From andreas.ogren at st.se Mon Oct 1 14:24:13 2001 From: andreas.ogren at st.se (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6gren?=) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:24:13 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Library Message-ID: <3BB8606D.4EF68E30@st.se> I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height, terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that is free to use? Thanks in advance, Andreas ?gren From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Oct 1 15:06:00 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 09:06:00 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Library References: <3BB8606D.4EF68E30@st.se> Message-ID: <3BB86A38.1070104@pobox.com> Andreas ?gren wrote: > I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height, > terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the > data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this > kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has > support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that > is free to use? Andreas, The GDAL library includes read (and sometimes write) support for a variety of formats, including GeoTIFF, and DTED; however, currently it does not included USGS ASCII DEM format. I started adding read access but got distracted. Within the GDAL source tree there is the OGR Simple Features library which supports a variety of vector formats, including Shape, and Mapinfo formats. I would encourage you to use these libraries available at: http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal Amoung others, they are used by the OpenEV and VTBuilder applications which have loosely similar goals. Please free to contact me for additional details. 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/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From fnievinski2 at terra.com.br Mon Oct 1 23:09:51 2001 From: fnievinski2 at terra.com.br (Felipe Nievinski) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 18:09:51 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] Library References: <3BB8606D.4EF68E30@st.se> Message-ID: <3BB8DB9F.3090501@terra.com.br> Andreas, take a look at the GeoVRML website (). Certainly you'll find something to play with. Also please note there are some free software tools for terrain visualization. They are not libraries, but maybe you can extend one of them instead of write your own: cheers Felipe. Andreas ?gren wrote: > I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height, > terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the > data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this > kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has > support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that > is free to use? > > Thanks in advance, > Andreas ?gren > From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Mon Oct 1 23:36:02 2001 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:36:02 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Library References: <3BB8606D.4EF68E30@st.se> <3BB8DB9F.3090501@terra.com.br> Message-ID: <3BB8E1C2.CC2B16D3@intl-interfaces.com> OGC just approved as a Discussion Paper (i.e. not a spec but something they want feedback on) an interface for 3-D visualization that might be worth a look. Right now the OGC web site (www.opengis.org) seems to be down, I think there was a nasty crash of some sort. I'll try to remember to watch for the paper and post a URL when it's available. The interface is in the spirit of the WMS interface, i.e. it doesn't dictate how to build the guts of the view service, but talks about how you might encode a request to such a service in an interoperable way. If someone were to build a free software engine that could do it, that would be a big plus. Allan Felipe Nievinski wrote: > > Andreas, > > take a look at the GeoVRML website (). > Certainly you'll find something to play with. > > Also please note there are some free software tools for terrain > visualization. They are not libraries, but maybe you can extend one of > them instead of write your own: > > > > cheers > Felipe. > > Andreas ?gren wrote: > > > I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height, > > terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the > > data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this > > kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has > > support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that > > is free to use? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Andreas ?gren > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com From ben at vterrain.org Tue Oct 2 06:21:54 2001 From: ben at vterrain.org (Ben Discoe) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:21:54 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] Library In-Reply-To: <3BB8606D.4EF68E30@st.se> Message-ID: Hi Andreas, I can definitely recommend GDAL to you. It's been an very pleasant experience porting the VTP software onto GDAL. Of course, you could also just use the VTP's vtElevationGrid class (vtdata library). It encapsulates GDAL, adds some other formats as well, including native USGS DEM which GDAL omits, and is even easier to use. -Ben http://vterrain.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas ?gren > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:24 AM > Subject: [Freegis-list] Library > > > I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height, > terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the > data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this > kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has > support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that > is free to use? > > Thanks in advance, > Andreas ?gren From mkhurramshehzad at hotmail.com Tue Oct 2 08:39:59 2001 From: mkhurramshehzad at hotmail.com (Khurram Shehzad) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:39:59 Subject: [Freegis-list] help wanted Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20011002/72747a4a/attachment.html From bernhard at intevation.de Tue Oct 2 14:16:18 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:16:18 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] help wanted In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011002141618.A27135@intevation.de> Hello Khurram, most Free Software developers do not use visual basic. There are no Free Software tools for it. The algorithms can be looked up and read from other source code just check the tools in FreeGIS. On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:39:59AM +0000, Khurram Shehzad wrote: Some text in HTML code which most people do not read in mails. Please do not post in HTML again. 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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The Free spreadsheet gnumeric aims to embrace and extend excel so it will have to take on this capability eventually. I'd like to understand it so I could explain the GIS side of things to the gnumeric developers. Thanks for any pointers, adrian acuster at nature.berkeley.educational On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 04:45, Andrew Alspach wrote: > Hello all, > > I would just like to call your attention to the mapping > functionality that is built into Microsoft Excel. This does > not fall within your definitions of "Free Software" but I > believe it is in the same spirit of your Website. I > recently discovered that the mapping functions in Excel > are very useful for Novice users to represent data in a > spreadsheet spatially. My job is to mainstream GIS and > for me this means getting people to use spatial data as > frequently as possible. Excel mapping functions allow > dynamic tabular data to be represented in a map. This > is a feature that is not present in any free GIS software > that I am aware of (please respond if you know of one) > but is one of the strongest points of GIS software. The > drawbacks of Excel mapping are the limited spatial > layers available to users. (Lots of USA...some UK and > little of the rest of the world) If your area of interest is > The Horn of Africa, you are in luck, because the Data > Exchange Platform for the Horn Of Africa (DEPHA) > initiative has Excel compatible data on the web for > downloads at: www.hornofafricadata.org You will also > find a How-To manual to help you along. While you are > there check out the GeoDepot section for per-country > spatial data layers at various scales. > > Enjoy, > > Andrew > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From fnievinski2 at terra.com.br Sun Oct 7 18:33:20 2001 From: fnievinski2 at terra.com.br (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:33:20 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: help wanted Message-ID: <200110071333200360.0099844E@smtp.poa.terra.com.br> Hi Khurram. The inovaGIS project from Portugal makes available under the MIT license a wide variety of free geographic information software that use the inovaGIS library, and several applications were developed with Visual Basic: Please note the inovaGIS library in which these applications rely IS NOT free software, which renders them basically useless. But you are free to ask its developer, Pedro Pereira Gon?alves, about any plans to release the source code under one of the standard free software licenses. Good luck. best regards, Felipe Nievinski. On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:39:59AM +0000, Khurram Shehzad wrote:
Hi all,
its nice to know so many people working for GIS. i'm a new student on the subject and need help in a way that i need a simple GIS software for conversion of 2D bitmap to 3D surface for maps. and source code in visual basic. i shall be obliged for the info
regards
khurram

From jan at intevation.de Mon Oct 8 10:51:00 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:51:00 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] new project: Community Map Builder In-Reply-To: <200109291758400740.01C64539@smtp.poa.terra.com.br> References: <200109291758400740.01C64539@smtp.poa.terra.com.br> Message-ID: <20011008105100.A6549@intevation.de> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:58:40PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote: > Below you'll find information on a project announced recently. > > It follows the OpenGIS specs and relies on a couple of others (already opengis-compliant) free gis software. The Community Map Builder is a really intersting project. Cameron makes it right in picking the best tools for his purpose from the Free GIS Software packages. For those of you who are participating in the project: Please consider also other approaches such as The Cooperative GIS Project: http://gis.anu.edu.au/ It will surely turn out to be fruitful to discuss matters of the concept. I am now waiting for the first release to have a look at :-) However, I found no reliable statement on the license, so I can't add it to FreeGIS. Of course the project contributes code to others which definitely are Free Software ones and it hosted at sourceforge, so there is good evidence the results will be Free Software :-) Jan > > > Community Map Builder > Empowering communities to build and share geographic maps. > > The Community Map Builder will provide an Open Source framework which will > allow communities to jointly build geographic databases and share them over > the web. It will be particulary useful where geographic knowledge is spread > across a large group of people. For instance: > - Collecting animal sitings > - Mapping favourite off-street bicycle routes in a city > - Mapping bush fire and walking trails > The Community Map Builder is being built to Open GIS standards, which > means it will be inter-operable with numerous other Web Mapping Services. > Initial development will focus on enhancing the current open source > components, before working on the core Community Map Builder > functionality. -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From andreas1199 at hotmail.com Mon Oct 8 09:32:09 2001 From: andreas1199 at hotmail.com (Andreas H) Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:32:09 Subject: [Freegis-list] Excel Mapping Message-ID: Hallo, I don't know many about the Mapping feature of Excel, but I can say that it is not an integral excel-feature. It is an special MapInfo-OCX that uses only MapInfo-Tab-Files for the map-display and Excel-Data is used for shading. The component object model (COM) is the key of that integration. I think, this could be a way for your problem: do not integrate gis-features direct in the code of gnumeric but make an interface for existing free software. Look for an extension system for gnumeric, a component model for gnome or something corba-like. Yours Andreas Haensel >From: Adrian Custer >To: Andrew Alspach >CC: FreeGIS List >Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Excel Mapping >Date: 05 Oct 2001 15:04:08 -0700 > >Mr. Alspach, > >I know this is a belated reply to this question. I got stuck on the east >coast in early september. > >( >For the FreeGIS list folks, the original post is below and at the start >of a two message thread in the archives: >http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-August/000570.html >) > >I just tried the hornofafrica web site and it has gone. Could you >explain better how mapping works in excel, where to get data, how to >find documentation about it? The Free spreadsheet gnumeric aims to >embrace and extend excel so it will have to take on this capability >eventually. I'd like to understand it so I could explain the GIS side of >things to the gnumeric developers. Thanks for any pointers, > >adrian >acuster at nature.berkeley.educational _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From jan at intevation.de Tue Oct 9 10:34:23 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:34:23 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS.org at Systems 2001 (15-19-Oct) in Munich, Germany Message-ID: <20011009103423.A14715@intevation.de> Dear all, the FreeGIS team will be at the Systems 2001 (http://systems.de/) at the Intevation booth. You find us at the Linuxpark in hall 4, booth A4.101-B5 from Oct. 15th to 19th. I would be happy to meet any list members personally to discuss matters of FreeGIS, Free Software and commerical aspects of it. Perhaps we can brew some interesting plans or cooperations :-) Of course I will be around most of the time, but lt me know when you plan to drop by to ensure I have enough time for you. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From neteler at itc.it Tue Oct 9 17:09:57 2001 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:09:57 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002, Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002 Message-ID: <20011009170957.R935@itc.it> ANNOUNCEMENT Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002 Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002 http://grass.itc.it/conferences/conf_trento2002.html The Open source GIS - GRASS users conference will take place in Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002. This conference is the result of the joint effort of many GRASS developers and users all over the world to foster closer relations and provide opportunities for greater interactions among the open GIS and GRASS communities. The aim of the conference is twofold: the exchange of experiences between Open GIS and GRASS users and developers and the possibility for the potential users to access first-hand information and GRASS capability demonstration, especially for users from developing countries. The conference is organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Trento with the help of an Organizing Committee including some of the most prominent GIS/GRASS experts around the world. This is the first meeting on open source GIS, so it is difficult to estimate the number of participants. Pre-registration on the web site will help the organization of the meeting to find out in advance the number of people interested to attend (before March, 31st 2002). Conference fee will be kept as low as possible to allow everybody to participate: Early registration (until 30 June 2002): 70 euros Late registration (after 30 June 2002): 200 euros Conference Web site: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ B.Benciolini, M.Ciolli, P.Zatelli Local Organizing Committee Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002 Conference E-mail: grass2002 at ing.unitn.it Conference Web site: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Trento via Mesiano, 77 38100 Trento ITALY From raanders at tincan.org Wed Oct 10 01:34:59 2001 From: raanders at tincan.org (Roderick A. Anderson) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] PROJ4 mass convert Message-ID: The man page is less than clear on converting 'lots' of coordinates. In fact it only shows one set at a time. Is there a method to convert a whole file full of coordinates (LAT/LONG) to another coordinate system (UTM zone 11N)? Well other than using a for;do;done loop and starting PROJ4 up several hundred thousand to millions of times. TIA, Rod -- Let Accuracy Triumph Over Victory Zetetic Institute "David's Sling" Marc Stiegler From sonntag at psitrans.de Wed Oct 10 10:58:56 2001 From: sonntag at psitrans.de (Sonntag, Alexander) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:58:56 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] SpatialFX and similar components in Java or with CORBA component specification Message-ID: Hi All, I expect that this isn't the right place for asking for commercial software, however I didn't find any other mailinglists dealing with this topic. For almost three weeks I am looking for embeddable gis or mapping components written in java or having the corba component specification. The application in which this component should be embeddable is a web-independant stand-alone application written in Java. The product, which I prefer now is SpatialFX from ObjectFX. But I am not quite sure wether there are not any other products doing the same like SpatialFX or something similar. Does anybody know similar products no matter if commercial or free or are OpenMap and SpatialFX the only variants? Thanks a lot a for any kind of help. Alexander Sonntag From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Oct 10 12:13:55 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:13:55 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] SpatialFX and similar components in Java or with CORBA component specification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011010121355.C27183@intevation.de> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:58:56AM +0200, Sonntag, Alexander wrote: > I expect that this isn't the right place for asking for commercial software, Sure it is, but only for commercial Free Software. :) That is software where the paying customer gets all the freedoms from Free Software. > however I didn't find any other mailinglists dealing with this topic. > For almost three weeks I am looking for embeddable gis or mapping > components written in java or having the corba component > specification. The application in which this component should be > embeddable is a web-independant stand-alone application written in > Java. > The product, which I prefer now is SpatialFX from ObjectFX. But I > am not quite sure wether there are not any other products doing > the same like SpatialFX or something similar. Does anybody know > similar products no matter if commercial or free or are OpenMap > and SpatialFX the only variants? I guess that SpatialFX is proprietory software, so I do not know much about it. And the vendor does not want me to know, because I get: "Sorry, but our Site is currently not compatible with Netscape 6.0 We apologize and will have this problem resolved soon." from the website. I suggest looking into Free Software alternatives like openmap and geotools. Bernhard -- Gesch?ftsf?hrer, Intevation GmbH (intevation.de) Projekt Freie GIS Software (freegis.org/index.de.html) FFII e.V. (ffii.org) FSF Europa (fsfeurope.org/index.de.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/20011010/324a60e3/attachment.bin From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Wed Oct 10 14:31:36 2001 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:31:36 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] SpatialFX and similar components in Java or with CORBA componentspecification References: Message-ID: <3BC43FA8.9BF42213@intl-interfaces.com> "Sonntag, Alexander" wrote: > > Hi All, > > I expect that this isn't the right place for asking for commercial software, > however > I didn't find any other mailinglists dealing with this topic. > For almost three weeks I am looking for embeddable gis or mapping components > written in java or having the corba component specification. The application What do you mean by "the corba component specification"? Do you mean Open GIS Simple Features for CORBA? If so, there is some work that's been done in Australia that connects OpenMap as a client to a CORBA service. Do you mean a CORBA wrapper around a client so you can control the client from another CORBA object? If so, your best bet since there are no standards is to take one of the open source solutions from freegis and build your own wrappers to suit your needs. There's also the JaGo system (http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/jago/) which built upon the OGC Simple features for CORBA. [not sure if this is on FreeGIS yet or not - a quick check didn't turn it up] Allan -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com From jan at intevation.de Wed Oct 10 17:39:54 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:39:54 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] SpatialFX and similar components in Java or with CORBA componentspecification In-Reply-To: <3BC43FA8.9BF42213@intl-interfaces.com> References: <3BC43FA8.9BF42213@intl-interfaces.com> Message-ID: <20011010173954.C30098@intevation.de> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:31:36AM -0400, Allan Doyle wrote: > There's also the JaGo system (http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/jago/) which > built upon the OGC Simple features for CORBA. [not sure if this is on > FreeGIS yet or not - a quick check didn't turn it up] You were right, but now it is on FreeGIS. I just made contact with the authors on monday so it was in my queue :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bh at intevation.de Fri Oct 12 11:41:53 2001 From: bh at intevation.de (Bernhard Herzog) Date: 12 Oct 2001 11:41:53 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] PROJ4 mass convert In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6q7ku1chzy.fsf@abnoba.intevation.de> "Roderick A. Anderson" writes: > The man page is less than clear on converting 'lots' of coordinates. In > fact it only shows one set at a time. Well, the man page I've got here has this example: proj +proj=utm +lon_0=112w -r < Is there a method to convert a whole file full of coordinates > (LAT/LONG) to another coordinate system (UTM zone 11N)? Well other than > using a for;do;done loop and starting PROJ4 up several hundred thousand > to millions of times. According to the manpage and the above example you can just use proj +proj=utm file to convert all coordinates in file (you'll have to provide some additional parameters to specify the UTM zone, of course). I have to admit that I haven't used the command line tool much, so maybe there's a problem I don't see. HTH, Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://mapit.de/ From raanders at tincan.org Fri Oct 12 17:50:45 2001 From: raanders at tincan.org (Roderick A. Anderson) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] PROJ4 mass convert In-Reply-To: <6q7ku1chzy.fsf@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: On 12 Oct 2001, Bernhard Herzog wrote: > "Roderick A. Anderson" writes: > > > The man page is less than clear on converting 'lots' of coordinates. In > > fact it only shows one set at a time. > > Well, the man page I've got here has this example: Funny thing, so did mine. :-( But ... I was working at about three things at once and confused what I really wanted to do and what I stated. The actual problem is how to maintain a relation between the old coordinates' other data and the new coordinates. Sorry for the confusion and useless bandwidth consumption. I've loaded the data into a PostGIS table in lat/long. (It came as a shp file - thank goodness for shp2pgsql.) I'll pull it, probably using perl, parse the coordinates out, call proj, re-assemble the data and insert it back into the PostGIS table. This is unless someone knows of a stand-alone shp file projection converter. Cheers, Rod -- Let Accuracy Triumph Over Victory Zetetic Institute "David's Sling" Marc Stiegler From bh at intevation.de Fri Oct 12 18:21:12 2001 From: bh at intevation.de (Bernhard Herzog) Date: 12 Oct 2001 18:21:12 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] PROJ4 mass convert In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6q3d4ode2v.fsf@abnoba.intevation.de> "Roderick A. Anderson" writes: > I've loaded the data into a PostGIS table in lat/long. (It came as a shp > file - thank goodness for shp2pgsql.) I'll pull it, probably using > perl, parse the coordinates out, call proj, re-assemble the data and > insert it back into the PostGIS table. Extracting the coordinates and reassembling them may not be necessary as such. proj only takes the first two whitespace separated values as coordinates and passes the rest of the line through to the output unchanged. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://mapit.de/ From pedro at inovagis.org Fri Oct 12 18:44:54 2001 From: pedro at inovagis.org (Pedro Pereira Goncalves) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:44:54 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] PROJ4 mass convert In-Reply-To: References: <6q7ku1chzy.fsf@abnoba.intevation.de> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011012171924.0220cec0@mail.inovagis.org> At 08:50 2001-10-12 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > This is unless someone knows of a stand-alone shp file projection >converter. Hi, You can always try our online Shape projection converter where you can upload your shape file or a zip file containing all the 3 necessary files (SHP, SHX, DBF) It is still in its beta stage at http://inovagis.dcea.fct.unl.pt/Giserver/geoconvert.shp.all.asp best regards Pedro ------------------------------------------ Pedro Pereira Goncalves inovaGIS Project - http://www.inovagis.org/ From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca Mon Oct 15 22:48:12 2001 From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:48:12 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] RE: FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and spacial data Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530C794598@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Hi Folks, Having been burned a few times when websites zip off to the great electron recycler in the void, I have developed a policy of always maintaining a local backup of data (if I can find the disk space) used and retrieved from external servers as there is no guarantee it will remain online for future reuse. It seems that now policies like this are becoming more important than ever to actually follow. In the wake of Sept11 data deemed potentially available for terrorist explotation is being pulled offline. Geospatial data by it's very location specific nature is particularily vulnerable to this concern. Unfortunately, chances are if it's useful for terrorists it is also important to the general populous. For example one of the "disappeared" datasets is the US Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plans for hazardous chemicals. These plans provide three elements about chemicals being used in plants: a hazard assessment, a prevention program, and an emergency response plan. I fully expect that with the passage of time most of this data will become available again. Inevitably though, some of it will not and you, an end user, will are unlikely to be involved in the decisions of what comes back and what doesn't. If the collective memory called the internet continues becoming a more unreliable storage mechanism, will we all be trying to build local "mini" internet mirrors? take care, -matt Antidotes: http://www.bootstrap.org/ http://longnow.org/ http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Williams [brucewms at pacbell.net] Sent: 2001 October 15 09:21 To: vtp at yahoogroups.com Subject: [vtp] FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and spacial data The Federal Government seems to be restricting access to some GIS and spacial data. Not to panic, just for you to notice.... http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html The National Imagery and Mapping Agency "stopped selling large-scale digital maps to the public through its Web site and turned off the search engine on its Web site that allowed customers to download maps from its archives," according to the St. Petersburg Times. Most of the Geographic Information Services at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics have been removed from the web site (see http://www.bts.gov/gis/). The site is a national resource for transportation spatial data and GIS in transportation information. One activist noted that the web site previously indicated that the agency was reviewing the site for security reasons. Now when you click on Geospatial Data, Map Gallery, or State GIS Resources, the site indicates that information is "currently unavailable." In response to an email question about why the information was unavailable and when it will return, we received the following: "Due to the attacks on September 11th, BTS and all other government agencies have had to reevaluate the content available through our web pages. We do not yet know if this data will be available in the future or if we will permanently offer it only to federal, state and local officials. We apologize for this inconvenience and if you would like I will notify you when we have made a final decision on the matter." Bruce Williams 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 adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Mon Oct 15 22:59:18 2001 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:59:18 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] RE: FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and spacial data References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530C794598@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Message-ID: <3BCB4E26.2FDE7E3E@intl-interfaces.com> There's also LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) idea at http://lockss.stanford.edu/ I suspect that LOCKSS meets Geospatial would offer up some interesting problems but would also provide some good opportunities. Allan "Matt.Wilkie" wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Having been burned a few times when websites zip off to the great > electron recycler in the void, I have developed a policy of always > maintaining a local backup of data (if I can find the disk space) > used and retrieved from external servers as there is no guarantee > it will remain online for future reuse. It seems that now policies > like this are becoming more important than ever to actually follow. > > In the wake of Sept11 data deemed potentially available for > terrorist explotation is being pulled offline. Geospatial data by > it's very location specific nature is particularily vulnerable to > this concern. Unfortunately, chances are if it's useful for > terrorists it is also important to the general populous. For > example one of the "disappeared" datasets is the US Environmental > Protection Agency's Risk Management Plans for hazardous chemicals. > These plans provide three elements about chemicals being used in > plants: a hazard assessment, a prevention program, and an emergency > response plan. > > I fully expect that with the passage of time most of this data will > become available again. Inevitably though, some of it will not and > you, an end user, will are unlikely to be involved in the decisions > of what comes back and what doesn't. > > If the collective memory called the internet continues becoming a > more unreliable storage mechanism, will we all be trying to build > local "mini" internet mirrors? > > take care, > > -matt > > Antidotes: > http://www.bootstrap.org/ > http://longnow.org/ > http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Williams [brucewms at pacbell.net] > Sent: 2001 October 15 09:21 > To: vtp at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [vtp] FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and spacial data > > The Federal Government seems to be restricting access to some GIS > and spacial data. Not to panic, just for you to notice.... > > http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html > > The National Imagery and Mapping Agency "stopped selling large-scale > digital maps to the public through its Web site and turned off the > search engine on its Web site that allowed customers to download > maps from its archives," according to the St. Petersburg Times. > > Most of the Geographic Information Services at the Bureau of > Transportation Statistics have been removed from the web site (see > http://www.bts.gov/gis/). The site is a national resource for > transportation spatial data and GIS in transportation information. > One activist noted that the web site previously indicated that the > agency was reviewing the site for security reasons. Now when you > click on Geospatial Data, Map Gallery, or State GIS Resources, the > site indicates that information is "currently unavailable." In > response to an email question about why the information was > unavailable and when it will return, we received the following: > "Due to the attacks on September 11th, BTS and all other government > agencies have had to reevaluate the content available through our > web pages. We do not yet know if this data will be available in the > future or if we will permanently offer it only to federal, state and > local officials. We apologize for this inconvenience and if you > would like I will notify you when we have made a final decision on > the matter." > > Bruce Williams > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com From WHarms at bfs.de Tue Oct 16 11:55:09 2001 From: WHarms at bfs.de (WHarms@bfs.de) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:55:09 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: RE: FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS Message-ID: FYI: i remember an articel describing a TB storage for linux. Basicly an external IDE with 5 ports (10*100MB = 1TB). The author claimed it worked fine but was not suided for high-speed. walter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Allan Doyle Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] RE: FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and s Date: 10/15/01 22:59 There's also LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) idea at http://lockss.stanford.edu/ I suspect that LOCKSS meets Geospatial would offer up some interesting problems but would also provide some good opportunities. Allan "Matt.Wilkie" wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Having been burned a few times when websites zip off to the great > electron recycler in the void, I have developed a policy of always > maintaining a local backup of data (if I can find the disk space) > used and retrieved from external servers as there is no guarantee > it will remain online for future reuse. It seems that now policies > like this are becoming more important than ever to actually follow. > > In the wake of Sept11 data deemed potentially available for > terrorist explotation is being pulled offline. Geospatial data by > it's very location specific nature is particularily vulnerable to > this concern. Unfortunately, chances are if it's useful for > terrorists it is also important to the general populous. For > example one of the "disappeared" datasets is the US Environmental > Protection Agency's Risk Management Plans for hazardous chemicals. > These plans provide three elements about chemicals being used in > plants: a hazard assessment, a prevention program, and an emergency > response plan. > > I fully expect that with the passage of time most of this data will > become available again. Inevitably though, some of it will not and > you, an end user, will are unlikely to be involved in the decisions > of what comes back and what doesn't. > > If the collective memory called the internet continues becoming a > more unreliable storage mechanism, will we all be trying to build > local "mini" internet mirrors? > > take care, > > -matt > > Antidotes: > http://www.bootstrap.org/ > http://longnow.org/ > http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Williams [brucewms at pacbell.net] > Sent: 2001 October 15 09:21 > To: vtp at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [vtp] FYI: Restrictions on access to GIS and spacial data > > The Federal Government seems to be restricting access to some GIS > and spacial data. Not to panic, just for you to notice.... > > http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html > > The National Imagery and Mapping Agency "stopped selling large-scale > digital maps to the public through its Web site and turned off the > search engine on its Web site that allowed customers to download > maps from its archives," according to the St. Petersburg Times. > > Most of the Geographic Information Services at the Bureau of > Transportation Statistics have been removed from the web site (see > http://www.bts.gov/gis/). The site is a national resource for > transportation spatial data and GIS in transportation information. > One activist noted that the web site previously indicated that the > agency was reviewing the site for security reasons. Now when you > click on Geospatial Data, Map Gallery, or State GIS Resources, the > site indicates that information is "currently unavailable." In > response to an email question about why the information was > unavailable and when it will return, we received the following: > "Due to the attacks on September 11th, BTS and all other government > agencies have had to reevaluate the content available through our > web pages. We do not yet know if this data will be available in the > future or if we will permanently offer it only to federal, state and > local officials. We apologize for this inconvenience and if you > would like I will notify you when we have made a final decision on > the matter." > > Bruce Williams > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From nicubaciu at yahoo.com Fri Oct 19 11:38:32 2001 From: nicubaciu at yahoo.com (Nicu Baciu) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) Message-ID: <20011019093832.59992.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> I am student and I need a digital elevation map (or maps) or sattelite image with Transylvanian Plain (Lowland), (23+ALA-52'-24+ALA-37' E, 46+ALA-35'-47+ALA-12' N), Romania. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com From kcchang at cc.ntnu.edu.tw Sat Oct 20 04:27:22 2001 From: kcchang at cc.ntnu.edu.tw (harry) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:27:22 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] VB source to convert image to shape Message-ID: <020b01c1590f$7da150b0$0200a8c0@gisblue.rsworld.com.tw> Hello list, I am working on a small image analysis project using VB. Everything is going fine except I need to convert result into shape file format. Does anyone know any solution in VB? Many thanks in advance. Best, Harry *********************************************************************** * Dr. Harry KC Chang Associate Professor Dept. of Geography, NTNU * * * * ~ ~ harry at atlas.socsci.umn.edu SSRFC, UMN, MPLS,(612)625-8556 * * 9 9 kcchang at cc.ntnu.edu.tw (02)23637874~112 (H)02-27373044 * * = Homepage http://140.122.82.70/harry * *********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20011020/0d3b4459/attachment.html From shiyi1 at pilot.msu.edu Sat Oct 20 18:34:20 2001 From: shiyi1 at pilot.msu.edu (Yi Shi) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:34:20 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Practical Map Server (PMS) Message-ID: <3BD1A78C.DFC4F8D0@pilot.msu.edu> Hi, there: Does anybody have a copy of Practical Map Server (PMS) including the source code? If you have, would you please send me one through email? I was trying to download it from the web, but the link is dead. Thanks. Yi Shi Department of Geography Michigan State Universtiy From bernhard at intevation.de Sat Oct 20 20:42:59 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:42:59 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] VB source to convert image to shape In-Reply-To: <020b01c1590f$7da150b0$0200a8c0@gisblue.rsworld.com.tw> References: <020b01c1590f$7da150b0$0200a8c0@gisblue.rsworld.com.tw> Message-ID: <20011020204259.A31363@intevation.de> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:27:22AM +0800, harry wrote: > I am working on a small image analysis project using VB. > Everything is going fine except I need to convert result into > shape file format. Does anyone know any solution in VB? Many > thanks in advance. I am not aware of any free software solution for this in VB. If you do not find anything your best bet might be to use shapelib from VB. I have no idea how using libraries from VB works as I do not use or recommend VB; it only works with proprietory software. 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... 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Thanks, Bernhard -------------- 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/20011020/feced022/attachment.bin From baba at daido-it.co.jp Tue Oct 23 05:40:59 2001 From: baba at daido-it.co.jp (BABA Yoshihiko) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:40:59 +0900 Subject: [Freegis-list] 3D file format for GIS Message-ID: <4.3.2-J.20011023120528.00afd830@mail.daido-it.co.jp> Hi all, Are there any documents/discussions on 3D GIS file formats? I am currently involved in a project to make a 3D dataset for an entire country. For the very first stage, we need to create an original dataset. As far as I know, however, there are some issues with the existing 3D formats for GIS use such as: 1 no consideration on different coordinate systems 2 little consideration on scales and precisions 3 query optimisation And I am currently discussing an original format in a very simple XML, but probably not GML/GXML. Also not VRML, geoVRML or similar formats due to its incapability of the issues. My question is: Are there any discussion/document for these issues, preferably available online? Or if anyone is good at them, please give us some advice. Thank you in advance. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x x BABA Yoshihiko ???? x x IT Project x x Daido Information Technology x x +81 (0)3 3316 8321 x x http://www.daido-it.co.jp x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From sfkeller at hsr.ch Tue Oct 23 15:42:23 2001 From: sfkeller at hsr.ch (Stefan F. Keller) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:42:23 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: 3D file format for GIS (BABA Yoshihiko) References: <20011023100101.E06F813A07@mailman.intevation.de> Message-ID: <3BD573BF.8B365B0@hsr.ch> Dear BABA freegis-list-request at intevation.de wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:40:59 +0900 > To: itsumi at ae.wakwak.com > From: BABA Yoshihiko > Cc: freegis-list at intevation.de, postgis at yahoogroups.com, grassu-j at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp > Subject: [Freegis-list] 3D file format for GIS > > Hi all, > > Are there any documents/discussions on 3D GIS file formats? > > I am currently involved in a project to make a 3D dataset for an entire country. For the very first stage, we need to create an original dataset. As far as I know, however, there are some issues with the existing 3D formats for GIS use such as: > > 1 no consideration on different coordinate systems > 2 little consideration on scales and precisions > 3 query optimisation > > And I am currently discussing an original format in a very simple XML, but probably not GML/GXML. Also not VRML, geoVRML or similar formats due to its incapability of the issues. > > My question is: > > Are there any discussion/document for these issues, preferably available online? Or if anyone is good at them, please give us some advice. > > Thank you in advance. ... > BABA Yoshihiko 馬場美彦 x > IT Project x > Daido Information Technology x > +81 (0)3 3316 8321 x > http://www.daido-it.co.jp x I'd be interested in discussing such a format. I'm a nominated Swiss ISO/TC211 expert and Switzerland has been mandated to establish a woking group in order to defin a profile on the ISO spatial schema. First of all, I have following obeservations and questions: * obviously you don't mention the ISO format, why not? * you don't consider the GML format neither (it is not yet really 3D, isnt'it?) But the most important question probably is: what are your requirements really? I can't follow your requirements: you mention an original format, which ought to be a very simple XML and then you mention query optimization. Isn't this a contradiction? What do you mean with "no consideration on different coordinate systems"? My point of interest is, getting an XML format which is based on a generic, basic 3D geometry type. This seems to be the most challenging issue. All other issues, we think, already have been solved - at least as INTERLIS 2 has showed us. INTERLIS 2 is 2.5D, XML, UML and ISO compatible and easy to convert to GML, see www.interlis.ch). Regards, -- Stefan Keller ___________________________________________________________________ Prof. Stefan F. Keller, Computer Science Department Institute ITA, integrated Geo-information Systems (int>e>gis) University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (ITA-HSR) CH-8640 Rapperswil, Tel. +41 55 222 47 46 mailto:sfkeller at hsr.ch, http://www.hsr.ch and http://www.integis.ch ___________________________________________________________________ Visit the most beautiful campus in Switzerland: http://netcam.hsr.ch From dmccoy at cityofsacramento.org Tue Oct 23 18:41:52 2001 From: dmccoy at cityofsacramento.org (Dan McCoy) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:41:52 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] VB source to convert image to shape Message-ID: On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:27:22AM +0800, harry wrote: > I am working on a small image analysis project using VB. > Everything is going fine except I need to convert result into > shape file format. Does anyone know any solution in VB? Many > thanks in advance. I found the following at: http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/details.cfm?CFGRIDKEY=628102085 "New ShapeIO and Spatial Operations This is a completely new and re-done version of the popular ShapeIO. ShapeIO is Visual Basic source code Classes. This version is very easy to use and is completely object oriented. ShapeIO will allow you to read and write ESRI ShapeFiles and now there is an Ishape interface which can be added to. This interface will have in the future many spatial operations that work on shapes. Anyone is more then welcome to add to this interface and I completely encourage it. I believe if everyone who uses this code would write one function for the interface we would have a very nice set of VB tools that would support ArcView. Be sure and read the documentation for the code and you need Visual Basic 5 or 6 to make use of it. I have also included an example program that will allow you to do an XY shift of a shape file. I have not removed the older version as of yet. There may be people who like that version and I will leave it up as example code. I encourage you to use this newer version. Please enjoy and add something to it. -peace K. " Don't know if this qualifies as Free Software, but it the author (Kenneth R. McVay mailto:rcreed at earthlink.net ) may be open to the idea. Also, I'm not sure if ArcView is required or not. Dan From jan at intevation.de Wed Oct 24 10:27:07 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:27:07 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] VB source to convert image to shape In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20011024102707.K30511@intevation.de> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:41:52AM -0700, Dan McCoy wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:27:22AM +0800, harry wrote: > > I am working on a small image analysis project using VB. > > Everything is going fine except I need to convert result into > > shape file format. Does anyone know any solution in VB? Many > > thanks in advance. > > I found the following at: http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/details.cfm?CFGRIDKEY=628102085 > "New ShapeIO and Spatial Operations > Don't know if this qualifies as Free Software, but it the author (Kenneth R. McVay mailto:rcreed at earthlink.net ) may be open to the idea. Also, I'm not sure if ArcView is required or not. it is almost Free Software. The author has put a copyright on it so it isn't public domain. Still no clear license is there and this leaves an uncertain legal status. I am convinced that the author actually means his tool to be Free Software :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Oct 24 15:56:50 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:56:50 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] survex: GNU GPLed cave-surveying software Message-ID: <20011024155650.O31212@intevation.de> Just discovered: Survex is an free software cave-surveying software package. It is designed to be portable and can be run on a variety of platforms. http://www.survex.com/ | Survex is very powerful cave survey software. It is still actively | developing into a complete cave visualisation package. It has a nice | frontend with windows and menus (aven), but doesn't offer a totally | integrated environment From the source I saw 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... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20011024/4653d46e/attachment.bin From alikou2000 at hotmail.com Thu Oct 25 19:08:59 2001 From: alikou2000 at hotmail.com (nad dan) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:08:59 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] free software Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Contact the vendors in question to purchase their software. > Thank you in advance, hope to get an answer soon From jan at intevation.de Fri Oct 26 09:46:09 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:46:09 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] free software In-Reply-To: <3BD848E9.7FC8E834@refractions.net> References: <3BD848E9.7FC8E834@refractions.net> Message-ID: <20011026094609.C17356@intevation.de> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:16:25AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote: > "nad dan" wrote: > > Iam a university student doing my MS in remote sensing and GIS, i saw > > that several members have interesting softwares: > > > > I need the following softwares: You have listed proprietary products. The list you posted your request to is dedicated to Free Software (free as in Freedom). Take a minute and browse through the available tools at freegis.org. Many are very sophisticated and should well be able to to the tasks you want to perform. > > Imagine 8.4 > This I have not heard of. Erdas Imagine. Proprietary. Alle the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Oct 26 12:00:14 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:00:14 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Practical Map Server (PMS) In-Reply-To: <20011020214847.A31724@intevation.de> References: <3BD1A78C.DFC4F8D0@pilot.msu.edu> <20011020214847.A31724@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20011026120014.N18117@intevation.de> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 09:48:47PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:34:20PM -0400, Yi Shi wrote: > > Does anybody have a copy of Practical Map Server (PMS) including the > > source code? If you have, would you please send me one through email? I > > was trying to download it from the web, but the link is dead. > > Please let us know if you find it somewhere > or alternativly send us a copy you could get so that we can provide > it on some ftp space. Karl Goldstein was so kind to email a copy to Yi and me. You can temporarily find pms source at: ftp://freegis.org/freegis/misc/ 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/20011026/a02ee186/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Mon Oct 29 17:36:59 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:36:59 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] survex: GNU GPLed cave-surveying software In-Reply-To: <20011024155650.O31212@intevation.de> References: <20011024155650.O31212@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20011029173659.A11357@intevation.de> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Just discovered: > > Survex is an free software cave-surveying software package. It is > designed to be portable and can be run on a variety of platforms. > > http://www.survex.com/ > > | Survex is very powerful cave survey software. It is still actively > | developing into a complete cave visualisation package. It has a nice > | frontend with windows and menus (aven), but doesn't offer a totally > | integrated environment > > From the source I saw GPL. thanks. I just added it to FreeGIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From trusr000 at mail.uni-mainz.de Tue Oct 30 23:18:05 2001 From: trusr000 at mail.uni-mainz.de (Rainer Trusch) Date: 30 Oct 2001 23:18:05 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANOUNCEMENT: German GRASS User Meeting Message-ID: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.infosystems.gis as well. Dear Grass-Users, The "GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung" is inviting you to take part in the first German-speaking user meeting at 8./9. 12. 2001 in Mainz/Germany. The event is meant to be a mixture of Presentations, workshops, discussions and enough time left to work togehter at the computer. To get more information about it and the way you can take part, have a look at the meeting page: http://www.grass-verein.de/treffen/anwendertreffen_20011208_Mainz.html If you aren't German-speaking, but still want to use the chance to meet other Grass-Users and some developers, feel free to come. We try to help you with translations. Please contact Rainer Trusch for more information, because the meeting page is written in German. Yours sincerly The members of the GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung p.s. : We are sorry to have no navigation on the web page, but our webmaster is overloaded with work at the moment. We hope it still serves your needs. :-) From trusr000 at mail.uni-mainz.de Wed Oct 31 01:49:14 2001 From: trusr000 at mail.uni-mainz.de (Rainer Trusch) Date: 31 Oct 2001 01:49:14 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANOUNCEMENT: German GRASS User Meeting Message-ID: Dear Grass-Users, The "GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung" is inviting you to take part in the first German-speaking user meeting at 8./9. 12. 2001 in Mainz/Germany. The event is meant to be a mixture of Presentations, workshops, discussions and enough time left to work togehter at the computer. To get more information about it and the way you can take part, have a look at the meeting page: http://www.grass-verein.de/treffen/anwendertreffen_20011208_Mainz.html If you aren't German-speaking, but still want to use the chance to meet other Grass-Users and some developers, feel free to come. We try to help you with translations. Please contact Rainer Trusch for more information, because the meeting page is written in German. Yours sincerly The members of the GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung p.s. : We are sorry to have no navigation on the web page, but our webmaster is overloaded with work at the moment. We hope it still serves your needs. :-) From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Oct 31 11:07:39 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:07:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Freegis-list] wxapt: Weather satellite APT image decoder (fwd) Message-ID: <20011031100739.D24E51C776@abnoba.hq> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: unknown sender Subject: no subject Date: no date Size: 3921 Url: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20011031/07b1db0e/attachment.txt