From silke at intevation.de Tue Oct 1 20:10:35 2002 From: silke at intevation.de (Silke Reimer) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:10:35 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] RPM package for GRASS Message-ID: <20021001181034.GA26149@intevation.de> Hello list(s), today I finished the build of an RPM package for GRASS 5.0.0. It has been built and tested on a redhat 7.1 system. As usual you can download it under ftp://intevation.de/freegis/gnu-linux-i586/updates/ Please feel free to test it. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any problems or suggestions so that I can improve the package. Ciao, Silke -- Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20021001/e99d487b/attachment.bin From guano at usp.br Fri Oct 11 19:18:20 2002 From: guano at usp.br (Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:18:20 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] raster 2 vector Message-ID: <20021011171827.6308F1B6BA@mail.intevation.de> Hello all, I´m new in this list. I´m looking for a good raster2vector program for linux, and so far a have not found. I was using, in Win98, the R2V, from Able software (www.ablesw.com). wich is very good, very light, and very interactive. Any suggestions? Thanks in advice. +-------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho - Guano Geologist Msc. Student IGc - USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 PGP key: www.keyserver.net +-------------------------------------------------+ From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Oct 11 20:29:10 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:29:10 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] raster 2 vector In-Reply-To: <20021011171827.6308F1B6BA@mail.intevation.de> References: <20021011171827.6308F1B6BA@mail.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20021011182910.GF16729@intevation.de> Autotrace is a possible option. On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:18:20PM -0300, Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho wrote: > I?m looking for a good raster2vector program for linux, and so far a have > not found. I was using, in Win98, the R2V, from Able software > (www.ablesw.com). wich is very good, very light, and very interactive. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20021011/0e798720/attachment.bin From pgjm at geography.leeds.ac.uk Fri Oct 18 09:51:44 2002 From: pgjm at geography.leeds.ac.uk (James Macgill) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:51:44 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Call for Geo-Spatial Java API Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20021018084528.02eb3678@geog.leeds.ac.uk> I recently sent a message, the bulk of which is included at the end of this message, to key developers of a number of Java based projects suggesting the creation of a joint interface only project which would help us collaborate. I received positive comments and support for the idea from people involved in deegree (JaGo), JTS, GISToolkit, OpenMap, WBK, GeoServer and GeoTools 2 (a project I'm involved in) In order to continue the discussion and to thrash out issues before setting such a project up the suggestion was re-posted to the geoENABLER web site with the comment system being used to exchange ideas. You can see the story and the comments so far at: http://scoop.geoenabler.org/ We would welcome wider involvement and comments from members of the FreeGIS list so if you have anything to add please post comments to that site. We are currently building a list of possible names and talking through some licence issues and we hope to set the project up in early November. Many thanks James [The following is from the original email] This email is to suggest the setting up of a new project to host an interface only API for geospatial objects in the Java language. Some of you may have caught me making comments along these lines before, for others of you this will be my first contact with your project on this topic. There is an enormous level of effort being carried out in the Open Source community towards building GIS solutions. A good deal of these use Java and a good many of them make at least some reference to the OpenGIS Consortium. As a result there is an enormous level of duplicated effort with the same problems being solved and implemented again and again. A classic example of this is the number of times I have seen bounding box classes or interfaces being defined in peoples code. In an ideal world we would have one only, and one for coordinates and geometries and features and so on. It would be nice to think that we could create a single mega project involving everyone from all existing projects and with everything being done only once. However, I strongly suspect that, in the short to mid term, that is impractical. Each existing project has a slightly different audience, a different code style and a different set of goals, all of which are valid and it is probably impractical to satisfy all requirements within a single project. In addition many of the projects target different Java platforms, depending on needs, perhaps the most widespread in browsers (Java 1.1) the most accepted (Java 1.3) the most cutting edge (Java 1.4.1) or the most compact (J2ME) As a solution therefore I would like to suggest a new, neutral, project which contains only interfaces, individual projects would then be free to implement these in what every way they liked, probably by wrapping their existing code with the new interfaces. In an ideal world we could aim to have all of the interfaces adopted within the javax. namespace or perhaps as an Apache project under jakarta but both of those would take time or organise. The benefits of this neutral API would start to show up immediately, particularly with regard to data sources. Between existing projects there are readers or connectors for Oracle SDE, PostGIS, MySQL, GML, Shapefile, MIF/MID and many more. For most of these, particularly Shapefile, there are multiple implementations. With a common API for the core data structures we would be able to use each others loaders within our own projects. As a start I would suggest interfaces for the following: Geometries - point, line, polygon, etc. (possibly ISO 19107 based) Feature - attribute information + geometry + meta data (possibly ISO 19109 based) FeatureSource - an object from which features can be obtained, stored. i.e. a loader Style - how to represent a given feature (probably based on the OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor) Filter - used to express a query (covers things like within, intersects etc) Map - Concepts like Layer, Area of Interest, visibility and possibly zoom level.... Render - takes a Map definition and produces rendered output. The above list reflects my raster bias and doesn't cover things like coordinate transformation but it is a start. The further you go down that list the more chance there is for disagreement and I feel that to try for all of them at once would be a mistake anyway as it would involve too many changes in existing code. The idea that there should be a single interface for a polygon is not a hard sell and I suspect that many of us already use or are considering using the excellent Java Topology Suite (JTS) as that base. Moving onto a more complex object like Feature would come next and at that point a common data source interface would be trivial. Interfaces for things like styling or rendering would be harder to harmonize on and could come much further down the line. I have some quite detailed ideas on the above, but I do not want this email to become too long or detailed yet. For anyone who doesn't know me I should be clear about what the project I am involved with is and how that will have biased the above description. I am one of the lead developers on GeoTools 2 (GT2) a LGPL project in Java for processing geospatial data. It is heavily influenced by the specifications that come out of the OpenGIS Consortium so this reflects the way I think about Features, Filtering and Style. GT2 already has an interface only core with separate modules which then implement those interfaces, so in part what I am suggesting is a process whereby those core interfaces are extracted, modified and placed into an external, natural, project. Doing just that however, would not take us much further forward and it would not lead to confidence in the process being project natural. To succeed the new project would need to be jointly managed by members of multiple projects, it needs to remain focused and not try to take on too much. It needs to be a resource that projects can use as little or as much of as they like and still see some benefit. I would very much welcome comments on this proposal from project leads (and anyone else for that matter)... [If you have any thought on the above please use the comments system on the geoEnabler web site to respond http://scoop.geoenabler.org/] From bernhard at intevation.de Sun Oct 20 12:26:05 2002 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:26:05 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Dem3d sources In-Reply-To: <000c01c25339$8a93ab90$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> References: <000701c252e6$a3f1be40$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> <20020903104042.GL17411@intevation.de> <000c01c25339$8a93ab90$700201c0@MAPQUEST.local> Message-ID: <20021020102605.GH14487@intevation.de> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:03:28PM +0900, Paul Selormey wrote: > Thanks for the offer and the response. Please email it to me. Note that we temorarily saved the last dem3 source at our server. So you can get it from there or a mirror, like: ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/freegis/intevation/ (This is noted on the freegis webpages of course, so if you need the package, just look there first.) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20021020/82f87a8a/attachment.bin From jidanni at dman.ddts.net Wed Oct 23 03:07:43 2002 From: jidanni at dman.ddts.net (Dan Jacobson) Date: 23 Oct 2002 09:07:43 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] freegis-list now also on gmane.org Message-ID: <878z0qezds.fsf@jidanni.org> The Freegis mailing list is now also on gmane.org for those who would like to use it over NNTP. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780