From Silke.Reimer at intevation.de  Mon Mar  1 09:41:30 2004
From: Silke.Reimer at intevation.de (Silke Reimer)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:41:30 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Debian packages for igmt, postgis?
In-Reply-To: <1077969705.2544.3.camel@freedom.org>
References: <1077966335.1127.1.camel@freedom.org>
	<1077966880.4672.3.camel@toriamos>
	<1077969705.2544.3.camel@freedom.org>
Message-ID: <20040301084130.GA27413@intevation.de>


Hi Sajith,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:31:45PM +0530, Sajith VK wrote:
> Hi Maurizio,
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> I looked at this repositry, I found postgis and
> postgis-geos. What is the difference?
> (I cant install both, one replaces other).
> Waiting for your advice,

geos is a library that provides some additional topological
functions (see http://geos.refractions.net/). Installing
postgis-geos therefore needs also the package geos thus having more
dependencies.

If you don't need those topological functions for your tasks it is
sufficient to install the package postgis. 

Greetings,

	Silke

> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 16:44, Maurizio Napolitano wrote:
> > Il sab, 2004-02-28 alle 12:05, Sajith VK ha scritto:
> > > Hi
> > > 	Is debian packages for igmt and postgis available?
> > > If yes, please give me link to it....
> > 
> > For postgis add this repository to your apt list
> > deb http://agrogeomatic.educagri.fr/debian stable main 
> > deb-src http://agrogeomatic.educagri.fr/debian stable main 
> > 
> > (Founded on: www.apt-get.org)
> 
> -- 
> "Freedom Matters"
> Sajith VK
> 
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From stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp  Tue Mar  2 07:40:52 2004
From: stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp (Susumu Tanimura)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:40:52 +0900
Subject: [Freegis-list] is there free converter from ArcInfo generate file
	to shpefile?
Message-ID: <20040302154052.0a4043db.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>

Hi, there.

It is very nice if somebody tell me a freeware or open-source software to
convert from ArcInfo ASCII generate file format to shpefile.  I know
ArcScript but I do conduct without ESRI products.

--
Susumu Tanimura






From frank.koormann at intevation.de  Tue Mar  2 09:18:49 2004
From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:18:49 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] is there free converter from ArcInfo generate file
	to shpefile?
In-Reply-To: <20040302154052.0a4043db.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
References: <20040302154052.0a4043db.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <20040302081849.GA18645@intevation.de>

Hi,

* Susumu Tanimura <stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp> [040302 07:41]:
> Hi, there.
> 
> It is very nice if somebody tell me a freeware or open-source software to
> convert from ArcInfo ASCII generate file format to shpefile.  I know
> ArcScript but I do conduct without ESRI products.
> 

gen2shp serves your needs:

http://freegis.org/search.en.html?search=arcinfo+generate

Best regards,

        Frank

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 Professional Service around Free Software       (http://intevation.net/)
 FreeGIS Project                                 (http://freegis.org/)



From bart.van.den.eijnden at geodan.nl  Tue Mar  2 07:44:38 2004
From: bart.van.den.eijnden at geodan.nl (Bart van den Eijnden)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 07:44:38 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] is there free converter from ArcInfo generate file
	to shpefile?
In-Reply-To: <20040302154052.0a4043db.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
References: <20040302154052.0a4043db.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <opr372coyifecm84@localhost>

Hi,

have a look here:

http://www.intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp/gen2shp.html

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:40:52 +0900, Susumu Tanimura 
<stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi, there.
>
> It is very nice if somebody tell me a freeware or open-source software to
> convert from ArcInfo ASCII generate file format to shpefile.  I know
> ArcScript but I do conduct without ESRI products.
>
> --
> Susumu Tanimura
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
>



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From nwitte at ddsw.nl  Thu Mar  4 11:57:25 2004
From: nwitte at ddsw.nl (Nol Witte)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:57:25 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] WURLUG GeoInformation page
Message-ID: <009f01c401d7$7a86fd80$9600000a@hermione2>

Hi,

the Wageningen University & Researchcentre Linux Users Group (WURLUG) has a
page on Linux (and open source software) for Geo-Information Scientists.
It's meant for newbies so don't expect a full overview of the subject.

Regards, Nol

Links:
- WURLUG: http://www.wurlug.org/
- GeoInformation Page:
http://thebird.nl/wurlug/wiki.pl?LinuxForGeoInformationScientists



From eduardo at consultoria.eti.br  Thu Mar  4 12:54:49 2004
From: eduardo at consultoria.eti.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:54:49 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] MapServer license
Message-ID: <40471909.8010205@consultoria.eti.br>

Hi folks,

What kind of software UMN MapServer is? Is it a Free Software
or an OpenSource?

what is the main difference of OpenSource against FreeSoft? OpenSource
means that you can get the code but the goals and future of software can
only be decided by a restrict group?

Thanks.

-- 
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http://www.consultoria.eti.br

## Projeto MapServer Brasil - http://mapserver.cttmar.univali.br ##
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From jan at intevation.de  Thu Mar  4 13:27:23 2004
From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:27:23 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] MapServer license
In-Reply-To: <40471909.8010205@consultoria.eti.br>
References: <40471909.8010205@consultoria.eti.br>
Message-ID: <20040304122723.GA1757@intevation.de>

Hi Eduardo,

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:54:49AM -0300, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> What kind of software UMN MapServer is? Is it a Free Software
> or an OpenSource?

UMN MapServer is Free Software licenced with a MITish license.

The term Open Source has a definition which is equal to
the one of Free Software.
I prefer the term Free Software:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/whyfs.en.html

> what is the main difference of OpenSource against FreeSoft? OpenSource
> means that you can get the code but the goals and future of software can
> only be decided by a restrict group?

besides the issues explained in the link above, differences are
actually only expressed through the licenses. There
are many Free Software licenses out there, GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and
MIT/X11/BSDish are the most common ones.

For a Free Software there never can be a monopoly to decide
the future. If one gets unhappy with the decisions of a core team
she can always launch a forked development. This happend only a
couple of times in the past and usually led to a re-joined
development.

Best

	Jan

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



From bh at udev.org  Sat Mar 13 02:05:52 2004
From: bh at udev.org (Henrion Benjamin)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:05:52 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Public Geo Data: Patent problem with GeoGrid TOP50
	Dornier Gmbh
Message-ID: <20040313010552.GA547@localhost>

Hi,

I'm writing to you because I want to have details regarding the patent
problems you encontered with the TOP50 geo data format, patented by
Dornier Gmbh, and used by the National Geo Institute to provide public
maps on DE only on win32/proprietary software.

This patents forbids to make a Free implementation so as to read their
format.

Can you give more details?

Here are some details:

http://swpat.ffii.org/brevets/effets/geogrid/index.fr.html

Fight software patents!

--
Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org>
http://bh.udev.org



From WHarms at bfs.de  Sat Mar 13 11:33:12 2004
From: WHarms at bfs.de (WHarms@bfs.de)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:33:12 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Public Geo Data: Patent problem with GeoGrid
Message-ID: <vines.sxdD+cBiÉ+A@SZKOM.BFS.DE>

hi list,

"This patents forbids to make a Free implementation so as to read their
format."

i never heard this is possible. Any comments ? Any lawers out there ?


walter

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From: Henrion Benjamin <bh at udev.org>
Subject: [Freegis-list] Public Geo Data: Patent problem with GeoGrid TOP
Date: 03/13/04 02:05

Hi,

I'm writing to you because I want to have details regarding the patent
problems you encontered with the TOP50 geo data format, patented by
Dornier Gmbh, and used by the National Geo Institute to provide public
maps on DE only on win32/proprietary software.

This patents forbids to make a Free implementation so as to read their
format.

Can you give more details?

Here are some details:

http://swpat.ffii.org/brevets/effets/geogrid/index.fr.html

Fight software patents!

--
Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org>
http://bh.udev.org

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From bernhard at intevation.de  Sat Mar 13 17:24:30 2004
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:24:30 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Public Geo Data: Patent problem with GeoGrid TOP50
	Dornier Gmbh
In-Reply-To: <20040313010552.GA547@localhost>
References: <20040313010552.GA547@localhost>
Message-ID: <20040313162430.GA8950@intevation.de>

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:05:52AM +0100, Henrion Benjamin wrote:
> I'm writing to you because I want to have details regarding the patent
> problems you encontered with the TOP50 geo data format, patented by
> Dornier Gmbh, and used by the National Geo Institute to provide public
> maps on DE only on win32/proprietary software.

I think I do not quite understand your question.

You read the details at the FFII page you have cited.
Personally I did not inquire on the subject.
TOP50 is not Free Data anyway.

> This patents forbids to make a Free implementation so as to read their
> format.

This sounds like a question about what a patent can or cannot
forbid in principle. The FFII will know a lot more about it.

> Can you give more details?
> Here are some details:
> 
> http://swpat.ffii.org/brevets/effets/geogrid/index.fr.html
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From meuser at mapcruzin.com  Mon Mar 15 01:20:13 2004
From: meuser at mapcruzin.com (Mike Meuser)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:20:13 -0800
Subject: [Freegis-list] MAPCRUZIN WARNING - BOGUS EMAILS
Message-ID: <4054863D.24893.E48E2C@localhost>

Hi Folks - I wanted to alert you to the fact that if you receive emails 
like the following, they are not from me or anyone at mapcruzin.  
Others are making the messsage look as though they are coming 
from us, but they are not.

These messages always have attachments.  You will never receive 
a legitimate email message from mapcruzin.com that has an 
attachment.

Here's an example of a bogus email.

========= begin bogus ==========

Dear  user,  the management  of  Mapcruzin.com mailing  system  
wants  to let you know that,  

Our main  mailing server will  be temporary  unavaible for next  two 
days,  to  continue  receiving  mail in  these days you have  to 
configure our free auto-forwarding service.  

Please,  read the attach  for further details.

Have a good day,
   The  Mapcruzin.com team                             
   http://www.mapcruzin.com

========== end bogus ==============

Thanks and sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

best

Mike

++++++++++++
http://www.rtkatlas.com/ for Right-To-Know
Atlas of the United States - Free Learn2Map
Michael R. Meuser
meuser at mapcruzin.com
http://www.mapcruzin.com/
GIS Cartography, Demography, Environmental 
History & Environmental Justice Research





From girish.shewale at aurovision.com  Wed Mar 17 06:30:10 2004
From: girish.shewale at aurovision.com (Girish Shewale)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:00:10 +0530
Subject: [Freegis-list] web based gis application
Message-ID: <20040317053656.155273732F@mail.intevation.de>

Dear All,

We want to build an web GIS application, which is cost-effective, scalable
and easy to build.  If there are ASP's that can do this for us are also
welcome.

 

 

 Thanks & Regards, 

Girish Shewale

 

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From satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com  Wed Mar 17 07:13:23 2004
From: satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com (Satyajit)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:23 +0530
Subject: [Freegis-list] Cost Effective WebGIS
Message-ID: <000001c40be6$fff18b20$183ba8c0@aurogis02>

HI folks,
       With the increasing sharing of GIS data on net, our institution
is also taking a plunge in it. We have some GIS data in ESRI shapefile
format. The requirement is to make this data available to users through
net. Since this is not for any commercial purpose we won't be able to
make use of the costly softwares like ArcIMS or Autodesk Mapguide for
this project. I am looking for a cost effective solution to acheive
this. I understand that I'll have to use an application server, a
databse server and a spatial server. Can anyone please suggest me a
right combination which is cost effective. I certainly don't expect a
large of number of hits on my site but it should be reliable. Will any
opensource solution suffice my requirement ? There are so many
opensource/free solutions mentioned on the site that, its confusing as
which one I should consider. 
Thanks in anticipation

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From bartvde at xs4all.nl  Wed Mar 17 10:04:37 2004
From: bartvde at xs4all.nl (Bart van den Eijnden)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:04:37 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Cost Effective WebGIS
In-Reply-To: <000001c40be6$fff18b20$183ba8c0@aurogis02>
References: <000001c40be6$fff18b20$183ba8c0@aurogis02>
Message-ID: <opr4z0tzrmmi5aim@localhost>

Hi,

Your best bet would be:

PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net) together with Mapserver 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu).

And yes, open source will fullfill your requirements in my opinion.

Best regards,
Bart

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:23 +0530, Satyajit 
<satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com> wrote:

> HI folks,
>        With the increasing sharing of GIS data on net, our institution
> is also taking a plunge in it. We have some GIS data in ESRI shapefile
> format. The requirement is to make this data available to users through
> net. Since this is not for any commercial purpose we won't be able to
> make use of the costly softwares like ArcIMS or Autodesk Mapguide for
> this project. I am looking for a cost effective solution to acheive
> this. I understand that I'll have to use an application server, a
> databse server and a spatial server. Can anyone please suggest me a
> right combination which is cost effective. I certainly don't expect a
> large of number of hits on my site but it should be reliable. Will any
> opensource solution suffice my requirement ? There are so many
> opensource/free solutions mentioned on the site that, its confusing as
> which one I should consider.
> Thanks in anticipation
>



-- 
  



From eduardo at consultoria.eti.br  Wed Mar 17 12:35:34 2004
From: eduardo at consultoria.eti.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:35:34 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] web based gis application
In-Reply-To: <20040317053656.155273732F@mail.intevation.de>
References: <20040317053656.155273732F@mail.intevation.de>
Message-ID: <40583806.4070108@consultoria.eti.br>

I'm not sure but I think you could not find this here in this list 
because it's a list about FreeSoftware.

But you could try UMN MapServer ( 
http://freegis.org/details.en.html?name=MapServer )
that you can use to build applications using PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python...

Take a look.

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.consultoria.eti.br

Girish Shewale escreveu:

> Dear All,
>
> We want to build an web GIS application, which is cost-effective, 
> scalable and easy to build.  If there are ASP's that can do this for 
> us are also welcome.
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  Thanks & Regards,
>
> Girish Shewale
>
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
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>Freegis-list at intevation.de
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From Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de  Wed Mar 17 12:18:52 2004
From: Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de (Garand)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:18:52 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?Open_Source_Software_and_Leitfaden?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?_f=FCr_kommunale_GIS-Einsteiger?=
Message-ID: <3C1D492352BCD2118A2E00105A096D7E01B54FB9@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de>

Greetings!

I just finished reading the Handbook "Leitfaden f?r kommunale
GIS-Einsteiger" published by the Bayerische 
Finanzministerium with the Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung, the kommunalen

Spitzenverb?nde in Bayern (Gemeinde-, St?dte- und Landkreistag), as well as
the Runde 
Tisch GIS e.V. an der Technischen Universit?t M?nchen.

see http://www.gis-leitfaden.de

Under  Chapter 3 GIS-Technologie there is a section on Open Source Software.

I was quite happy to see that the publishers have included a section on OSS.
However after reading this section I was quite upset. As I looked at the
list of publishers and people (experts?)  who worked so hard to publish a
much needed and such a usefull book for german speeking city and county
adminsitrations, I said to myself if this is all they have to say about OSS,
either the OSS community have a lot of work to do, to get the message
across, or the public administration and scientific institutes behind this
book are realy in a pitifull state.

I don't think I have to argue about the potential and advantages of OSS in
context of the public administration reform in this news group, but I would
be interested to hear other peoples ideas on this matter.

Thank you and best regards

Michel Garand
Stadt Frankfurt (Oder)
Abteilung Stadtentwicklung
> Amt f?r Strategie, Wirtschafts- und Stadtentwicklung
Goepelstrasse 38, D-15234 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)335 / 552-1032
Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-1095
michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de	



From bartvde at xs4all.nl  Wed Mar 17 13:27:22 2004
From: bartvde at xs4all.nl (Bart van den Eijnden)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:27:22 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Re:_=5BFreegis-list=5D_Open_Source_Softw?=
	=?iso-8859-15?Q?are_and_Leitfaden_f=FCr_kommunale_GIS-Ei?=
	=?iso-8859-15?Q?nsteiger?=
In-Reply-To: <3C1D492352BCD2118A2E00105A096D7E01B54FB9@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de>
References: <3C1D492352BCD2118A2E00105A096D7E01B54FB9@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de>
Message-ID: <opr4z97wk0mi5aim@localhost>

Hi,

I have just read the paragraph and I am also a bit disappointed by the 
text they put down. This does not encourage the adoption of Open Source 
GIS software, which is even an understatement.

In my opinion there are many examples of good Open Source GIS software 
where you can buy support from a company. Also, the free e-mail support 
lists are usually a good source of information.
Some examples:

UMN Mapserver: DM Solutions
PostGIS: Refractions Research
Deegree: Lat/Lon
(GDAL/OGR: Frank Warmerdam, not a company, but a freelance GIS expert)

There are also some independent GIS companies (at least in The 
Netherlands, I don't know about the situation in Germany) which use Open 
Source GIS software in their projects and those companies can also help 
public administration with the adoption of Open Source GIS.

So in my opinion their arguments don't stand to the full extent.

Best regards,
Bart

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:18:52 +0100, Garand 
<Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I just finished reading the Handbook "Leitfaden f?r kommunale
> GIS-Einsteiger" published by the Bayerische
> Finanzministerium with the Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung, the 
> kommunalen
>
> Spitzenverb?nde in Bayern (Gemeinde-, St?dte- und Landkreistag), as well 
> as
> the Runde
> Tisch GIS e.V. an der Technischen Universit?t M?nchen.
>
> see http://www.gis-leitfaden.de
>
> Under  Chapter 3 GIS-Technologie there is a section on Open Source 
> Software.
>
> I was quite happy to see that the publishers have included a section on 
> OSS.
> However after reading this section I was quite upset. As I looked at the
> list of publishers and people (experts?)  who worked so hard to publish a
> much needed and such a usefull book for german speeking city and county
> adminsitrations, I said to myself if this is all they have to say about 
> OSS,
> either the OSS community have a lot of work to do, to get the message
> across, or the public administration and scientific institutes behind 
> this
> book are realy in a pitifull state.
>
> I don't think I have to argue about the potential and advantages of OSS 
> in
> context of the public administration reform in this news group, but I 
> would
> be interested to hear other peoples ideas on this matter.
>
> Thank you and best regards
>
> Michel Garand
> Stadt Frankfurt (Oder)
> Abteilung Stadtentwicklung
>> Amt f?r Strategie, Wirtschafts- und Stadtentwicklung
> Goepelstrasse 38, D-15234 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
> Tel.: +49 (0)335 / 552-1032
> Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-1095
> michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de	
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
>
>



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From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Mar 17 16:20:41 2004
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:20:41 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Commercial Free Software GI service in Germany
In-Reply-To: <opr4z97wk0mi5aim@localhost>
References: <3C1D492352BCD2118A2E00105A096D7E01B54FB9@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de>
	<opr4z97wk0mi5aim@localhost>
Message-ID: <20040317152041.GB20115@intevation.de>

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:27:22PM +0100, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> I have just read the paragraph and I am also a bit disappointed by the 
> text they put down. This does not encourage the adoption of Open Source 
> GIS software, which is even an understatement.

Have not read the text yet, but the sole fact that they have choosen
to use the term "Open Source" instead of "Free Software"
(or "Freie Software" in German) is a hint that the autors
lack the expertise or do not share the goals of FreeGIS.

> In my opinion there are many examples of good Open Source GIS software 
> where you can buy support from a company. 
> Some examples:
> 
> UMN Mapserver: DM Solutions
> PostGIS: Refractions Research
> Deegree: Lat/Lon
> (GDAL/OGR: Frank Warmerdam, not a company, but a freelance GIS expert)

> There are also some independent GIS companies (at least in The 
> Netherlands, I don't know about the situation in Germany) 

Probably known to many,
because Intevation is the company of the three founders of FreeGIS.org:

	Intevation is a Free Software Company 
	giving commercial support for Free GIS software 
	for over 4 years!

Intevation operates in Germany, Europe and other parts of the world.
See www.intevation.net.

We successfully have done projects with 
PostGIS, Degree, Mapserver, Thuban 
and other Free Software GI components.
We keep strong contacts with the developers
and contribute back -- even financially.

On the FreeGIS CD we list companies
that provide commercial service.
They have to match the current GNU business network criteria to apply.
E.G. there is GDF in Hannover 
with many years of experience with GRASS and remote sensing.

FreeGIS.org and this mailinglist are sponsored by Intevation.

Best,
	Bernhard
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From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Mar 17 16:26:34 2004
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:26:34 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] web based gis application
In-Reply-To: <20040317053656.155273732F@mail.intevation.de>
References: <20040317053656.155273732F@mail.intevation.de>
Message-ID: <20040317152634.GC20115@intevation.de>

Dearh Girish Shewale,

there are many companies using the excellent FreeGIS components
to build enterprise solutions.

The current FreeGIS CD list:

	GDF Hannover bR (Solutions for spatial data analysis and remote sensing)
	Location: Hannover (Germany)
	Languages: English, German
	http://www.freegis.org/FreeGIS-CD-doc-online/1.2.4/gdfbr.en.html

	Intevation GmbH
	Location: Osnabr?ck (Germany)
	Languages: English, German, French
	http://www.freegis.org/FreeGIS-CD-doc-online/1.2.4/intevation.en.html

You might have noticed that I am with Intevation.
If you consider contracting please reply personally
with the details of the solution your are seeking.

Regards,
	Bernhard

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:00:10AM +0530, Girish Shewale wrote:
>    We want to build an web GIS application, which is cost-effective,
>    scalable and easy to build.  If there are ASP's that can do this for
>    us are also welcome.

-- 
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If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service:
	http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html
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From jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Mar 17 16:40:48 2004
From: jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:40:48 -0500
Subject: [Freegis-list] Cost Effective WebGIS
References: <000001c40be6$fff18b20$183ba8c0@aurogis02>
	<opr4z0tzrmmi5aim@localhost>
Message-ID: <40587180.5040200@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi Satyajit,

As Bart mentioned, MapServer is an excellent alternative to the big 
"costly software" that you mentioned.  MapServer's native data format is 
ESRI shapefiles, so no data conversion is required in your case.  I 
would suggest taking a look at Chameleon 
(http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml) which allows for easy 
MapServer application development.

have fun.

jeff




Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Your best bet would be:
> 
> PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net) together with Mapserver 
> (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu).
> 
> And yes, open source will fullfill your requirements in my opinion.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:23 +0530, Satyajit 
> <satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com> wrote:
> 
>> HI folks,
>>        With the increasing sharing of GIS data on net, our institution
>> is also taking a plunge in it. We have some GIS data in ESRI shapefile
>> format. The requirement is to make this data available to users through
>> net. Since this is not for any commercial purpose we won't be able to
>> make use of the costly softwares like ArcIMS or Autodesk Mapguide for
>> this project. I am looking for a cost effective solution to acheive
>> this. I understand that I'll have to use an application server, a
>> databse server and a spatial server. Can anyone please suggest me a
>> right combination which is cost effective. I certainly don't expect a
>> large of number of hits on my site but it should be reliable. Will any
>> opensource solution suffice my requirement ? There are so many
>> opensource/free solutions mentioned on the site that, its confusing as
>> which one I should consider.
>> Thanks in anticipation
>>
> 



From futurefarm at futurefarm.de  Wed Mar 17 16:53:06 2004
From: futurefarm at futurefarm.de (Burkhard Stollenwerk)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:53:06 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: web based gis application 
References: <20040317110008.D5A2713BCD@lists.intevation.de>
Message-ID: <001001c40c37$f11f2020$9945fea9@o6l0a3>

Hello,

you could have a look at free alpha based GIS- application.
www.futurefarm.de


Burkhard Stollenwerk



From bernhard at intevation.de  Wed Mar 17 19:31:09 2004
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:31:09 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: web based gis application
In-Reply-To: <001001c40c37$f11f2020$9945fea9@o6l0a3>
References: <20040317110008.D5A2713BCD@lists.intevation.de>
	<001001c40c37$f11f2020$9945fea9@o6l0a3>
Message-ID: <20040317183109.GB21788@intevation.de>

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:53:06PM +0100, Burkhard Stollenwerk wrote:
> you could have a look at free alpha based GIS- application.
> www.futurefarm.de

Germany only and no indication that it is Free Software.
It depends on non-free software for displaying SVG.

The FreeGIS-List is only about software giving out the freedom
to use, adapt, distribute and publish improvements.

Best,
	Bernhard

-- 
Professional Service around Free Software                (intevation.net)  

If freegis is useful for you, consider paying for the service:
	http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html
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From cavallini at faunalia.it  Thu Mar 18 10:10:25 2004
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:10:25 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] map printing
Message-ID: <200403181010.26614.cavallini@faunalia.it>

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Hi all.
We came across an apparently simple problem, for wich we cannot find a 
reasonable solution.
We have a series of raster maps (tiff and jpeg, respectively as background 
maps and ortophoto) and various vectorial layers. With ArcView, these maps 
were small and easy to print. Importing them to GRASS resulted in an enormous 
size (even the black/white tiff are taken as 8 bit), which is a problem by 
itself; even more seriously, apparently GRASS is only able to print one 
raster at a time, so in all corner areas we cannot obtain a printout of the 
vectors overlying 2-4 rasters. Patching the maps together does not seem 
feasible, because of the large size of the maps (over 2.7 Gb).
Is anybody aware of an easy solution to this, based on free software only?
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
Only free software: www.gnu.org / www.linux.org
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From napo at itc.it  Thu Mar 18 10:27:31 2004
From: napo at itc.it (Maurizio Napolitano)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:27:31 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] map printing
In-Reply-To: <200403181010.26614.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <200403181010.26614.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <1079602050.4130.410.camel@toriamos>

> t seem 
> feasible, because of the large size of the maps (over 2.7 Gb).
> Is anybody aware of an easy solution to this, based on free software only?
> Many thanks.

Look to GMT
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
with some script you can create very nice maps in postscript format

and iGMT
http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/main_IGMT.html
(the intercative version)



From WHarms at bfs.de  Thu Mar 18 11:23:42 2004
From: WHarms at bfs.de (WHarms@bfs.de)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:23:42 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] map printing
Message-ID: <vines.sxdD+iWLË+A@SZKOM.BFS.DE>



did you try netpbm ?
it offers a huge collection of gfx tools that lets you manipulate resize
etc.

walter


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
Subject: [Freegis-list] map printing
Date: 03/18/04 10:10

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Hi all.
We came across an apparently simple problem, for wich we cannot find a 
reasonable solution.
We have a series of raster maps (tiff and jpeg, respectively as background 
maps and ortophoto) and various vectorial layers. With ArcView, these maps 
were small and easy to print. Importing them to GRASS resulted in an enormous 
size (even the black/white tiff are taken as 8 bit), which is a problem by 
itself; even more seriously, apparently GRASS is only able to print one 
raster at a time, so in all corner areas we cannot obtain a printout of the 
vectors overlying 2-4 rasters. Patching the maps together does not seem 
feasible, because of the large size of the maps (over 2.7 Gb).
Is anybody aware of an easy solution to this, based on free software only?
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
Only free software: www.gnu.org / www.linux.org
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From neteler at itc.it  Thu Mar 18 12:12:06 2004
From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:12:06 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] map printing
In-Reply-To: <200403181010.26614.cavallini@faunalia.it>
References: <200403181010.26614.cavallini@faunalia.it>
Message-ID: <20040318111206.GI4135@thuille.itc.it>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi all.
> We came across an apparently simple problem, for wich we cannot find a 
> reasonable solution.
> We have a series of raster maps (tiff and jpeg, respectively as background 
> maps and ortophoto) and various vectorial layers. With ArcView, these maps 
> were small and easy to print. Importing them to GRASS resulted in an enormous 
> size (even the black/white tiff are taken as 8 bit), which is a problem by 
> itself;

Just curious: did you use 'r.out.tiff'?

Note that the default compression is none.
compression   TIFF file compression
                options: none,packbit,deflate
                default: none

If you set this parameter (eg to deflate), you will get smaller
files.

[...]

Then you could use 'Skencil' to draw the map:
 http://sketch.sourceforge.net/

(get the GeoObject extension, Add-Ons section).


Markus Neteler



From eduardo at consultoria.eti.br  Thu Mar 18 14:16:21 2004
From: eduardo at consultoria.eti.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:16:21 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] MapIt or MapServer?
Message-ID: <20040318131621.19274.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>

Hi ,

I have the need of publish a lot of parcel projects ( one or more per customer) and each project must be *a aplicattion* to see via web.

But we're thinking to do it via shapefiles using MapServer or maybe export all layers to imagem files( don't know the format yet) and will be one file per image to ensure the possibility of turning on/off a given layer( parcels/streets/points of interest/etc...), because we think that maybe generating all in image could be a easier process( doesn't need to check projections, open polygons, etc...)

So, I took a look at MapIt homepage and have seen the example.

Can MapIt "merge" various image files(layers).? eg.: a street layer + a point layer and present all in one image?

Actually, I didn't understand exactly what MapIt is for....

thanks in advance.

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.consultoria.eti.br

## Projeto MapServer Brasil - http://mapserver.cttmar.univali.br ##
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From satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com  Thu Mar 18 05:38:53 2004
From: satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com (Satyajit)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:08:53 +0530
Subject: [Freegis-list] Cost Effective WebGIS
In-Reply-To: <40587180.5040200@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <000201c40ca2$ec96af30$183ba8c0@aurogis02>

Thanks Jeff and Bart,
     Your suggestion would definitely help me to take a decession.
However I might come up with some more question ...:-)
Thanks again.

________________________________________________________________________
________
 
Satyajit Gantayat
Sr. Specialist GIS
Aurovision Pvt. Ltd.
101, Swati
North Avenue
Santacruz (w)
Mumbai - 400054
INDIA 
Phone: +91-22-56982010
Fax:     +91-22-56982015
E-mail:  satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com
Web:    www.aurovision.com 
________________________________________________________________________
________


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff McKenna [mailto:jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:11 PM
To: Satyajit
Cc: freegis-list at intevation.de
Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Cost Effective WebGIS


Hi Satyajit,

As Bart mentioned, MapServer is an excellent alternative to the big 
"costly software" that you mentioned.  MapServer's native data format is

ESRI shapefiles, so no data conversion is required in your case.  I 
would suggest taking a look at Chameleon 
(http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml) which allows for easy 
MapServer application development.

have fun.

jeff




Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Your best bet would be:
> 
> PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net) together with Mapserver
> (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu).
> 
> And yes, open source will fullfill your requirements in my opinion.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:23 +0530, Satyajit
> <satyajit.gantayat at aurovision.com> wrote:
> 
>> HI folks,
>>        With the increasing sharing of GIS data on net, our 
>> institution is also taking a plunge in it. We have some GIS data in 
>> ESRI shapefile format. The requirement is to make this data available

>> to users through net. Since this is not for any commercial purpose we

>> won't be able to make use of the costly softwares like ArcIMS or 
>> Autodesk Mapguide for this project. I am looking for a cost effective

>> solution to acheive this. I understand that I'll have to use an 
>> application server, a databse server and a spatial server. Can anyone

>> please suggest me a right combination which is cost effective. I 
>> certainly don't expect a large of number of hits on my site but it 
>> should be reliable. Will any opensource solution suffice my 
>> requirement ? There are so many opensource/free solutions mentioned 
>> on the site that, its confusing as which one I should consider. 
>> Thanks in anticipation
>>
> 




From frank.koormann at intevation.de  Wed Mar 24 11:44:56 2004
From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:44:56 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] MapIt or MapServer?
In-Reply-To: <20040318131621.19274.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>
References: <20040318131621.19274.qmail@hm47.locaweb.com.br>
Message-ID: <20040324104455.GA22849@intevation.de>

Dear Eduardo,

* Eduardo Patto Kanegae <eduardo at consultoria.eti.br> [040318 14:16]:
[...]
> So, I took a look at MapIt homepage and have seen the example.
> 
> Can MapIt "merge" various image files(layers).? eg.: a street layer +
> a point layer and present all in one image?
> 
> Actually, I didn't understand exactly what MapIt is for....

MapIt! has been designed to easily deploy simple web-mapping
applications: Based on prerendered maps (for various scales) 
markers (e.g. POIs, ..) can be placed ontop. These markers 
can provide a link to further information.
Thats it..

Best regards,

        Frank

-- 
Frank Koormann                             <frank.koormann at intevation.de>
 Professional Service around Free Software       (http://intevation.net/)
 FreeGIS Project                                 (http://freegis.org/)
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From bernhard at intevation.de  Fri Mar 26 13:10:49 2004
From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:10:49 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Bundle Discount: FreeGIS CD and GRASS book
Message-ID: <20040326121049.GG14705@intevation.de>

Limited offer.
Only 44 left in stock.

Bundle:
	GRASS Book (Neteler, Mitasova, 464 pages 1.ed)
	FreeGIS CD  1.2.4 

	100 Euro 

Bulk discount:

	2 units: 170 Euro (85 Euro each)
	3 units: 210 Euro (70 Euro each)
	>3 units: (price stays at 70 Euro each)

Details and Orders:

	http://catalog.yaskifo.com/en/fiche.asp?prodID=109462


Background: 
The book has been very successful, thus the authors will do a 2nd edition.
As Intevation has a few books left we are offering a bundle with
the FreeGIS-CD now for an attractive price.
The 2nd edition of the book is planned to be printed in about two month
and probably will sell at a similiar or higher price as the 1st edition.

Note that the offered bundle offer _includes_ the FreeGIS CD.
That is your chance to get into the exiting world of
Free Software geoprocessing. 
The FreeGIS CD offers a lot of software, documentation and data.

Why not buy one and donate it to a library?
For many it would be the first modern reference to FreeGIS.

Best,
	Bernhard
	
-- 
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From jdenisgiguere at fastmail.fm  Wed Mar 31 17:04:22 2004
From: jdenisgiguere at fastmail.fm (Jean-Denis Giguere)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:04:22 -0500
Subject: [Freegis-list] automated mapping
Message-ID: <406ADDF6.5060605@fastmail.fm>

Hi,

I'm student at Sherbrooke University and I'm working on a open source 
desktop for students in geomatic based on Mandrake. I would like to know 
what software do you use for automated mapping.

Since I'm at the very beginning of my work, I'm really open to any 
suggestion.

The first target audience will be people studying geomatic in graduate 
and undergraduate level. They have knowledge in computer science 
(programming and database managing), but haven't yet work with linux nor 
command line programs.

Usability is very important for transition, but functionnality will 
become quickly more important since they must do professionnal work with it.

Thanks a lot,

Jean-Denis