From fnievinski at terra.com.br Fri Mar 1 15:57:13 2002 From: fnievinski at terra.com.br (Felipe Nievinski) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:57:13 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] seagis Message-ID: FYI SEAGIS http://seagis.sourceforge.net/ SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS? Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS? Grid Coverages Implementation Specification. The current SEAGIS library supports Cylindrical Mercator, Transverse Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conical and Stereographic projections. Because the API closely matches OpenGIS specifications, developers can switch between this free implementation and any commercial implementation with no code change (providing that commercial implementations are OpenGIS compliant). The learning barrier is also lowered because the API matches a standard one. A second SEAGIS's goal is to ensure interoperability with standard Java packages like Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging. SEAGIS extends existing Java classes like Format for parsing and formatting angles, and ImageReader for reading ASCII and binary files. License: LGPL Help wanted This project is in an early stage. API may change and some design decision may be revised in future versions until we reach a stable release. We welcome comments about current design and suggestions for improvement. If you are working on a similar project, we specially welcome discussion about how we could merge efforts. A technical discussion is underway in the mailing list. If you are interested, please take a look to the archives and join to the discussion! The discussion has a good foundation, since there is already an existing SEAGIS implementation. This is good time to make your point and maybe change some design decisions before we freeze the API. Link here. Note: As of December 2001, CVS statistics are broken of SourceForge for more than one month. Statistics show 0 commit, while works on SEAGIS had been done. From fnievinski at terra.com.br Fri Mar 1 21:05:57 2002 From: fnievinski at terra.com.br (Felipe Nievinski) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:05:57 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] OSS Funding Message-ID: Hi On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:45:13AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote: (...) > I thought I should share this with others on the list, because we > need all need as much help as we can get to keep up with the ESRIs > and Oracles of the world. Thank you Paul for your post. > I am sure other people have info on > their respective countries too. Last wednesday (Feb 27) our State Research Foundation (FAPERGS) launched a research grant to support the development of free software. The projects funded by this grant shall release source code under the GNU General Public License and non-software content under the Open Content License. GIS is one of the five application areas which will be prioritized. I'm lobbying with my professors to apply for this grant. Fortunately the government here in the southermost state of Brazil has a strong commitment to free software. Next May we'll have a forum on Free Software. Peter Saulus, John Maddog, Miguel de Icaza and Larry Wall, among others, will be here for a three days event. You can access http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/ for more info (only in Portuguese, sorry). Some weeks ago I found a paper wrote by Bob Chassell, titled "Making a Living with Free Software". I believe it is much related with Paul's message, especially the explanation on how free software lead to collaboration: http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/english/FSM/ISSUE01/MakingLiving.pdf Felipe N. From benenet at free.fr Sat Mar 2 11:22:52 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 11:22:52 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] OSS Funding In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020302111358.00be0200@pop.free.fr> Hello, >Last wednesday (Feb 27) our State Research Foundation (FAPERGS) >launched a research grant to support the development of free software. it could be interesting if the european communauty could make such a thing here. I believe that there are quite a lot of bits of software everywhere in european universities, it might be worth to make one good public software with that for everybody. Unfortunately, EC seems to take the opposite way, as it plans to legalise software patents : http://www.eurolinux.org/ regards, Ben. From bernhard at intevation.de Sat Mar 2 17:04:48 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:04:48 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] seagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020302160448.GE25177@intevation.de> Thanks for sending the note. I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry. Please let us know if you publish further version and if you feel the description should be improved in some ways. You (and everybody) can also mail these more technical bit about maintaining freegis to the new team at freegis.org list. I'Ve looked around on the seagis pages and I think that keeping a changelog would benefit people who track the seagis project loosely. Additionally the relations to other Free Software projects would benfit the readers, like a link to freegis.org and explaination of the differences and commons to other Free Software doing related things like PROJ. Bernhard On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:57:13PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote: > http://seagis.sourceforge.net/ > > SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS? > Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS? Grid > Coverages Implementation Specification. > License: LGPL > Help wanted -- 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/20020302/1944df89/attachment.bin From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Sat Mar 2 21:41:04 2002 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:41:04 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] seagis In-Reply-To: <20020302160448.GE25177@intevation.de> References: <20020302160448.GE25177@intevation.de> Message-ID: <15489.14560.844000.883054@intl-interfaces.com> On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Thanks for sending the note. > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry. This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL, maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each project? Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. Short and simple, but makes everyone's life easier. Then Bernhard and his FreeGIS site people could just pick up the new version numbers automatically. Freshmeat may have something like this. I'll try to take a look next time I have a minute. If someone beats me to it, I won't be upset :) Allan > Please let us know if you publish further version and > if you feel the description should be improved in some ways. > You (and everybody) can also mail these more technical > bit about maintaining freegis to the new team at freegis.org list. > > I'Ve looked around on the seagis pages and I think that keeping a changelog > would benefit people who track the seagis project loosely. > Additionally the relations to other Free Software projects > would benfit the readers, like a link to freegis.org and > explaination of the differences and commons to other Free Software > doing related things like PROJ. > > Bernhard > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:57:13PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote: > > http://seagis.sourceforge.net/ > > > > SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS? > > Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS? Grid > > Coverages Implementation Specification. > > > License: LGPL > > > Help wanted > > -- > 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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com From WHarms at bfs.de Sun Mar 3 11:38:49 2002 From: WHarms at bfs.de (WHarms@bfs.de) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:38:49 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] seagis Message-ID: there a different solutions depending who deep you like to go. At one end there is *.lsm (convention with ibiblio.org) basicly a readme that tell you about the maintainer etc. The other end of the spectra is CVS (and friends) that allows you to get snapshots and individual files etc from a common server. Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess the *lsm is ok. Or should he place a link to your CVS-server (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :) walter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Allan Doyle Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] seagis Date: 03/02/02 21:41 On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Thanks for sending the note. > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry. This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL, maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each project? Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. Short and simple, but makes everyone's life easier. Then Bernhard and his FreeGIS site people could just pick up the new version numbers automatically. Freshmeat may have something like this. I'll try to take a look next time I have a minute. If someone beats me to it, I won't be upset :) Allan > Please let us know if you publish further version and > if you feel the description should be improved in some ways. > You (and everybody) can also mail these more technical > bit about maintaining freegis to the new team at freegis.org list. > > I'Ve looked around on the seagis pages and I think that keeping a changelog > would benefit people who track the seagis project loosely. > Additionally the relations to other Free Software projects > would benfit the readers, like a link to freegis.org and > explaination of the differences and commons to other Free Software > doing related things like PROJ. > > Bernhard > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:57:13PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote: > > http://seagis.sourceforge.net/ > > > > SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS? > > Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS? Grid > > Coverages Implementation Specification. > > > License: LGPL > > > Help wanted > > -- > 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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From satyakam.pandit at patni.com Mon Mar 4 10:02:48 2002 From: satyakam.pandit at patni.com (Satya) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:32:48 +0530 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS ASC Message-ID: Hi, www.cardcorp.com sells a product called "Cadcorp SIS" - Spatial Information System. They also sell an ASC (Active Server Component) which allows the user to embed spatial data and GIS functionality into standard Internet Browsers. It is a 32-bit COM Server side application,which allows a programmer to create tools, useable in Internet Browsers, to perform GIS functions such as ?Zoom In?, ?Select a record?, ?show the nearest? and so on. This product is very costly ....around 5000 UK pounds per server installation !!! Are there any free components like cardcorp.com's SiS-ASC that I can use in my ASP code ? Or perhaps a cheaper one. I would appreciate any help on the same. thanks, Satya. From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Mar 4 11:47:32 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:47:32 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS ASC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020304104732.GM19109@intevation.de> Please note that this mailing list is about software coming with enough freedom attached to use, modify and redistribute the software. It is not about cheap licenses. There are many components on FreeGIS, which will help you to implement similiar functionality. Check the web-mapping entries as freegis.org: http://freegis.org/browse.en.html?category=app&app=web_mapping AFAIK there is no COM-Server for this as Free Software, but you probably can easily implement one on top of several tools depening on what you actually want to do. Bernhard On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:32:48PM +0530, Satya wrote: >sells a product called "Cadcorp SIS" - Spatial Information System. > They also sell an ASC (Active Server Component) which allows the > user to embed spatial data and GIS functionality into standard > Internet Browsers. > It is a 32-bit COM Server side application,which allows a > programmer to create tools, useable in Internet Browsers, to > perform GIS functions such as ???Zoom In???, ???Select a > record???, ???show the nearest??? and so on. > This product is very costly ....around 5000 UK pounds per server installation !!! > > Are there any free components like cardcorp.com's SiS-ASC > that I can use in my ASP code ? > Or perhaps a cheaper one. -- 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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Some hints are in the Software-Release-HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/communication.html#ANNOUNCE We hope that Free Software projects dealing with GIS find FreeGIS a special interest group of high value and announce major versions with NEWS to the freegis-list@ directly or minors version releases to team at freegis.org. This would help us with maintenance. Bernhard On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:38:49AM +0100, Walter Harms wrote: > there a different solutions depending who deep you like to go. At one end > there is *.lsm (convention with ibiblio.org) > The other end of the spectra is CVS (and friends) that allows you to get > snapshots and individual files etc from a common server. > > Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess > the *lsm is ok. Or should he place a link to your CVS-server > (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :) > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > From: Allan Doyle > Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] seagis > Date: 03/02/02 21:41 > > On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry. > > This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects > that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL, > maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each > project? > > Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. -------------- 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/20020304/7fdc56d0/attachment.bin From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com Mon Mar 4 15:16:04 2002 From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:16:04 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] seagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <15491.33188.829000.736917@intl-interfaces.com> On Sunday 2002-03-03 at 11:38:49(+0100) Walter Harms wrote: > there a different solutions depending who deep you like to go. At one end > there is *.lsm (convention with ibiblio.org) basicly a readme that tell you about the maintainer etc. > The other end of the spectra is CVS (and friends) that allows you to get > snapshots and individual files etc from a common server. > > Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess the *lsm is ok. Or should he place a link to your CVS-server (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :) > It's not so much "what I want", it's "what will make the FreeGIS people's lives easier? If every Free Software project has a URL where an XML file lives, with things like this in it: 0.9 http://myproject.org/ me at myproject.org foo:project ... In other words XML encoded project metadata. Then an automatic harvester could check for updates to this and add them into the FreeGIS database. Or people could send an email to FreeGIS when an update occurs, or better yet, could HTTP POST to a URL on the FreeGIS site that has an update CGI script behind it. freshmeat.net does have a DTD for this kind of thing http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-projects-0.1.dtd They also have a 26 Mbyte file which I did not look at but which must have one entry per project: http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-projects.rdf I suspect sourceforge.net has a similar metadata system, but I didn't find it during a very quick look... They do have something called the "trove" which is the searchable index of projects. People can apparently opt-in to place their projects in the trove. In any case, I don't want to make this seem like a big deal, it was is just an idea to make life easier for people who maintain lists like the FreeGIS list. Allan > walter > > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > From: Allan Doyle > Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] seagis > Date: 03/02/02 21:41 > > On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > Thanks for sending the note. > > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry. > > This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects > that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL, > maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each > project? > > Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. Short and simple, but > makes everyone's life easier. > > Then Bernhard and his FreeGIS site people could just pick up the new > version numbers automatically. > > Freshmeat may have something like this. I'll try to take a look next > time I have a minute. If someone beats me to it, I won't be upset :) > > Allan > > > Please let us know if you publish further version and > > if you feel the description should be improved in some ways. > > You (and everybody) can also mail these more technical > > bit about maintaining freegis to the new team at freegis.org list. > > > > I'Ve looked around on the seagis pages and I think that keeping a changelog > > would benefit people who track the seagis project loosely. > > Additionally the relations to other Free Software projects > > would benfit the readers, like a link to freegis.org and > > explaination of the differences and commons to other Free Software > > doing related things like PROJ. > > > > Bernhard > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:57:13PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote: > > > http://seagis.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS? > > > Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS? Grid > > > Coverages Implementation Specification. > > > > > License: LGPL > > > > > Help wanted > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com > adoyle at intl-interfaces.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Doyle http://www.intl-interfaces.com adoyle at intl-interfaces.com From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Mar 4 15:40:55 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:40:55 +0100 Subject: How to inform FreeGIS (was: [Freegis-list] seagis) In-Reply-To: <15491.33188.829000.736917@intl-interfaces.com> References: <15491.33188.829000.736917@intl-interfaces.com> Message-ID: <20020304144055.GE22724@intevation.de> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:16:04AM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote: > On Sunday 2002-03-03 at 11:38:49(+0100) Walter Harms wrote: > > Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess the *lsm is ok. Or should he place a link to your CVS-server (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :) > It's not so much "what I want", it's "what will make the FreeGIS > people's lives easier? Though started by the founders of Intevation, we want FreeGIS to be a community effort. Thus any help is appreciated. We also try to maintain a high standard on the quality of the information. Thus we check each entry or update manually. > In other words XML encoded project metadata. > > Then an automatic harvester could check for updates to this and add > them into the FreeGIS database. Or people could send an email to > FreeGIS when an update occurs, or better yet, could HTTP POST to a URL > on the FreeGIS site that has an update CGI script behind it. Right now the easiest for us is if the projects write mail to either the full list or the smaller team@ list. Depending on how useful the update information are for the bigger audience. We still have to add the technical capabilities to accept update request in different formats and then moderate them. This is planed for the future but it might take some time. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Fabio Di Pietro From jan at intevation.de Thu Mar 7 13:21:35 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:21:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Oracle Spatial In-Reply-To: <863AECF75D22D4118B1000508BA2456B0D4E7F@vsdexsrv01.bl.ch> References: <863AECF75D22D4118B1000508BA2456B0D4E7F@vsdexsrv01.bl.ch> Message-ID: <20020307122135.GA1272@intevation.de> Hello Fabio, On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:17:53PM +0100, Di Pietro Fabio VSD wrote: > Is there a project or program that read geographic data from Oracle Spatial > and display it throgh a free Internet Mapping Server? MapServer will do the job in principle. Please note that you also can get rid of Oracle Spatial through using PostgreSQL+PostGIS which provides (not yet 100% complete) OpenGIS Simple Features. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pedro at inovagis.org Fri Mar 8 16:49:15 2002 From: pedro at inovagis.org (Pedro Pereira Goncalves) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:49:15 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] SOAP WEB services and WMS tutorial Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020308152603.01ad8c20@pop.si.fct.unl.pt> Hi all Just some updates from the inovaGIS project. I've step up a web page where our developments in SOAP Web Services are released as Open Source. More info at http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/webservices/ (work in progress - GML constructor service is going to be released soon) Web services for testing available at http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/giserverws.htm WMS/GIServer tutorial with Javascript code for clients available at http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/tutorial/tutorial.htm all the best Pedro Pedro ------------------------------------------ Pedro Pereira Goncalves inovaGIS Project - http://www.inovagis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Fri Mar 8 17:27:24 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:27:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SOAP WEB services and WMS tutorial In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020308152603.01ad8c20@pop.si.fct.unl.pt> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20020308152603.01ad8c20@pop.si.fct.unl.pt> Message-ID: <20020308162724.GA1244@intevation.de> Hi, On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:49:15PM +0000, Pedro Pereira Goncalves wrote: > I've step up a web page where our developments in SOAP Web Services are > released as Open Source. > More info at > http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/webservices/ > (work in progress - GML constructor service is going to be released soon) I tried to review the license. However, the link on this page (http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/webservices/license.htm) is defunct. I also found no download option, but this might be due to the fact that it is no Free Software before 25-Mar-2002 (as stated on the web site). Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From alex.weidauer at huckfinn.de Tue Mar 5 21:27:56 2002 From: alex.weidauer at huckfinn.de (Alexander Weidauer) Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 21:27:56 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: polygon based map contouring routine for delphi 5 Message-ID: <3C852A4C.4080107@huckfinn.de> Hi folks, I want to announce a source code free map contouring routine witch delivers polygon strikes for each intersection height. The original contouring routine was published in germany 1987 by Markus Weber Turbopascal ToolsPractical usage of "Turbo Pascal in nature science" and I adopt it in 1990 for general use from the third edition of these book ISBN-3-528-24543-3. The basic idea of the algorithm is the desciption of the movement of an unintelligent mouse in a labyrinth with clockwise spin if the move fails and a counter clock wise spin if the move succeeds for the next exploring direction. Versus the contouring other authors like of Paul. D. Brouke it delivers open or closed polygons (rings) and it is possible to create faces over on height intersection plane. To build a DEM or body of heigth lines the algorithm will take more than height intersections and therefore more computational power. In technical terms of the time the routine was implemented as a direct drawing routine to the, in recent considerations, low resoluted PC DOS screen. I extract the these parts from the routine and try to make it industial hard, to check border conditions, uniqe existence polygons of each height intersected part. it can be found at http://www.triplexware.huckfinn.de/contweber.html The examples are very simple. It is possible to handle height fields as well to classify pixels. The oversampling of the images is not the best solution to prevent range errors but it still works. Have fun Alexander Weidauer From pedro at inovagis.org Fri Mar 8 17:40:00 2002 From: pedro at inovagis.org (Pedro Pereira Goncalves) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:40:00 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] SOAP WEB services and WMS tutorial Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020308163931.01ac0010@mail.inovagis.org> At 17:27 08-03-2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >I tried to review the license. However, the link on this page >(http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/webservices/license.htm) >is defunct. yeap, apparently the upload didn't work You can try it again. >I also found no download option, but this might be due to the fact >that it is no Free Software before 25-Mar-2002 (as stated on the >web site). That's for the GML constructor, the basic types are already released Check where it says Source Code Source Code DELPHI 6 ZIP file with : fBasicTypes.PAS, fBasicTypesFactory.PAS, Reg_BasicTypes.PAS the url is http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/webservices/opensource/GIServerBasicTypes.zip Pedro ------------------------------------------ Pedro Pereira Goncalves inovaGIS Project - http://www.inovagis.org/ From bh at udev.org Mon Mar 11 19:07:27 2002 From: bh at udev.org (Henrion Benjamin) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:07:27 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Cool site: cartome.org Message-ID: <20020311190727.A8883@localhost> I knowned cryptome.org for a long time, but not cartome.org. It's in the same philosophy, great news... BNJ PS: which subsection is good for this website in the freegis hierarchy? From jan at intevation.de Tue Mar 12 11:30:21 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:30:21 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Cool site: cartome.org In-Reply-To: <20020311190727.A8883@localhost> References: <20020311190727.A8883@localhost> Message-ID: <20020312103021.GA5482@intevation.de> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:07:27PM +0100, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > I knowned cryptome.org for a long time, but not cartome.org. It's in the > same philosophy, great news... > > BNJ > > PS: which subsection is good for this website in the freegis hierarchy? thanks for the hint. I added the link to the link collection list. I am aware that FreeGIS needs rework on the resources links. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From dtrillo at dap.es Tue Mar 12 12:13:39 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:13:39 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] MDB Message-ID: I am facing a problem that maybe some one has already solved. I have an Access mdb and i'm looking for a program that, based of a *.mdb, it creates the ERD. I hope someone has an idea of any software ... Thank you very much David From c.toffolutti at libero.it Tue Mar 12 16:05:24 2002 From: c.toffolutti at libero.it (=?utf-8?Q?c.toffolutti@libero.it?=) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:05:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] =?iso-8859-1?Q?WEB_Fund_International?= Message-ID: http://www.webforce.org/conference/ an interesting appointment. particularly interesting for new fields as - to put GIS DB on internet - GIS & RS distance learning courses. P.C.T. From ctoffolutti at netscape.net Wed Mar 13 03:35:51 2002 From: ctoffolutti at netscape.net (Paola Toffolutti) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:35:51 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] old web page request Message-ID: <567EA76B.1C3947B0.4A4F57EB@netscape.net> Hi, excuse me, please, is it possible to receive the advert of the conference held in Bruxelles on the opensource around 17th february 2002? if there's availability of further material as well it would be very nice too. I couldn't find it again in Yr site just few days later. thanks caterina (italy) -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop at Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ From dtrillo at dap.es Wed Mar 13 08:52:49 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:52:49 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SUM: MDB Message-ID: I would like to thank all the person who send me their advice. The solution given bt Setya was to use ERwin 4.0 , only the evaluation version, but, it's ok. The same solution was given also by Janet Jiang (here you have the web page: Hi, David: http://ca.com/channel/mktg/erwinsuite_rk/ ERWin is tool The last solution came through Andrew Hallan: I'm not aware of any free tools that will do this except possibly Microsoft Query which will show you the tables in the database (not an ERD). Microsoft Access (if the database creator set up the relationships between tables). Microsoft Visio will read the table structure and create a graphical display (not a full ERD). You can also create an ODBC data source for that table and write code to extract the table structures. Thank you very much From frank.koormann at intevation.de Wed Mar 13 08:57:02 2002 From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:57:02 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] old web page request In-Reply-To: <567EA76B.1C3947B0.4A4F57EB@netscape.net> References: <567EA76B.1C3947B0.4A4F57EB@netscape.net> Message-ID: <20020313075701.GA942@intevation.de> Caterina, * Paola Toffolutti (ctoffolutti at netscape.net) [020313 03:37]: > Hi, > excuse me, please, is it possible to receive the advert of the > conference held in Bruxelles on the opensource around 17th february > 2002? if there's availability of further material as well it would be > very nice too. > > I couldn't find it again in Yr site just few days later. > thanks > caterina I guess you mean the news message on FOSDEM from the Intevation News. Its now in the archive (http://intevation.de/archive.en.html#f.sdem2002). The FOSDEM page is: http://www.fosdem.org regards, Frank -- Frank Koormann Professional Service around Free Software (http://intevation.net/) FreeGIS Project (http://freegis.org/) From dtrillo at dap.es Wed Mar 13 09:00:13 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:00:13 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Geodatabases Message-ID: Recently, I send a question to this list related to free or with public licence software similar to Map Objects. All responses pointed me out to the same address: the InovaGIS project (www.inovagis.org ). Now I am thinking instead of using Shapefiles, to use Geodatabases. Has some one experienced programming GIS software using geodatabases? Any help will be welcome! David From childress at townsqr.com Thu Mar 14 05:11:30 2002 From: childress at townsqr.com (Carol Childress) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:11:30 -0600 Subject: [Freegis-list] SPRING Message-ID: <004001c1cb0e$5253f860$5ff7a23f@jlg7v01> Hello my name is Carroll and I am new to the GIS world. I was wondering if anyone had an english translation of the Spring tutorial. Saddly , I am severely lacking in foreign language skills. I am trying but not getting anywhere doing it myself. Thank You. From neteler at itc.it Thu Mar 14 09:34:35 2002 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:34:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Second announcement GRASS conference 9/2002 Trento, Italy Message-ID: <20020314093435.B3012@itc.it> Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002 Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002 Second Announcement and Call for Paper The Open source GIS - GRASS users conference will take place in Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002. This conference is the result of the joint effort of many GRASS developers and users all over the world to foster closer relations and provide opportunities for greater interactions among the open GIS and GRASS communities. The aim of the conference is twofold: the exchange of experiences between Open GIS and GRASS users and developers and the possibility for the potential users to access first-hand information and GRASS capability demonstration, especially for users from developing countries. The conference is organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Trento with the help of an Organizing Committee including some of the most prominent GIS/GRASS experts around the world. People from all over the world have already expressed their intention to participate. The conference has received the sponsorship from UNIDO (United Nation Industrial Development Organization) and Local branch of ISF (Ingegneria Senza Frontiere - Ing?nieurs sans Fronti?res - Engineers Without Borders). Conference location is the city of Trento, Italy. Trento is a city of art, of history and represents a crossroads for the contrasting cultures of Italy and northern Europe. Originally a Roman city, Trento became famous for the Council (1545-1563) which gave rise to the counter - Reformation. Among the many faces of Trento, one of the most striking is that of the alpine Renaissance city, which has been restored to its original splendor by recent restorations. On nearby Monte Bondone you can comune with nature against the panorama of the Dolomites, all of which make Trento, capital of the Trentino region, a symbol of international alpine culture. The conference will be held for three days with oral sessions, poster sessions and workshops. The meeting will cover all the aspects of open source GISs, with special focus on GRASS. Authors are encouraged to submit papers covering the following topics before 15 April 2002: Applications Development Education Technology transfer Spatial Data Base Papers outside these areas are welcome too, special attention will be paid to papers involving authors or projects from developing countries. The registration at the conference, the paper submission and the accommodation booking must be done via Internet at the web site http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass Deadlines Paper Submission 15 April 2002 Early registration (until 30 June 2002): 70 euros Late registration (after 30 June 2002): 200 euros B.Benciolini, M.Ciolli, P.Zatelli Local Organizing Committee Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002 E-mail: grass2002 at ing.unitn.it Web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Trento via Mesiano, 77 38100 Trento ITALY From childress at townsqr.com Fri Mar 15 04:00:36 2002 From: childress at townsqr.com (Carol Childress) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:00:36 -0600 Subject: [Freegis-list] Spring again Message-ID: <001801c1cbcd$95244180$dff6a23f@jlg7v01> I tried the help from them they told me they didn't have it done yet. Thanks anyway Carroll From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Mar 15 12:52:35 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:52:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SPRING In-Reply-To: <001801c1cbcd$95244180$dff6a23f@jlg7v01> <004001c1cb0e$5253f860$5ff7a23f@jlg7v01> References: <001801c1cbcd$95244180$dff6a23f@jlg7v01> <004001c1cb0e$5253f860$5ff7a23f@jlg7v01> Message-ID: <20020315115235.GB5407@intevation.de> Last time I've looked Spring was not Free Software. We cannot recommend it for this reason. This list is about Free Software, which gives you the freedom to use, modify, adapt and redistribute the software. Bernhard On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:11:30PM -0600, Carol Childress wrote: > Hello my name is Carroll and I am new to the GIS world. I was wondering if > anyone had an english translation of the Spring tutorial. On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:00:36PM -0600, Carol Childress wrote: > I tried the help from them they told me they didn't have it done yet. -- 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/20020315/1ed7b2f0/attachment.bin From frank at baeumner.de Thu Mar 14 22:19:05 2002 From: frank at baeumner.de (Frank Bäumner) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:19:05 +0100 ((MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit) Subject: [Freegis-list] I am looking for free, high detailed data of Brussels / Belgium Message-ID: <3C9113C9.000003.47707@user10> Architectural presentation of the urban situation for my architectural designs... Hi Freegis-List, I am working on my university thesis now. It is based on an international architectural desig competition for the new NATO HQ in Brussels. I study architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany. I am looking for free, high detailed data of Brussels / Belgium. Here is my wishlist.... Aerial Views (about 1m or better), Digital Orthophotos, Space images, DEM Data, Video Flybys, (maybe there is feature extractect city model out there... :-)) The data will be used for modeling and mapping the surrounding areas of my architectural designs. Are there any web libraries to download such data? Please email any links to frank at baeumner.de or if you could provide me with free data please email (even large attachments) to data at baeumner.de . Warm regards Frank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bernhard On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:11:30PM -0600, Carol Childress wrote: > Hello my name is Carroll and I am new to the GIS world. I was wondering if > anyone had an english translation of the Spring tutorial. On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:00:36PM -0600, Carol Childress wrote: > I tried the help from them they told me they didn't have it done yet. -- 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 From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Mar 18 18:47:05 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:47:05 +0100 Subject: RES: [Freegis-list] SPRING In-Reply-To: <9DA9B69B1AC4634D99AE9389B2375F440EE3E5@MAILSRV1.aquarius.cpqd.com.br> References: <9DA9B69B1AC4634D99AE9389B2375F440EE3E5@MAILSRV1.aquarius.cpqd.com.br> Message-ID: <20020318174705.GE2247@intevation.de> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:18:04PM -0300, Lucas de Melo Melgaco wrote: > I?m completely sure that Spring is a free software. > Any doubt www.dpi.inpe.br/spring. http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/download.html | You are not allowed to modify, to sell or to lend the | software, and you should redistribute the entire program. Thus lacking the essential freedoms to learn from it, modify it, redistribute it with or without charge for the service and your modifications. Check the archives for a similiar discussion about this. Maybe it helps if people would let them know that they prefer software coming with enough freedom. Bernhard > -----Mensagem original----- > De: Bernhard Reiter [mailto:bernhard at intevation.de] > Enviada em: sexta-feira, 15 de mar?o de 2002 8:53 > Para: freegis-list at intevation.de > Assunto: Re: [Freegis-list] SPRING > > > Last time I've looked Spring was not Free Software. > We cannot recommend it for this reason. > > This list is about Free Software, which gives you the freedom to > use, modify, adapt and redistribute the software. -- 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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Here is my > wishlist.... > > Aerial Views (about 1m or better), > Digital Orthophotos, > Space images, > DEM Data, > Video Flybys, > (maybe there is feature extractect city model out there... :-)) > > The data will be used for modeling and mapping the surrounding areas of my > architectural designs. > > Are there any web libraries to download such data? Please email any links to > frank at baeumner.de or if you could provide me with free data please email > (even large attachments) to data at baeumner.de . I am not aware of any detailed free geodata for Brussels. You probably have to buy proprietary products from the usual vendors. In case you stumble across some free geodata, please let me know :-) All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From roland.mayer at crispwireless.com Wed Mar 20 18:37:04 2002 From: roland.mayer at crispwireless.com (Roland Mayer) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:37:04 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] test Message-ID: Sorry, if i bother you, just wanna check out whether i am able to receive posts from the list. Roland Mayer Senior Software Developer Master of Science in Mathematics Crisp Wireless 16W 32nd St PH NY.NY.10001 p 212.904.1850 | f 212.202.7602 | m 646.261.1030 aol im: majorroli www.crispwireless.com "Driving Profit Through Mobile Content" From jan at intevation.de Thu Mar 21 10:14:56 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:14:56 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS at Agit 2002 Message-ID: <20020321091456.GB550@intevation.de> Hi, just to let you know that AGIT 2002 (3-5-Jul-2002, Salzburg, Austria, www.agit.au) has accepted a Workshop on Free GIS Software. It will be held in German (sorry). Of course, I am available to discuss any FreeGIS matter aside of the actual workshop. :-) Details are: FreeGIS Workshop - Freie GIS Software im professionellen Einsatz Workshop F61/ Jan-Oliver WAGNER u. Jens FITZKE Termin Ihres Vortrages: Do., 4.Juli 2002 - Block: 9:30 - 11:00 Uhr Dauer: 90 min. incl. Diskussionszeit - (HS433, 3.Stock) Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pucher at atlas.gis.univie.ac.at Thu Mar 21 10:51:40 2002 From: pucher at atlas.gis.univie.ac.at (Alexander Pucher) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:51:40 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS at Agit 2002 References: <20020321091456.GB550@intevation.de> Message-ID: <3C99AD2C.9020003@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at> The URL is www.agit.at , not .au mfg ALEX Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: >Hi, > >just to let you know that AGIT 2002 >(3-5-Jul-2002, Salzburg, Austria, www.agit.au) >has accepted a Workshop on Free GIS Software. >It will be held in German (sorry). > >Of course, I am available to discuss any FreeGIS matter >aside of the actual workshop. >:-) > >Details are: > >FreeGIS Workshop - Freie GIS Software im professionellen Einsatz > Workshop F61/ Jan-Oliver WAGNER u. Jens FITZKE > >Termin Ihres Vortrages: Do., 4.Juli 2002 - Block: 9:30 - 11:00 Uhr >Dauer: 90 min. incl. Diskussionszeit - (HS433, 3.Stock) > >Best > > Jan > -- ________________________________________________________ Institut fuer Geographie und Regionalforschung Universit?t Wien Kartografie und Geoinformation Departement of Geography and Regional Research University of Vienna Cartography and GIS Universitaetstr. 7, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA Tel: (+43 1) 4277 48644 Fax: (+43 1) 4277 48649 E-mail: pucher at atlas.gis.univie.ac.at FTP: ftp://ftp.gis.univie.ac.at WWW: http://www.gis.univie.ac.at/karto ________________________________________________________ "The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet" --Jennings' Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity From jan at intevation.de Thu Mar 21 17:38:27 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:38:27 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Geodatabases In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020321163827.GA1611@intevation.de> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:00:13AM +0100, David Trillo Montero wrote: > Recently, I send a question to this list related to free or with public licence software similar to Map Objects. All responses pointed me out to the same address: the InovaGIS project (www.inovagis.org ). Now I am thinking instead of using Shapefiles, to use Geodatabases. Has some one experienced programming GIS software using geodatabases? I recommend that you have a look at PostGIS, a OpenGIS SimpleFeature extension for PostgreSQL. We use it for a couple of projects and it is an active project. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Thu Mar 21 21:15:14 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:15:14 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] 150 Packages Message-ID: <20020321201514.GV28293@intevation.de> Dear friends of the FreeGIS-Project, after the first two month of 2002 the FreeGIS website reached the count of 150 entries! This is a reason to celebrate. Who could have known that the FreeGIS project would prove so successful when the team of Intevation initiated it end of 1999? Now this list has over 400 readers, seven revisions of the FreeGIS-CD have been published, (http://freegis.org/FreeGIS-CD-doc-online/1.1.1/changes.en.html) the website is zopified to handle all the entries in a database people can even pay for the service it provides via Kagi (We are especially thankful for the three persons contributing this way (40+10+20 USD) we received since October. It is not much, but it shows us that you care.) FreeGIS has been officially presented in talks world wide and was present in several magazine articles. Its probably okay to say that FreeGIS is the most stable, comprehensive and and therefor leading resource about Geographic Information Systems with Free Software. The people on this list share a lot of the expertise that made this possible. Thanks! 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Has anyone experience with this? mfg ALEX -- ________________________________________________________ Institut fuer Geographie und Regionalforschung Universitaet Wien Kartografie und Geoinformation Departement of Geography and Regional Research University of Vienna Cartography and GIS Universitaetstr. 7, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA Tel: (+43 1) 4277 48644 Fax: (+43 1) 4277 48649 E-mail: pucher at atlas.gis.univie.ac.at FTP: ftp://ftp.gis.univie.ac.at WWW: http://www.gis.univie.ac.at/karto ________________________________________________________ "The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet" --Jennings' Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity From jan at intevation.de Thu Mar 28 18:19:44 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:19:44 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Clearinghouse In-Reply-To: <3CA02075.4070006@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at> References: <3CA02075.4070006@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at> Message-ID: <20020328171944.GA1280@intevation.de> Hi Alexander, On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:17:09AM +0100, Alexander Pucher wrote: > I'm recently planning to set up an geodata clearinghouse using free > software. Right now, all data is stored in an ArcGIS personal > geodatabase. I've searched the web and found some stuff from the FGDC > (mainly the Isite package). the concept of a Clearinghouse does not really require special Clearinghouse software. A set of general tools will do the job quite efficiently as well (clearinghouse packages are more or less nothing else than a collection of some standard tools). To my knowledge noone compiled a Clearinghouse package out of Free Software packages. If you start with a requirements document for you clearinghouse, some recommendations for Free Software applications will be much easier. There are some interesting Free GIS Software tools that Imo can be assembled to set up several flavours of GIS Clearinghouses. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jidanni at yam.com.tw Fri Mar 29 18:56:54 2002 From: jidanni at yam.com.tw (Dan Jacobson) Date: 30 Mar 2002 01:56:54 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis-list, grasslist, gmthelp now available by NNTP In-Reply-To: <20020329110101.DF64713A01@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: It is with a grin on my chin that I can announce that I have persuaded the owners of news2.sinica.edu.tw to host via NNTP, readonly, gis.freegis-list #the list of freegis.org gis.gmtlist #the list of gmt.soest.hawaii.edu gis.grass.grasslist #the list of grass.baylor.edu to accompany all the debian and other free software mailing lists that they have hosted for years. Other mailing lists may be found on tin.le.org NNTP server. Please treasure these services. Problems can be reported to root at news2.sinica.edu.tw, not me. Without NNTP many users cannot read these lists as klunky POP mailboxes and modem pay-by-minute users can't keep up often. By the way, news:sci.geo.cartography is now up. If your usual news server doesn't have it yet, you are welcome to connect to our other main server, news.sinica.edu.tw to read it. Note, all the above are readonly. Posting must be done sending email to the mailing list as before. Good thing grasslist and gmthelp don't require posters be subscribers, so one doesn't need to get his POP box buried just for the privilege of posting... -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 From jan at intevation.de Sun Mar 31 16:54:06 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:54:06 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis-list, grasslist, gmthelp now available by NNTP In-Reply-To: References: <20020329110101.DF64713A01@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20020331145406.GB26990@intevation.de> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:56:54AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Good thing grasslist and gmthelp don't > require posters be subscribers, so one doesn't need to get his POP box > buried just for the privilege of posting... non-members might post to freegis-list, but require approval by list administrator. Otherwise we all get burried by spam. However, the freegis-list management interface allows you to switch off receiving postings and thus enables you to directly send postings without getting any. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jgreid at uow.edu.au Sun Mar 31 18:50:14 2002 From: jgreid at uow.edu.au (John Reid) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 02:50:14 +1000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Clearinghouse References: <3CA02075.4070006@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at> <20020328171944.GA1280@intevation.de> Message-ID: <3CA73E46.7040603@uow.edu.au> Hi Alexander, I'm currently looking at setting up a demo dataset using freely available datasets for my local area, concentrating initially on storage of data catalogues and metadata. I have some idea what software projects (available or under development) might be suitable for implementation of a Clearinghouse. Which ones would be most suitable really depends on what aspects of a clearinghouse you are interested in. Have you had an interest in clearinghouses for a while, or is it a recent development? Just as important (or more !!!) is probably the issue of standards.... Does your geodatabase follow any standard data schemas? I have been concentrating on the ISO draft standards (DIS 19109 - Rules for Application Schema, DIS 19110 - Methodology for Feature Cataloguing, and DIS 19115 - Metadata). Schema for the catalogues shouldn't be too hard to implement with PostGIS. Metadata is going to be a bit more fun..... There are also draft Informix DDL statements for "a relational implementation of the Metadata Standard" (FGDC?) available at http://www.fgdc.gov/clearinghouse/reference/blmsql.html. As a by-product from my experiences with setting up this demo, I was thinking that trying to develop a case study using open source software might make a nice addition for the GSDI cookbook (http://www.gsdi.org/). Just an idea.... Maybe we should take discussion off list and report back. Unless anyone else has a particular interest in this area? cheers, John Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: >Hi Alexander, > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:17:09AM +0100, Alexander Pucher wrote: > >>I'm recently planning to set up an geodata clearinghouse using free >>software. Right now, all data is stored in an ArcGIS personal >>geodatabase. I've searched the web and found some stuff from the FGDC >>(mainly the Isite package). >> > >the concept of a Clearinghouse does not really require special >Clearinghouse software. A set of general tools will do the >job quite efficiently as well (clearinghouse packages are >more or less nothing else than a collection of some standard >tools). > >To my knowledge noone compiled a Clearinghouse package out >of Free Software packages. > >If you start with a requirements document for you clearinghouse, >some recommendations for Free Software applications will be much easier. >There are some interesting Free GIS Software tools that Imo >can be assembled to set up several flavours of GIS Clearinghouses. > >Best > > Jan > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- john reid e-mail jgreid at uow.edu.au uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. more questions! -mentat zensufi apply standard disclaimers as desired... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robhranac at vfny.org Thu Mar 28 19:30:08 2002 From: robhranac at vfny.org (Rob Hranac) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:30:08 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] geoserver beta released Message-ID: <001e01c1d686$988e5130$1400fe0a@matt> Several important announcements regarding the GeoServer Project. For those with no background regarding GeoServer (formerly FreeFS), it is an open source (GPL) implementation of the OpenGIS Consortium's Web Feature Server specification, built on top of PostGIS. If you are interested in experimenting with OpenGIS distributed web services, GeoServer is a good place to start. (1) Beta (0.90) Release Available GeoServer moved out of alpha this week, at long last. By beta we here at the GeoServer project mean: normal humans have a good chance of successfully installing/configuring GeoServer and can have a reasonable expectation of compliance with the 0.0.14 and 0.0.15 versions of the Web Feature Server specification. Furthermore, the code base is now well documented and should be accessible to most Java developers. GeoServer was tested extensively in the OpenGIS Consortium's Open Web Services demonstration project and has successfully communicated with several WFS clients. We encourage both users and developers to download this release, play with it, and tell us about your experiences. Please send all flames and love to: geoserver at vfny.org. You may download the beta here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25086. (2) New GeoServer Site (http://geoserver.sourceforge.net) Although our new site has been around for a while, it was in a relatively unfinished state. It is now a bit more polished, including some additional and updated documentation. If you register at the site, you will automatically be placed on our release announcement list and may participate in site polls and discussions. (3) GeoServer 1.0 Release Timeline Astute readers will note that our previous release timelines were a pack of lies. This was due in part to rapidly changing circumstances in the OpenGIS world, but was mostly due to our own poor judgment. We pledge to do better in the future. To that end, we will now stop claiming to be prepared to release a 1.0 version of GeoServer before a 1.0 version of the specification is approved! Since it is not clear when the specification will be approved, we have no clear GeoServer 1.0 release date, except that it will be after OGC approval of WFS 1.0. We here at the GeoServer project speculate that this will be sometime this summer. Current development priorities, in rough order of importance, include: transactional capabilities, full filter support, and additional back-end data format support. We here at the GeoServer project take our user requests seriously, so if you have a working installation of GeoServer and need a feature to improve your quality of life, let us know. > Rob Hranac > Vision for New York > 377 Broadway > NY, NY 10013 > tel: 212.219.6052 > fax: 212.219.6006 > eml: robhranac at vfny.org > web: www.vfny.org > ******************************************************* You are receiving this email as a result of either: (a) Expressed interest in the Free Feature Server or GeoServer projects at some point -OR- (b) A subscription to one of the specialty mailing lists that we spam with important release announcements. You man cancel your subscription to this low volume list: If you are an individual and wish not to receive these announcements, just let me know here: robhranac at vfny.org. Similarly, if you are an *administrator* of one of the lists we send this to and find this posting irrelevant, let us know and we will stop sending you updates.