From ted at foi.se Thu Sep 13 13:45:22 2001 From: ted at foi.se (Daniel Tourde) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:45:22 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to display Swedish RT90 data and convert it? Message-ID: <3BA09C52.7516C474@foi.se> Hello, I am a newbie to the GIS world and to FreeGIS. I have a "simple" problem but i don't know how to solve it. Maybe someone can give me some hints or advice. I am living in Sweden and I have access to digital Swedish maps (topographic scale 1:50000). As far as I understood it uses the Swedish topographic system called RT90. All the details about this format are given in this web page: http://www.lm.se/geodesi/refsys/rt/rt_projections.htm The data I have are of the following type: dk_10gso.dbf dk_10gso.sbn dk_10gso.sbx dk_10gso.shp dk_10gso.shx ... Now I would like to visualise, concatenate (maps are pretty small and I need to merge some of these maps) and export these data to other formats. The program who would use these data can import AutoCAD DXF files, Polyline TXT File (CAD Layer) and Terrain 3CD, 3TX files (Micropath type). I have build up Grass5pre1 on my Linux box but I am not really sure it is the right tool and I have difficulties using it (to import and export data, visualisation... ). Could anyone help me with the first steps and tell me which program would be the best fitted to my need and how I could proceed. Thanks in advance Daniel Tourde -- *********************************************************************** Daniel TOURDE E-mail : daniel.tourde at foi.se Tel : +46 (0)8-55 50 43 44 Cellular : +46 (0)70-849 93 40 FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency; Aeronautics Division - FFA Dept. of Wind Energy and Aviation Environmental Research SE-172 90 Stockholm, Sweden Fax : +46 (0)8-25 34 81 *********************************************************************** From heiko.kehlenbrink at vermes.fh-oldenburg.de Fri Sep 14 09:09:05 2001 From: heiko.kehlenbrink at vermes.fh-oldenburg.de (Heiko Kehlenbrink) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:09:05 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] mrsid viewer Message-ID: <3BA1AD11.B5BFADA8@vermes.fh-oldenburg.de> Hello all, I?m studying GIS at the University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg. Right now I?m doing a practical cours at the Intevation GmbH. Can anyone give me a hind about a free viewing/extracting - tool for mrsid (.sid) files? The original lizardtech software ?s working really fine, but as you know it?s not really free software. Regards Heiko From jan at intevation.de Fri Sep 14 11:36:07 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:36:07 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] aitoi map browser In-Reply-To: <20010831154714.A2241@bug.ucw.cz> References: <20010831154714.A2241@bug.ucw.cz> Message-ID: <20010914113607.B18908@intevation.de> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:47:14PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I'd like to make aitoi run on czech maps (map of prague, map of czech > republic). But that means that I have to get aitoi, first. Does anyone > have copy handy? Can you mail it to me (privately)? the site seems still to be down. If anyone has a copy, can you send it to me for the archive (in case the site will not come back)? Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pka at sourcepole.ch Fri Sep 14 15:03:23 2001 From: pka at sourcepole.ch (Pirmin Kalberer) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:03:23 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS Site with data Message-ID: <3BA2001B.57032E9E@sourcepole.ch> I didn't find the following URL on the FreeGIS site: http://opengis.jrc.it/ This site contains a free Java applet for the Mapserver based site and free Geo-Data. -- Pirmin Kalberer sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions pi at sourcepole.com http://www.sourcepole.com From jan at intevation.de Fri Sep 14 15:11:15 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:11:15 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] xrmap In-Reply-To: <200108310451.f7V4p8Q33636@pop2.nwbl.wi.voyager.net> References: <200108310451.f7V4p8Q33636@pop2.nwbl.wi.voyager.net> Message-ID: <20010914151115.B20001@intevation.de> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:49:45AM +0000, a. p. garcia wrote: > xrmap > > About: Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively > display portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA world vector > map. It is based on an earlier console utility 'rmap'. It features > political boundaries, major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, > canals, etc. The map remains accurate under a very large zoom factor, > which can possibly exceed 100. Spherical, rectangular, Mercator and > Miller projections are implemented, and all features can be > interactively set from the GUI. thanks for the hint. xrmap is added to FreeGIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Fri Sep 14 15:23:54 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:23:54 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS Site with data In-Reply-To: <3BA2001B.57032E9E@sourcepole.ch> References: <3BA2001B.57032E9E@sourcepole.ch> Message-ID: <20010914152354.C20001@intevation.de> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote: > I didn't find the following URL on the FreeGIS site: > > http://opengis.jrc.it/ > > This site contains a free Java applet for the Mapserver based site and > free Geo-Data. The software looks like it is intended to be free software, but in fact, it is not. There is no statement about a license or terms of use, but there is a copyright. The copyright is on JRC. I have no idea whether they have already a policy regarding free software or just restrictively own anything their employees develop. I know guys at JRC are usually nice guys, so it is worth asking :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From roger at sylvanmaps.com Fri Sep 14 18:07:21 2001 From: roger at sylvanmaps.com (Roger Bedell) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:07:21 -0600 Subject: [Freegis-list] A public alternative to MRSID? In-Reply-To: <3BA1AD11.B5BFADA8@vermes.fh-oldenburg.de> Message-ID: Heiko, This has bugged me for a while. I think that it should be possible to put together an alternative using JPEG2000. JPEG2000 uses the same compression technique (wavelet compression) as mrsid, and is a public format. However, mrsid it ain't. Perhaps there could be the same sort of effort that gave birth to SVG, a now viable alternative to FLASH, or GML vs SHP for that matter. Maybe an adjunct to GML, that specifies some JPEG2000 scheme? Any ideas? Roger Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc. roger at sylvanmaps.com www.sylvanmaps.com www.topodepot.com Ph: 505-758-7712 Fax: 505-758-7243 -----Original Message----- From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]On Behalf Of Heiko Kehlenbrink Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:09 AM To: freegis-list at intevation.de Subject: [Freegis-list] mrsid viewer Hello all, I?m studying GIS at the University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg. Right now I?m doing a practical cours at the Intevation GmbH. Can anyone give me a hind about a free viewing/extracting - tool for mrsid (.sid) files? The original lizardtech software ?s working really fine, but as you know it?s not really free software. Regards Heiko _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Sep 14 18:31:20 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:31:20 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] A public alternative to MRSID? References: Message-ID: <3BA230D8.4080308@pobox.com> Roger Bedell wrote: > Heiko, > This has bugged me for a while. I think that it should be possible to put > together an alternative using JPEG2000. JPEG2000 uses the same compression > technique (wavelet compression) as mrsid, and is a public format. However, > mrsid it ain't. Perhaps there could be the same sort of effort that gave > birth to SVG, a now viable alternative to FLASH, or GML vs SHP for that > matter. Maybe an adjunct to GML, that specifies some JPEG2000 scheme? Any > ideas? Roger / Heiko, I don't think you will see any public implmentation of MrSID due to patent issues - and LizardTech have shown themselves to be more than willing to litigate to "protect" their IP. The ERMapper ECW compression is moderately more public, but ultimately I think ERMapper has a patent and intends to control the compressor side of the technology. The best hope seems to be the JPEG2000 format. There is almost-free software available from the JasPer project (http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~mdadams/jasper/). The only non-free aspect to the license seems to be the restriction that the software cannot be used for formats that are not ISO standard JPEG2000. That is, you cannot adapt the software for other purposes such as embedding JPEG2000 style imagery in a TIFF file or something. If we seriously want a fairly good lossy image compression capability for the open source community I would suggest we form a group to take advantage of the JasPer libraries, adapting them as needed so they can be used in other applications. I looked at JasPer a little while ago, and it seemed to me there were some quirks about the way the library worked that would require some adaption - I think it assumes images can be loaded into ram or something. However, if we do this, note that the JasPer libraries restriction on using the code for other purposes will keep the result technically non-free and likely difficult to mix with GPL code. Furthermore, it would preclude any intrisive ideas like GML wrappers around JPEG2000 (though GML documents referring to an ISO standard JPEG2000 file would still be fine). Furthermore, I think there are concerns about patents related to JPEG2000, and the availability of the JasPer software does not preclude being prevented from using it by other parties due to patent issues. We could also try and make a fresh implementation of JPEG 2000 libraries or even implement our own format that would hopefully be free of patent issues but this requires a high degree of knowledge in this specialized image processing field (as well as some legal sophistication to avoid patented methods) that are well beyond my capability. 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 hari_p21 at rediffmail.com Sat Sep 15 10:12:58 2001 From: hari_p21 at rediffmail.com (charan) Date: 15 Sep 2001 08:12:58 -0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to use a dititized map in Visual Basic Message-ID: <20010915081258.25595.qmail@mailFA3.rediffmail.com> Hi, I am working in GIS from Past 6 months in ARCINFO.I have my masters degree.I have digitized map from ArcInfo and i want to use this particular map in Visual Basic for analysis work.The ditized map being a Road intersection Plan. The nature of work being after impoting this digitized map in Visual Basic i have lay some grapical figures on this ditized map like drawing the vehicle path on the map. My problem is i am not able to import the map into Visual basic and want to know if at all is it possible and if yes can i conduct my analysis work as explained in 2nd paragraph.Can some one help me out. From hari_p21 at rediffmail.com Sat Sep 15 10:12:56 2001 From: hari_p21 at rediffmail.com (charan) Date: 15 Sep 2001 08:12:56 -0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to use a dititized map in Visual Basic Message-ID: <20010915081256.12454.qmail@mailweb19.rediffmail.com> Hi, I am working in GIS from Past 6 months in ARCINFO.I have my masters degree.I have digitized map from ArcInfo and i want to use this particular map in Visual Basic for analysis work.The ditized map being a Road intersection Plan. The nature of work being after impoting this digitized map in Visual Basic i have lay some grapical figures on this ditized map like drawing the vehicle path on the map. My problem is i am not able to import the map into Visual basic and want to know if at all is it possible and if yes can i conduct my analysis work as explained in 2nd paragraph.Can some one help me out. From CCate23519 at aol.com Sat Sep 15 14:13:20 2001 From: CCate23519 at aol.com (CCate23519@aol.com) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:13:20 EDT Subject: [Freegis-list] How to use a dititized map in Visual Basic Message-ID: <87.10097804.28d49fe0@aol.com> I am interested in doing something like this with one of my clients. Thanks, Craig From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Sep 17 01:30:33 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:30:33 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to display Swedish RT90 data and convert it? In-Reply-To: <3BA09C52.7516C474@foi.se> References: <3BA09C52.7516C474@foi.se> Message-ID: <20010917013033.H5158@intevation.de> Hi Daniel, The name of the data files your mentioned hint that the data is available in shapefile-format. There are several methods to look at shapefiles. GRASS can import them. mapserver can use them. I suggest openmap or sketch (including geo-object plugin) to look at them first. The RT90 seems to be a datum based on Bessel 1841 used with Transverse Mercator (Gauss-Kr?ger) projects. I am not sure if GRASS supports this directly, but is also might not be necessary depending on your task. If you only want to create nice looking maps without serious GIS analysis sketch might be your best bet. If you need serious GIS you should go with GRASS, but this will require some learning as gis are not used for simple tasks. Bernhard On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:45:22PM +0200, Daniel Tourde wrote: > I am a newbie to the GIS world and to FreeGIS. > I have a "simple" problem but i don't know how to solve it. Maybe > someone can give me some hints or advice. > > I am living in Sweden and I have access to digital Swedish maps > (topographic scale 1:50000). As far as I understood it uses the Swedish > topographic system called RT90. All the details about this format are > given in this web page: > http://www.lm.se/geodesi/refsys/rt/rt_projections.htm > > The data I have are of the following type: > dk_10gso.dbf dk_10gso.sbn dk_10gso.sbx dk_10gso.shp dk_10gso.shx > ... > > > > Now I would like to visualise, concatenate (maps are pretty small and I > need to merge some of these maps) and export these data to other > formats. > The program who would use these data can import AutoCAD DXF files, > Polyline TXT File (CAD Layer) and Terrain 3CD, 3TX files (Micropath > type). > > > I have build up Grass5pre1 on my Linux box but I am not really sure it > is the right tool and I have difficulties using it (to import and export > data, visualisation... ). > Could anyone help me with the first steps and tell me which program > would be the best fitted to my need and how I could proceed. > > Thanks in advance > > > > Daniel Tourde > -- > *********************************************************************** > Daniel TOURDE E-mail : daniel.tourde at foi.se > Tel : +46 (0)8-55 50 43 44 > Cellular : +46 (0)70-849 93 40 > FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency; Aeronautics Division - FFA > Dept. of Wind Energy and Aviation Environmental Research > SE-172 90 Stockholm, Sweden Fax : +46 (0)8-25 34 81 > *********************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- 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/20010917/71823e39/attachment.bin From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Sep 17 01:33:22 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:33:22 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] A public alternative to MRSID? In-Reply-To: References: <3BA1AD11.B5BFADA8@vermes.fh-oldenburg.de> Message-ID: <20010917013322.I5158@intevation.de> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:07:21AM -0600, Roger Bedell wrote: > Heiko, > This has bugged me for a while. I think that it should be possible to put > together an alternative using JPEG2000. JPEG2000 uses the same compression > technique (wavelet compression) as mrsid, and is a public format. However, > mrsid it ain't. Perhaps there could be the same sort of effort that gave > birth to SVG, a now viable alternative to FLASH, or GML vs SHP for that > matter. Maybe an adjunct to GML, that specifies some JPEG2000 scheme? Any > ideas? AFAIK mrsid is a proprietory format which might not be easy to handle, because I expect patent problems. The wavelet compression is a nice technique though. Even with JPEG2000 we can expect some proprietory parts of the format (I remember an article in c't or iX about this). So we need people like the PNG guys to create a good format which can be used by everyone. 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/20010917/db61a9f6/attachment.bin From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Sep 17 01:40:24 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:40:24 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to use a dititized map in Visual Basic In-Reply-To: <20010915081256.12454.qmail@mailweb19.rediffmail.com> References: <20010915081256.12454.qmail@mailweb19.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20010917014024.J5158@intevation.de> First note that ARCINFO nor Visual Basic are Free Software. The support for non-free Software is very limited in this forum. (Ususally it is zero, but sometime people happen to learn a lot lurking around here and learning about Free Software. ;-> ) We could try answering how we could solve this problem using Free Software. Assuming that you have the data in ungenerate format, you might try gen2shape to make it a shapefile or maybe check if GRASS has an import programm for the e00 format. If you have the data in a shapefile you can use the shapelib to access the data from your favourite programming language. Personally I recommend python and the shapelib python bindings. There are several java libaries which also might help you. Openmap and geotools for a start. Depending on your graphic library you should be able to easly add graphical figures to the display. Let us know what you find out. Bernhard On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:12:56AM -0000, charan wrote: > I am working in GIS from Past 6 months in ARCINFO.I have my > masters degree.I have digitized map from ArcInfo and i want to use > this particular map in Visual Basic for analysis work.The ditized > map being a Road intersection Plan. > The nature of work being after impoting this digitized map in > Visual Basic i have lay some grapical figures on this ditized > map like drawing the vehicle path on the map. > My problem is i am not able to import the map into Visual > basic and want to know if at all is it possible and if yes > can i conduct my analysis work as explained in 2nd > paragraph.Can some one help me out. -- 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/20010917/854bbc79/attachment.bin From v.o.vanni.s00 at cranfield.ac.uk Mon Sep 17 17:22:30 2001 From: v.o.vanni.s00 at cranfield.ac.uk (Victor Vanni) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:22:30 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) Message-ID: Hi I am currently working on evaluation of the open source GIS software; GRASS. I am comparing this software to the industry leaders; Erdas Imagine and Arc/Info. I have all these software at my disposal and also a couple of datasets which I intend to use to test the software's. I have used Arc/Info and Erdas Imagine to carry out some tasks like data import and converting data from vector to raster format, in addition to other data manipulation techniques. Now, I intend to put the same datastes through the same process using GRASS and assessing the results - doing image to image matches. However, this is not robust enough to give acceptable results. I have also decided to use criteria like user support, version control, bug fixes, etc. to answer the question - Is GRASS as good as Arc/Info or Erdas Imagine? I would therefore like advice me on identifying benchmarks for software evaluation. Best Regards From hari_p21 at rediffmail.com Mon Sep 17 17:41:47 2001 From: hari_p21 at rediffmail.com (charan) Date: 17 Sep 2001 15:41:47 -0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) Message-ID: <20010917154147.4049.qmail@mailweb15.rediffmail.com> Thanks this site contains how to use VB with some of GIS tools and i could solve my problem http://www.inovagis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Mon Sep 17 17:55:49 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:55:49 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <20010917154147.4049.qmail@mailweb15.rediffmail.com> References: <20010917154147.4049.qmail@mailweb15.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20010917175549.C10197@intevation.de> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:41:47PM -0000, charan wrote: > Thanks this site contains how to use VB with some of GIS tools and i could solve my problem > http://www.inovagis.org/ since this statement is made on the FreeGIS list I must add that inovagis is by no means comparable to GRASS in terms of the free software character. To my best knowledge it depends on proprietary inovagis libraries. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Mon Sep 17 18:06:32 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:06:32 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20010917180632.D10197@intevation.de> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:22:30PM +0100, Victor Vanni wrote: > I am currently working on evaluation of the open source GIS software; GRASS. > I am comparing this software to the industry leaders; Erdas Imagine and > Arc/Info. I have all these software at my disposal and also a couple of > datasets which I intend to use to test the software's. > I have used Arc/Info and Erdas Imagine to carry out some tasks like data > import and converting data from vector to raster format, in addition to > other data manipulation techniques. Now, I intend to put the same datastes > through the same process using GRASS and assessing the results - doing image > to image matches. However, this is not robust enough to give acceptable > results. I have also decided to use criteria like user support, version > control, bug fixes, etc. to answer the question - Is GRASS as good as > Arc/Info or Erdas Imagine? > I would therefore like advice me on identifying benchmarks for software > evaluation. you can buy GRASS support by contracting a service company such as GaF. The support will be as intensive and comprehensive as you wish to pay for. In the end you might have the same costs as for bying a license of a proprietary product. Still you remain vendor independent since you can change your service provider if you are not happy with the service. Your software selection should consider the total costs of ownership. The costs usually increase for proprietary products at the end of the life cycle. For technical stuff we have some very experience guys on the list :-) However, there is surely not the one answer. Some aspects are best served with GRASS, some others are best served by other products (not necessarily being prorpietary ones). Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From vranka at seznam.cz Thu Sep 20 12:06:56 2001 From: vranka at seznam.cz (Pavel Vranka) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:06:56 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] maps on web Message-ID: <00f401c141bb$faf34020$b6c0fb93@ped.muni.cz> Is there any free or (very) low-price SW for publishing maps on internet? I would like to publish some of my school project but I don't have access to MapGuide nor anything like this. Thanks for tips Pavel Vranka -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20010920/005dd1db/attachment.html From jan at intevation.de Thu Sep 20 12:17:29 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:17:29 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] maps on web In-Reply-To: <00f401c141bb$faf34020$b6c0fb93@ped.muni.cz> References: <00f401c141bb$faf34020$b6c0fb93@ped.muni.cz> Message-ID: <20010920121729.A9944@intevation.de> Hi, On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:06:56PM +0200, Pavel Vranka wrote: > Is there any free or (very) low-price SW for publishing maps on internet? I would like to publish some of my school project but I don't have access to MapGuide nor anything like this. FreeGIS has a category for web mapping applications: http://freegis.org/browse.en.html?category=app&app=web_mapping There you will find a number of products. According to your needs one or another might serve best. MapServer beats many proprietary products. MapIt! is alight-wight and for raster-maps only. Have fun evaluating. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From sonntag at psitrans.de Thu Sep 20 14:07:09 2001 From: sonntag at psitrans.de (Sonntag, Alexander) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:07:09 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free GIS Software with open interfaces for applications Message-ID: Hi, for the development of a program i'd like to know wether there are free gis programs with open interfaces so that one can embed it into other programs. Is there anybody who knows internet sites on which such products are available or that lists or link to such sites. Thanks for Help Alexander Sonntag sonntag at psitrans.de PS: Also infos about commercial products are interesting From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Sep 20 14:33:57 2001 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:33:57 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free GIS Software with open interfaces for applications References: Message-ID: <3BA9E235.6090705@pobox.com> Sonntag, Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > for the development of a program i'd like to know wether there are > free gis programs with open interfaces so that one can embed it into > other programs. Is there anybody who knows internet sites on which > such products are available or that lists or link to such sites. > > Thanks for Help > > Alexander Sonntag Alexander, I think you will find that your existing choice of environment will determine alot about what embeddable choices you have. By environment, I mean platform (win32, unix/x), gui toolkit (Qt, Gtk, WxWindows, Win32) and language (Java, C, C++, Python, etc). Also, I am not sure what GIS capabilities you want. Certainly there are a number of candidates with support for displaying raster and vector data. If you want full GIS analysis capabilities your list of candidates will be much more restricted. A few possible candidates (by no means comprehensive): o GeoTools: Java, raster/vector o FMaps: C/C++, vector, X/GTK o OpenEV: C/C++/Python, GTK, OpenGL, raster/vector o OpenMap: Java, raster/vector o OSSIM: C++, WxWindows (win32/Unix-X), raster Note that many Open Source applications can be adapted to be embedded in other applications by their malliable nature. 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 Fri Sep 21 02:05:40 2001 From: fnievinski2 at terra.com.br (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:05:40 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS Site with data In-Reply-To: <3BA2001B.57032E9E@sourcepole.ch> References: <3BA2001B.57032E9E@sourcepole.ch> Message-ID: <200109202105400480.022D8E6E@smtp.poa.terra.com.br> Hi. Please note that there is a strong research group on geospatial web systems at the JRC, which hosts yearly conferences on this theme. The last one took place in Canada, during the Digital Earth Conference. Their website is at http://eogeo.jrc.it/ and contains the papers and presentations of the last meeting. cheers. Felipe. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 14/09/01 at 15:03 Pirmin Kalberer wrote: >I didn't find the following URL on the FreeGIS site: > >http://opengis.jrc.it/ > >This site contains a free Java applet for the Mapserver based site and >free Geo-Data. > >-- >Pirmin Kalberer >sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions >pi at sourcepole.com http://www.sourcepole.com > >_______________________________________________ >Freegis-list mailing list >Freegis-list at intevation.de >http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From jan at intevation.de Mon Sep 24 08:46:59 2001 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:46:59 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free GIS Software with open interfaces for applications In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20010924084659.A5619@intevation.de> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:07:09PM +0200, Sonntag, Alexander wrote: > for the development of a program i'd like to know wether there are > free gis programs with open interfaces so that one can embed it into > other programs. Is there anybody who knows internet sites on which > such products are available or that lists or link to such sites. > > PS: Also infos about commercial products are interesting [ I am sorry for those who know what comes now :-) ] Alexander, I am glad you are looking for free software opportunities along with proprietary ones. Please note that the free software solution are also commercial ones (if you decide to pay for). There are now several companies that offer all the types of service contracts that exist for software. Choose the best, change if you are not satisfied - that is your freedom. All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pramsey at refractions.net Fri Sep 21 07:02:33 2001 From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:02:33 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.6 Released Message-ID: <3BAAC9E9.4030803@refractions.net> SUMMARY: Refractions Research is pleased to announce the 0.6 release of PostGIS : Geographic Objects for the PostgreSQL object-relational database server. PostGIS/PostgreSQL is a spatial database much like ESRI's SDE and Oracles OracleSpatial. PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality: - Simple Features as defined by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) - Support for Well-Known Text and Well-Known Binary representations of GIS objects - Fast spatial indexing using GiST - Geospatial analysis functions - PostgreSQL JDBC extension objects corresponding to the geometries - Support for OGC access functions as defined by the Simple Features Specification The latest release increases OpenGIS standards support, upgrades Mapserver support, and increases the number of accessor functions dramatically. For more information, see the PostGIS project web site at: http://postgis.refractions.net REQUIREMENTS: - PostgreSQL Version 7.1.x (Version 7.2 and CVS versions of PostgreSQL will *not* work due to changes in the GiST index interface. The next version of PostGIS will move to PostgreSQL 7.2.) - The PL/pgSQL server-side language must be installed before PostGIS RELEASE NOTES: - Version 0.6 includes numerous new functions bringing the system closer to OpenGIS SQL standards. The SPATIAL_REF_SYS and GEOMETRY_COLUMNS tables are now supported and maintainted. SRIDs are included in all geometries, and functions check for consistent SRIDs. - The internal binary format has changed since version 0.5, so a dump/restore of existing databases is *required*. See the UPGRADING section of the README. - The latest CVS version of Mapserver will be required if you are using PostGIS as a Mapserver datasource. See http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ for more information on Mapserver and for CVS snapshots. NEW FUNCTIONS: postgis_version() Return the PostGIS version number. find_srid(::varchar, ::varchar, ::varchar) Return the SRID number for a particular column of a database. AddGeometryColumn(::varchar,
::varchar, ::varchar, ::integer, ::varchar, ::integer) Appends a geometry column to an existing table and updates the metadata tables appropriately. DropGeometryColumn(::varchar,
::varchar, ::varchar) Removes a geometry column from an existing spatial table. Distance(::geometry, ::geometry) Returns the cartesian distance between two geometries. AsText(::geometry) Returns the OGC well-known text version of the geometry. SRID(::geometry) Returns the integer SRID of the geometry. GeometryFromText(::varchar, ::integer) Creates a geometry object given the OGC well-known text and a valid SRID. SetSRID(::geometry) Sets the SRID of a geometry to a particular value. IsClosed(::geometry) Returns true of first and last points of geometry are coincident. StartPoint(::geometry) Returns the first point of a geometry. EndPoint(::geometry) Returns the last point of a geometry. Centroid(::geometry) Returns the centroid of a geometry. -- __ / | Paul Ramsey | Refractions Research | Email: pramsey at refractions.net | Phone: (250) 885-0632 \__ From umfragegis at gmx.at Mon Sep 24 12:03:46 2001 From: umfragegis at gmx.at (umfragegis@gmx.at) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:03:46 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [Freegis-list] survey Message-ID: <2090.1001325826@www2.gmx.net> Within my thesis there is a survey about maps, user's expectations and graphic user interface. Please take part at http://www.domestic.at/uniwien There are an English and a German Version. Thanks in advance, Isabella Bayer umfragegis at gmx.at Department of Geography and Regional Research, Cartography and Geoinformation University of Vienna, Austria -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net From shankar_narayanank at msdc.hcltech.com Wed Sep 26 12:04:17 2001 From: shankar_narayanank at msdc.hcltech.com (Shankar Narayanan.K,ASDC Chennai) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:34:17 +0530 Subject: [Freegis-list] Raster to Vector converter Message-ID: <48AD7DC65C4CD51195430000E898F2D10101F296@PLUTO> Hi list, I want to create a high quality vector (A4 -A1 size) from a raster map image (.JPG).I am on the look out for a software which is freeware/shareware/relatively cheap and create the vectors at the mentioned page sizes.Can somebody help me in finding out such software ? rgds, Shankar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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/20010926/035c3cf7/attachment.bin From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Sep 26 15:33:56 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:33:56 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] Message-ID: <20010926153356.T17183@intevation.de> Discovered: gpsdrive current is v0.27 http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/ License: GNU GPL. Author: FritzGanter Freshmeat summary: | Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your |position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS |receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, |depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. |Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The |program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, |arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is |also available. -- 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... 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Best regards, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernhard Reiter" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:33 PM Subject: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] From bernhard at intevation.de Thu Sep 27 11:22:10 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:22:10 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] In-Reply-To: <000c01c14691$16b7c8b0$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> References: <20010926153356.T17183@intevation.de> <000c01c14691$16b7c8b0$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> Message-ID: <20010927112210.A22799@intevation.de> Hello Paul, I sign my mail conforming to the OpenPGP standard. Unfortunalty Microsoft O Express does not care to follow this standard as they do with other standards. Eventually Mail User Agents will catch up. Until then there is no way to change this, except in not signing the mail. Bernhard On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:42:14PM +0900, Paul Selormey wrote: > Hello, > It there no way to change the mode of sending your mails? I always receive > them > as attachment-not convenient at all. > > Best regards, > Paul. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernhard Reiter" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:33 PM > Subject: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] -- 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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But since it produces vector graphics you can always scale the result to whatever size you need. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://mapit.de/ From paul at toolscenter.org Thu Sep 27 14:02:16 2001 From: paul at toolscenter.org (Paul Selormey) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:02:16 +0900 Subject: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] References: <20010926153356.T17183@intevation.de> <000c01c14691$16b7c8b0$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> <20010927112210.A22799@intevation.de> Message-ID: <001b01c1474c$4f0be230$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> Hello Bernhard, Thanks for the information. This being a mailing list, is it really necessary to sign the emails? Best regards, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernhard Reiter" To: "Paul Selormey" Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new] From csprakash at yahoo.com Thu Sep 27 16:21:26 2001 From: csprakash at yahoo.com (Surya Challa) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] IP Address - Geography mapping Message-ID: <20010927142126.63359.qmail@web13806.mail.yahoo.com> Hi All, I was wondering if there is any database available which maps Internet IP Address Blocks to geography. any info will be appreciated Thanks, Prakash __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca Thu Sep 27 20:27:21 2001 From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:27:21 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] IP Address - Geography mapping Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530C38B33B@raptor.gov.yk.ca> > I was wondering if there is any database available > which maps Internet IP Address Blocks to geography. > any info will be appreciated You might be able to find something like that on this site: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html cheers, -matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From baba at daido-it.co.jp Thu Sep 27 02:28:59 2001 From: baba at daido-it.co.jp (BABA Yoshihiko) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:28:59 +1000 Subject: [Freegis-list] IP Address - Geography mapping In-Reply-To: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530C38B33B@raptor.gov.yk.ca> Message-ID: <4.3.2-J.20010927102341.00b11ae0@mail.daido-it.co.jp> At 11:27 01/09/27 -0700, Matt.Wilkie wrote: > > I was wondering if there is any database available > > which maps Internet IP Address Blocks to geography. > > any info will be appreciated > >You might be able to find something like that on this site: > >http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html This project is indeed made mostly by Martin Dodge, a PhD student at CASA, UCL with his colleagues there. Try sending e-mail to him. He normally responds quickly and his contact is available at the site. http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk BABA Yoshihiko Daido Information Technology +81 (0)3 3316 8321 From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Sep 28 16:31:31 2001 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:31:31 +0200 Subject: Sign Mails on the list? (was: [Freegis-list] gpsdrive [new]) In-Reply-To: <001b01c1474c$4f0be230$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> References: <20010926153356.T17183@intevation.de> <000c01c14691$16b7c8b0$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> <20010927112210.A22799@intevation.de> <001b01c1474c$4f0be230$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> Message-ID: <20010928163131.K28454@intevation.de> Hello Paul, in my opinion it is justified as it is a lot harder for somebody to pose as me with signed email. Think about a situation where an imposer would give a false judgement about a license or company policy. It could do serious image damage and even lead to wrong decisions over money on this public mailing list. This way you can have more evidence that my statements are at least done by the same person. Best, Bernhard On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:02:16PM +0900, Paul Selormey wrote: > Hello Bernhard, > Thanks for the information. This being a mailing list, is it really > necessary to > sign the emails? > > Best regards, > Paul. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The import of the "ATKIS-Objektbereiche" (verkehr, ...) works, but I would prefer to split up this and import the single "ATKIS-Objektarten" (Strasse, Wege..) instead. I guess this is a matter of modifying the EDBS Reader, which is written in C - a language I don't know yet. This is why I put the programs and a more datailed Readme (in german) on my server: ftp://frosch.2y.net/pub/edbs_import/ if anybody is interested in further developing this GRASS EDBS import module, don't hesitate :-) thanks in advance Otto Dassau -- Otto Dassau Davenstedter Stra?e 39, D-30449 Hannover Tel: ++49-(0)511-45001140 e-mail: otto.dassau at gmx.de From fnievinski2 at terra.com.br Sat Sep 29 22:58:40 2001 From: fnievinski2 at terra.com.br (Felipe G. Nievinski) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:58:40 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] new project: Community Map Builder Message-ID: <200109291758400740.01C64539@smtp.poa.terra.com.br> Hi. 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. cheers Felipe. 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. Schedule Done: - Develop Web Map Server based on Open GIS Standards. Version 3.5 of Mapserv provides a beta level open source Web Map Service. - Develop a Web Map Server client. I've helped incorporate this functionality into Geotools, a web based java applet. To Do: - Develop an open source Web Feature Server based on Open GIS Standards. This will probably be done best with PostGIS. I'd be interested to hear if anyone is working on this. - Develop a Web Feature Server interface to Geotools. I plan to help out with this next. - Develop a Transactional Web Feature Server interface. Again, I'd look to PostGIS for this. - Develop Transactional Web Feature Server client interface. Release 1 - Prototype - Design data models, interfaces etc to drive the components. - Design business logic to control update procedures. I'm invisaging something similar to the comments moderation on http://slashdot.org Release 2 - Core functionality - Lots of possible features to add later. Email lists If you would like to help out, or keep informed, or offer to pay me to work on this full time :), join one of the email lists at: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=35246. I look forward to hearing from you, Cameron Shorter, cameron at shorter.net