simplified Method of Atmospheric Correction > (SMAC). > I'd be grateful if any of you would send a information about a site > where could be found this software. I want to test this method with a > several numbers of NOAA-AVHRR images from different satellites. > > I really interested in the SMAC codes. > > I look forward to hearing from you I haven't found any hint on SMAC being Free Software in a quick survey. I recommend, you contact the authors or related people directly to ask them about the availability of SMAC. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From sonntag at psitrans.de Tue Nov 13 08:53:02 2001 From: sonntag at psitrans.de (Sonntag, Alexander) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:53:02 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free map data for Europe especially Germany Message-ID: Hi All, In order to test the scope of services of free GIS Software I would like to use free available data for Europe particularly for Germany. Preferred data formats are ESRI's Shapefiles and MIF files or files that can be converted to *.shp or *.mif.Does anybody know resources where I can get this data. I searched a lot of sites but haven't found anything. Thanks in advance to everybody helping in any way. Alexander Sonntag From jan at intevation.de Tue Nov 13 11:32:33 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:32:33 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free map data for Europe especially Germany In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011113113233.B17808@intevation.de> Dear Alexander, On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:53:02AM +0100, Sonntag, Alexander wrote: > In order to test the scope of services of free GIS Software I would like to > use > free available data for Europe particularly for Germany. Preferred data > formats > are ESRI's Shapefiles and MIF files or files that can be converted to *.shp > or > *.mif.Does anybody know resources where I can get this data. I searched a > lot > of sites but haven't found anything. I am glad to see that you give free GIS software a chance :-) With free geo-data for Europe/Germany you have identified a serious problem, because such data are just not available if you are looking at resolutions better than about 1:1.000.000. There are some data coming from the US which contain major characteristics of Europe's geography at about 1:1Mio. I suggest to have a look at VMAP Level 0 and the GMT data. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From mike at boonedocks.net Tue Nov 13 14:47:54 2001 From: mike at boonedocks.net (Mike Boone) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:47:54 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile Message-ID: I'm looking for a free tool to convert the .E00 format to a Shapefile format for using it in MapServer. I know GRASS has the ability to import E00 and export Shapefiles, but as of yet, I do not understand enough about how to use GRASS to do this successfully. Is there some simple, free tool out there to convert E00 to Shapefiles? Or a good description of how to do it using GRASS? I'm using all free tools at this point, so I don't have access to any ESRI software. Thanks! Mike Boone http://boonedocks.net/mike From geoffrey.rowland at noaa.gov Tue Nov 13 15:04:51 2001 From: geoffrey.rowland at noaa.gov (Geoffrey Rowland) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:04:51 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] GRIB data into ArcView? Message-ID: <3BF12883.9010109@noaa.gov> are there any tools available for getting GRIB data into ArcView? (GRIB is Gridded in Binary form and was created by the WMO) From jan at intevation.de Wed Nov 14 11:56:24 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:56:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011114115624.B23359@intevation.de> Dear Mike, On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:47:54AM -0500, Mike Boone wrote: > I'm looking for a free tool to convert the .E00 format to a Shapefile format > for using it in MapServer. I know GRASS has the ability to import E00 and > export Shapefiles, but as of yet, I do not understand enough about how to > use GRASS to do this successfully. > > Is there some simple, free tool out there to convert E00 to Shapefiles? Or a > good description of how to do it using GRASS? I'm using all free tools at > this point, so I don't have access to any ESRI software. I am not aware of a really simple converter in form of a "e002shp". GRASS certainly can do the task, but you have to learn a little bit about GRASS because you have to import data first and then export it in another format. There are also E00compr and AVECE00 which provide a basis to read some E00 types. They are not directly outputting shp, so you would need to add this part e.g. by further processing data with tools that create shp from simple text formats such as gen2shp. So, this solution would also involve an intermediate format. If you are a programmer, I would love to see a "e002shp" because this conversion task is requested relatively often. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Wed Nov 14 11:59:52 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:59:52 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GRIB data into ArcView? In-Reply-To: <3BF12883.9010109@noaa.gov> References: <3BF12883.9010109@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <20011114115952.C23359@intevation.de> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:04:51AM -0500, Geoffrey Rowland wrote: > are there any tools available for getting GRIB data into ArcView? (GRIB > is Gridded in Binary form and was created by the WMO) I am not familiar with this format and it seems not to be supported by GRASS or GDAL. Anyone knows more? Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From morissette at dmsolutions.ca Wed Nov 14 21:07:29 2001 From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:07:29 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile References: <20011114115624.B23359@intevation.de> Message-ID: <3BF2CF01.EB7ECAE4@dmsolutions.ca> Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > There are also E00compr and AVECE00 which provide a basis to read > some E00 types. They are not directly outputting shp, so you > would need to add this part e.g. by further processing data > with tools that create shp from simple text formats such as gen2shp. > So, this solution would also involve an intermediate format. > > If you are a programmer, I would love to see a "e002shp" because > this conversion task is requested relatively often. > If anyone knows someone (or a group/company) who would be ready to fund such a project (at least in part), then it could definitely be done by implementing a AVCE00 driver in Frank Warmerdam's OGR library... I built AVCE00 with this objective in mind... that would give the ability to go from E00 or binary coverages to any OGR-supported format using ogr2ogr. That would also give any OGR-enabled application access to those 2 formats directly. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Morissette morissette at dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow. From jan at intevation.de Thu Nov 15 09:26:25 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:26:25 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile In-Reply-To: <3BF2CF01.EB7ECAE4@dmsolutions.ca> References: <20011114115624.B23359@intevation.de> <3BF2CF01.EB7ECAE4@dmsolutions.ca> Message-ID: <20011115092625.D30774@intevation.de> Hi Daniel, On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:07:29PM -0500, Daniel Morissette wrote: > Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > There are also E00compr and AVECE00 which provide a basis to read > > some E00 types. They are not directly outputting shp, so you > > would need to add this part e.g. by further processing data > > with tools that create shp from simple text formats such as gen2shp. > > So, this solution would also involve an intermediate format. > > > > If you are a programmer, I would love to see a "e002shp" because > > this conversion task is requested relatively often. > > If anyone knows someone (or a group/company) who would be ready to fund > such a project (at least in part), then it could definitely be done by > implementing a AVCE00 driver in Frank Warmerdam's OGR library... I built > AVCE00 with this objective in mind... that would give the ability to go > from E00 or binary coverages to any OGR-supported format using ogr2ogr. > That would also give any OGR-enabled application access to those 2 > formats directly. can you write up a paragraph what exactly is needed and how to solve the problem? I would then add it to the page http://freegis.org/proposals.en.html . I would be glad if we can extend this page with all major issues in Free GIS Software. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Sun Nov 18 14:18:44 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:18:44 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: FreeGIS Tutorial 0.2 Message-ID: <20011118141844.A29692@intevation.de> Dear all, Heiko Kehlenbrink has finished his base work on the FreeGIS Tutorial and released version 0.2.0 now heading to polish it for the final 1.0 release. Currently it is in German only, because our resources are limited. Any help for other languages is welcome. http://freegis.org/freegis_tutorial/ The FreeGIS Tutorial intends to illustrate the use of Free GIS Software for typical GI-related tasks: * Detailed examples/procedures are given on which steps to perform and where to take care. * It shows alternative solutions if more than one tool can do the job. * Different operating systems are considered where possible. * The whole Tutorial is licensed under the Free Document License. * All data used are free in the same sense as Free Software (to be honest due to certain circumstances there is one non-free dataset discussed to illustrate use of edbs data). Next step is to create a html-version and make it available online. It is planned to have the final release by the end of this year. The FreeGIS Tutorial is meant to accompany the FreeGIS CD, but it is also of use without the FreeGIS CD. And finally: The FreeGIS Tutorial is meant to be a continued efford adding further chapters, further tools and of course updating to new software revisions. Additional authors are welcome. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From heiko.kehlenbrink at vermes.fh-oldenburg.de Tue Nov 20 14:07:08 2001 From: heiko.kehlenbrink at vermes.fh-oldenburg.de (Heiko Kehlenbrink) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:07:08 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: FreeGIS Tutorial 0.2 References: <20011031100739.D24E51C776@abnoba.hq> Message-ID: <3BFA557C.334295A6@vermes.fh-oldenburg.de> Hello all, according to Jan's announcement, the online version of the FreeGIS Tutorial is now available under www.freegis.org/freegis_tutorial/online/freegis-tutorial.html . As mentioned by Jan: Every comment, critic, help is very welcome. all the best Heiko Kehlenbrink From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Fri Nov 23 22:40:45 2001 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:40:45 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] [Fwd: open GIS / gazetteer in Swedish] Message-ID: <3BFEC25D.46450526@intl-interfaces.com> An interesting idea... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: open GIS / gazetteer in Swedish Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:35:04 +0100 From: Lars Aronsson To: european-gi-policy at jrc.it EGIP, Hope this is not off topic. I am not a geography/mapping/GIS specialist, but a web enthusiast with an interest in geography. I have been lurking here for a year, and this is my first post. I operate a new website (http://susning.nu/) based on "Wiki" technology, where I use maps from Mapblast.com. This works like a gazetteer or subject-based information gateway. It is a very interesting combination of some components that were already available: (1) A Wiki website is a collection of hyperlinked web pages, where each page has a link that says "edit this page". Clicking that link brings up the content of the same page in plain text in an edit form. Any user can edit or add to any page on the site. When the form is submitted, a simple conversion into presentable HTML is made. During this conversion, the wiki website software (a CGI script) can do magic. Since such programs are free software (I use the UseMod Wiki, written in Perl), the webmaster can add his own text conversion rules. My website is all in Swedish, but if you want to see an English example, try http://www.wikipedia.com/ (2) Mapblast.com is one of those dotcom websites with a business model that is beyond my grasp. Anyhow, if I address the following URL, I can retrieve a nice 450x300 pixel GIF image of a map of Stockholm: http://www.mapblast.com/gif?&CT=59.32536:18.071197:100000&W=450&H=300&FAM=myblast&DU=KM&LB= As you can see from this URL, the CT= parameter contains the geographic coordinates in decimal degrees (59.32 N, 18.07 E) and the scale (1:100000 on a 75 dpi screen). (3) The availability of affordable GPS navigators has led to a hobbyist movement that exchange data files in the Waypoint (.WPT) file format. These files contain geographic place names and their coordinates. In the Wiki software, I added a rule that converts any occurance of the pattern "map:::" in the page contents into the HTML code that includes an inline image from the Mapblast.com server. From a free WPT file that I found on the Internet, I got the coordinates for Stockholm and several other places. I then added pages to my Wiki website for a lot of places: http://susning.nu/Stockholm http://susning.nu/Sverige http://susning.nu/Europa http://susning.nu/Afrika http://susning.nu/Benin http://susning.nu/Kalifornien http://susning.nu/San_Francisco etc. It should be obvious that I'm building an open gazetteer (in Swedish). The only things stopping me are the fact that the coordinates in free WPT files are sometimes very wrong, and the fact that I want to write a little text about each place. For example, I have added links to the Lonely Planet website for most countries, and I have links to the homepage of every Swedish municipality. My website is also not only a gazetteer, but a general purpose dictionary/encyclopedia in Swedish. I also don't know (yet) what Mapblast.com thinks of this. They could of course stop their service at any time. I would still have my pages with their coordinates, which I could use in combination with some other map source, if there is one. So, any comments? What is the likelyhood that the Swedish national survey would provide their expensive, copyrighted maps to me? Haha! Do I have any other options to find a source of free mapping data, as a backup for Mapblast.com? Where can I find reliable WPT files? Is anybody doing work or research in this direction? -- Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik Teknikringen 1e, SE-583 30 Link?ping, Sweden tel +46-70-7891609 http://aronsson.se From jan at intevation.de Wed Nov 28 16:54:58 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:54:58 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Fwd: open GIS / gazetteer in Swedish] In-Reply-To: <3BFEC25D.46450526@intl-interfaces.com> References: <3BFEC25D.46450526@intl-interfaces.com> Message-ID: <20011128165458.C25169@intevation.de> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote: > An interesting idea... attached is my answer to the egip mailing list. 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