From a.gelchu at fisheries.ubc.ca Wed May 1 20:14:14 2002 From: a.gelchu at fisheries.ubc.ca (Ahmed Gelchu) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:14:14 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth Message-ID: <41ED8318D1302947A51DA51A09BA776F315014@fishcntr01.fisheries.ubc.ca> Dear Friends, I need to compute the shortest distance between two points on the surface of the earth. In short, I am looking for a software that could compute distance between two points, given the lat-long coordinates for the two points? any help is appreciated Thanks, Ahmed A. Gelchu The University of British Columbia, Canada From martin.desruisseaux at teledetection.fr Wed May 1 20:55:31 2002 From: martin.desruisseaux at teledetection.fr (Martin Desruisseaux) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 20:55:31 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth References: <41ED8318D1302947A51DA51A09BA776F315014@fishcntr01.fisheries.ubc.ca> Message-ID: <3CD03A23.8010306@teledetection.fr> Hello Ahmed You are looking for "orthodromic distance". You will find code for that in the "orthodromicDistance" method in the attached Java class. Regards, Martin Desruisseaux. Ahmed Gelchu wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I need to compute the shortest distance between two points on the > surface of the earth. In short, I am looking for a software that > could compute distance between two points, given the lat-long > coordinates for the two points? any help is appreciated > > Thanks, > > Ahmed A. Gelchu > The University of British Columbia, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Ellipsoid.java Url: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020501/39e54d1a/Ellipsoid.java From jan at intevation.de Thu May 2 11:16:01 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:16:01 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: FreeGIS-CD 1.2.0 for GNU/Linux-Systems available Message-ID: <20020502091601.GA1086@intevation.de> Dear all, after a long time of testing, finally: FreeGIS-CD 1.2.0 for GNU/Linux-Systems available In its eighth edition (v1.2.0) the FreeGIS-CD continues to bring geographic information procession capabilities to GNU/Linux distributions. Osnabr?ck, Germany, 2nd of May 2002. The Intevation GmbH successfully puts Free Software for spatial data processing on the map with its eighth edition of the FreeGIS-CD, officially available from today. Testing has been done with major GNU/Linux distributions such as RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian to make sure that the prebuild binaries can be installed using the packaging system. The CD contains an up to date selection of GIS applications, libraries and data sets, e.g. GRASS, GMT, MapServer, PROJ and GLOBE. For the first time a digital FreeGIS tutorial in German is included on the CD. Printed copies are available separatly. The textbook explains how to do common GIS task with Free Software. Naturally it has been placed under the GNU Free Documentation License. "It may not always be highly visible, but the Free Software community in the area of GIS is making steady progress to bring full power combined with freedom to its users.", explains Jan-Oliver Wagner, who is in charge for the production of the CD at Intevation, "Thus we included many updated applications to bring you this solid release." The FreeGIS-CD v1.2.0 can be ordered for 30 Euros through Intevation GmbH and ships out of Germany and North America. http://freegis.org/order.en.html -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From dmccoy at cityofsacramento.org Thu May 2 18:25:27 2002 From: dmccoy at cityofsacramento.org (Dan McCoy) Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:25:27 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS Message-ID: Has there been any discussion on whether Mozilla would be a suitable development environment in which to build cross-platform GIS applications? How difficult would it be to create a simple viewer using some of the existing libraries found on the FreeGIS list Thanks, Dan From frost at cnsnet.com Thu May 2 18:33:35 2002 From: frost at cnsnet.com (Eric Frost) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:33:35 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS References: Message-ID: <009401c1f1f7$1f54c5b0$65fea8c0@DELL600301> There's some cool map implementations with SVG.. they can be very functional. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan McCoy" To: Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:25 AM Subject: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS > Has there been any discussion on whether Mozilla would be a suitable development environment in which to build cross-platform GIS applications? How difficult would it be to create a simple viewer using some of the existing libraries found on the FreeGIS list > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From jan at intevation.de Fri May 3 09:19:43 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:19:43 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020503071943.GC418@intevation.de> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:25:27AM -0700, Dan McCoy wrote: > Has there been any discussion on whether Mozilla would be a suitable development environment in which to build cross-platform GIS applications? How difficult would it be to create a simple viewer using some of the existing libraries found on the FreeGIS list mozilla has a major drawback: no code is allowed to be officially part of mozilla if you don't accept a license with low protection of the code freedom (MPL which allows others to make proprietary products out of your contribution). For example, you have to compile mozilla on your own to switch in the SVG-support. The SVG module uses libart which is under LGPL. All this behaves like a brake and the future of mozilla is uncertain and thus I recommend not to consider mozilla. However, Galeon 1.2 has built-in and enabled SVG support. I just tested it on my Debian GNU/Linux with some svg files. It is yet not colored and Galeon is dependent on GNOME, but it is a promising option. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From mcoletti at lychnobite.org Fri May 3 22:15:18 2002 From: mcoletti at lychnobite.org (Mark Coletti) Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 16:15:18 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] galeon SVG support In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 May 2002 12:00:02 +0200." <20020503100002.29486.73428.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> Message-ID: <200205032015.g43KFIN01718@laputa.lychnobite.org> > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:19:43 +0200 > From: Jan-Oliver Wagner > To: freegis-list at intevation.de > Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:25:27AM -0700, Dan McCoy wrote: [...] > However, Galeon 1.2 has built-in and enabled SVG support. I just > tested it on my Debian GNU/Linux with some svg files. It is yet not > colored and Galeon is dependent on GNOME, but it is a promising > option. I surfed to http://www.cadmaps.com/svg-tiger.htm, which contains an SVG file, and was unable to view it. I'm also running galeon 1.2. Can you view that file? Or is it only standalone SVG files that galeon 1.2 can render? Cheers! Mark -- Mark Coletti | mailto:mcoletti at lychnobite.org | http://www.lychnobite.org/ Basic Airline Flying: Keep the pointy end forward. From vranka at seznam.cz Thu May 2 09:10:11 2002 From: vranka at seznam.cz (Pavel Vranka) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:10:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] 3D GIS Message-ID: <002c01c1f398$6f5981c0$d9bf9ed5@n6m7n9> -----P?vodn? zpr?va----- Od: Roderick A. Anderson Komu: freegis-list at intevation.de Datum: 29. dubna 2002 18:33 P?edm?t: [Freegis-list] Virtual Terrain Project - follow up >Thanks to all that replied. It seems I needed to use VTP instead of >vterrain for my search. > >Anyway the important part is I'm aware of it. Really neat idea and >project. > > >Best, >Rod >-- > Why is it so easy to throw caution to the wind. > Shouldn't it be heavier and shaped like an anvil? > > Jon Anderson > > >_______________________________________________ >Freegis-list mailing list >Freegis-list at intevation.de >https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From vranka at seznam.cz Sat May 4 20:57:07 2002 From: vranka at seznam.cz (Pavel Vranka) Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 21:57:07 +0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] 3D GIS Message-ID: <000401c1f39d$8fe43fc0$cc32723e@n6m7n9> I am sorry about the previous message..... :-) Does anybody have any experience with real 3D GIS. I do not think about only surfaces etc. I mean work in space.... (I hope it is clear enough :-) Pavel From jan at intevation.de Sat May 4 23:49:57 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:49:57 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] galeon SVG support In-Reply-To: <200205032015.g43KFIN01718@laputa.lychnobite.org> References: <20020503100002.29486.73428.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> <200205032015.g43KFIN01718@laputa.lychnobite.org> Message-ID: <20020504214957.GB6067@intevation.de> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:15:18PM -0400, Mark Coletti wrote: > I surfed to http://www.cadmaps.com/svg-tiger.htm, which contains an > SVG file, and was unable to view it. I'm also running galeon 1.2. > Can you view that file? Or is it only standalone SVG files that > galeon 1.2 can render? perhaps. I just tried most of the files at http://www.croczilla.com/svg/ and they all worked. Cheers Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pramsey at refractions.net Sun May 5 01:25:12 2002 From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey) Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 16:25:12 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.7 Released Message-ID: <3CD46DD8.56931AB4@refractions.net> PostGIS - http://postgis.refractions.net Refractions Research is pleased to announce the 0.7 release of PostGIS : Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL. PostGIS/PostgreSQL is a spatial database much like ESRI's SDE and Oracle's OracleSpatial. PostGIS is open-source software licenced under the GNU LGPL. PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality: - Simple Features as defined by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) - Support for Well-Known Text and Well-Known Binary representations of GIS objects - Fast spatial indexing using GiST - Geospatial analysis functions - PostgreSQL JDBC extension objects corresponding to the geometries - Support for OGC access functions as defined by the Simple Features Specification - Accessible from UMN Mapserver version 3.5 (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu) Changes in 0.7: - New Things - support for PostgreSQL 7.2 GiST index API - transform() function provides coordinate reprojection using proj4 library - spatial_ref_sys.sql has a complete set of proj4 definitions for each EPSG coordinate system - refactoring of source code to separate index support functions from other functions - max_distance() function - distance_spheroid() function - collect() aggregate function - xmin(),ymin(),zmin(),xmax(),ymax(),zmax() - Bug Fixes - several patches to loader/dumper - transform() more graceful when grid shifts are missing - setsrid() made cachable From bernhard at intevation.de Mon May 6 01:32:02 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 01:32:02 +0200 Subject: SVG for GIS (was: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS) In-Reply-To: <009401c1f1f7$1f54c5b0$65fea8c0@DELL600301> References: <009401c1f1f7$1f54c5b0$65fea8c0@DELL600301> Message-ID: <20020505233202.GA30753@intevation.de> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Eric Frost wrote: > There's some cool map implementations with SVG.. they can be very functional. > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ We have to be careful about wide adoption of SVG, because there might be patent mines in the area: http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.html http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/ They might make it very difficult to implement fully functional Free Software SVG applications. -- 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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What I saw about mozilla's use of jave(?)script makes me think its a big ugly. > How difficult would it be to create a simple > viewer using some of the existing libraries found on the FreeGIS list Probably quite easy. -- 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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Sincerely Bernard LACHAT BIOTEC Biologie appliqu?e SA route de Courroux 17 CH - 2824 VICQUES (Suisse - Switzerland) t?l : +41 32 435 66 66 fax : +41 32 435 56 46 mail : bernard.lachat at biotec.ch url : [ http://biotec.ch/ ] =================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ahmed Gelchu" To: "GIS Discussion (E-mail)" Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth > > Dear Friends, > > I need to compute the shortest distance between two points on the surface of > the earth. In short, I am looking for a software that could compute distance > between two points, given the lat-long coordinates for the two points? any > help is appreciated > > Thanks, > > Ahmed A. Gelchu > The University of British Columbia, Canada > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From tklistaddr at keittlab.bio.sunysb.edu Tue May 7 17:44:56 2002 From: tklistaddr at keittlab.bio.sunysb.edu (Timothy H. Keitt) Date: 07 May 2002 11:44:56 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth In-Reply-To: <001e01c1f590$5e271580$0d01a8c0@BL> References: <41ED8318D1302947A51DA51A09BA776F315014@fishcntr01.fisheries.ubc.ca> <001e01c1f590$5e271580$0d01a8c0@BL> Message-ID: <1020786296.12764.0.camel@keittlab-6> There's also http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gis+faq T. On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 12:05, BIOTEC wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Look at this website (in french but) easy to use. There is a direct > application. > > http://www.fna.asso.fr/fna/cap/cap.htm > > Hoping that can help. > > Sincerely > > Bernard LACHAT > > BIOTEC Biologie appliqu?e SA > route de Courroux 17 > CH - 2824 VICQUES > (Suisse - Switzerland) > > t?l : +41 32 435 66 66 > fax : +41 32 435 56 46 > mail : bernard.lachat at biotec.ch > url : [ http://biotec.ch/ ] > > =================================== > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ahmed Gelchu" > To: "GIS Discussion (E-mail)" > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:14 PM > Subject: [Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth > > > > > > Dear Friends, > > > > I need to compute the shortest distance between two points on the surface > of > > the earth. In short, I am looking for a software that could compute > distance > > between two points, given the lat-long coordinates for the two points? any > > help is appreciated > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ahmed A. Gelchu > > The University of British Columbia, Canada > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 bh at udev.org Wed May 8 12:48:32 2002 From: bh at udev.org (Henrion Benjamin) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:48:32 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] AVPython Message-ID: <20020508124832.A10537@localhost> I know that ArcView is a proprietary software, but if you want to use python with AV, it's maybe now possible: http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ BNJ From erwin at perik.nu Wed May 8 20:27:25 2002 From: erwin at perik.nu (E Perik) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:27:25 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <20020508124832.A10537@localhost> Message-ID: <000001c1f6be$00b0cb10$967ba8c0@xp> Hi All, been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then: * load layer (shapefile) * select item (polygon or point) * edit selected item's attribute-value's At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2.1, which has some very nice examples regarding adding shapes and images to a viewer, but could not find any information regarding Editing-attributes. Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. Did not find out that it can edit attributes (yet). As it needs to be a stand alone application, MapObjects or GeoObjects is very suitable. I have Mapserver + PHP-mapscript set up to do just what I want, but don't want the 'hassle' of setting up a client-server. Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. Found only one, but it's too much hassle for just plain old zooming and some minor editing. The idea is that a layman could use just the zoom-buttons and an edit function. Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of shapes / points / annotations with MapObjects, GeoObjects or any 'tool' or even a full application ? Thanks for any input, Erwin From bernhard at intevation.de Wed May 8 20:52:22 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:52:22 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <000001c1f6be$00b0cb10$967ba8c0@xp> References: <20020508124832.A10537@localhost> <000001c1f6be$00b0cb10$967ba8c0@xp> Message-ID: <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:27:25PM +0200, E Perik wrote: > been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none > suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then: > > * load layer (shapefile) > * select item (polygon or point) > * edit selected item's attribute-value's > > At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2. > Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. Both products are proprietary software. As this list is about Free Software (as in "freedom of speech") you cannot expect us to know software denying us the needed freedom to use, adapt, modify and redistribute it. :) > I have Mapserver + PHP-mapscript set up to do just what I > want, but don't want the 'hassle' of setting up a client-server. Well you can run this on one machine easily somewhat would assume. > Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. I expect that OpenMap can easily be adapted to be a simple shapefile editor. > Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of shapes > / points / annotations > any 'tool' or even a full application ? We expect that Thuban (currently in early 0.1.2 release) will be extented one day to do what you want. 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The problem here is of course the graphics interface for which I have no solution in mind but with these tools it is at least easy to get things into and out from a shapefile - including the attributes. Ari Jolma From erwin at perik.nu Thu May 9 19:45:09 2002 From: erwin at perik.nu (E Perik) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:45:09 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> Message-ID: <001001c1f781$4374bb50$967ba8c0@xp> Hi Bernhard, thanks for the info. Yes, MapObjects and GeoObjects are not free, but I was hoping someone from the list has some experience with those or alike ;-) Frank give me the tip of Thuban some time ago, and I have been following, but as you said, editing attributes will possibly be implemented at a later stage. In general an application like Thuban is was I'm looking for. Easy to understand and to work with. Only thing from my wishlist missing is the editing attributes ;-) Cheers, Erwin -----Original Message----- From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de] On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter Sent: woensdag 8 mei 2002 20:52 To: freegis-list at intevation.de Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:27:25PM +0200, E Perik wrote: > been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none > suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then: > > * load layer (shapefile) > * select item (polygon or point) > * edit selected item's attribute-value's > > At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2. > Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. Both products are proprietary software. As this list is about Free Software (as in "freedom of speech") you cannot expect us to know software denying us the needed freedom to use, adapt, modify and redistribute it. :) > I have Mapserver + PHP-mapscript set up to do just what I > want, but don't want the 'hassle' of setting up a client-server. Well you can run this on one machine easily somewhat would assume. > Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. I expect that OpenMap can easily be adapted to be a simple shapefile editor. > Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of shapes > / points / annotations > any 'tool' or even a full application ? We expect that Thuban (currently in early 0.1.2 release) will be extented one day to do what you want. It already has an attribute viewing window using a powerful table widget. -- 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 Thu May 9 20:42:11 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:42:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <001001c1f781$4374bb50$967ba8c0@xp> References: <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> <001001c1f781$4374bb50$967ba8c0@xp> Message-ID: <20020509184211.GA1399@intevation.de> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:45:09PM +0200, E Perik wrote: > Frank give me the tip of Thuban some time ago, and I have been > following, but as you said, editing attributes will possibly be > implemented at a later stage. > > In general an application like Thuban is was I'm looking for. Easy to > understand and to work with. Only thing from my wishlist missing is the > editing attributes ;-) You can already see the attributes and even change them, but you will get just a message on the command line in the recent version. In the Intevation software laboratories we were able to produce a Thuban version with bare bones attribute editing within 20 minutes. We implemented the function in there, but found a few other Thuban bugs in the process thus it is probably a couple of hours work for a nice version and a new Thuban release. If someone wants to fund this.. -------------- 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/20020509/07b75506/attachment.bin From benenet at free.fr Fri May 10 07:58:18 2002 From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 07:58:18 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <001001c1f781$4374bb50$967ba8c0@xp> References: <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020510075306.00be2e48@pop.free.fr> Hello > > been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none > > suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then: > > > > * load layer (shapefile) > > * select item (polygon or point) > > * edit selected item's attribute-value's > > > > At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2. > > Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. A site might be of interest for you : http://www.geomaticien.com/index.php?lang=en&NavTo=pres There are two example with Jshape (http://www.jshape.com) and AlovMap (http://alov.org/howto.html). Jshape doesn't seem to be completely free, but it might be a good start... hope this help, Ben. http://www.multigeo.com La G?ographie ? l'?re du num?rique From satyakam.pandit at patni.com Fri May 10 10:15:23 2002 From: satyakam.pandit at patni.com (Satya) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:45:23 +0530 Subject: [Freegis-list] TIFF to GIF converter In-Reply-To: <20020508124832.A10537@localhost> Message-ID: Hi, Is there any ActiveX control that can convert TIFFs to GIFs ? thanks in advance, Satya. From dietrick at bbn.com Fri May 10 14:22:11 2002 From: dietrick at bbn.com (Don Dietrick) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:22:11 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Freegis-list digest, Vol 1 #368 - 4 msgs In-Reply-To: <20020510100002.17137.97183.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> Message-ID: <8E0D0359-6410-11D6-BDF4-000393033D5C@bbn.com> On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 06:00 AM, freegis-list- request at intevation.de wrote: > >> Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. > > I expect that OpenMap can easily be adapted to be a simple > shapefile editor. I think OpenMap is very close to doing this. We've gotten a couple of submissions lately that provide a way to write shape files (dbf, shx and shp), and we just got one that creates these files from a generic list of graphics, like one created with the drawing tool. To create a shape file editor, I think you'd just have to wire the GUI pieces together. You can read files, edit the shape graphics, view (and I think edit, but that might have to be checked) dbf file contents. Really, it's a matter of creating a save button and launching a file chooser for output. The next version (which would be needed to do this) will be available within a couple of weeks. - Don =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don Dietrick, dietrick at bbn.com BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From bernhard at intevation.de Fri May 10 19:24:47 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:24:47 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020510075306.00be2e48@pop.free.fr> References: <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> <5.1.0.14.1.20020510075306.00be2e48@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <20020510172447.GC23342@intevation.de> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:58:18AM +0200, Benoit V?ler wrote: > AlovMap It seems that they do not offer the source code for AlovMap. I've send them an email. > Jshape doesn't seem to be completely free, > but it might be a good start... It's not Free Software. 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Ben. http://www.multigeo.com La G?ographie ? l'?re du num?rique From bernhard at intevation.de Mon May 13 12:26:10 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:26:10 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020513075332.02df5ca8@pop.free.fr> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020510075306.00be2e48@pop.free.fr> <20020508185222.GB25812@intevation.de> <5.1.0.14.1.20020510075306.00be2e48@pop.free.fr> <5.1.0.14.1.20020513075332.02df5ca8@pop.free.fr> Message-ID: <20020513102610.GD32335@intevation.de> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:57:40AM +0200, Benoit V?ler wrote: > >It's not Free Software. > >Please note that this list is not the right place to advertise > >proprietory software like JShape. > > In effect, there is a point to lighten here : Jshape is not payant > (free) until its version 2 , but it's not indicated if this same version is > as well public domain (free). Is it intentional ?... So answer that I guess I should explain some terms: Free Software can be detected if you use the four freedoms as criteria: Freedom 1: Run the program, for any purpose Freedom 2: Study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Freedom 3: To redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor Freedom 4: To improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Being in the "public domain" (PD) is one specific possibility for a software to be Free Software. Most Free Software is not in the PD. The earlier JShape version might be available with a no cost license, but as long as nobody sees the source and a license that grants the four freedoms, we will all have to assume that it is proprietory 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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However, most Canadian governments still have barriers to data access, so a new website is being created to continue the discussion at http://www.freedata.ca/ Freedata.ca has been set up by a committee of geomatics professionals and academics in British Columbia and Yukon. We have full time jobs, and need your help to grow this into a truly national site. Most of all, we need volunteers to describe the situation in their own provinces. If you are interested, please see http://freedata.ca/participate.html If all of this sounds a little familiar you may have visited the old Canadian Free Geospatial Data website at http://members.home.net/freedata/ With the end of the @Home network, which shut down last year, much of its content has been transferred to freedata.ca If you made a submission then and wish to add, amend, or retract it please e-mail the webmaster at info @ freedata.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedata.ca is dedicated to the issue of access to government geospatial data across Canada. It is a place to discuss, issues, educate, coordinate and encourage change. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sfkeller at hsr.ch Mon May 13 20:39:47 2002 From: sfkeller at hsr.ch (Stefan F. Keller) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:39:47 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: <20020513100002.2577.14556.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> Message-ID: Dear all, I think it is worthwhile to mention JaGo/Degree as a Shapefile Viewer. See the JaGo-Viewer in the freegis list. Perhaps the Lat/Lon-Team is offering extensions like those for better viewing and editing? Regards -- Stefan Keller ___________________________________________________________________ Stefan F. Keller, Professor f?r Informatik Center f?r integrierte Geo-Informationssysteme (int>e>gis) am Institut f?r Internet-Technologien und -Anwendungen (ITA-HSR) der Hochschule Rapperswil (HSR) Oberseestr. 10, CH-8640 Rapperswil mailto:sfkeller at hsr.ch, http://www.integis.ch und http://www.hsr.ch ___________________________________________________________________ From rajeshpatnaik2001 at yahoo.co.in Tue May 14 04:31:39 2002 From: rajeshpatnaik2001 at yahoo.co.in (=?iso-8859-1?q?rajesh=20patnaik?=) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 03:31:39 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Free tutorial on PC-Arcinfo Message-ID: <20020514023139.6302.qmail@web8104.in.yahoo.com> Hi Is there any free tutorial available in any website on PC-Arcinfo. Thanks in advance. Rajesh ________________________________________________________________________ Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now at: http://in.autos.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker.html From bernhard at intevation.de Tue May 14 12:01:34 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:01:34 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free tutorial on PC-Arcinfo In-Reply-To: <20020514023139.6302.qmail@web8104.in.yahoo.com> References: <20020514023139.6302.qmail@web8104.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020514100134.GB10309@intevation.de> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:31:39AM +0100, rajesh patnaik wrote: > Is there any free tutorial available in any website on PC-Arcinfo. PC-Arcinfo is non-free software. This list is not for the promotion of proprietary software, but about software giving you the freedoms to use, adapt, modify and distribute it. -- 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/20020514/34b88c55/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Tue May 14 13:19:15 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:19:15 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor In-Reply-To: References: <20020513100002.2577.14556.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20020514111915.GA795@intevation.de> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:39:47PM +0200, Stefan F. Keller wrote: > I think it is worthwhile to mention JaGo/Degree > as a Shapefile Viewer. > > See the JaGo-Viewer in the freegis list. > > Perhaps the Lat/Lon-Team is offering extensions like > those for better viewing and editing? incidentally, I have a meeting with some of those guys this week and we can add this question to our task list :-) Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From johannesbuehler at oderbruecke.de Tue May 14 11:17:55 2002 From: johannesbuehler at oderbruecke.de (Johannes Bühler) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:17:55 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free tutorial on PC-Arcinfo In-Reply-To: <20020514023139.6302.qmail@web8104.in.yahoo.com> References: <20020514023139.6302.qmail@web8104.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020514111755.2da4bc90.johannesbuehler@oderbruecke.de> hi, look at the esri homepage (http://campus.esri.com). there are a few online courses. Johannes On Tue, 14 May 2002 03:31:39 +0100 (BST) rajesh patnaik wrote: > Hi > Is there any free tutorial available in any website on > PC-Arcinfo. > Thanks in advance. > Rajesh > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now > at: http://in.autos.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker.html > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > -- -- Johannes Buehler __O Feldtstr. 45 =`\<, 14789 Greifswald (=)/(=) johannesbuehler at oderbruecke.de ----------- From Liam at GROUNDSURE.COM Wed May 15 15:05:00 2002 From: Liam at GROUNDSURE.COM (Liam Castagna) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:05:00 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] digitiser freeware Message-ID: <319545A8D4BE2A488C95AFF81F67DC9501A327@NTSERVER.GROUNDSURE.LTD> Hi there, does any body know of free software that will link into a CALCOMP digitiser tablet allowing easy digitising of maps I am currently using MapInfo but the licence fee becomes extortionate for large projects. All results will need to be convertible into MapInfo .Tab files Cheers Liam From dtrillo at dap.es Thu May 16 11:47:42 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:47:42 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] off topic: GIS analyst Message-ID: I have a general question for all.Even though it's not related directly with ArcView or ArcInfo, I was told to build a big GIS project. I need to know what are the main tasks of GIS analyst, their functions and you know any literature, to send me the address where i can figure out how to deal with the situation. I would ask you as well what are the differences with a computer analyst. I will appreciate any help very much! David From jan at intevation.de Fri May 17 08:54:46 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:54:46 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Thuban-list] off topic: GIS analyst In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020517065446.GB1554@intevation.de> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0200, David Trillo Montero wrote: > I have a general question for all.Even though it's not related directly with ArcView or ArcInfo, I was told to build a big GIS project. I need to know what are the main tasks of GIS analyst, their functions and you know any literature, to send me the address where i can figure out how to deal with the situation. > > I would ask you as well what are the differences with a computer analyst. this is off-topic indeed. Your questions are not realted to certain software nor products nor Free Software. You should put your question onto some other general GIS list. I don't know a really apropriate list, but perhaps you can discuss this on the newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Fri May 17 09:13:21 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:13:21 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] digitiser freeware In-Reply-To: <319545A8D4BE2A488C95AFF81F67DC9501A327@NTSERVER.GROUNDSURE.LTD> References: <319545A8D4BE2A488C95AFF81F67DC9501A327@NTSERVER.GROUNDSURE.LTD> Message-ID: <20020517071321.GD1554@intevation.de> Hi, On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:05:00PM +0100, Liam Castagna wrote: > Hi there, does any body know of free software that will link into a > CALCOMP digitiser tablet allowing easy digitising of maps > > I am currently using MapInfo but the licence fee becomes extortionate > for large projects. > > All results will need to be convertible into MapInfo .Tab files I can't say anything on the digitiser (anyone here using it with Free Software?), but MapInfo format should be no problem as it is supported by at least one base library: OGR. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From acuster at nature.berkeley.edu Fri May 17 18:43:45 2002 From: acuster at nature.berkeley.edu (Adrian Custer) Date: 17 May 2002 09:43:45 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] digitiser freeware In-Reply-To: <20020517071321.GD1554@intevation.de> References: <319545A8D4BE2A488C95AFF81F67DC9501A327@NTSERVER.GROUNDSURE.LTD> <20020517071321.GD1554@intevation.de> Message-ID: <1021653826.3968.2.camel@tsetse.lab-net> As a more general question, what digitizers work with linux? what digitizing Free software is available for *any* digitizer? I'm thinking of simply getting the data into the computer, possibly grouped by obejct type (roads, contours). Here we mostly use microstation for the digitizing tablets at school but I've wondered for a while about a Free solution. cheers, adrian From bernhard at intevation.de Fri May 17 19:12:16 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:12:16 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] digitiser freeware In-Reply-To: <1021653826.3968.2.camel@tsetse.lab-net> References: <319545A8D4BE2A488C95AFF81F67DC9501A327@NTSERVER.GROUNDSURE.LTD> <20020517071321.GD1554@intevation.de> <1021653826.3968.2.camel@tsetse.lab-net> Message-ID: <20020517171216.GI8410@intevation.de> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:43:45AM -0700, Adrian Custer wrote: > what digitizers work with linux? what digitizing Free software is > available for *any* digitizer? I've seen some code within GRASS to directly support digitizers. Never checked this, though. > I'm thinking of simply getting the data > into the computer, possibly grouped by obejct type (roads, contours). > Here we mostly use microstation for the digitizing tablets at school but > I've wondered for a while about a Free solution. Some people use on-screen digitising, but this is not the same obviously. -- 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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Should we maybe try to make it yet more obvious, in the list description? -Ben -----Original Message----- From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]On Behalf Of rajesh patnaik Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:58 PM To: Freegis-list at intevation.de Subject: [Freegis-list] arcview I use Autodesk Map 5 to create a topology, create closed polylines [....] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020520/e42dc671/attachment.html From acuster at nature.berkeley.edu Tue May 21 07:51:35 2002 From: acuster at nature.berkeley.edu (Adrian Custer) Date: 20 May 2002 22:51:35 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] proprietary packages: (arcview) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1021960296.14960.38.camel@tsetse.lab-net> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:09, Ben Discoe wrote: > It is really puzzling to me that this mailing list is obviously about Free > GIS software, yet people keep wandering in with totally off-topic questions > about software which is neither Free as in Freedom nor Free as in Price. > > Should we maybe try to make it yet more obvious, in the list description? I doubt you'll stop them. Ideally we would be able to say: use xxxxxx instead. A belated response to some earlier traffic. There *is* some room to discuss non-free software here in the context of what they do well that we should replicate. There are quite a few platforms we can learn from so discussion of that stuff is useful on this list (as long as that's the context). I'm not looking for a flamefest :-) just finishing my big piece on spatial analysis and I'm getting excited. The omega project (statistics successor to R http://www.omegahat.org ) has managed to code an interpreter into their java code. Coupled with geotools this could be pretty interesting... cheers, adrian From bernhard at intevation.de Tue May 21 11:28:56 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:28:56 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] arcview In-Reply-To: <20020521045813.83551.qmail@web8105.in.yahoo.com> References: <20020521045813.83551.qmail@web8105.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020521092856.GH7185@intevation.de> Dear Rajesh, this list is about Free Software, that is Software giving you the freedom to use, adapt, improve and republish it. Arcview and Autodesk are proprietory software. We cannot help you with proprietory software on this list, because we recommend to use Free Software. An overview about Free Software related to GIS can be found on www.freegis.org. Best, Bernhard On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:58:13AM +0100, rajesh patnaik wrote: > I use Autodesk Map 5 to create a topology, create > closed polylines, then export to shapefile. > Or is there a > way to have arcview go through -- 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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Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20020521/2987db9b/attachment.bin From dtrillo at dap.es Thu May 23 12:10:25 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:10:25 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] question Message-ID: I have another question off topic, but I think all you, experienced GIS proffesional can solve my doubt. It's about programming. I have been studying VB for almost a year. Now I can deal with it, specially with databases and other stuff although i haven't done anything yet related with GIS, i'm planning to change to C++, because the posibilities are better. Which of those two languaje do you think are more profitable in the GIS field? If you can recommend another programming languaje, it will be welcome as well. What do you think? I need your opinions in order to clarify mi mind. Thank you again and again! David From dtrillo at dap.es Thu May 23 17:34:48 2002 From: dtrillo at dap.es (David Trillo Montero) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:34:48 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] question Message-ID: > I have another question off topic, but I think all you, experienced GIS proffesional can solve my doubt. > > It's about programming. I have been studying VB for almost a year. Now I can deal with it, specially with databases and other stuff although i haven't done anything yet related with GIS, i'm planning to change to C++, because the posibilities are better. Which of those two languaje do you think are more profitable in the GIS field? If you can recommend another programming languaje, it will be welcome as well. > > What do you think? I need your opinions in order to clarify mi mind. > > Thank you again and again! > David Dragos Lypan answer me this: >>> Dragos Lipan 05/23 3:41 >>> 1. C++ At least you won't be a victim of one single framework (I mean com) approaching GIS. 2. You should consider seriously Python. www.python.org Excellent OOlanguage, good connections in the real world, serveral distributions, good learning curve, easy to use. Lot of libraries extending the environment. Some python-GisRelated projects running (www.thuban.org, openev.sourceforge.org). Dragos Lipan dlipan at pcrai.ro Now, i ask: Yes, I know about Python. I started to learn how it works. I think it's another posibility. Do you use python? I would like to hear also from phyton users and gis developers. I don't discard to bet for Python. Another question about python. Is it possible to develop Python program for intranet internet? From dlipan at pcrai.ro Thu May 23 18:07:00 2002 From: dlipan at pcrai.ro (Dragos Lipan) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:07:00 +0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] question References: Message-ID: <3CED13A4.A211CBCD@pcrai.ro> David Trillo Montero wrote: > > I have another question off topic, but I think all you, experienced GIS proffesional can solve my doubt. > > > > It's about programming. I have been studying VB for almost a year. Now I can deal with it, specially with databases and other stuff although i haven't done anything yet related with GIS, i'm planning to change to C++, because the posibilities are better. Which of those two languaje do you think are more profitable in the GIS field? If you can recommend another programming languaje, it will be welcome as well. > > > > What do you think? I need your opinions in order to clarify mi mind. > > > > Thank you again and again! > > David > > Dragos Lypan answer me this: > > >>> Dragos Lipan 05/23 3:41 >>> > 1. C++ > At least you won't be a victim of one single framework (I mean com) approaching GIS. > 2. > You should consider seriously Python. > www.python.org > Excellent OOlanguage, good connections in the real world, serveral distributions, good learning curve, easy to use. > Lot of libraries extending the environment. Some python-GisRelated projects running (www.thuban.org, openev.sourceforge.org). > > Dragos Lipan > dlipan at pcrai.ro > > Now, i ask: > Yes, I know about Python. I started to learn how it works. I think it's another posibility. Do you use python? I would like to hear also from phyton users and gis developers. I don't discard to bet for Python. > > Another question about python. Is it possible to develop Python program for intranet internet? Yes, and you should. http://www.rimbault.net/python/ it's a excellent starting point. @ books section there, you can find http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558514848/002-2570493-7046459, which refers 'Internet programming with Python'. waste another moment at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710902/ref=pd_sbs_b_3/002-2570493-7046459 to 'Python Web Programming'. So it's quite simple to fix a cgi-bin style programming gateway to your Apache web server (and others, I suppose), via mod-python. But if you're interested in some other thing and you intentioned to invest more time in web programming you should look at Zope, which is an excellent web development entirely written in Python. Explosive expandable through scripts and 3rd party products. You might have big and nice surprises. Look for it at www.zope.org. Hope hear from you soon, Dragos From rq at quiedeville.org Fri May 24 11:31:32 2002 From: rq at quiedeville.org (Rodolphe Quiedeville) Date: 24 May 2002 11:31:32 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Libre Software Meeting Message-ID: Hi, I suggest a GIS topic in the LSM 2002[1], wich was accpeted. does anyone of you are interested to make a conference/presentation ? LSM will attend in Bordeaux (France) 9-13 July, I hope to see this most of you during this manifestation. The organisation of this Free Software GIS topic need to have chairman and cochair, I'm ok to be the cochair to help organize it, but I need a chairman to help me, I'm interesting in GIS but sure there's lot of people knowing this subject better than me. Regards [1] http://lsm.abul.org/ -- Rodolphe Quiedeville Travailleur Independant Specialiste Logiciel Libre Free Software Jobs ( http://fr.lolix.org/ ) GPG Key : http://rodolphe.quiedeville.org/gpg.txt From jan at intevation.de Fri May 24 11:56:36 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:56:36 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Libre Software Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020524095636.GD4403@intevation.de> Hi Rodolphe, On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: > I suggest a GIS topic in the LSM 2002[1], wich was accpeted. does anyone > of you are interested to make a conference/presentation ? > > LSM will attend in Bordeaux (France) 9-13 July, I hope to see this > most of you during this manifestation. > > The organisation of this Free Software GIS topic need to have chairman > and cochair, I'm ok to be the cochair to help organize it, but I need > a chairman to help me, I'm interesting in GIS but sure there's lot of > people knowing this subject better than me. I would love to see a FreeGIS track at LSM, but time is short and I don't know whether we can find a number of talks to form a nice session. The FreeGIS-Team probably could provide a chair and 1 or 2 presentations (potential topics: FreeGIS/MapServer/GRASS/Free GIS Development Perspectives/Free GIS as Commercial Service) if a session could be filled with enough presentations. Are there any people out there who are interested in presenting certain Free GIS Software at the LSM (or at other opportunities in Europe where we might be able to form a FreeGIS track)? Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pedro.m.martinez.arbizu at uni-oldenburg.de Fri May 24 10:09:05 2002 From: pedro.m.martinez.arbizu at uni-oldenburg.de (Pedro-Miguel Martinez-Arbizu) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:09:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Ausschreibung EDV Message-ID: <1230.139.13.225.78.1022227745.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Stellenausschreibung Im Zentralbereich EDV ist f?r das Deutsche Zentrum f?r Marine Biodiversit?tsforschung (DZMB) in Wilhelmshaven die Stelle eines/r Informatikers/in (BAT IIA/IB) zum n?chstm?glichen Zeitpunkt zu besetzen Aufgaben sind: Entwicklung und Implementierung von Datenbanken ?ber marine Tier- und Pflanzengruppen und ihre Zug?nglichmachung im Internet; Entwicklung, Implementierung und Pflege eines Informationssystems ?ber Probenmaterial deutscher Forschungsschiffe und Spezialistenregister. Zu den Aufgaben geh?ren auch die Hilfe beim Aufbau des Institutsnetzwerkes, Userbetreuung und Netzwerkadministration am Standort Wilhelmshaven (DZMB und SaM). Dienstort ist Wilhelmshaven Gesucht wird ein/e Universit?tsabsolvent/in im Fach Informatik oder mit einer nachgewiesenen gleichwertigen Qualifikation. Erw?nscht sind:  Gute Kenntnisse mit den Betriebssystemen Windows-NT/2000/XP und Linux Erfahrung mit der Administration relationales Datenbanken (Postgre SQL,MySQL, Microsoft SQL-Server, Access)  Gute SQL-Kenntnisse  Sehr gute Kenntnisse der Sprachen Java, C++, PHP, XML  Kenntnisse in System- und Netzwerkadministration heterogener (Linux, Windows, Netware) Umgebungen Das Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg strebt an, den Frauenanteil in der Wissenschaft zu erh?-hen. Qualifizierte Kandidatinnen werden daher besonders ermutigt, sich zu bewerben. Bei gleicher Eignung werden schwerbehinderte Bewerber und Bewerberinnen bevorzugt. Bewerbungen werden mit den ?blichen Unterlagen und Referenzen bis zum 15. Juni 2002 erbeten an den Direktor des Forschungsinstitutes Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a. M. Bitte Bewerbungen nicht nach Wilhelmshaven, sondern nach Frankfurt schicken. ************************* Prof. Dr. Pedro Martinez Arbizu DZMB Schleusentsr. 1 26382 Wilhelmshaven Germany Telefon: +49 4421 994184 Fax: +49 4421 994199 e.mail: pedro.m.martinez.arbizu at uni-oldenburg.de or martinez at bio.ufpr.br From jan at intevation.de Fri May 24 13:19:37 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:19:37 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Ausschreibung EDV In-Reply-To: <1230.139.13.225.78.1022227745.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> References: <1230.139.13.225.78.1022227745.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> Message-ID: <20020524111937.GA4577@intevation.de> Hi, On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:09:05AM +0200, Pedro-Miguel Martinez-Arbizu wrote: > Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg > Stellenausschreibung I approved this email for the list allthough it is German and has no obvious relation to Free GIS Software. As a background you should know that the tasks for this open job will address the setup of a Free Software GIS solution probably including GRASS, PostgeSQL, PostGIS etc. allthough this is not mentioned in the official statement. At least this is what I was told. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From rq at quiedeville.org Fri May 24 13:52:55 2002 From: rq at quiedeville.org (Rodolphe Quiedeville) Date: 24 May 2002 13:52:55 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Libre Software Meeting In-Reply-To: <20020524095636.GD4403@intevation.de> References: <20020524095636.GD4403@intevation.de> Message-ID: le Fri, 24 May 2002 11:56:36 +0200 Jan-Oliver Wagner a ?crit : > Hi Rodolphe, > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: > > I suggest a GIS topic in the LSM 2002[1], wich was accpeted. does anyone > > of you are interested to make a conference/presentation ? > > > > LSM will attend in Bordeaux (France) 9-13 July, I hope to see this > > most of you during this manifestation. > > > > The organisation of this Free Software GIS topic need to have chairman > > and cochair, I'm ok to be the cochair to help organize it, but I need > > a chairman to help me, I'm interesting in GIS but sure there's lot of > > people knowing this subject better than me. > > I would love to see a FreeGIS track at LSM, but time is short and I > don't know whether we can find a number of talks to form a nice > session. Yes we can ;-) > The FreeGIS-Team probably could provide a chair and 1 or 2 > presentations (potential topics: FreeGIS/MapServer/GRASS/Free GIS > Development Perspectives/Free GIS as Commercial Service) if a > session could be filled with enough presentations. Good ! > Are there any people out there who are interested in presenting > certain Free GIS Software at the LSM (or at other opportunities in > Europe where we might be able to form a FreeGIS track)? > > Best > > Jan > > -- > Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ > > Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ > FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > > -- Rodolphe Quiedeville Travailleur Independant Specialiste Logiciel Libre Free Software Jobs ( http://fr.lolix.org/ ) GPG Key : http://rodolphe.quiedeville.org/gpg.txt From bh at udev.org Mon May 27 13:04:47 2002 From: bh at udev.org (Henrion Benjamin) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-list] creating a DEM from stereo aerial photos Message-ID: <2177.192.168.8.102.1022497487.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> Hello, I would like to know if there's free software that I can use to create a DEM from stereo aerial photos. Thanks BNJ From jan at intevation.de Mon May 27 13:10:04 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:10:04 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] creating a DEM from stereo aerial photos In-Reply-To: <2177.192.168.8.102.1022497487.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> References: <2177.192.168.8.102.1022497487.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> Message-ID: <20020527111004.GE1009@intevation.de> Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > I would like to know if there's free software that I can use to create a > DEM from stereo aerial photos. AFAIK, GRASS can support this. However, I think it is not part of the standard GRASS package - so you better should ask the core developers on how to set up you GRASS accordingly. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From neteler at itc.it Mon May 27 13:11:31 2002 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:11:31 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] creating a DEM from stereo aerial photos In-Reply-To: <2177.192.168.8.102.1022497487.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be>; from bh@udev.org on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:04:47PM +0200 References: <2177.192.168.8.102.1022497487.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> Message-ID: <20020527131131.P7402@itc.it> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if there's free software that I can use to create a > DEM from stereo aerial photos. > > Thanks > > BNJ Hi Henrion, yes, there is: "stereo-0.2": http://grass.itc.it/outgoing/ It comes with a tutorial and a graphical user interface. Due to lack of time I couldn't try it myself, but it was reported to me to be functional. Author: Paul Sheer psheer at icon.co.za If someone picked it up and improved it... Best regards, Markus Neteler From bh at udev.org Mon May 27 22:42:43 2002 From: bh at udev.org (Henrion Benjamin) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:42:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Interesting conference Message-ID: <4585.130.104.18.249.1022532163.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> I was surfing on the web to see what I can do with SVG. And I fall on this: http://www.svgopen.org/ Hmmmm, does anybody from the list is interested going to? I think I will go :-)) BNJ From bernhard at intevation.de Tue May 28 14:23:45 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:23:45 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Interesting conference In-Reply-To: <4585.130.104.18.249.1022532163.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> References: <4585.130.104.18.249.1022532163.squirrel@www.agl.ucl.ac.be> Message-ID: <20020528122345.GE14669@intevation.de> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:42:43PM +0200, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > I was surfing on the web to see what I can do with SVG. > http://www.svgopen.org/ As a side note I'm continously wondering what people think about the patent problematic regarding SVG. For me that makes SVG less attractive than other vector formats, though the situation is not entirely clear to me. http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/ -- 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/20020528/5ff0ae2c/attachment.bin From chagirard at yahoo.com Tue May 28 14:31:55 2002 From: chagirard at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?girard=20charlotte?=) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:31:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Convert VPF... Message-ID: <20020528123155.19121.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I am looking for a freeware to convert a VPF format to a common vector format (shp, dxf...). Can anybody help me ? Cha ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran?ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com From bernhard at intevation.de Tue May 28 15:00:00 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:00:00 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Convert VPF... In-Reply-To: <20020528123155.19121.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020528123155.19121.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020528130000.GG14669@intevation.de> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:31:55PM +0200, girard charlotte wrote: > I am looking for a freeware to convert a VPF format to > a common vector format (shp, dxf...). Can anybody help > me ? Note that this list is about Free Software, meaning software coming with the freedom to use, study, modify and redistribute the software. The functionallity you are looking for can probably be archieved with ogr using the vpf function of the ogdi package. -- 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/20020528/8bb4b465/attachment.bin From daljit.dhillon at patni.com Tue May 28 15:23:08 2002 From: daljit.dhillon at patni.com (Daljit) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:53:08 +0530 Subject: [Freegis-list] Standard industrial Vector Map file format for GIS In-Reply-To: <20020528122345.GE14669@intevation.de> Message-ID: <001201c2064a$cf0d7f30$b201a8c0@patni.com> Can anyone suggest me which is the best Standard industrial Vector Map file format for GIS systems on a PDA ? Best Regards, -Daljit -----Original Message----- From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:54 PM To: freegis-list at intevation.de Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Interesting conference On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:42:43PM +0200, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > I was surfing on the web to see what I can do with SVG. > http://www.svgopen.org/ As a side note I'm continously wondering what people think about the patent problematic regarding SVG. For me that makes SVG less attractive than other vector formats, though the situation is not entirely clear to me. http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/ -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html From daljit.dhillon at patni.com Tue May 28 15:24:23 2002 From: daljit.dhillon at patni.com (Daljit) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:54:23 +0530 Subject: [Freegis-list] Java Source Code for GIS Map Browser Message-ID: <001301c2064a$fbd9b290$b201a8c0@patni.com> I need your help to know if there is any openSource javacode for decoding Vector Files (.mif) and generating Raster Images. Due to urgency of my need I request you to reply soon Thanking in Anticipatoin Best Regards, -Daljit -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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OpenMap (http://openmap.bbn.com) can do this. - Don =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don Dietrick, dietrick at bbn.com BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From bernhard at intevation.de Wed May 29 17:51:51 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:51:51 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Freegis-list digest, Vol 1 #380 - 6 msgs In-Reply-To: References: <20020529100002.7507.14928.Mailman@doto.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20020529155151.GO23659@intevation.de> Don, is there a list of data formats that openmap supports. A quick search revealed FAQ 9.1, but this seems to be outdated in that it does not include .mif files. Bernhard On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:50:44AM -0400, Don Dietrick wrote: > On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 06:00 AM, freegis-list- > request at intevation.de wrote: > > > I need your help to know if there is any openSource javacode for > >decoding > > Vector Files (.mif) and generating Raster Images. > > OpenMap (http://openmap.bbn.com) can do this. -- 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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Among the new features that may be of interest to list members (topics I've noticed lately) are more image export options (JPEG, GIF and SVG) and utilities to export OMGraphics to Shape files. With a little coding, the MIF and VPF layer contents could be written out to Shape files. All the pieces are there, they are just not wired together. I'll update the OpenMap FAQ to list the support file formats. Thanks, Don On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Don, > is there a list of data formats that openmap supports. > A quick search revealed FAQ 9.1, but this seems to be outdated > in that it does not include .mif files. > > Bernhard > > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:50:44AM -0400, Don Dietrick wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 06:00 AM, freegis-list- >> request at intevation.de wrote: >> >>> I need your help to know if there is any openSource javacode for >>> decoding >>> Vector Files (.mif) and generating Raster Images. >> >> OpenMap (http://openmap.bbn.com) can do this. > > -- > 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 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don Dietrick, BBN Technologies, dietrick at bbn.com 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-873-3031 [fax]-2794 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From poth at lat-lon.de Fri May 31 11:06:37 2002 From: poth at lat-lon.de (Andreas Poth) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:06:37 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] JaGo Viewer for Oracle Spatial Message-ID: <3CF73D1D.C15E23DE@lat-lon.de> hello, there is a new release of the JaGo Viewer application available at http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/jago/demo/welcome.html. The Viewer now supports reading and writing ESRI Shape Files, writing GML2 as well as reading Oracle 8.1.7 and 9i databases with spatial extension. maybe the Oracle access works with versions less than 8.1.7 but we haven't tested it [try other oracle-libraries than the ones you download with the viewer, which can be downloaded from the oracle technology network]. regards ANDREAS -- l a t / l o n Fitzke/Fretter/Poth GbR Meckenheimer Allee 176 53115 Bonn phone ++49 +228 73-2838 fax -9658 e-mail mailto:poth at lat-lon.de www http://www.lat-lon.de From jidanni at deadspam.com Thu May 30 07:22:12 2002 From: jidanni at deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) Date: 30 May 2002 13:22:12 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] city bus routes Message-ID: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to sci.geo.cartography as well. Here's a note I sent to the GRASS-GIS mailing list: Just curious if I'm barfing up the wrong tree or can Grass be used to find what buses should I consider from going from point A to point B? Say for Taibei, Taiwan we program in all the spaghetti of routes and even maybe the position of their bus stops. Then we say "please find which routes pass within 500 meters of both point A and B". This might give 3 or 4 routes for the rider to then select from based on non GIS criteria. Actually I think the best way to deal with this problem is not via computer at all, but with close up maps where the user can match route numbers. Nothing as high tech as a cross referencing index involved. And certainly no "need a computer to catch a bus". If they were computer savvy they wouldn't be on the bus in the first place... [ok, yes, even Einstein took buses probably, never mind.] -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780