From catalin.florescu at rosa.ro  Mon Nov  3 10:16:27 2003
From: catalin.florescu at rosa.ro (Catalin Florescu)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:16:27 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] spring
Message-ID: <000801c3a1ec$c8aef990$af01a8c0@tcprom5>

i need to add some extra projections in spring, as Streographic Transverse Mercator, or add the Krasovsky spheroid and the Pulkowo 1942 datum within the projections. can anyone help me with that, please?
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From bernhard at intevation.de  Mon Nov  3 11:39:46 2003
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:39:46 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] spring
In-Reply-To: <000801c3a1ec$c8aef990$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
References: <000801c3a1ec$c8aef990$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
Message-ID: <20031103103946.GF6191@intevation.de>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:16:27AM +0200, Catalin Florescu wrote:
> 
>    i need to add some 
     ...
>    in spring, 

>    can anyone help me with that, please?

Spring is proprietary software.
This list exclusively is about Free Software.

Please do not ask for or give help for proprietary software over this list.

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From eduardo at consultoria.eti.br  Mon Nov  3 12:12:25 2003
From: eduardo at consultoria.eti.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Mon,  3 Nov 2003 09:12:25 -0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] software for image classification
Message-ID: <20031103111225.13794.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>

I'm looking for a tool for image classification ...

what will be good options among freesoftware tools? OSSIM?

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.consultoria.eti.br - BRASIL
F?rum ptMapServer - http://www.consultoria.eti.br/mapserverptforum/
ClickBrasil - http://www.consultoria.eti.br/clickbrasil/
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From neteler at itc.it  Tue Nov  4 12:21:21 2003
From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:21:21 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] software for image classification
In-Reply-To: <20031103111225.13794.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>;
	from eduardo@consultoria.eti.br on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at
	09:12:25AM -0200
References: <20031103111225.13794.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>
Message-ID: <20031104122121.E14594@itc.it>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:12:25AM -0200, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool for image classification ...
> 
> what will be good options among freesoftware tools? OSSIM?

GRASS is quite powerful:
http://grass.itc.it/

For a (slightly outdated) list of GRASS capabilities, see
http://grass.itc.it/capabilities.html

For image processing command description, see:
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/imagery.html

Cheers

-- 
Markus Neteler     <neteler at itc.it>       http://mpa.itc.it
ITC-irst, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
MPBA - Predictive Models for Biol. & Environ. Data Analysis
Via Sommarive, 18        -       38050 Povo (Trento), Italy



From jan at intevation.de  Tue Nov  4 15:37:25 2003
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:37:25 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Unable to edit shapefiles converted from autocad
	drawings
In-Reply-To: <003101c39eba$77fb2800$0e00a8c0@Bush>
References: <20031026110003.AD5E313BC9@lists.intevation.de>
	<003101c39eba$77fb2800$0e00a8c0@Bush>
Message-ID: <20031104143725.GB4505@intevation.de>

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +1100, Bush Ahmed wrote:
> 1. I can add an Autocad drawing or dxf drawing (or parts thereof) as a theme
> to a view in the ArcView. I can't edit these. However even when I convert
> these to a shapefile under Theme menu, I still am unable to edit the
> resulting shapefile. The Start Editing... commands are still greyed out. I
> find this a real pain. I am forced to use a very 'unfriendly' Autocad
> program to edit the drawing before adding it to ArcView again.
> 
> 2. The annotation (text) which comes in Autocad or dxf drawing is visible
> (added as theme) in ArcView but I can't edit or move it, nor can I convert
> it to a shapefile. Its 'position' gets converted as a 'line' instead.
> 
> I frequently need to convert drawings from agd66 to gda94 and the ability to
> edit vector data or annotation (e.g. contours values) will help greatly.
> 
> Can you help please?

this list is concerned with Free GIS Software. ArcView is a proprietary
software, so you should look for discussion boards dedicated to ArcView.

Best

-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH	              	     http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS	                               http://freegis.org/



From jan at intevation.de  Tue Nov  4 15:40:35 2003
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:40:35 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] phpgis
In-Reply-To: <200310301811.20268.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <200310301811.20268.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <20031104144035.GC4505@intevation.de>

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:11:18PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Does somebody know whether phpgis is still alive?
> I am trying to connect to their site http://www.phpgis.org, without results.

this projects seems to have disappeared indeed. Even  the freshmeat
entry vanished.

Please, if anyone has one of the latest releases, send it to me so that
I can put it on the FreeGIS ftp server until someone decides to take
up activities on phpgis again.

Best

	Jan
-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH	              	     http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS	                               http://freegis.org/



From jan at intevation.de  Wed Nov  5 10:51:50 2003
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:51:50 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] FreeGIS suggestion: DC Maintenance Management
	System
In-Reply-To: <OFDE975BA9.29851161-ON42256D82.0066B715-43256D82.00636F2C@dorsch.com.jo>
References: <OFDE975BA9.29851161-ON42256D82.0066B715-43256D82.00636F2C@dorsch.com.jo>
Message-ID: <20031105095150.GA8155@intevation.de>

Hi Steffen,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:46:07PM +0300, Steffen_Macke at dorsch.com.jo wrote:
> I would like to suggest the DC Maintenance Management System (DCMMS) to be
> added to the FreeGIS index.
> DCMMS is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints
> and repairs in water
> supply networks. It is using landmarks rather than street/house number
> based addresses and is therefore
> suited for areas that don't have a consistent address system.
> DCMMS uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS. The license is GPL.
> It's available from
> http://dcmms.sourceforge.net

thanks for the hint. I added DCMMS to FreeGIS.

All the best

	Jan
-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH	              	     http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS	                               http://freegis.org/



From neteler at itc.it  Fri Nov  7 10:27:53 2003
From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:27:53 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] About GRASS Users Conference 2004
Message-ID: <20031107102753.D31325@itc.it>

Find attached a forward from the GRASS user Mailing list.
(forwared with permission). Please distribute where appropriate.

M.N.
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From dscarselli at inwind.it  Fri Nov  7 18:22:30 2003
From: dscarselli at inwind.it (Daniele Scarselli)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:22:30 +0000
Subject: [Freegis-list] waypoints
Message-ID: <200311071722.30366.dscarselli@inwind.it>

Hi,
I've to download some waypoints from GPS (garmin) to Grass. in this programs 
there is a software (gpstrans) that automatically makes this operation and 
downloads the points in UTM. I live in Italy, so I've to traslate the wpts 
from UTM to Gauss Boaga. Is there a method to traslate directly in GB instead 
of using a spreadsheet? Can i set the GPS to do this?

-- 
Daniele Scarselli



From gilberto at dpi.inpe.br  Sat Nov  8 22:51:32 2003
From: gilberto at dpi.inpe.br (Gilberto Camara)
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:51:32 -0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Clearing up the terralib/terraview discussion.
In-Reply-To: <1067022242.3468.145.camel@tsetse.lab-net>
References: <20031024092925.GG26129@intevation.de>	
	<20031024122611.19411.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>	
	<20031024125321.GB4189@intevation.de>
	<1067022242.3468.145.camel@tsetse.lab-net>
Message-ID: <3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br>

Dear Adrian and FreeGIS list members

I would like to thank Adrian and all other FreeGIS members
for constructive comments regarding the status of TerraLib
and TerraView. We have discussed the matter at INPE and
have decided upon the following policy:

(a) TerraLib will remain licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (formely known as the GNU Library Public License).

(b) TerraView will be licensed under the GNU General Public License.

We have added a note to the TerraLib/TerraView website that
explicity indicates this policy. Those interested may look under

http://www.terralib.org/copyright.html (for TerraLib) and

http://www.terralib.org/applications.html (for TerraView).

We are in the process of including an explicit license notice
in all TerraLib and TerraView files.

I hope this serves as clarification of our license policies.

Best regards,
Gilberto Camara

=====================================
Dr.Gilberto Camara            
Director for Earth Observation
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil (INPE)
voice: +55-12-3945-6499 
fax:   +55-12-3945-6460
home: www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto
=====================================

Adrian Custer wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>We are all suffering from a language gap and from the past discussions
>over this software. It seems to me that *everyone* means well. Everyone
>who is reading this please note that the software being distributed as
>TerraLib has changed since the eariler discussion and many of your
>earlier notions no longer apply. The current software is distributed as
>a single tarball with a note on the website that it is to be considered
>LGPL. 
>
>This is an effort to clear this up once and for all. Plese, let's work
>in as gentle a manner as possible. The group that created Terra*, and
>Dr. Camara in particular, include people we really want to encourage to
>participate in the FreeGIS effort. 
>
>First of all, Dr. Camara has repeatedly claimed and suggested that
>TerraView is also free software. We simply need to clear up why he
>thinks it is, and why others think its not and come to a resolution.
>
>Secondly, and from an outsider view, it looks like this group is moving
>in the right direction. The group worked on SPRING which looks like it
>must be a pretty cool piece of software. SPRING is not free, I suspect,
>by historical accident more than philosphical persuasion. It's free in
>free beer which, while a minor freedom in free software, shows that the
>intent was not far from true free software. Note that SPRING was
>released several years ago, long before, one suspects, the arguments for
>free software would actually register in an institution like Brazil's
>INPE. That Dr. Camara and his group have managed to move Terralib to the
>lgpl is a *huge* step.
>
>Could we in the FreeGIS community send an email to Dr. Camera and his
>group laying out what our reservations are?  Here is my example email,
>if suggestions could go to the list, I would appreciate it. Then perhaps
>one of the core FreeGIS'ers can actually send it on our behalf. I have
>cc'ed Dr. Camara to this email since I believe it will explain better
>what is going on. 
>
>Please, Dr. Camara note that others may want to add to this
>explaination; in the current state this is merely my understanding.
>Also, as an aside I am quite taken by you work on map algebras and hope
>to think more about them in the future.
>
>
>
>********************************************************************
>Dear TerraView team,
>
>Congratulations on releasing TerraLib as free software, and thanks for
>the great work. 
>
>We at the FreeGIS project ( http://www.freegis.org ) are still slightly
>confused by the license scheme of your software, partly because of how
>terraview interacts with the Qt library which has its own set of legal
>restrictions. If you would be willing to work with us to clear this up,
>we would appreciate your effort and we would then better be able to
>promote the part of your work that we truely felt was free software.
>
>
>I. Applying the LGPL:
>--------------------
>
>You clearly intend to release all of this software under the LGPL. You
>state on your web site, under "Downloads" "Copyright":
>
>"This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
>the Free Software Foundation - version 2.1."
>
>While this should be sufficient to assume all your software is indeed
>released under the LGPL, simply making this assumption is not a smart
>legal strategy. To make things safer for everyone, the LGPL asks you to
>do several things if you want to use it. (Please see:
>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html#SEC4  ). Specifically, the LGPL
>asks you to:
>
>1) start each file with a statement that it's LGPL.
>
>2) include the LGPL in your tarball. (At the bottom of the statement to
>be included in every file are the words: "You should have received a
>copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library".)
>
>Looking at a few of the files in your tarball, none of them start with
>the license statement, and your tarball as a whole does not contain the
>LGPL. It will require some simple but boring work to change this but
>it's actually important for various legal jurisdictions. For instance,
>one of us, Adrian Custer, could not safely use your work because he
>could not be sure that under california law he would be protected.
>
>Once you have taken these two steps, we would all consider your software
>*code* to be free and could use parts of it to develop other
>applications. 
>
>
>II. Conflicts with Qt:
>---------------------
>
>However, there is one additional problem which seems to several of us to
>prevent the compiled result of your code (that is the functional
>program) to be considered free. The problem is complicated but
>sufficiently important that it currently prevents us from contributing
>to and expanding on your work.
>
>This arises, not because of your efforts, but because of Trolltech's
>license and its interaction with your code. Trolltech gives you the
>right to use Qt as a free software library *only* if you release your
>software under the GPL (not the LGPL which you use). There would be
>several ways to resolve this problem but each solution requires work and
>you would have to decide what you intended to do.
>
>1) you could simply release all your software under the GPL instead of
>the LGPL. You would have to do steps (1) and (2) above using the GPL
>instead of the LGPL.
>
>2) you could split your software into two packages and relase TerraLib
>as LGPL software and TerraView (all the pieces that use Qt) as GPL
>software. Again you would have to do steps (1) and (2) above for each
>piece. To make sure there was no confusion, it would be best then to
>split the two projects.
>
>3) you could switch from the Qt library to another library, like GTK+,
>which is released under the LGPL and therefore does not lead to this
>problem.
>
>( To the freegis group: ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS? )
>
>We realize that we are asking you to do a fair amount of work but
>believe that as a result of this work your software will become more
>useful to a larger audience. We are all comitted to helping each other
>build world class software for use in geographic information systems.
>Please realize that free software is sometimes legally complicated but
>that all projects must resolve these issues to be successful.
>
>
>Thanks again for your contributions and we look forward to hearing from
>you what you have chosen to do,
>
>The FreeGIS Collaboration including:
>
>...
>...
>Adrian Custer
>...
>
>**************************************************************************
>
>
>
>
>
>P.S. So this took longer than I had hoped. Free Software can be work!
>
>On the good side, I just got JUMP running correctly recently and am
>*very* excited about the next year in the Free GIS world. I will soon be
>able to teach GIS exclusively with free software and free data which is
>a HUGE step forward. 
>
>All the best,
>ciao,
>adrian
>
>
>
>
>  
>




From guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com  Mon Nov 10 20:40:56 2003
From: guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com (Guy Edwards)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:40:56 +0000
Subject: [Freegis-list] Free DXF-Viewer, Converter?
In-Reply-To: <20031030184514.269b9bc1.sholl@gmx.net>
References: <20031030184514.269b9bc1.sholl@gmx.net>
Message-ID: <1068493256.16759.20.camel@linstation.rebelbase>

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:45, Stephan Holl wrote:
[snip]
> Lx-viewer was found, but it needs the OpenDWG-libs, which are
> proprietary.
> Any help will be appreciated.

Sorry for the late response. We're (Lx-Viewer) currently working on two
things that should help fix this.

 1. I've been helping pythonCAD who are writing a free dwg library, or
at least heading towards it. I can't code myself but I managed to put
together a collection of about 17,000 DWG files and run the program
through them to find errors with different versions as they developed,
which helped fix a few bugs apparently. I'm kind of hoping we'll be able
to use it with the below (2)

 2. The main Lx-Viewer developer is working on a totally new v2 that
isn't in the CVs yet but is designed to work without the OpenDWG libs.
It's not about yet, hopefully in a month or so.

I know it stinks in the meantime, but I just thought I'd mail to say we
are trying to do something about it.

Thanks,
Guy




From jan at intevation.de  Tue Nov 11 16:53:13 2003
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:53:13 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Clearing up the terralib/terraview discussion.
In-Reply-To: <3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br>
References: <20031024092925.GG26129@intevation.de>
	<20031024122611.19411.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>
	<20031024125321.GB4189@intevation.de>
	<1067022242.3468.145.camel@tsetse.lab-net>
	<3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br>
Message-ID: <20031111155313.GD6349@intevation.de>

Dear Gilberto,

thanks for the final clarification.

Today I added TerraView to FreeGIS.org.

I wish you all the best for a fruitful further
development of TerraLib/TerraView!

All the best

	Jan

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 07:51:32PM -0200, Gilberto Camara wrote:
> I would like to thank Adrian and all other FreeGIS members
> for constructive comments regarding the status of TerraLib
> and TerraView. We have discussed the matter at INPE and
> have decided upon the following policy:
> 
> (a) TerraLib will remain licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
> License (formely known as the GNU Library Public License).
> 
> (b) TerraView will be licensed under the GNU General Public License.
> 
> We have added a note to the TerraLib/TerraView website that
> explicity indicates this policy. Those interested may look under
> 
> http://www.terralib.org/copyright.html (for TerraLib) and
> 
> http://www.terralib.org/applications.html (for TerraView).
> 
> We are in the process of including an explicit license notice
> in all TerraLib and TerraView files.
> 
> I hope this serves as clarification of our license policies.

-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH	              	     http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS	                               http://freegis.org/



From bernhard at intevation.de  Tue Nov 11 17:33:35 2003
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:33:35 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Free DXF-Viewer, Converter?
In-Reply-To: <1068493256.16759.20.camel@linstation.rebelbase>
References: <20031030184514.269b9bc1.sholl@gmx.net>
	<1068493256.16759.20.camel@linstation.rebelbase>
Message-ID: <20031111163335.GA3021@intevation.de>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:40:56PM +0000, Guy Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:45, Stephan Holl wrote:

> > Lx-viewer was found, but it needs the OpenDWG-libs, which are
> > proprietary.
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Sorry for the late response. We're (Lx-Viewer) currently working on two
> things that should help fix this.
> 
>  1. I've been helping pythonCAD who are writing a free dwg library, or
> at least heading towards it. I can't code myself but I managed to put
> together a collection of about 17,000 DWG files and run the program
> through them to find errors with different versions as they developed,
> which helped fix a few bugs apparently. I'm kind of hoping we'll be able
> to use it with the below (2)

Cool.

It would make sense to make that a project on its own,
so that other graphic, CAD or GIS applications could benefit
from the knowledge about the format?

The GRASS community also needs a good DXF/DWG reader libraries.

Also it might attract even more help.
Because it is going to be a competition against the proprietary
Opendwg libs, considering the GNU LGPL might make sense for this
code piece.

Do you have pointer for the discussion why the pythonCAD people
did not improve any of the existing libraries?
E.g. DIME or dxflib.

>  2. The main Lx-Viewer developer is working on a totally new v2 that
> isn't in the CVs yet but is designed to work without the OpenDWG libs.
> It's not about yet, hopefully in a month or so.

Still good news!


-- 
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If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service:
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From guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com  Tue Nov 11 20:11:11 2003
From: guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com (Guy Edwards)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:11:11 +0000
Subject: [Freegis-list] Free DXF-Viewer, Converter?
In-Reply-To: <20031111163335.GA3021@intevation.de>
References: <20031030184514.269b9bc1.sholl@gmx.net>
	<1068493256.16759.20.camel@linstation.rebelbase>
	<20031111163335.GA3021@intevation.de>
Message-ID: <1068577871.24203.16.camel@linstation.rebelbase>

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:33, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
[snip]
> Also it might attract even more help.
> Because it is going to be a competition against the proprietary
> Opendwg libs, considering the GNU LGPL might make sense for this
> code piece.
> 
> Do you have pointer for the discussion why the pythonCAD people
> did not improve any of the existing libraries?
> E.g. DIME or dxflib.

hmm... I better make sure I get my facts straight :-)

Maybe I shouldn't have called it a library? I'm not a programmer.  I
think originally it was just a sort of test python script to read/ parse
DWG files and it's just grown from that. I can't speak for their project
but I think they wanted to use python and also maybe they weren't
expecting it to grow into a library as such.

I haven't spoken to Art Haas the guy who was writing it in a while. He
is in the PythonCAD project which should be http://www.pythoncad.org/
but that appears to be down at the moment?

google cache url:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:Hw5FV7PpvywJ:www.pythoncad.org/+pythoncad&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8
 
His original post that sparked it off is here: (text)
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/dwg/original_post.txt
It should also be in the cad-linux mailing list archives
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux

I helped with the testing by using a web page but it's out of date and
my scripting efforts to help were pretty poor.
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/dwg/dwg.php

Guy




From matt.wilkie at gov.yk.ca  Wed Nov 12 19:50:38 2003
From: matt.wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt Wilkie)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:50:38 -0800
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Clearing up the terralib/terraview discussion.
In-Reply-To: <3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br>
References: <3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br>
Message-ID: <3FB280FE.8040606@gov.yk.ca>

Dear Gilberto,

I am happy the license questions have been sorted out. Thank you for 
being able to respond to the concerns raised by the list in a clear and 
forthright manner.

cheers,
-- 
matt wilkie
--------------------------------------------
Geographic Information,
Information Management and Technology,
Yukon Department of Environment
10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9
867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax
--------------------------------------------




From gilberto at dpi.inpe.br  Thu Nov 13 01:15:37 2003
From: gilberto at dpi.inpe.br (Gilberto Camara)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:15:37 -0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Clearing up the terralib/terraview discussion.
In-Reply-To: <3FB280FE.8040606@gov.yk.ca>
References: <3FAD6564.1050709@dpi.inpe.br> <3FB280FE.8040606@gov.yk.ca>
Message-ID: <3FB2CD29.1070004@dpi.inpe.br>

Dear Matt and FreeGISers

Thanks for your support.

All the best
Gilberto

Matt Wilkie wrote:

> Dear Gilberto,
>
> I am happy the license questions have been sorted out. Thank you for 
> being able to respond to the concerns raised by the list in a clear 
> and forthright manner.
>
> cheers,


-- 
=====================================
Dr.Gilberto Camara             
Director for Earth Observation 
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil (INPE)
Av. dos Astronautas,1.758 - Jd. Granja - 
12227-010 S?o Jos? dos Campos - SP - Brasil

voice: +55-12-3945-6499  
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From holgerzebner at gmx.de  Wed Nov 19 18:08:26 2003
From: holgerzebner at gmx.de (Holger Zebner)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:08:26 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Problems installing PostGIS
Message-ID: <200311191808.26866.holgerzebner@gmx.de>

Hello,
I have a problem when running "make" for PostGIS.

See the typescript includes below.

Do you have any idea?

Thank you,
Holger

I includeScript wurde gestartet: Mi 19 Nov 2003 17:56:28 CET
[root:/usr/local/src/postgis-0.7.5#501]# ch  checkinstall 

checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.



Installing with "make install"...

========================= Installation results ===========================

Copying documentation directory...
Makefile:27: ../../src/Makefile.global: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Makefile:111: /src/Makefile.shlib: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make: *** Keine Regel, um ?/src/Makefile.shlib? zu erstellen.  Schluss.

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Restoring overwritten files from backup...OK

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

[root:/usr/local/src/postgis-0.7.5#502]# 
Script beendet: Mi 19 Nov 2003 17:56:45 CET



From Silke.Reimer at intevation.de  Thu Nov 20 09:22:00 2003
From: Silke.Reimer at intevation.de (Silke Reimer)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:22:00 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Problems installing PostGIS
In-Reply-To: <200311191808.26866.holgerzebner@gmx.de>
References: <200311191808.26866.holgerzebner@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <20031120082200.GA26278@intevation.de>

Hallo Holger,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:08:26PM +0100, Holger Zebner wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a problem when running "make" for PostGIS.
> 
> See the typescript includes below.
> 
> Do you have any idea?

Before you can build and install PostGIS you first have to build
postgresql from source. The make process is needing the
Makefile.global from postgreSQL for a correct configuration of
PostGIS.

I recommand to have a look on 
	http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/
and especially
	http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/c59.html
and 	http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/x83.html
to read more about how to compile postgis.

There is also an email list for postgis where you can ask all
postGIS specific questions:
	http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Greetings,

	Silke

> 
> Thank you,
> Holger
> 
> I includeScript wurde gestartet: Mi 19 Nov 2003 17:56:28 CET
> [root:/usr/local/src/postgis-0.7.5#501]# ch  checkinstall 
> 
> checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
>            This software is released under the GNU GPL.
> 
> 
> 
> Installing with "make install"...
> 
> ========================= Installation results ===========================
> 
> Copying documentation directory...
> Makefile:27: ../../src/Makefile.global: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Makefile:111: /src/Makefile.shlib: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> make: *** Keine Regel, um ?/src/Makefile.shlib? zu erstellen.  Schluss.
> 
> ****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
> 
> Restoring overwritten files from backup...OK
> 
> Cleaning up...OK
> 
> Bye.
> 
> [root:/usr/local/src/postgis-0.7.5#502]# 
> Script beendet: Mi 19 Nov 2003 17:56:45 CET
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list

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From cavallini at faunalia.it  Thu Nov 20 13:24:04 2003
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:24:04 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
Message-ID: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>

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Dear all,
I have just a basic question:
which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are trying 
GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.
Many thanks.
pc
- -- 
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it            www.faunalia.it
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
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From catalin.florescu at rosa.ro  Thu Nov 20 13:30:37 2003
From: catalin.florescu at rosa.ro (Catalin Florescu)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:30:37 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <000c01c3af62$1ab0b530$af01a8c0@tcprom5>

what does "heavy shapefile digitizing" mean?
the smoothness of digitizing depends on the vertex density, meaning that
where the contour is the most curved, there should be a higher density of
points, and that does not depend on the software, but on the person who
digitizes.


----- Original Message ----- 
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To: "FreeGIS list" <freegis-list at intevation.de>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes


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Dear all,
I have just a basic question:
which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are
trying
GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.
Many thanks.
pc
- -- 
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it            www.faunalia.it
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
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From james.card at calcad.com  Thu Nov 20 14:59:19 2003
From: james.card at calcad.com (James Card)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:59:19 -0800
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
In-Reply-To: <000c01c3af62$1ab0b530$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
	<000c01c3af62$1ab0b530$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
Message-ID: <opryxvs5pu455bou@localhost>

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:30:37 +0200, Catalin Florescu 
<catalin.florescu at rosa.ro> wrote:

> Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:24 PM "Paolo Cavallini" 
> <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
>> I have just a basic question:
>> which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are
>> trying GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.
>
> what does "heavy shapefile digitizing" mean?
> the smoothness of digitizing depends on the vertex density, meaning that
> where the contour is the most curved, there should be a higher density of
> points, and that does not depend on the software, but on the person who
> digitizes.

I suspect the issue is not how smooth the lines and polygons are, rather 
how smooth the user interface is.

Some tools are optimized for fast efficient digitization (input and 
editing of spatial data), and others may allow editing but (since their 
primary purpose is visualization or output) their user interface makes the 
task more difficult.

As an example, (using proprietary software, unfortunately) my little bit 
of experience in digitizing spatial data taught me that I could enter data 
much more efficiently using ArcInfo, but ArcView was OK for some light 
editing tasks. ArcView could digitize, but ArcInfo made it much easier.

Since I'm new to the FreeGIS arena I don't have the answer to the original 
question though: what FreeGIS tools might be more effective for digitizing 
spatial data than GRASS is?

-- 
James Card
California CAD Solutions, Inc.
209 578-5580 Voice
209 521-6493 FAX



From cavallini at faunalia.it  Thu Nov 20 15:19:03 2003
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:19:03 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
In-Reply-To: <opryxvs5pu455bou@localhost>
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
	<000c01c3af62$1ab0b530$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
	<opryxvs5pu455bou@localhost>
Message-ID: <200311201519.05815.cavallini@faunalia.it>

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Sorry I was unclear. Yes, the question was to have a nice, simple yet powerful 
user interface for digitizing large numbers of objects, with the ability of 
splitting and merging parcels easily, etc.
Thanks for clarifying this.
Paolo

At 14:59, gioved? 20 novembre 2003, James Card has probably written:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:30:37 +0200, Catalin Florescu
>
> <catalin.florescu at rosa.ro> wrote:
> > Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:24 PM "Paolo Cavallini"
> >
> > <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> >> I have just a basic question:
> >> which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are
> >> trying GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.
> >
> > what does "heavy shapefile digitizing" mean?
> > the smoothness of digitizing depends on the vertex density, meaning that
> > where the contour is the most curved, there should be a higher density of
> > points, and that does not depend on the software, but on the person who
> > digitizes.
>
> I suspect the issue is not how smooth the lines and polygons are, rather
> how smooth the user interface is.
>
> Some tools are optimized for fast efficient digitization (input and
> editing of spatial data), and others may allow editing but (since their
> primary purpose is visualization or output) their user interface makes the
> task more difficult.
>
> As an example, (using proprietary software, unfortunately) my little bit
> of experience in digitizing spatial data taught me that I could enter data
> much more efficiently using ArcInfo, but ArcView was OK for some light
> editing tasks. ArcView could digitize, but ArcInfo made it much easier.
>
> Since I'm new to the FreeGIS arena I don't have the answer to the original
> question though: what FreeGIS tools might be more effective for digitizing
> spatial data than GRASS is?

- -- 
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it            www.faunalia.it
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
GPG key @: www.faunalia.it/Public_key_Paolo.asc
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From jan at intevation.de  Fri Nov 21 14:21:50 2003
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:21:50 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
In-Reply-To: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <20031121132150.GA28355@intevation.de>

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are trying 
> GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.

if you are going for a mass digitization you can implement you own
work flow. Free GIS Software supports this since you can even adapt
the code to support your workflow.

IMHO, GRASS allows to implement your personal workflow. You will need
some programming experience or someone who has, though.

Best

	Jan
-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH	              	     http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS	                               http://freegis.org/



From neteler at itc.it  Fri Nov 21 16:23:23 2003
From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:23:23 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
In-Reply-To: <200311201519.05815.cavallini@faunalia.it>;
	from cavallini@faunalia.it on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:19:03PM
	+0100
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
	<000c01c3af62$1ab0b530$af01a8c0@tcprom5>
	<opryxvs5pu455bou@localhost>
	<200311201519.05815.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <20031121162323.J30484@itc.it>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:19:03PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Sorry I was unclear. Yes, the question was to have a nice, simple yet powerful 
> user interface for digitizing large numbers of objects, with the ability of 
> splitting and merging parcels easily, etc.
> Thanks for clarifying this.
> Paolo

Just FYI: The new GRASS 5.7 digitizing tool looks like this:

 http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass57/vdigit_grass57.jpg
 (160kb)

You can digitize and directly feed the attribute table.

Markus



From fitzke at lat-lon.de  Fri Nov 21 17:47:11 2003
From: fitzke at lat-lon.de (Jens Fitzke)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:47:11 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] editing shapes
In-Reply-To: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <200311201324.11964.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <3FBE418F.3000100@lat-lon.de>

You can give JUMP a try.
   http://freegis.org/search.en.html?search=jump
This is not really a recommendation, since I never edited a single 
geometry with it, but from the docs and the UI it promises to be an 
appropriate tool. It is Java-based and GPL-licensed.

Jens

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> 
> Dear all,
> I have just a basic question:
> which software would you suggest for heavy shapefile digitizing? We are trying 
> GRASS, but it seems not very smooth.
> Many thanks.
> pc
> - -- 
> Paolo Cavallini
> cavallini at faunalia.it            www.faunalia.it
> Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
> GPG key @: www.faunalia.it/Public_key_Paolo.asc
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From pramsey at refractions.net  Tue Nov 25 04:49:31 2003
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:49:31 -0800
Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released
Message-ID: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>


Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
0.8.0, the first version of PostGIS to support all the functions in the
OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" specification.

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the
PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database
for geographic information systems (GIS).

Since we started the PostGIS project in 2001, we have had the goal of
supporting all the functions in the SFSQL specification, so finally
completing that goal is a big step!  We have included the OpenGIS SFSQL
test script in the distribution so you can test it out yourself.

Among the (many) new SFSQL functions we have added are:

- Contains(), Within(), Touches(), Disjoint(),
- Overlaps(), Intersects(),  Crosses(), Relate()
- Intersection(), GeomUnion(), Buffer(), Difference()
- ConvexHull(), SymmetricDifference()

Also some non SFSQL functions, inspired by the spec:

- Aggregates: GeomUnion() in-memory geometry aggregate
- Aggregates: MemGeomUnion() memory-safe slower aggregate

Version 0.8.0 also includes support for the recently released
PostgreSQL version 7.4.

PostGIS is open source software licensed under the GNU GPL.

For more information, see http://postgis.refractions.net


       __
      /
      | Paul Ramsey
      | Refractions Research
      | Email: pramsey at refractions.net
      \_




From cavallini at faunalia.it  Tue Nov 25 13:25:29 2003
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:25:29 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released
In-Reply-To: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>
References: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>

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That's great!
But reading the installation notes, it turns out that I have to recompile 
Postgre, which is something I would prefer to avoid (first, I do not know 
what to do, second, my Postgre system is crucial for our work, and I wouldn't 
like to destabilize it).
Any suggestions?
All the best, and many thanks.
Paolo

At 04:49, marted? 25 novembre 2003, Paul Ramsey has probably written:
> Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
> 0.8.0, the first version of PostGIS to support all the functions in the
> OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" specification.
>
> PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
> object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the
> PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database
> for geographic information systems (GIS).
>
> Since we started the PostGIS project in 2001, we have had the goal of
> supporting all the functions in the SFSQL specification, so finally
> completing that goal is a big step!  We have included the OpenGIS SFSQL
> test script in the distribution so you can test it out yourself.
>
> Among the (many) new SFSQL functions we have added are:
>
> - Contains(), Within(), Touches(), Disjoint(),
> - Overlaps(), Intersects(),  Crosses(), Relate()
> - Intersection(), GeomUnion(), Buffer(), Difference()
> - ConvexHull(), SymmetricDifference()
>
> Also some non SFSQL functions, inspired by the spec:
>
> - Aggregates: GeomUnion() in-memory geometry aggregate
> - Aggregates: MemGeomUnion() memory-safe slower aggregate
>
> Version 0.8.0 also includes support for the recently released
> PostgreSQL version 7.4.
>
> PostGIS is open source software licensed under the GNU GPL.
>
> For more information, see http://postgis.refractions.net
>
>
>        __
>       /
>
>       | Paul Ramsey
>       | Refractions Research
>       | Email: pramsey at refractions.net
>
>       \_
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list

- -- 
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it            www.faunalia.it
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
GPG key @: www.faunalia.it/Public_key_Paolo.asc
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From Ari.Jolma at hut.fi  Tue Nov 25 13:42:56 2003
From: Ari.Jolma at hut.fi (Ari Jolma)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:42:56 +0200
Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released
In-Reply-To: <200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>
	<200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <3FC34E50.1010309@hut.fi>

Paolo Cavallini wrote:

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>
>That's great!
>But reading the installation notes, it turns out that I have to recompile 
>Postgre, which is something I would prefer to avoid (first, I do not know 
>what to do, second, my Postgre system is crucial for our work, and I wouldn't 
>like to destabilize it).
>Any suggestions?
>All the best, and many thanks.
>Paolo
>  
>

Are you sure? The README.postgis file says only that you need the 
PostgreSQL source. I.e. you just need to get that if you have installed 
a binary distro. PostGIS itself you need to compile.

I have not yet installed this version of postgis but probably should do 
that in the near future. I also have only a binary rpm of PostgreSQL 
installed currently.

Ari

>At 04:49, marted? 25 novembre 2003, Paul Ramsey has probably written:
>  
>
>>Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
>>0.8.0, the first version of PostGIS to support all the functions in the
>>OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" specification.
>>
>>PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
>>object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the
>>PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database
>>for geographic information systems (GIS).
>>
>>Since we started the PostGIS project in 2001, we have had the goal of
>>supporting all the functions in the SFSQL specification, so finally
>>completing that goal is a big step!  We have included the OpenGIS SFSQL
>>test script in the distribution so you can test it out yourself.
>>
>>Among the (many) new SFSQL functions we have added are:
>>
>>- Contains(), Within(), Touches(), Disjoint(),
>>- Overlaps(), Intersects(),  Crosses(), Relate()
>>- Intersection(), GeomUnion(), Buffer(), Difference()
>>- ConvexHull(), SymmetricDifference()
>>
>>Also some non SFSQL functions, inspired by the spec:
>>
>>- Aggregates: GeomUnion() in-memory geometry aggregate
>>- Aggregates: MemGeomUnion() memory-safe slower aggregate
>>
>>Version 0.8.0 also includes support for the recently released
>>PostgreSQL version 7.4.
>>
>>PostGIS is open source software licensed under the GNU GPL.
>>
>>For more information, see http://postgis.refractions.net
>>
>>
>>       __
>>      /
>>
>>      | Paul Ramsey
>>      | Refractions Research
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From bernhard at intevation.de  Tue Nov 25 14:07:33 2003
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:07:33 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released
In-Reply-To: <200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>
	<200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <20031125130733.GB32451@intevation.de>

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:25:29PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> But reading the installation notes, it turns out that I have to recompile 
> Postgre, which is something I would prefer to avoid (first, I do not know 
> what to do, second, my Postgre system is crucial for our work, and I wouldn't 
> like to destabilize it).
> Any suggestions?

The standard suggestion is to recompile a test version of postresql 
with postgis at a completely different place.
You can do so on a test machine or in a test directory.

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From sxpert at esitcom.org  Tue Nov 25 14:09:57 2003
From: sxpert at esitcom.org (Amaury Jacquot)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:09:57 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released
In-Reply-To: <3FC34E50.1010309@hut.fi>
References: <3FC2D14B.2000402@refractions.net>	<200311251325.30556.cavallini@faunalia.it>
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Ari Jolma wrote:
> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 
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>> That's great!
>> But reading the installation notes, it turns out that I have to 
>> recompile Postgre, which is something I would prefer to avoid (first, 
>> I do not know what to do, second, my Postgre system is crucial for our 
>> work, and I wouldn't like to destabilize it).
>> Any suggestions?

I have personally done it by installing a fresh machine, installed a
nice postgresql install and then transfered the production data over,
over a week end when no one was around. when I got all data properly
transfered and verified, I hacked the DNS :)





From sciencez at floatingpoint.com.au  Sun Nov 30 10:08:44 2003
From: sciencez at floatingpoint.com.au (Floating Point Sciencez)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:08:44 +1100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Source code
Message-ID: <3FC9B39C.8080805@floatingpoint.com.au>

Gentlemen (and ladies),

I am looking to develop a PC based (Win 2000) GPS application and I am 
looking for source code to do this, I am familiar with C (not C++) and I 
have some understanding of Visual Basic (can easily learn what I do not 
yet understand).  If you have source code that you would like to share I 
would be very grateful.

I would also appreciate some documentation of comments in the code so 
that I can understand what is happening.

I do not intend to use the completed application for commercial profit 
or application it is purely a personal interest.

I look forward to hearing from anyone that can assist me,

Regards,

Christopher
Sydney, Australia