From jan at intevation.de Thu Jan 3 15:21:58 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:21:58 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GaMa Geodesy and Mapping In-Reply-To: <20011205191109.B20902@intevation.de> References: <20011205191109.B20902@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20020103142158.GA15421@intevation.de> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:11:09PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/software/gama/ > > | GNU GaMa is a package for adjustment of geodetic networks (acronym > | GaMa is formed from words geodesy and mapping). GaMa is written in > | C++ and currently supports only adjustment in a local carthesian > | coordinate system. > > Will be featured in an upcoming GNU Brave World column. > (Thanks to Georg Greve for the pointer.) > > It looks like it fits on FreeGis.org. Added to FreeGIS. > Any people interested in Geodesy on this list, who like to comment? Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From frank.koormann at intevation.de Fri Jan 4 12:29:18 2002 From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:29:18 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] UMN MapServer Version 3.5 available Message-ID: <20020104112918.GA24304@intevation.de> Dear all, although most readers of this list may have noticed it already: UNM MapServer version 3.5 is out since 18th December 2001. The documentation was completed during the last days. Please see the MapServer homepage for more details: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu Regards, Frank Koormann -- Frank Koormann Professional Service around Free Software (http://intevation.net/) FreeGIS Project (http://freegis.org/) From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Jan 4 15:22:37 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:22:37 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GeoTools News Message-ID: <20020104142237.GI25086@intevation.de> There obviously were major news from the 9th of December for the GeoTools-Project: http://geotools.sourceforge.net/ The FreeGIS team welcomes the good news. Best wishes to the project! | December 9 2001 | Major funding boost | GeoTools founder, James Macgill, is now employed for the | first time to maintain and develop the GeoTools library on a full | time basis. | The funding comes from a major project supported by the New | Opportunities Fund, to create a web-based, interactive, historical | GIS of Britain in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth | and the British Library. | GeoTools gets organised A new project manager will help. | GeoTools goes international First spanish translation of documentation. -- 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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Many thanks Michael -- Michael Bock Internet: http://www.scilands.de From neteler at itc.it Mon Jan 7 10:50:49 2002 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:50:49 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] datum definition for belgian Uccle In-Reply-To: <3C395E31.19B7647E@scilands.de>; from mbock@scilands.de on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:37:05AM +0100 References: <3C395E31.19B7647E@scilands.de> Message-ID: <20020107105049.K3608@itc.it> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:37:05AM +0100, Michael Bock wrote: > Hi GIS specialists, > > my problem is to transform mass of coordinates from belgian system to > geographic. > I'm currently trying out 'FERAL' (A Map Projection > And Datum Transformation Utility) I found on www.freegis.org. This > software could be very useful but unfortunatly the belgian datum of > Uccle is not defined in the datum-list of FERAL. Needed are the > deviations referring to WGS84. > > Does anyone know a resource of information on the internet, where such > defintions/deviations of datum could be found? > > Many thanks > Hi Michael, yes - have a look here: Grids & Datums http://www.asprs.org/asprs/resources/grids/ Kingdom of Belgium (reprinted from October 1998 PE&RS) It should be explained there. Best regards Markus PS: Kind regards to Ruediger :-) -- Markus Neteler ITC-irst, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Project on Predictive Models for the Environment Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italia tel +39 0461 314 -520 (fax -591) http://mpa.itc.it From anne-claire.serres at thales-is.com Thu Jan 10 15:44:20 2002 From: anne-claire.serres at thales-is.com (anne-claire serres) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:44:20 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SOSI files Message-ID: <3C3DA8C4.CF28332@thales-is.com> Hello ! Does anybody know what is a SOSI file ? I think it is a vector file but from which kind of GIS or CAD tools ? May I use it as a .dxf file ? Thank you very much ! Anne-Claire -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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May I import it in Grass as a .dxf > > file ? > > I'm afraid it is a Norwegian standard vector storage format: > > http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html/welcome.htm > > SOSI GIS as search keys in Google give a number of commercial programmes > for converting SOSI to shape and other formats, but all on pages in > Norwegian. > > Good luck! > > Roger Bivand [...] From he at envive.se Fri Jan 11 09:20:34 2002 From: he at envive.se (Henric Ernstson) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:20:34 +0100 Subject: SV: [Freegis-list] Re: [GRASSLIST:2880] Re: SOSI files In-Reply-To: <20020110164339.I2384@itc.it> Message-ID: SOSI - Standard stands for the Norvegian standard of Geografic information and are used in Norway. There is a project of converting their standard in to the internationall standards of GIS - CEN/TC 287 and ISO TC211. -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fran: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]For Markus Neteler Skickat: den 10 januari 2002 16:44 Till: FreeGIS List Amne: [Freegis-list] Re: [GRASSLIST:2880] Re: SOSI files Sorry for the cross-posting, but probably interesting also here: Markus On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +0100, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, anne-claire serres wrote: > > > Hello ! > > Does anybody know what is a SOSI file ? I think it is a vector file but > > from which kind of GIS or CAD tools ? May I import it in Grass as a .dxf > > file ? > > I'm afraid it is a Norwegian standard vector storage format: > > http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html/welcome.htm > > SOSI GIS as search keys in Google give a number of commercial programmes > for converting SOSI to shape and other formats, but all on pages in > Norwegian. > > Good luck! > > Roger Bivand [...] _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From jidanni at yam.com.tw Fri Jan 11 23:00:57 2002 From: jidanni at yam.com.tw (Dan Jacobson) Date: 12 Jan 2002 06:00:57 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] RFD: sci.geo.cartography In-Reply-To: <200201102117.g0ALH2D20173@coll.must-have-coffee.gen.nz> Message-ID: [I will only "spam" once with this now and again at the CFV.] Followup-To: news.groups REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) unmoderated group sci.geo.cartography This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.cartography. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below. Newsgroup line: sci.geo.cartography Maps, grids, coordinates, projections, datums RATIONALE: sci.geo.cartography "Cartography is about making aspects of our world visible, for the sciences where georeferenced representations are critical (geography, geology, ecology, hydrology, meteorology, remote sensing...)" In many universities, cartography is taught in the geography department. Here in Usenet's geography/earth sciences department, sci.geo.*, we have no cartography. Our "Usenet University" may have every flavor of soda pop, but with attendance levels many times larger than any university, how can we skimp on our basic sciences? We are asked to show ten related articles per day. We find hundreds. We place the details on our newsgroup creation campaign home page, http://www.geocities.com/jidanni/cartography.html and not here. Many topics in our charter are of no daily interest to say, a professional land surveyor reading sci.engr.surveying, nor are as high flying as sci.geo.satellite-nav -- indeed if purely cartographic articles were no longer buried there, they would be better accessible to non-GPS parties. CHARTER: sci.geo.cartography sci.geo.cartography is an unmoderated newsgroup for discussing maps and mapping: Antique to high tech e-maps. Parchment to on-line. Historical, street, terrain, topographic, travel, aviation, property, and even buried treasure maps, tactile maps for the blind, gazetteers. Collecting maps, trip routing, mapping software, history of mapmaking, map-related careers. Governments and universities forgetting that they are using taxpayers' money to map taxpayers' land: fees and copyrights that stifle even inter-agency sharing, see http://members.home.net/freedata/ . National grids as military secrets, see http://www.asprs.org/asprs/resources/grids/11-2001-ptsm.pdf . Consequences of errors on maps. Biased "world" atlases. Field map skills, map education; What makes a good map? Does this map engender a feeling of trust? Are your fellow countrymen map-oriented or map-ignorant? How to describe a location so the average Joe can find it. Grids: from military to house numbers. Projections, coordinates, datums, ellipsoids, spheroids, great circles, loxodromes, 3-d & relief shading techniques. Insets, turn points, landmarks. Making maps easy to read, best ways to fold maps, map typography, distortion. Eye movements & maps. Address and location naming and numbering systems. Numerical cartography. "Nowadays, precise coordinates are vital for mission success. Ignoring the fine print in the margin of a map could get you killed! Find out what datum is on your map." Binaries are prohibited, with the exception of PGP signatures and similar small binaries; advertising is discouraged. END CHARTER. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) will be posted by a neutral vote taker. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens. All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups. This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the process. DISTRIBUTION: This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups news.groups comp.infosystems.gis misc.transport.road sci.geo.satellite-nav The proponent will also post the RFD to:, alt.building.survey-mapping alt.planning.transportation alt.planning.urban alt.satellite.gps comp.cad.autocad comp.cad.microstation comp.graphics.algorithms comp.graphics.misc comp.soft-sys.gis.esri comp.soft-sys.khoros misc.transport.misc rec.aviation.misc rec.collecting rec.sport.orienteering rec.travel.misc sci.archaeology sci.astro sci.engr.surveying sci.geo.earthquakes sci.geo.eos sci.geo.geology sci.geo.hydrology sci.geo.meteorology sci.geo.oceanography sci.geo.petroleum sci.image.processing sci.math.num-analysis and later to the following projects' mailing lists or coordinators: http://www.baylor.edu/grass/ Grass GIS http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools http://freegis.org/ FreeGIS Project http://www.remotesensing.org/lists/osrs_list.php3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint http://www.maphist.nl/ MapHist Discussion Group Proponent: Dan Jacobson http://www.geocities.com/jidanni/ Mentor during formative period: Jonathan Grobe From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Jan 16 16:51:52 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:51:52 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] [alet@unice.fr: [ANNOUNCE] first public release of PDFMap] Message-ID: <20020116155152.GF18687@intevation.de> :) -- 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 -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Jerome Alet Subject: [ANNOUNCE] first public release of PDFMap Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:26:20 +0100 (MET) Size: 1843 Url: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020116/7fbbd149/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020116/7fbbd149/attachment.bin From alet at unice.fr Thu Jan 17 09:43:21 2002 From: alet at unice.fr (Jerome Alet) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:43:21 +0100 (MET) Subject: [Freegis-list] [ANNOUNCE] PDFMap 1.00 Message-ID: Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first public release of PDFMap, a command line tool and Python library to help people create high quality maps in PDF format with clickable objects on them. It was made to create archaeological maps for some caves but you can do other things as well : look at the example to learn more. Each object is placed on the map at its correct dimensions (you can also apply a magnifying factor if you want), and orientation. This software is licensed under the GNU GPL and intensively uses the ReportLab package (version 1.11 or higher). You can download it from : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfmap/ The CVS tree is now available too. The public area available directly from http://pdfmap.sourceforge.net still needs a lot of work, but contains an example of a pdf map and a screenshot, as well as the scripts which created this map. In the tests/ subdirectory, two sample scripts are present, the first in Python, the second in Bourne Again Shell language, but both produce exactly the same map. The sample dataset and configuration files are in the tests/ directory too, so you can easily see if their format can match your own datas and skills ;-) easily (this is probably the case). The sample dataset and raster map was generously given to this project by Intevation GmbH (http://www.intevation.de) After having extracted the tarball, please read the README and tests/README to learn how to use this software and produce your own maps. You can subscribe to pdfmap's mailing list from : http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pdfmap-users/ Any comment or helps is appreciated. Jerome Alet From email_atiul at lycos.com Sat Jan 19 19:05:43 2002 From: email_atiul at lycos.com (atiul ahmed) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:05:43 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Results: Internet GIS Survey Message-ID: Hi there! I am grateful to those who have responded to the survey. I appreciate the interest, effort and patience of all the respondents. I also thank the respondents for their warm wishes and appreciation. I have recieved good number of responses than expected and keeping in view of this success, I like to extend the survey till February 15 2002.It is a warm request to all those who haven't yet participated in the survey to kindly participate in it. You can view the results of this survey as on january 9th 2001 at http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~atiul/survey.htm Please respond to the survey if you haven't done it before at the same URL. Thanking You. With Regards Atiul A. sowdagar From ia at innovatech.dk Mon Jan 21 20:12:59 2002 From: ia at innovatech.dk (Israel Alvarez) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:12:59 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance between two points Message-ID: <20020121131440.C56571B6BB@mail.intevation.de> Hi!, I'm using a GPS device to get my position (WGS84 format) and I would like to calculate the distance between two points. Could anyone tell me where to find some source code with the method? I'm really bad at maths, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to implement the method by myself(actually, I'm quite sure I'll not be able...) thanks in advance, ia From reddy at AI.SRI.COM Mon Jan 21 17:57:48 2002 From: reddy at AI.SRI.COM (Martin Reddy) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:57:48 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance between two points In-Reply-To: <20020121131440.C56571B6BB@mail.intevation.de> Message-ID: There's a discussion of this problem in the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/gisfaq?Q5.1 The C++ package GFC (Geodesy Foundation Classes) contains source code to do the calculation. Go to www.freegis.org and search for GFC. Cheers, Martin. On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Israel Alvarez wrote: > I'm using a GPS device to get my position (WGS84 format) and I would like to > calculate the distance between two points. Could anyone tell me where to find > some source code with the method? I'm really bad at maths, so I'm not sure if > I'll be able to implement the method by myself(actually, I'm quite sure I'll > not be able...) > thanks in advance, > ia > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Reddy SRI International, AI Center Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 reddy at ai.sri.com Tel : (650) 859-6468 http://www.martinreddy.net/ Fax : (650) 859-3735 From anne-claire.serres at thales-is.com Mon Jan 21 18:45:36 2002 From: anne-claire.serres at thales-is.com (anne-claire serres) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:45:36 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance Precision & Mercator Projection Message-ID: <3C4C53C0.FBC3194E@thales-is.com> Hello ! I would like to know, using Mercator Projection, how to calculate the error (or precision) on a calculated distance. I assume that the precision of the calculated distance change with the scale and the location of the map, so : Does it exist some equations taking as parameters scale and location to calcul the error ? Thank you very much ! Anne-Claire -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: anne-claire.serres.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 271 bytes Desc: Carte pour anne-claire serres Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020121/edfcb2d8/anne-claire.serres.vcf From fnievinski at terra.com.br Tue Jan 22 14:25:22 2002 From: fnievinski at terra.com.br (Felipe Nievinski) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:25:22 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeFS merged with GeoServer Message-ID: FYI: FreeFS merged with GeoServer The Free Feature Server project has merged with GeoServer to form the GeoServer project. The GeoServer project provides agencies and individuals who want to share geographic data with a robust, standards compliant, low cost path to seamlessly share geographic data with others over the Internet. GeoServer is a freely distributed, open source project, developed by a network of volunteer and non-profit programmers. GeoServer currently supports the 1.0 version of the OpenGIS Consortium's Web Feature Server specification and plans on supporting the upcoming Web Coverage Server specification as well. Currently an alpha product, GeoServer will transition to a 1.0 release by the end of February, 2002. http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/ License: BSD License http://www.freegis.org/details.en.html?name=Free+Feature+Server Cheers Felipe. From acuster at nature.berkeley.edu Wed Jan 23 21:21:49 2002 From: acuster at nature.berkeley.edu (Adrian Custer) Date: 23 Jan 2002 12:21:49 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] GPC- a polygon intersection library fwd from postgis-list) Message-ID: <1011817309.13646.16.camel@tsetse.lab-net> Hey all, A quick search did not pull this up on the web site. So there's a non-free but semi free software: 1) main gpc site: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/ 2) gpc documentation: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/gpc.html 3) MAVERIK ( a virtual reality system) This may be too far from the core GIS needs but any future gis is going to need some visulaization system http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/maverik/index.htm useful info even if it's not yet gpl, adrian -----Forwarded Message----- From: simon mercier To: postgis Subject: [postgis] polygon intersection function Date: 23 Jan 2002 14:59:11 -0500 hi I need a function that give area from intersection of polygon geometry in Postgres. From previous comment of Dave B., we see that polygon overlay function is style in the TODO list... :( Is there someone already work on this type of function? I find in mapserver list archive(from Stephen Lime) a C library to do this function. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/gpc.html Is there other library to do this or anything else to help me? -- Simon Mercier Direction des technologies de l'information La Financi?re agricole du Qu?bec 5825, rue Saint-Georges L?vis, Qu?bec,Canada G6V 4L2 http://www.financiereagricole.qc.ca/ From benenet at free.fr Fri Jan 25 18:45:04 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:45:04 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap copyright Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> Hello, I am finishing a project with some vmap0 data, and I'm begining to have an awfull doubt : are these data really free of copyright ? I have downloaded the file V0eur at the adress : http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data/ I have made two type of operations on this data : * extraction of specific areas (covering several countries), * modification of both vector and attributes files. From that point, I used to consider that these database could be considered as my own one, and I planned to resell it an a web site. But when I read the two sources here : http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-January/000232.html and http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/faq/ques1.html I am becoming really doubtfull... Can anybody give me his opinion on this pb, or do you know a place where I could have the information for sure ?... Best regards, Ben. From acuster at nature.berkeley.edu Fri Jan 25 20:03:17 2002 From: acuster at nature.berkeley.edu (Adrian Custer) Date: 25 Jan 2002 11:03:17 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap copyright In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <1011985397.16557.7.camel@tsetse.lab-net> You are all right, free and clear, By and large data produced by the us government has to be released into the public domain. Once released tough, organizations can take it and copyright their version of the data. You in this case could decide to copyright the data modifications you have made. ESRI was contracted by the us government to process Vmap data into a coherent whole. They, perhaps illegally, have copyrighted their modifications. Since the maproom at U Penn used the ESRI data as a basis, it restricts you freedom due to ESRI's policies. If you do not use their data as a source, they have no claim to your work. As long as you start with the miltary data, you are clear and free of any restrictions of what you can do with the data. The email you cite is correct to my best understanding. cheers, adrian On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 09:45, Benoit V?ler wrote: > Hello, > > I am finishing a project with some vmap0 data, and I'm begining to > have an awfull doubt : are these data really free of copyright ? > I have downloaded the file V0eur at the adress : > > http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data/ > > I have made two type of operations on this data : > > * extraction of specific areas (covering several countries), > * modification of both vector and attributes files. > > From that point, I used to consider that these database could be > considered as my own one, and I planned to resell it an a web site. > But when I read the two sources here : > > http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-January/000232.html > > and > > http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/faq/ques1.html > > I am becoming really doubtfull... Can anybody give me his opinion > on this pb, or do you know a place where I could have the information for > sure ?... > > Best regards, > > Ben. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From benenet at free.fr Fri Jan 25 20:45:17 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:45:17 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap copyright In-Reply-To: <1011985397.16557.7.camel@tsetse.lab-net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125203925.02492fa8@pop.free.fr> All right, I might trust you, but anyway I' would appreciate other opinion, if there are some. The point is important to study, I should think... ;-) Thanks, Ben. At 11:03 25/01/2002 -0800, Adrian Custer wrote: >You are all right, free and clear, > >By and large data produced by the us government has to be released into >the public domain. Once released tough, organizations can take it and >copyright their version of the data. You in this case could decide to >copyright the data modifications you have made. > >ESRI was contracted by the us government to process Vmap data into a >coherent whole. They, perhaps illegally, have copyrighted their >modifications. Since the maproom at U Penn used the ESRI data as a >basis, it restricts you freedom due to ESRI's policies. If you do not >use their data as a source, they have no claim to your work. > >As long as you start with the miltary data, you are clear and free of >any restrictions of what you can do with the data. > >The email you cite is correct to my best understanding. > >cheers, >adrian > > >On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 09:45, Benoit V?ler wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am finishing a project with some vmap0 data, and I'm > begining to > > have an awfull doubt : are these data really free of copyright ? > > I have downloaded the file V0eur at the adress : > > > > http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data/ > > > > I have made two type of operations on this data : > > > > * extraction of specific areas (covering several countries), > > * modification of both vector and attributes files. > > > > From that point, I used to consider that these database could be > > considered as my own one, and I planned to resell it an a web site. > > But when I read the two sources here : > > > > > http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-January/000232.html > > > > and > > > > http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/faq/ques1.html > > > > I am becoming really doubtfull... Can anybody give me his opinion > > on this pb, or do you know a place where I could have the information for > > sure ?... > > > > Best regards, > > > > Ben. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freegis-list mailing list > > Freegis-list at intevation.de > > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Freegis-list mailing list >Freegis-list at intevation.de >https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From alex.weidauer at huckfinn.de Sun Jan 27 23:13:17 2002 From: alex.weidauer at huckfinn.de (Alexander Weidauer) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:13:17 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: Triangulation DLL and Delphi Core API to it Message-ID: Hi Folks, I want to announce the FREE port of the UNIX application TRIANGLE written by Jonathan Richard Shewchuk for DELPHI use under Window NT. The application is used to create a two-dimensional mesh triangulaytion in Delaunay terms. It supports Delaunay triangulation, constraint polygon triangulation and the creation of Voronoi-diagrams. The Program was modfied to use interfaces for Delphi 4/5 under Windows NT 4.0. To be opportune with the compiler family, the code was adapted to use the free Borland C++ Compiler BCC 5.5. The result is a dynamic liked library with a DELPHI core API. The code is very volatile and it is the start for programming a secure encapsulation of the API as a component. If you are interested see http://www.weidauer.huckfinn.de/triapi_eng.html Bye Alex From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Jan 28 17:02:51 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:02:51 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: Triangulation DLL and Delphi Core API to it In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020128160251.GG16846@intevation.de> On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:13:17PM +0100, Alexander Weidauer wrote: > I want to announce the FREE port of the UNIX application TRIANGLE > written by Jonathan Richard Shewchuk > for DELPHI use under Window NT. From the copyright note that I found, it is not Free Software. It lacks freedom to copy, modify and use it in a commercial setting. http://www.weidauer.huckfinn.de/triapi_eng.html#l2 This program may be freely redistributed under the condition that the copyright notices (including this entire header and the copyright notice printed when the `-h' switch is selected) are not removed, and no compensation is received. Private, research, and institutional use is free. You may distribute modified versions of this code UNDER THE CONDITION THAT THIS CODE AND ANY MODIFICATIONS MADE TO IT IN THE SAME FILE REMAIN UNDER COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR, BOTH SOURCE AND OBJECT CODE ARE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE WITHOUT CHARGE, AND CLEAR NOTICE IS GIVEN OF THE MODIFICATIONS. Distribution of this code as part of a commercial system is permissible ONLY BY DIRECT ARRANGEMENT WITH THE AUTHORS. 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/20020128/afc4f873/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Mon Jan 28 17:20:25 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:20:25 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020128162025.GB18431@intevation.de> Hi Bj?rn, On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Bj?rn Roald wrote: > Anybody have any pointers to existing "free" code supporting the vector > format known as VPF (or VRF when as part of the DIGEST standard). This is > the vector format used in the Digital Chart of the World (DCW) and various > other NIMA products, as well as products from other sources. > > I am aware of NIMAMUSE, have used it for years. I am also aware that NIMA > has discontinued its support for this "open source" application. Are any of > you aware of any attempt to get NIMAMUSE sources releasable to GPL/LGPL? > > My goal is not simply a viewer or import/export filter. My intention is > tools enabling production of full topology vector coverages in VPF. Any > ideas or pointers are welcome. a sound vpf viewer as Free Software would be great. Currently there is only vhclmaps which is quite outdated and afaik, OpenMap (Java) which handle vpf. Links to these and perhaps some more at www.freegis.org. I am crossposing this to the FreeGIS mailing list, perhaps some people are also interested in the development of a GPL/LGPL vpf viewer. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Tue Jan 29 15:27:24 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:27:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS CD updates Message-ID: <20020129142724.GA27478@intevation.de> Dear all, an updated version 1.1.1 of the FreeGIS CD has been prepared. This release fixes a corrupt file in the package GLOBE_d10g. You can also download the new GLOBE_d10g-1.0-2.noarch.rpm at ftp://ftp.intevation.de/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/updates/ We apologizes for this. Even the md5-check of rpm was not able to identify the error. In the same download directory you will find updated rpms for PROJ, gen2shp, mapserver and shapelib. These are the first new packages leading to FreeGIS CD 1.2. They are * entirely untested! * build with RPM 4 (and thus incompatible with RPM 3 which was used for FreeGIS CD 1.1) * build on a RedHat 7.1 * signed (key 2D813E8C which is uploaded to pgp keyservers - for those who know about it) * relocatable (use at least rpm 4.0.3 for relocation) All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From egm2 at jps.net Tue Jan 29 03:38:23 2002 From: egm2 at jps.net (Eric G.Miller) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:38:23 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary In-Reply-To: <20020128162025.GB18431@intevation.de> References: <20020128162025.GB18431@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20020128183823.13dac188.egm2@jps.net> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:20:25 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > Hi Bj?rn, > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Bj?rn Roald wrote: > > Anybody have any pointers to existing "free" code supporting the vector > > format known as VPF (or VRF when as part of the DIGEST standard). This is > > the vector format used in the Digital Chart of the World (DCW) and various > > other NIMA products, as well as products from other sources. > > > > I am aware of NIMAMUSE, have used it for years. I am also aware that NIMA > > has discontinued its support for this "open source" application. Are any of > > you aware of any attempt to get NIMAMUSE sources releasable to GPL/LGPL? > > > > My goal is not simply a viewer or import/export filter. My intention is > > tools enabling production of full topology vector coverages in VPF. Any > > ideas or pointers are welcome. > > a sound vpf viewer as Free Software would be great. > Currently there is only vhclmaps which is quite outdated > and afaik, OpenMap (Java) which handle vpf. > Links to these and perhaps some more at www.freegis.org. > > I am crossposing this to the FreeGIS mailing list, perhaps > some people are also interested in the development of a GPL/LGPL > vpf viewer. I would be interested in such a project. I've read through the VPF spec, skimmed through the NIMAMUSE code (outdated), and familiarized myself somewhat with the database structure. I've played around a little with writing basic table reader code, but haven't written anything substantial at this point. I like the data model pretty well, and would be interested in tools to read/write/build/validate such databases. -- Eric G. Miller From bernhard at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 09:35:23 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:35:23 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary In-Reply-To: References: <20020128183823.13dac188.egm2@jps.net> Message-ID: <20020130083523.GC2889@intevation.de> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:37:55PM +0100, Bj?rn Roald wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:20:25 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner > > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Bj?rn Roald wrote: > > > > Anybody have any pointers to existing "free" code supporting > > > > the vector format known as VPF (or VRF when as part of the > > > > DIGEST standard). > > > Currently there is only vhclmaps which is quite outdated > > > and afaik, OpenMap (Java) which handle vpf. > > > Links to these and perhaps some more at www.freegis.org. > > > > > > I am crossposing this to the FreeGIS mailing list, perhaps > > > some people are also interested in the development of a GPL/LGPL > > > vpf viewer. Note that any serious Free Software work should evaluate how good the code for VPF in OpenMap and vhclmaps is. OpenMap probably is closest to become a VPF viewer. > Anybody have any thoughts of how this can tie into or interact with the new > GRASS vector format? First you have to check out and test the new code in the grass51 tree. I assume that you know how to write into the new vector format after that. :) 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/20020130/f1228e21/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 11:41:42 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:41:42 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap copyright In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125203925.02492fa8@pop.free.fr> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> <5.1.0.14.1.20020125183602.00bb7de8@pop.free.fr> <5.1.0.14.1.20020125203925.02492fa8@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <20020130104142.GA4531@intevation.de> Hi Benoit, On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:45:17PM +0100, Benoit V?ler wrote: > All right, I might trust you, but anyway I' would appreciate other > opinion, if there are some. The point is important to study, I should > think... ;-) I recommend not to use the ESRI DCW data, because they are outdated. This might be less visible for the area of US, but for Europe it definitly is. ESRIs copyrighting of the data was a legal act. The US Public Domain status allows this. The freedom of the VMAPL0 data is not 100% satisfactory clearified. However, none of the nations other than US contributing to the datasets is in a situation where they want or even can sue the free use of the data. The data have become a good that is used, sold, modified etc. in many ways worldwide. Your are therefore safe to use, modify, sell the VMAPL0 data. (I would prefer to have the improvements protected by the GPL, of course :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 14:32:54 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:32:54 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] German article on FreeGIS in GeoBIT Message-ID: <20020130133254.GA6542@intevation.de> Hi, just to let you know that FreeGIS gains more and more visibility :-) Issue 1/2002 of the german GIS magazine GeoBIT contains a 2-page article about the FreeGIS project. In this article I explained the ideas of Free Software, the FreeGIS Project and put a special emphasize on Free Software business concepts. As examples for interesting Free GIS Software I listed MapServer and GRASS. Sorry, I know that there is so much more, but you can't sell so much on two pages :-( Unfortuntely, the article is not online (yet). Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 16:12:17 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:12:17 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS talks in February Message-ID: <20020130151217.GC7440@intevation.de> Hi, some more visibility :-) In February, two talks on FreeGIS are given at conferences: Feb. 4th: Frank Koormann at the GISnet, Offenbach, Germany. Frank and myself will be present there the whole conference from 4-6-Feb. http://www.iir-germany.com/gisnet/ Feb. 16th: Bernhard Reiter at the FoSDEM, Brussels, Belgium. Bernhard will be there on both days (16th & 17th). http://www.fosdem.org/ Please get in contact with us if would like to meet one of us in real life. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bjroald at online.no Tue Jan 29 18:37:55 2002 From: bjroald at online.no (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Roald?=) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:37:55 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] RE: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary In-Reply-To: <20020128183823.13dac188.egm2@jps.net> Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: grass5-admin at grass.itc.it [mailto:grass5-admin at grass.itc.it]On > Behalf Of Eric G. Miller > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:38 AM > To: grass5 at grass.itc.it > Cc: freegis-list at intevation.de > Subject: Re: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary > > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:20:25 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner > wrote: > > > Hi Bj?rn, > > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Bj?rn Roald wrote: > > > Anybody have any pointers to existing "free" code supporting > the vector > > > format known as VPF (or VRF when as part of the DIGEST > standard). This is > > > the vector format used in the Digital Chart of the World > (DCW) and various > > > other NIMA products, as well as products from other sources. > > > > > > I am aware of NIMAMUSE, have used it for years. I am also > aware that NIMA > > > has discontinued its support for this "open source" > application. Are any of > > > you aware of any attempt to get NIMAMUSE sources releasable > to GPL/LGPL? > > > > > > My goal is not simply a viewer or import/export filter. My > intention is > > > tools enabling production of full topology vector coverages > in VPF. Any > > > ideas or pointers are welcome. > > > > a sound vpf viewer as Free Software would be great. > > Currently there is only vhclmaps which is quite outdated > > and afaik, OpenMap (Java) which handle vpf. > > Links to these and perhaps some more at www.freegis.org. > > > > I am crossposing this to the FreeGIS mailing list, perhaps > > some people are also interested in the development of a GPL/LGPL > > vpf viewer. > > I would be interested in such a project. I've read through the > VPF spec, skimmed through the NIMAMUSE code (outdated), and familiarized > myself somewhat with the database structure. I've played around a > little with writing basic table reader code, but haven't written > anything substantial at this point. I did the same thing 7-8 years ago. Never got into any serious work. I kind of assumed something would show up with time, but it seems like all that have been substantial are proprietary solutions. > > I like the data model pretty well, and would be interested in tools to > read/write/build/validate such databases. This is along the lines of what I am thinking about, seems like we might want to join forces. I would like to get the overall goal of the project written down, as well as the scope of the initial effort, then post it. Then we could see if there is any response to it. If anybody have opinions or input to such a document, please post it or reply to me personally. I would also like to use some time to evaluate various available resources. My feeling is that a lot of available sources are based on the vpfview, vpflib or vpfimport sources. I do not know at this point if that is a source base that can evolve into what I want, or if a general redesign/re-write is needed. Programming language will probably be C or C++. If C++ is selected, we might want to support a C API as well. Anybody have any thoughts of how this can tie into or interact with the new GRASS vector format? PostgreSQL could also be an important technology used in the project. The data could be managed in the database and loaded to and from the VPF database. Bjorn From bs at pcnet.ro Wed Jan 30 19:25:03 2002 From: bs at pcnet.ro (Bogdan SUSALA) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:25:03 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] RE: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary References: Message-ID: <008d01c1a9bb$74bb6060$0d01a8c0@bs> Hi there I'm quite new to GIS. I am coming from the design/graphics field, working for some clients digitising maps. However, I'm very very interested in maps technologies. Seems that something is coming to put up efforts to make some sound platform using a common database of information for each of us for common usage. I have humble experience in programming, but if you think this project could be summed up in an application, I'm eager to offer my services for a nice and ergonomic interface design. My past projects were made in Java. Best regards, Bogdan Susala From jan at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 19:15:10 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:15:10 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeFS merged with GeoServer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020130181510.GA9362@intevation.de> thanks for the hint. I have updated FreeGIS. Please note, that the license is (now?) GPL, not BSD. Jan On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:25:22PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote: > FYI: FreeFS merged with GeoServer > > The Free Feature Server project has merged with GeoServer to form the > GeoServer project. The GeoServer project provides agencies and > individuals who want to share geographic data with a robust, > standards compliant, low cost path to seamlessly share geographic > data with others over the Internet. GeoServer is a freely > distributed, open source project, developed by a network of volunteer > and non-profit programmers. > > GeoServer currently supports the 1.0 version of the OpenGIS > Consortium's Web Feature Server specification and plans on supporting > the upcoming Web Coverage Server specification as well. Currently an > alpha product, GeoServer will transition to a 1.0 release by the end > of February, 2002. > > http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/ > > License: BSD License > > http://www.freegis.org/details.en.html?name=Free+Feature+Server > > > Cheers > Felipe. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Wed Jan 30 19:20:15 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:20:15 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GPC- a polygon intersection library fwd from postgis-list) In-Reply-To: <1011817309.13646.16.camel@tsetse.lab-net> References: <1011817309.13646.16.camel@tsetse.lab-net> Message-ID: <20020130182015.GB9362@intevation.de> Hi, On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:21:49PM -0800, Adrian Custer wrote: > A quick search did not pull this up on the web site. > So there's a non-free but semi free software: > 1) main gpc site: > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/ > 2) gpc documentation: > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/gpc.html > > 3) MAVERIK ( a virtual reality system) This may be too far from the core > GIS needs but any future gis is going to need some visulaization system > http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/maverik/index.htm > > useful info even if it's not yet gpl, it is not even free software. Unfortuntately. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From benenet at free.fr Thu Jan 31 08:58:05 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:58:05 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap0 copyright Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131084729.00b9a0d0@pop.free.fr> Hello to all, and thanks very much for your replies to my question about vmap0 and dcw copyrights. To resume these replies, it appears that actually only Vmap0 is free of copyright, DCW being copyrighted by Esri. The only drawback is that a part of Vmap0 is also copyrighted by Esri, the boundaries layers (and particularly the regional boundaries layers). See the text below, which is contained inside the readme1 file that you can find inside the v0eur repertory. I have found two other sources for free world data : http://www.iscgm.org (for non profit organizations) http://www.intramap.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html (I haven't checked, but according to the adress, it should be quite interesting). Thanks for all, Ben. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ESRI DATA LICENSE AGREEMENT This ESRI Data License Agreement (referred to here after as the "Agreement") is between you (the "Licensee") and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. ("ESRI"), a corporation, with its principal place of business at 380 New York Street, Redlands, California, 92373- 8100, United States of America. APPLICABILITY This Agreement ONLY applies to those data in Vmap Level 0 edition 5.0 supplied by ESRI. Certain features in the Boundaries Coverage and the Reference Library contain intellectual property of ESRI and its licensors. 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From benenet at free.fr Thu Jan 31 09:05:58 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:05:58 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] mapdata Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131090258.00b98e60@pop.free.fr> hello, >http://www.intramap.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html sorry, after checking, this adress is only an "action" to free map data. Nothing else... cheers, Benoit. From jan at intevation.de Thu Jan 31 10:18:25 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:18:25 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap0 copyright In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131084729.00b9a0d0@pop.free.fr> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131084729.00b9a0d0@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <20020131091825.GA14251@intevation.de> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:58:05AM +0100, Benoit V?ler wrote: > I have found two other sources for free world data : > > http://www.iscgm.org (for non profit organizations) the use of these is quite restricted. Ironically the fact that nowadays (due to reduced governmental education expenses) universities are forced to have commercial interests in most of their projects. I suspect that the numbers of *real* non-commercial users of such data is very limited. Most users probably can be sued. There is another world-wide dataset offering good quality coastlines, GSHHS: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Thu Jan 31 14:41:32 2002 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:41:32 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap0 copyright In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131084729.00b9a0d0@pop.free.fr> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131084729.00b9a0d0@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <15449.18828.823000.648557@intl-interfaces.com> Based on this, it would seem to me that if you keep the ESRI data separate and give it away, that's non-commercial use and you're ok. Allan On Thursday 2002-01-31 at 08:58:05(+0100) Benoit V?ler wrote: > Hello to all, > > and thanks very much for your replies to my question about vmap0 > and dcw copyrights. 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