From gisdude at hotpop.com Tue Jul 1 13:48:58 2003 From: gisdude at hotpop.com (Rajkumar Singh) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:48:58 -0300 Subject: [Freegis-list] Maplab error Message-ID: <00ab01c33fc8$93d736f0$1bbebebe@epagy.org> Hi, Could anyone tell me what the following error mean? I received this while trying to use the MapBrowser component of Maplab. " PHP Warning: MapServer Error in getSymbol(): (LOCAL):(17) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\maplab\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 208 PHP Fatal error: Failed to open map file c:/Inetpub///wwwroot/maplab///sam.map in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\maplab\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 208" Any ideas what I'm doing wrong. I'm running Windows XP pro with IIS, PHP 4.3 and PHP_Mapscript 3.6.4. Thanks for all replies. Cheers. Raj -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20030701/003727b1/attachment.html From schut at sarvision.com Tue Jul 1 15:38:27 2003 From: schut at sarvision.com (Vincent Schut) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:38:27 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: [Mapserver-users] Maplab error In-Reply-To: <00ab01c33fc8$93d736f0$1bbebebe@epagy.org> References: <00ab01c33fc8$93d736f0$1bbebebe@epagy.org> Message-ID: <200307011538.27036.schut@sarvision.com> If I remember well these kind of errors usually means that there is an error in your mapfile. getSymbol is a function that is called by the mapfile parser to read something. In this case it has something to do with the word 'LOCAL' on (or around) line 17 of the map file (sam.map in this case). sorry don't know much about maplab, that probably generated that mapfile? But in mapserver terminology, this is more or less what the error means. Regards, Vincent Schut. On Tuesday 01 July 2003 13:48, Rajkumar Singh wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone tell me what the following error mean? I received this while > trying to use the MapBrowser component of Maplab. > > " PHP Warning: MapServer Error in getSymbol(): (LOCAL):(17) in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\maplab\htdocs\common\wrapper\map session.php on line 208 > PHP Fatal error: Failed to open map file > c:/Inetpub///wwwroot/maplab///sam.map in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\maplab\htdocs\common\wrapper\map session.php on line > 208" > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong. I'm running Windows XP pro with IIS, PHP > 4.3 and PHP Mapscript 3.6.4. > > Thanks for all replies. > > Cheers. > > Raj -- ______________________________________ Vincent Schut Sarvision B.V. Wageningen, The Netherlands www.sarvision.com From jan at intevation.de Wed Jul 2 23:06:53 2003 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:06:53 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] NNTP access to freegis-list In-Reply-To: <87vfus1rjd.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <20030620052042.GA17138@intevation.de> <87vfus1rjd.fsf@jidanni.org> Message-ID: <20030702210653.GA15458@intevation.de> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:02:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > jan: you can post this info boldly to your front pages, noting > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.gis.freegis > with the emphasis on NNTP though. I've fixed the URL on http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list The URL changed without notice, so I wasn't aware it changed. Thanks for letting me know. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Wed Jul 2 23:29:22 2003 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:29:22 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] building a pocket PC GIS application In-Reply-To: <20030625172839.73037.qmail@web41807.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030625172839.73037.qmail@web41807.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030702212922.GE15708@intevation.de> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:28:39AM -0700, Ashraf Tammam wrote: > is there any one know any GIS libraries to create a > GIS applications or network shortest path on pocket > PC? if you are aiming for a PDA that runs some GNU/Linux flavour you don't need to focus on a PDA-specific solution. Most code compiles on GNU/Linux-PDAs as well. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jan at intevation.de Thu Jul 3 10:16:22 2003 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:16:22 +0200 Subject: [freegis-list] WMS javascript client In-Reply-To: <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> References: <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> Message-ID: <20030703081622.GA22719@intevation.de> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:29:55AM -0400, Allan Doyle wrote: > I asked this question a few months ago. Here is what I found. In the > meantime, I found out that the USGS has one as well that they are > considering releasing as open source but as far as I know, that has > not happened yet. > > This one is under the NCSA license > http://sourceforge.net/projects/inlinewms/ I've contacted the author, because inlineWMS was _not_ under the NCSA Free Software license. Since Version 1.0.1 now it is :-) and it's added to FreeGIS. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From pedro at inovagis.org Thu Jul 3 10:48:22 2003 From: pedro at inovagis.org (Pedro Pereira Goncalves) Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:48:22 +0200 Subject: [freegis-list] WMS javascript client In-Reply-To: <20030703081622.GA22719@intevation.de> References: <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030703104706.026f55e0@mail.inovagis.org> Hi quickWMS is released as LGPL ... I've just set up a web with the complete class definition and documentation available at Development site at http://giserver.esrin.esa.int/quickwms/ (sometimes offline) the stable version are posted on http://www.inovagis.org/quickwms/ all the best, pedro At 10:16 AM 7/3/03 +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: >On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:29:55AM -0400, Allan Doyle wrote: > > I asked this question a few months ago. Here is what I found. In the > > meantime, I found out that the USGS has one as well that they are > > considering releasing as open source but as far as I know, that has > > not happened yet. > > > > This one is under the NCSA license > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/inlinewms/ > >I've contacted the author, because inlineWMS was _not_ under >the NCSA Free Software license. > >Since Version 1.0.1 now it is :-) >and it's added to FreeGIS. > > 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 From Silke.Reimer at intevation.de Thu Jul 3 11:00:24 2003 From: Silke.Reimer at intevation.de (Silke Reimer) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:00:24 +0200 Subject: [freegis-list] WMS javascript client In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030703104706.026f55e0@mail.inovagis.org> References: <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> <16105.60915.512028.316741@intl-interfaces.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030703104706.026f55e0@mail.inovagis.org> Message-ID: <20030703090024.GB28754@intevation.de> Hallo Pedro, On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:48:22AM +0200, Pedro Pereira Goncalves wrote: > Hi > quickWMS is released as LGPL ... > > I've just set up a web with the complete class definition and documentation > available at > > Development site at > http://giserver.esrin.esa.int/quickwms/ > (sometimes offline) > > the stable version are posted on > http://www.inovagis.org/quickwms/ Thank you for your information. I added quickWMS to freegis.org http://freegis.org/search.en.html?search=quickWms (Please note, that I changed the description slightly since WMS stands for "Web Map Service" and not for "Web Mapping Specification".) Cheers, Silke -- Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20030713/a3c19032/attachment.html From lewiemy at putra.net.my Tue Jul 15 10:36:19 2003 From: lewiemy at putra.net.my (Lewie Dekker) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:36:19 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] ShapeLib and Delphi In-Reply-To: <20030711111113.33E9F16122@post1.dk> Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20030715161156.00a6d830@mail.putra.net.my> Hello Jakob, Yes, I did get it to work. First I had to discover that I should use the ShpApi129.pas module. Even then, it took me quite some time figuring out what was wrong with my earlier versions, but apparently shapelib cannot handle dynamic pascal arrays! That still looks mighty silly to me, and I'll try fiddling with compiler settings, but for now you will have to statically declare your array sizes up-front. They do not have to be the exact size of the data. Just setting the remaining parts to 0 will work, and maybe even without that, because you tell the procedure how many coordinates to expect anyway. I will send you separately a small demo app that will hopefully show you how to get going. Regards, Lewie A.J.F.M. "Lewie" Dekker Database Specialist ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation P.O.Box 35015 College, Laguna 4031, Philippines website: www.arcbc.org e-mail: database at arcbc.org Tel: +63 49 536-4042/1659/3989 Fax: +63 49 536-2865/3173 (also voice) From frank.koormann at intevation.de Tue Jul 15 11:29:14 2003 From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:29:14 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] MySQL 4.1 GIS Functionality Message-ID: <20030715092914.GB12069@intevation.de> Dear all, some of you probably have read it, but for all not subscribed to postgis-users and for the archives I repost here an analysis from Paul Ramsey and Dave Blasby about the GIS functionality in MySQL 4.1. The original is archived at http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2003-June/002651.html Paul Ramsey [Thu Jun 19 22:42:08 2003]: | | Dave and I have spent a little time over the last few days investigating | the spatial capabilities which have been added to the MySQL database as | of the 4.1 version. 4.1 is the current "testing" version, and 4.0 is the | current "shipping" version. | | 1. Notes from Testing | --------------------- | | * Spatial data (geometry) only works with the MyISAM table type. MySQL | supports multiple tables types, with different performance | characteristics. MyISAM is supposed to have high performance, but no | transactional capability. So that means that you cannot have | transactionally managed spatial updates. | | * Trying to create create an InnoDB table with a geometry column, will | crash the server and muddle the system tables. The systems tables must | be MyISAM, since this is an effect of a failed transaction. | | * The Spatial Index is almost certainly either tied to MyISAM or stored | in a MyISAM-type structure. At best this leaves your index vulnerable | to ACID transactional issues. | | * We used a 200K segment road database to test data handling. | | * Data load time for the test table was significantly faster in MySQL. | To load 200K rows it took 34 seconds on MySQL and 71 seconds on PgSQL. | MyISAM tables are noted for being fast at digesting nontransactional | inserts. PgSQL has to manage the inserts within a transactional context. | | * Spatial index creation took about 14 seconds in MySQL and 9 seconds in | PostGIS. This is probably because MySQL uses the quadatic pick-split | algorthym and PostGIS uses a linear-time version. | | * The MySQL spatial index is not null-safe. Marking the geometry column | as "NOT NULL" is required in order to build a MySQL spatial index. The | PostGIS spatial index is null safe. | | * We did three test queries to compare the retrieval times on the | spatial index: first with a very small bounding box (enclosing 6 | records), then with a medium box (70K records), then with a huge box | (all 200K records). | | * To search for a very small area (6 records) in the 200,000 row table | took about 20 milliseconds on MySQL and about 2 milliseconds on PostGIS. | * To search for a medium sized area (70,000 records) in the 200,000 row | table took about 1.03 seconds in MySQL and 0.25 seconds in PostGIS. | * To search for a very large area (all records) in the 200,000 row table | took about 2.25 seconds in MySQL and 0.75 seconds in PostGIS. | | * MySQL spatial supports only 2D geometries. | | * MySQL stores the spatial data internally as WKB. Retrieving WKB should | be very fast, but we were not able to test that directly at this time. | | * Because the internal representation of MySQL geometries is simple WKB, | un-indexed bounding box searches are fairly slow. The database must | calculate the bounding box for each feature in order to do the | comparisons. | | | 2. Notes from Examining the Source Code | --------------------------------------- | | * The MySQL code contains an assumption in the WKB handling that all WBK | will be little endian. If you run MySQL spatial on a big endian machine | (Sparc, PowerPC, PA-RISC) you will find things go amiss when you try to | send WKB to little endian machines (x86), because your big endian | machine will be creating invalid data (big endian data incorrectly | flagged as little endian). Hopefully MySQL will fix this soon. | | * Spatial types are stored as WKB Strings in the MySQL database. They | seem to have allocated a header on these for the SRID, but access to | this is unimplemented. | | * Inside the MySQL database, the geometries are stored in exactly the | same type as String. The system does an Internal String -> Geometry | conversion (which very easy because the Geometry type is just WKB). | | * This String/Geometry duality causes the structure of the code to | fairly complex. Geometry processing is done mostly in the String | handling section of the code base, but also appears in the SQL parser | and other scattered parts of the system. We have no idea why they did | this, but it sure makes it difficult to follow the logic in the system. | | * We did not look too deeply at the indexing source code, but it in the | myisam/ directory, so we assume it is either built inside a myisam | structure or is only useable on myisam tables. Either way, transactions | and ACID guarantees will be lacking. | | * MySQL support for user defined functions has some limitations as well. | It appears that in order to create a user defined function, the | programmer must allocate the memory for the results before seeing the | return objects. For large and variable sized things like geometries, | this could be problematic. There might be work-arounds for this. | | * MySQL does not offer any real support for object-relational | functionality. PostGIS is built entirely on PostgreSQL?s | object-relational structure, making it very isolated from the postgresql | development and very easy to maintain. In fact, the only PgSQL-related | maintenance to PostGIS has occurred because of significant improvements | to the GIST index. | | 3. General Impressions | ---------------------- | | * 4.1 is still just the "testing" release, but we did find it | surprisingly brittle. Our attempts to create geometries in InnoDB | tables failed (fine) but created inconsistent system tables in the | process (not fine). Spatial indexes seemed impossible to create, until | we realized the creation command seemed be sensitive to the case of the | referenced table name. | | * The MySQL developers made a real effort to follow the OpenGIS | specification, sometimes to their own detriment. There are four | different MBR comparison functions, with the correct (and confusing) | OpenGIS-style function names (MBRContains, MBRTouches, MBRIntersects, | MBRWithin). Intersects and Touches are subtly different things. | | * There are no full predicates in this implementation, the predicate | functions are all stubs against bounding box operations. | | * There are no operators either (Intersection, Union, etc). | | * Basically, it is a start. With some data loading tools and a little | more stability for general purpose stuff, it could be a passable web | serving platform. | | | -- | __ | / | | Paul Ramsey | | Refractions Research | | Email: pramsey at refractions.net | | Phone: (250) 885-0632 | \_ | -- Frank Koormann Professional Service around Free Software (http://intevation.net/) FreeGIS Project (http://freegis.org/) From bernhard at intevation.de Tue Jul 15 16:02:11 2003 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:02:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS-Knoppix In-Reply-To: <200307081115.58422.pka@sourcepole.ch> References: <200307081115.58422.pka@sourcepole.ch> Message-ID: <20030715140211.GE1283@intevation.de> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote: > As suggested on this list we packaged a Knoppix CD with Open Source GIS > software and the first release is now available: > > http://www.sourcepole.com/sources/software/gis-knoppix/ > > GIS-Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of Linux and GIS software. It > has an automatic hardware detection and it is not necessary to install > anything on a hard disk. > Some installed applications are: > -GRASS > -UMN MapServer > -MapLab Thanks for the announcement. Have you removed the non-free part of Knoppix in the process? There are instructions on how to create a Free Software Knoppix, which we use as an basis for other developments: http://intevation.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs-misc.cgi/freie_software_knoppix/ http://intevation.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs-misc.cgi/*checkout*/freie_software_knoppix/knoppixAddFreedom.html?rev=1.12 Best, Bernhard -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Of course it has lots of other stuff (all source code, makefiles, instructions, etc.) that you don't need if all you want is to use the API and DLL to manipulate your shapes. Regards, Lewie A.J.F.M. "Lewie" Dekker Database Specialist ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation P.O.Box 35015 College, Laguna 4031, Philippines website: www.arcbc.org e-mail: database at arcbc.org Tel: +63 49 536-4042/1659/3989 Fax: +63 49 536-2865/3173 (also voice) From lewiemy at putra.net.my Wed Jul 16 10:03:37 2003 From: lewiemy at putra.net.my (Lewie Dekker) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:03:37 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] ShapeLib and Delphi In-Reply-To: <001b01c34b6b$10c9f280$0201a8c0@lanstorp> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030715163656.00a71110@mail.putra.net.my> <5.1.1.6.0.20030716144412.00a69740@mail.putra.net.my> Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20030716155825.00a64660@mail.putra.net.my> Correct. I also started out with the shapelibII.dll, but the interfacing has problems with Delphi. Something with the external declarations, I guess, though my own efforts to fix it failed. After some searching around I found the ShpApi129, which probably rewrote the offending bits, and so it works..... Regards, Lewie A.J.F.M. "Lewie" Dekker Database Specialist ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation P.O.Box 35015 College, Laguna 4031, Philippines website: www.arcbc.org e-mail: database at arcbc.org Tel: +63 49 536-4042/1659/3989 Fax: +63 49 536-2865/3173 (also voice) From poth at lat-lon.de Mon Jul 21 15:24:44 2003 From: poth at lat-lon.de (Andreas Poth) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:24:44 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] deegree WMS release Message-ID: <3F1BE99C.1090506@lat-lon.de> Hi, The new release of the deegree Web Map Service has been published by lat/lon and the at the WG GIS of the Geogr. Institute of the University of Bonn. In addition with a client it is available at: http://deegree.sourceforge.net/src/index.html The deegree WMS has been developed in the context of the OGC Conformance & Interoperability Testing & Evaluation Initiative (CITE) and will become the official reference implementation of the OGC WMS 1.1.1 specification. In Future each WMS which will be labeled as OGC WMS 1.1.1 compliant must pass the test suite which have been developed in CITE. The deegree WMS has passed 100 of 100 tests successfully. The deegree WMS comes along with several interesting features like: - support of Styled Layer Descriptors - automatic transformation of vector data into nearly 180 CRS if necessary - access to WFS, WCS and other (cascaded) WMS as data source - access to large raster data sets ( several GBs) through the deegree WCS - rtee-indexing for shape files - automatic and optimized label placement for point and polygon geometries ... In addition we launched the first stable release of the deegree WMSClient that can be used with every WMS that bases on the OGC WMS 1.1.0 or 1.1.1 specification. The client supports the usual map functions (ZOOM, PAN ...), layer selection, layer order changing, predefined projects and style selection for each layer. The WMS as well as the WMS Client can be downloaded from: http://deegree.sourceforge.net/src/index.html There you also will find the current deegree sources (if you don't want to check them out of the CVS) and source code dokumentation. regrads ANDREAS -- l a t / l o n Fitzke/Fretter/Poth GbR Meckenheimer Allee 176 53115 Bonn phone ++49 +228 73-2838 fax -2153 e-mail mailto:poth at lat-lon.de www http://www.lat-lon.de From fitzke at giub.uni-bonn.de Tue Jul 22 11:10:44 2003 From: fitzke at giub.uni-bonn.de (Jens Fitzke) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:10:44 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS CD: GRASS Message-ID: <3F1CFF94.1030403@giub.uni-bonn.de> Hi Folks, am I right that in the GRASS RPM which is part of the FreeGIS CD (I think the RPM's name was grass_5.0.2-3_i386.rpm) the MIF import module is not included? Jens From stef at zoomata.com Wed Jul 23 17:01:25 2003 From: stef at zoomata.com (Stefano Maffulli) Date: 23 Jul 2003 17:01:25 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] I use freegis for ... Message-ID: <1058972483.4371.66.camel@plusultraII.madeinlinux.intranet> Hi, I couldn't find info easily on the website about who is actually using freegis software for production purposes. The recreational compass and some other apps at ITC trento are pretty self evident, but for GeoServer, GisToolkit and other software it was not a successfull search. I think that for freegis advocates showing that the sw is actually *Used* and not only written (by lonely hackers, some would add) is a plus. How do you think adding this information on the freegis pages or somewhere else would be more convenient? I was thinking of using the same freegis pages, adding a table and a form on the website, but i don't know how much work it would be to maintain these info. Other suggestions? Comments? regards stef -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I agree to this analysis. > How do you think adding this information on the freegis pages or > somewhere else would be more convenient? I was thinking of using the > same freegis pages, adding a table and a form on the website, but i > don't know how much work it would be to maintain these info. Other > suggestions? Comments? Usually we push the project to link to usage cases from their homepages. This is the natural place someone would search for them, I'd say. As for MapServer and MapIt I know that they have such sections. On the more general subject: Maintaining the FreeGIS information on a high level is quite some work. Not many people value this expert information system in money so far. (see link in signature) We are quite happy that FreeGIS is very successfully providing a more or less comprehensive about what is out there. More information would be great, but will be an effort to maintain. Bernhard BTW: There is a team at fsfeurope.org list to help us maintain and enhance the FreeGIS webpages. If you don't want to help with your time, you can also help with some money. ;> -- 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: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20030723/74d20706/attachment.bin From jan at intevation.de Wed Jul 23 18:44:23 2003 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:44:23 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] I use freegis for ... In-Reply-To: <20030723162624.GL10517@intevation.de> References: <1058972483.4371.66.camel@plusultraII.madeinlinux.intranet> <20030723162624.GL10517@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20030723164423.GC18806@intevation.de> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > BTW: There is a team at fsfeurope.org list > to help us maintain and enhance the FreeGIS webpages. > If you don't want to help with your time, > you can also help with some money. ;> Bernahrd means team at freegis.org List page is at http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/team -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From Silke.Reimer at intevation.de Thu Jul 24 09:39:28 2003 From: Silke.Reimer at intevation.de (Silke Reimer) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:39:28 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS CD: GRASS In-Reply-To: <3F1CFF94.1030403@giub.uni-bonn.de> References: <3F1CFF94.1030403@giub.uni-bonn.de> Message-ID: <20030724073928.GB1157@intevation.de> Hi Jens, On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:10:44AM +0200, Jens Fitzke wrote: > Hi Folks, > > am I right that in the GRASS RPM which is part of the FreeGIS CD (I > think the RPM's name was grass_5.0.2-3_i386.rpm) the MIF import module > is not included? Yes, you are right. v.in.mif, the module for importing MIFs, is not included in the current GRASS RPM of the FreeGIS CD. Concerning v.in.mif the Changelog contains the following message: --------------------- 2002-06-21 14:44 bernhard * src/CMD/lists/GRASS: Tag: releasebranch_26_april_2002_5_0_0 Commented out "src/mapdev/v.in.mif" because it is broken according to infos on the development list --------------------- So, if the import module should be included into grass you should first fix v.in.mif. Another possibility could be to use the v.in.ogr module of GRASS 5.1. But I don't know anything about the stability of this code. And additionally GRASS 5.1 itself is not yet declared as to be stable. Perhaps you should ask for more information on the grass developers list. http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass5 Greetings, 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/20030724/033d4f1b/attachment.bin From morissette at dmsolutions.ca Fri Jul 25 06:40:50 2003 From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:40:50 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] MITAB 1.2.4 release - and new homepage Message-ID: <3F20B4D2.80501@dmsolutions.ca> Hi, Sorry for the cross-posting, this is a note for users of the MITAB library that aren't following the MITAB users list. Since yesterday MITAB has moved to a new home. The new URL is http://mitab.maptools.org/ A redirection page has been put on the old website (http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-mitab.html) but this site may be taken down any time, so please update your bookmarks. Thanks Daniel -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Morissette morissette at dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ From Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us Thu Jul 24 18:45:06 2003 From: Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us (Benjamin.STABLER@odot.state.or.us) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:45:06 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] shapefiles package for R (r-project.org) Message-ID: <76A000A82289D411952F001083F9DD06047FE19B@exsalem4-bu.odot.state.or.us> You might want to add the shapefiles package for R. It can be found at: http://cran.us.r-project.org/index.html or http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html#shapefiles or http://www.odot.state.or.us/tddtpau/R.html Thanks, Benjamin Stabler Transportation Planning Analysis Unit Oregon Department of Transportation 555 13th Street NE, Suite 2 Salem, OR 97301 Ph: 503-986-4104 From raanders at acm.org Thu Jul 31 20:17:32 2003 From: raanders at acm.org (Roderick A. Anderson) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Freegis-list] DeLorme Topo like functionality Message-ID: Before I get too far into this next project I'd like to know if anyone has something similar already started or working. Google searches give too many or vague results so I am asking here. I'd like to provide (for internal use < 20 users) some of the functionality that Delorme Topo USA does but using FreeGIS software. Mostly we need to locate wireless towers, draw circles at specific radii from them and locate sites using addresses. I am sure all the functionality is available but probably not tied together into an application. But ... just incase I'd rather use or modify someone else's wheel not invent my own. (PostGIS, Mapserver, and some CGI?) Thanks in advance, Rod -- "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."