From pramsey at refractions.net Tue Feb 1 00:07:52 2005 From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:07:52 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to find out lat/lon --> UTM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41FEBA48.1060009@refractions.net> Write up 20 lines of perl to wrap around your proj4 call. The zone value is a simple categorization on your longitude, so it is trivial to script. Possibly why noone has bothered to make such a think automagic. P Cere Davis wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have sort of a basic GIS question that doesn't appear to be all that > obvious to me. > > I am using the proj4 tools in linux to find at utm X-Y zone value for a > given lat-lon value. I have played around with it for a bit and I am > suprised to find that proj requires me to input a default easting zero > value (such as +lon_0=120w) in order to get meaningful x-y data for my > zone. To me this seems like redundant information. If I give my lon_0 > value then I allready know what zone I am in basicly so this is not very > usefull to me. I suppose I could do some pre math and make some > assumptions about the quadrant that my lat/lon value are in to find the > lon_0 value before I send arguments to Proj but... Is there any tool that > just allows me to type in a lat/lon and returns a x-y and zone value? > > Thanks, > -Cere > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From cere at u.washington.edu Tue Feb 1 01:23:20 2005 From: cere at u.washington.edu (Cere Davis) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:23:20 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: tool to find out lat/lon --> UTM References: <41FEBA48.1060009@refractions.net> Message-ID: It's even easier than that to code with a simple mod function on the longitude value but it seems to me that the default dehaviour of proj would be to assume the zone you are in and give x-y values accordingly. This is where I am confused...about the assumption. Instead proj4 gives you x-y as if from GMT. So I think it's something about zones that I don't understand. -Cere Paul Ramsey wrote: > Write up 20 lines of perl to wrap around your proj4 call. The zone value > is a simple categorization on your longitude, so it is trivial to > script. Possibly why noone has bothered to make such a think automagic. > > P > > Cere Davis wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have sort of a basic GIS question that doesn't appear to be all that >> obvious to me. >> >> I am using the proj4 tools in linux to find at utm X-Y zone value for a >> given lat-lon value. I have played around with it for a bit and I am >> suprised to find that proj requires me to input a default easting zero >> value (such as +lon_0=120w) in order to get meaningful x-y data for my >> zone. To me this seems like redundant information. If I give my lon_0 >> value then I allready know what zone I am in basicly so this is not very >> usefull to me. I suppose I could do some pre math and make some >> assumptions about the quadrant that my lat/lon value are in to find the >> lon_0 value before I send arguments to Proj but... Is there any tool >> that just allows me to type in a lat/lon and returns a x-y and zone >> value? >> >> Thanks, >> -Cere >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freegis-list mailing list >> Freegis-list at intevation.de >> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From pramsey at refractions.net Tue Feb 1 02:15:56 2005 From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:15:56 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: tool to find out lat/lon --> UTM In-Reply-To: References: <41FEBA48.1060009@refractions.net> Message-ID: <41FED84C.70008@refractions.net> Ah, yes, what you are not understanding is that sometime people want to project things into UTM zones that are outside the "valid" areas of the zone. And if proj automagically did zone determination that would break terribly. You have to think of each utm zone as a distinct map projection (as they are) and treat them that way. UTM is not one map projection, it is many. P. Cere Davis wrote: > It's even easier than that to code with a simple mod function on the > longitude value but it seems to me that the default dehaviour of proj would > be to assume the zone you are in and give x-y values accordingly. This is > where I am confused...about the assumption. Instead proj4 gives you x-y as > if from GMT. So I think it's something about zones that I don't > understand. > > -Cere > > Paul Ramsey wrote: > > >>Write up 20 lines of perl to wrap around your proj4 call. The zone value >>is a simple categorization on your longitude, so it is trivial to >>script. Possibly why noone has bothered to make such a think automagic. >> >>P >> >>Cere Davis wrote: >> >> >>>Hi everyone, >>> >>>I have sort of a basic GIS question that doesn't appear to be all that >>>obvious to me. >>> >>>I am using the proj4 tools in linux to find at utm X-Y zone value for a >>>given lat-lon value. I have played around with it for a bit and I am >>>suprised to find that proj requires me to input a default easting zero >>>value (such as +lon_0=120w) in order to get meaningful x-y data for my >>>zone. To me this seems like redundant information. If I give my lon_0 >>>value then I allready know what zone I am in basicly so this is not very >>>usefull to me. I suppose I could do some pre math and make some >>>assumptions about the quadrant that my lat/lon value are in to find the >>>lon_0 value before I send arguments to Proj but... Is there any tool >>>that just allows me to type in a lat/lon and returns a x-y and zone >>>value? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>-Cere >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Freegis-list mailing list >>>Freegis-list at intevation.de >>>https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From frank.koormann at intevation.de Tue Feb 1 09:36:16 2005 From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:36:16 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to find out lat/lon --> UTM In-Reply-To: <41FEBA48.1060009@refractions.net> References: <41FEBA48.1060009@refractions.net> Message-ID: <20050201083616.GA13269@intevation.de> Cere, * Paul Ramsey [050201 00:09]: > Write up 20 lines of perl to wrap around your proj4 call. The zone value > is a simple categorization on your longitude, so it is trivial to > script. Possibly why noone has bothered to make such a think automagic. > Thuban implements an 'on demand' estimate of UTM Zone based on the layers bounding box: http://www.intevation.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs-thuban.cgi/thuban/Thuban/UI/projdialog.py?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Check for the UTMProposeZoneDialog, actually the estimate is 4 lines of code: x = x + 180 x2 = x2 + 180 center = (x2 - x) / 2 + x proposedZone = int(center / 6 + 1) Regards, Frank -- Frank Koormann Professional Service around Free Software (http://intevation.net/) FreeGIS Project (http://freegis.org/) From neteler at itc.it Wed Feb 2 13:41:51 2005 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:41:51 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] WG: with Microsoft you'll be never lost In-Reply-To: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EBE76C4@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> References: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EBE76C4@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Message-ID: <20050202124151.GI22339@thuille.itc.it> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:15:22PM +0100, Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de wrote: > Read the following and try this out! > > Best regards, have a nice weekend and don't get lost Nice! Here a try in GRASS 6/QGIS (ok, using a different map): http://mpa.itc.it/markus/shortestpath/ Useless, but fun :-) Markus From ben at vterrain.org Fri Feb 4 08:06:13 2005 From: ben at vterrain.org (Ben Discoe) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:06:13 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? Message-ID: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> There is used be SRTM data (free and Free) from NASA at: ftp://e0dps01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/ This FTP site was much more convenient, for many people, than trying to use the USGS's "seamless" server interface. However, currently that FTP site is giving a "permission denied" in that directory. Does anyone know if the SRTM data FTP folder moved, or the whole set of SRTM data is hosted anywhere else? Thanks, Ben From Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de Fri Feb 4 10:56:33 2005 From: Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de (Michel.Garand@frankfurt-oder.de) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:56:33 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] UNESCO and Free Software Message-ID: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC2EF12@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Greetings! I was just searching and came accross the free software initiative from UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/index.shtml Under software - productivity tools - GIS - geographic information systems There is only one entry, GRASS! There is a lot more than just GRASS. All those who have projects should check the possibility of getting their project listed. Best regards and have a nice weekend. 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 / 552-6016 Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-6099 michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de From starged at videotron.ca Sat Feb 5 19:02:33 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:02:33 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> Message-ID: Hi Ben, On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:06:13 -0500, Ben Discoe wrote: >Does anyone know if the SRTM data FTP folder moved, or the whole set of SRTM >data is hosted anywhere else? There's a new source for SRTM since last fall: ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/SRTM/ You can get them as WRS2 tiles or as the regular degree tiles. However, it's still the unfinished product. They were supposed to replace that with the finished product eventually but it had not happened last time I checked. Hope this helps. -- Mario B. Landsat images (demo): http://pages.infinit.net/starged/landsat/home.htm From superbla3000 at gmx.net Sat Feb 5 23:09:25 2005 From: superbla3000 at gmx.net (joerg pfeiffer) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:09:25 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] inside area Message-ID: <42054415.8090806@gmx.net> hello, I d like to build a function in php, that checks, if a lat/long point is inside an area, described by several lat/long points. Is there a function, also in other languages, I can use or translate? Josp From neteler at itc.it Sun Feb 6 17:01:22 2005 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:01:22 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> Message-ID: <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> Hi, I found the SRTM tiles here: ftp://e0mss21u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/ Better to hurry up and save the entire site? Markus On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:02:33PM -0500, Mario Beauchamp wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:06:13 -0500, Ben Discoe wrote: > > >Does anyone know if the SRTM data FTP folder moved, or the whole set of SRTM > >data is hosted anywhere else? > > There's a new source for SRTM since last fall: ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/SRTM/ > > You can get them as WRS2 tiles or as the regular degree tiles. > > However, it's still the unfinished product. They were supposed to replace that with the finished > product eventually but it had not happened last time I checked. > > Hope this helps. > -- > Mario B. > Landsat images (demo): > http://pages.infinit.net/starged/landsat/home.htm > From dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca Sun Feb 6 20:24:45 2005 From: dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette) Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:24:45 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] inside area In-Reply-To: <42054415.8090806@gmx.net> References: <42054415.8090806@gmx.net> Message-ID: <42066EFD.7030507@dmsolutions.ca> joerg pfeiffer wrote: > hello, > > I d like to build a function in php, that checks, if a lat/long point is > inside an area, described by several lat/long points. > > Is there a function, also in other languages, I can use or translate? > Perhaps you could have a look at function msPointInPolygon() in mapsearch.c in the MapServer source code (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) I'm sure there are well documented algorithms to do that out there, but I don't have any pointer at the moment. Daniel -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ From dcalvelo at minag.gob.pe Mon Feb 7 00:23:14 2005 From: dcalvelo at minag.gob.pe (Daniel Calvelo Aros) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:23:14 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] inside area In-Reply-To: <42066EFD.7030507@dmsolutions.ca> References: <42054415.8090806@gmx.net> <42066EFD.7030507@dmsolutions.ca> Message-ID: <20050206231654.M12329@minag.gob.pe> There are algorithm descriptions in the comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ. Looking for that in google leads to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq/, and FAQ#2.03, with an inlined algorithm and references. You have implementations in C in several graphics packages, the only trouble is locating them within the source. Crazy hackish idea: if you don't need high precision and are using PHP as server-side development for n-tier, you can use the algorithm built into your browser through an imagemap. Daniel. -- Daniel Calvelo Aros ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Daniel Morissette To: joerg pfeiffer Cc: freegis-list at intevation.de Sent: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:24:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] inside area > joerg pfeiffer wrote: > > hello, > > > > I d like to build a function in php, that checks, if a lat/long point is > > inside an area, described by several lat/long points. > > > > Is there a function, also in other languages, I can use or translate? > > > > Perhaps you could have a look at function msPointInPolygon() in > mapsearch.c in the MapServer source code > (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) > > I'm sure there are well documented algorithms to do that out there, > but I don't have any pointer at the moment. > > Daniel > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca > DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list ------- End of Original Message ------- From gould at lsi.uji.es Fri Feb 4 11:22:38 2005 From: gould at lsi.uji.es (Michael Gould Carlson) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:22:38 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] UNESCO and Free Software In-Reply-To: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC2EF12@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> References: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC2EF12@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Message-ID: <1107512558.42034cee6905f@webmail.uji.es> Or at least send them the link http://www.freegis.org/ M Gould Mensaje citado por Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de: > Greetings! > > I was just searching and came accross the free software initiative from > UNESCO > > http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/index.shtml > > Under software - productivity tools - GIS - geographic information systems > > There is only one entry, GRASS! > > There is a lot more than just GRASS. All those who have projects should > check the possibility of getting their project listed. > > Best regards and have a nice weekend. > > 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 / 552-6016 > Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-6099 > michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > From jan at intevation.de Tue Feb 8 12:28:45 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:28:45 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal Message-ID: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> Dear FreeGIS community, finally after a long and hard time of work, the third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available as a beta version for testing: http://new.freegis.org This version is not connected to the current database! It uses a copy from Feburary 4 2005. There may be test-changes in there that are not true in reality!! The third generation could be seen as the FreeGIS 5th anniversary edition :-) The hottest new features are: - Management of the database is opened to third parties my means of a contributor/manager concept. Contributors can submit new entries/changes in a form so that maintainer simply can click Accept if OK. Fame goes to the contributors then. - Full I18N support. Now for all entries and for the whole web site an arbitray number of translations can be supported. Provided, trustworthy people stand up and say they will do it. - Updated web design. Do you like it? There any many many other small improvements. Many thanks go to Rainer H?ckmann who actually did most of the work to redesign the database and the portal itself! Now, whats to be done: - Please give feedback on the new site. (I already identified some problems to fix/improve) - A major question: there are two homepage alternatives. Do you think, Homepage2 is better than the old one? All the best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From ral at alum.mit.edu Wed Feb 9 23:45:15 2005 From: ral at alum.mit.edu (Roger Longhorn) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:45:15 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Legal help over open source software In-Reply-To: <20050204110004.80610102C16@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20050209224232.012aecb0@pop.freeserve.com> F.Y.I. from a 'heads up' from Kate Lance via GSDI Association Legal-Economic list: ===================================== Columbia University Law Professor Eben Moglen announced Feb. 1, 2005 the formation of the Software Freedom Law Center, whose mission is to provide pro-bono legal services globally to eligible non-profit open source software projects and developers. Initial funding support from Open Source Development Labs. www.softwarefreedom.org BFN Roger ral at alum.mit.edu > Roger A. Longhorn Director, Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd EC Projects Office 1A Potters Cross, Wootton Bedfordshire MK43 9JG, U.K. Computer voicemail & Fax +44 (0)870 134 6492 E-mail: ral at alum.mit.edu Mobile +44 (0)7879 875288 From starged at videotron.ca Thu Feb 10 04:01:50 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:01:50 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> Message-ID: Hi Markus and list, On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:01:22 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: >I found the SRTM tiles here: > > ftp://e0mss21u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/ > >Better to hurry up and save the entire site? Better not. This is the unfinished product. So I'll stick with the GLCF for now :) Let's hope they get the finished product soon... -- Mario B. Landsat images (demo): http://pages.infinit.net/starged/landsat/home.htm From timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de Thu Feb 10 11:41:05 2005 From: timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de (Tim Michelsen) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:41:05 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal In-Reply-To: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> References: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> Message-ID: <200502101141.06066.timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de> Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 you wrote: > Dear FreeGIS community, > > finally after a long and hard time of work, the > third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available > as a beta version for testing: > > http://new.freegis.org Sorry, cannot reach that URL. From cavallini at faunalia.it Thu Feb 10 11:55:13 2005 From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:55:13 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal In-Reply-To: <200502101141.06066.timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de> References: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> <200502101141.06066.timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de> Message-ID: <200502101155.13628.cavallini@faunalia.it> I can (temporary problems?) pc At 11:41, gioved? 10 febbraio 2005, Tim Michelsen has probably written: > Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner > > On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 you wrote: > > Dear FreeGIS community, > > > > finally after a long and hard time of work, the > > third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available > > as a beta version for testing: > > > > http://new.freegis.org > > Sorry, cannot reach that URL. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 www.faunalia.com Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953 From rafael.koch at gmx.net Thu Feb 10 12:30:25 2005 From: rafael.koch at gmx.net (Rafael Koch) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:30:25 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal In-Reply-To: <200502101155.13628.cavallini@faunalia.it> References: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> <200502101141.06066.timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de> <200502101155.13628.cavallini@faunalia.it> Message-ID: <200502101230.25706.rafael.koch@gmx.net> Try http://www.new.freegis.org/ This worked for me. Looks cool and much clearer than the old one. I like it very much. > I can (temporary problems?) > pc > > At 11:41, gioved? 10 febbraio 2005, Tim Michelsen has probably written: > > Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner > > > > On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 you wrote: > > > Dear FreeGIS community, > > > > > > finally after a long and hard time of work, the > > > third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available > > > as a beta version for testing: > > > > > > http://new.freegis.org > > > > Sorry, cannot reach that URL. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freegis-list mailing list > > Freegis-list at intevation.de > > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From pasquale.didonato at uniroma1.it Thu Feb 10 15:34:29 2005 From: pasquale.didonato at uniroma1.it (Pasquale Di Donato) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:34:29 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] new.freegis.org In-Reply-To: <20050210110003.A3AFD102C4D@lists.intevation.de> References: <20050210110003.A3AFD102C4D@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <420B70F5.8060106@uniroma1.it> Dear All, actually new.freegis.org does not work, but it does work www.new.freegis.org Pasquale Di Donato -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 07/02/2005 From neteler at itc.it Thu Feb 10 12:51:16 2005 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:51:16 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> Message-ID: <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:01:50PM -0500, Mario Beauchamp wrote: > Hi Markus and list, > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:01:22 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: > > >I found the SRTM tiles here: > > > > ftp://e0mss21u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/ > > > >Better to hurry up and save the entire site? > > Better not. This is the unfinished product. So I'll stick with the GLCF for now :) But that's unfinished as well (AKAIK). Where is the difference apart from the tile size? > Let's hope they get the finished product soon... True! Markus From Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de Thu Feb 10 14:55:25 2005 From: Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de (Michel.Garand@frankfurt-oder.de) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:55:25 +0100 Subject: AW: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of Fr eeGIS portal Message-ID: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC4E1DA@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Greetings! http://new.freegis.org/ works ok for me! Looks great! 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 / 552-6016 Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-6099 michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Rafael Koch [SMTP:rafael.koch at gmx.net] > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 12:30 > An: freegis-list at intevation.de > Betreff: Re: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation > of FreeGIS portal > > Try http://www.new.freegis.org/ > This worked for me. > > Looks cool and much clearer than the old one. I like it very much. > > > > > > I can (temporary problems?) > > pc > > > > At 11:41, gioved? 10 febbraio 2005, Tim Michelsen has probably written: > > > Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner > > > > > > On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 12:28 you wrote: > > > > Dear FreeGIS community, > > > > > > > > finally after a long and hard time of work, the > > > > third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available > > > > as a beta version for testing: > > > > > > > > http://new.freegis.org > > > > > > Sorry, cannot reach that URL. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freegis-list mailing list > > > Freegis-list at intevation.de > > > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From sxpert at esitcom.org Thu Feb 10 17:05:33 2005 From: sxpert at esitcom.org (Amaury Jacquot) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:05:33 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> Message-ID: <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> Markus Neteler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:01:50PM -0500, Mario Beauchamp wrote: > >>Hi Markus and list, >> >>On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:01:22 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: >> >> >>>I found the SRTM tiles here: >>> >>>ftp://e0mss21u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/ >>> >>>Better to hurry up and save the entire site? >> >>Better not. This is the unfinished product. So I'll stick with the GLCF for now :) > > > But that's unfinished as well (AKAIK). Where is the difference > apart from the tile size? > > >>Let's hope they get the finished product soon... hmm... guess the US military will withdraw it, because of the terrorism threat or some similar fake excuse From gilberto at dpi.inpe.br Thu Feb 10 20:43:24 2005 From: gilberto at dpi.inpe.br (Gilberto Camara) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:43:24 -0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Announcement: TerraLib 3.0 and TerraView 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20050209110003.9034B102BE6@lists.intevation.de> References: <20050209110003.9034B102BE6@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <420BB95C.4030808@dpi.inpe.br> Dear FreeGISers: The GIS team at INPE would like to announce the release of version 3.0 of the TerraLib GIS library and version 3.0 of the TerraView GIS. TerraLib is a C++ library for GIS application development, where all data (raster + vector) is stored in an object-relational DBMS. The functions available in TerraLib 3.0 include: (a) Interfaces to mySQL, PostgreSQL and PostGIS DBMS for data storage and retrival (b) Egenhofer operators on vector geometries (c) Address geocoding (d) Polygon overlay operations and buffer calculation (e) Display and enhancement of remote sensing images (f) Import of SHP, MIF, ASCII and SPR vector files (g) Import of TIFF, GeoTIFF, JPG, RAW image files (h) Support for visualisation with Themes and Views made persistent on the DBMS, and algorithms for building thematic maps from vectors and rasters (i) Dynamical modelling with cell spaces, including support for conversion of vectors to cells (j) Support for spatio-temporal data (events, moving points) (k) Spatial statistics (Moran autocorrelation indexes, kernel estimations, variogram calculation) (m) Interface with the R statistical library (h) Support for 12 cartographical projections, and extensibility to include new projections, datum, and ellipsoids. TerraLib 3.0 is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, and its webpage is http://www.terralib.org. TerraView 3.0 is GIS that uses TerraLib and the QT toolkit, and includes a GUI that allows access to the TerraLib functions described above, and includes additionally: (a) Interfaces for creation of spatial databases and data conversion. (b) Canvas for visualization of vector+raster data. (c) Brushing facilities between table, graphics and maps. (d) Creation and persistence of Themes and Views. TerraView 3.0 is licensed under the GNU Public License and is also available at http://www.terralib.org. TerraLib's development has benefited from other free GIS projects, including "Shapelib" and "PostGIS". We would like to thank their creators. Best regards, Gilberto Camara and its functionality -- =========================================== Dr.Gilberto Camara Director for Earth Observation National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil voice: +55-12-3945-6499 fax: +55-12-3945-6460 web: http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto ============================================ From bwilson at clickshift.com Thu Feb 10 23:02:53 2005 From: bwilson at clickshift.com (Brian Wilson) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:02:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Free data sources wanted (was SRTM FTP site gone or moved?) In-Reply-To: <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> Message-ID: > hmm... guess the US military will withdraw it, because of the terrorism > threat or some similar fake excuse Really now, that's not an issue is it? Can you think of a terrorist attack that could not be accomplished in the US with a 1978 AAA Road Atlas? They give away all kinds of cool spatial data here, at very high resolutions and in great detail, and the trend is still towards more data becoming available. I guess the corporations don't consider it competition so no one cares. They probably have access to data that make what I get for free look like a felt pen drawing on a used cocktail napkin. Outside US I can understand why I can't get good data for areas where there is not much infrastructure (say Belize) -- it does not exist or is "classified" by their gov but where is free downloadable data for Europe? According my carto teacher it's all copyrighted and locked away... please please prove him wrong and send me your URL's! Just a portal site would be fine. One day I hope to be able to use the 'data' area of FreeGIS.org for this; currently it is boring 90% US and/or small-scale world data. ("Inside Idaho", yippee-eye-oh-kay-yay) Brian From starged at videotron.ca Fri Feb 11 04:22:17 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:22:17 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> Message-ID: <529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com> Hi Markus, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:51:16 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: >> Better not. This is the unfinished product. So I'll stick with the GLCF for now :) > >But that's unfinished as well (AKAIK). Where is the difference >apart from the tile size? They are in GeoTiff format and you can get them as WRS2 tiles as well as the normal degrees tiles. What's neat about WRS2 tiles is that they match the Landsat imagery. Cheers, -- Mario B. Landsat images (demo): http://pages.infinit.net/starged/landsat/home.htm From starged at videotron.ca Fri Feb 11 04:25:54 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:25:54 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> Message-ID: Hi Amaury, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:05:33 +0100, Amaury Jacquot wrote: >>>Let's hope they get the finished product soon... > >hmm... guess the US military will withdraw it, because of the terrorism >threat or some similar fake excuse I don't think this is an issue with elevation data... But if you grab Washington orthophotos from the USGS WMS server, you'll find that government buildings are pixelated :) Cheers, -- Mario B. Landsat images (demo): http://pages.infinit.net/starged/landsat/home.htm From neteler at itc.it Fri Feb 11 09:58:19 2005 From: neteler at itc.it (Markus Neteler) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:58:19 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com> Message-ID: <20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:22:17PM -0500, Mario Beauchamp wrote: > Hi Markus, > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:51:16 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: > > >> Better not. This is the unfinished product. So I'll stick with the GLCF for now :) > > > >But that's unfinished as well (AKAIK). Where is the difference > >apart from the tile size? > > They are in GeoTiff format and you can get them as WRS2 tiles as well as the normal degrees tiles. > What's neat about WRS2 tiles is that they match the Landsat imagery. Yes, sure (I use them already). I was interested to understand why you wrote that the original tiles are the unfinished product (known), but the GLCF data are sort of finished. To my knowledge the data are identical, just re-tiled and stored in GeoTIFF. Yes, the GLCF SRTM data sets are more convenient of course. But the data quality is identical, right? Probably just a misunderstanding? Markus From gisdude at hotpop.com Fri Feb 11 18:28:39 2005 From: gisdude at hotpop.com (Rajkumar Singh) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:28:39 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal In-Reply-To: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> References: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> Message-ID: <420CEB47.3000601@hotpop.com> Very slick, much better looking than the old site. Keep up the good work. Cheers. Raj From cjursa at mail.sis.pitt.edu Fri Feb 11 18:31:46 2005 From: cjursa at mail.sis.pitt.edu (Christopher Jon Jursa) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:31:46 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] GML to SVG Message-ID: Hello, I have been on the list for some time now. I enjoyed many of the discussions. I would like to submit my first question. Does anyone have any good leads on how to convert GML to SVG? Are there any good websites to get me started? I need some help converting map coordinates to image coordinates. Sincerely, Christopher Jon Jursa PhD Candidate School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh Email: cjursa at sis.pitt.edu Web: http://gis.sis.pitt.edu From jan at intevation.de Fri Feb 11 20:12:34 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:12:34 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Beta-Testing opened for Third Generation of FreeGIS portal In-Reply-To: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> References: <20050208112845.GA3289@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20050211191234.GB19944@intevation.de> Dear FreeGIS community, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:28:45PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > finally after a long and hard time of work, the > third generation of the FreeGIS portal is available > as a beta version for testing: > > http://new.freegis.org thanks for all your valuable feedback so far. Most of the comments I received off-list. It seems that Homepage2 is the way to go. The explanation at the top ("The FreeGIS Project provides") might even be dropped entirely - do you agree? I fixed a number of bugs, but there remains a lot to do yet. Nonetheless I tend to switch to the new portal soon even if it is not perfect. We won't get it perfect otherwise and so far it has at least proven to work in principle. Of course the current portal will remain available for a while as old.freegis.org. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From ari.jolma at tkk.fi Sat Feb 12 10:57:40 2005 From: ari.jolma at tkk.fi (Ari Jolma) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:57:40 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] GML to SVG In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <420DD314.9080502@tkk.fi> Christopher Jon Jursa wrote: >Hello, > >I have been on the list for some time now. I enjoyed many of the >discussions. I would like to submit my first question. > >Does anyone have any good leads on how to convert GML to SVG? Are there any >good websites to get me started? > > This is the topic of one exercise on one of our courses (not mine though). Take a look at http://geoinfo.fgi.fi/WebTopGIS/Exercise.php (part 3) Ari >I need some help converting map coordinates to image coordinates. > >Sincerely, > >Christopher Jon Jursa >PhD Candidate >School of Information Sciences >University of Pittsburgh >Email: cjursa at sis.pitt.edu >Web: http://gis.sis.pitt.edu > > >_______________________________________________ >Freegis-list mailing list >Freegis-list at intevation.de >https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list > > -- Prof. Ari Jolma Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma From ge at gabrielebner.at Fri Feb 11 18:14:01 2005 From: ge at gabrielebner.at (Gabriel Ebner) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:14:01 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Free data sources wanted References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> Message-ID: <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> Brian Wilson writes: > Outside US I can understand why I can't get good data for areas where > there is not much infrastructure (say Belize) -- it does not exist or > is "classified" by their gov but where is free downloadable data for > Europe? According my carto teacher it's all copyrighted and locked > away... please please prove him wrong and send me your URL's! Just a > portal site would be fine. You're right. It's not as if there were no spatial data available for Europe, it's just that almost none of it is free, not to mention Free. To my knowledge, the only free street-level dataset in Europe covers only Osnabr?ck: http://frida.intevation.org/ vmap0 is the other free vector dataset I know of. It's from the US but covers all of Europe (and for that matter pretty much the whole world) with major roads, administrative boundaries, lakes, etc. with a mean accuracy of 2km. http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/vmap0_legend.html Then there's also GSHHS, a high-resolution shoreline database for the whole world. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html There's a bit more raster data available: Landsat 7 data (around 14x14m resolution): https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/ Blue marble (from MODIS, 1x1km resolution, but true color): http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ Apparently there's a Blue Marble NG dataset (at 500x500m resolution) too (http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/stockli/bmng/), but I couldn't find any links to the data. The EC is currently working at adopting a so called "INSPIRE directive", which enforces the current practices (i.e. the data is copyrighted and expensive, although the public has a right to "view" the data) http://space.frot.org/docs/inspire_directive.html http://inspire.jrc.it/ (This site can be a bit misleading sometimes, you'd better read the full proposal, especially article 20.) To get a taste of the EC handles spatial data today, take a look at http://image2000.jrc.it/i2000/ (ortho-rectified Landsat 7 images): ,----[ http://image2000.jrc.it/i2000/i2000-faq.html ] | Q. Can I pass the data to anyone else? | | A. Absolutely not. The data are provided to you as a registered | user. Even if an immediate colleague wishes to use the data, they | should register also and request the imagery. Any circulation of the | data is prohibited by the terms and conditions, and remember that | these data are strictly for non-commercial uses. `---- Gabriel. From cavallini at faunalia.it Sun Feb 13 12:16:59 2005 From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:16:59 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Free data sources wanted In-Reply-To: <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> Message-ID: <200502131217.00280.cavallini@faunalia.it> Pretty awful, isn't it? pc At 18:14, venerd? 11 febbraio 2005, Gabriel Ebner has probably written: > The EC is currently working at adopting a so called "INSPIRE > directive", which enforces the current practices (i.e. the data is > copyrighted and expensive, although the public has a right to "view" > the data) -- Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it www.faunalia.it www.faunalia.com Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953 From sxpert at esitcom.org Sun Feb 13 12:30:21 2005 From: sxpert at esitcom.org (Amaury Jacquot) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:30:21 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Free data sources wanted In-Reply-To: <200502131217.00280.cavallini@faunalia.it> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> <200502131217.00280.cavallini@faunalia.it> Message-ID: <420F3A4D.2010403@esitcom.org> Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Pretty awful, isn't it? > pc > At 18:14, venerd? 11 febbraio 2005, Gabriel Ebner has probably written: > >>The EC is currently working at adopting a so called "INSPIRE >>directive", which enforces the current practices (i.e. the data is >>copyrighted and expensive, although the public has a right to "view" >>the data) between * the patents * the EUCD * and now this... the EC needs to be disbanded From bernhard at intevation.de Sun Feb 13 19:05:02 2005 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:05:02 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Free data sources wanted In-Reply-To: <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <420B864D.4040608@esitcom.org> <87hdkj10km.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at> Message-ID: <20050213180502.GG20526@intevation.de> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:14:01PM +0100, Gabriel Ebner wrote: > To my knowledge, the only free street-level dataset in Europe covers > only Osnabr?ck: http://frida.intevation.org/ There is also Berlin thanks to the BBBike project. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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NEUE ANSCHRIFT & RUFNUMMER !!! l a t / l o n GmbH Aennchenstrasse 19 53177 Bonn, Germany phone ++49 +228 18496-0 fax ++49 +228 18496-29 http://www.lat-lon.de http://www.deegree.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gml2svg.xsl Type: text/xml Size: 7288 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20050214/9af852dd/gml2svg.xsl From pcreso at pcreso.com Tue Feb 15 01:37:43 2005 From: pcreso at pcreso.com (Brent Wood) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:37:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Fwd: Announcement (Fishery GIS Symposium, Publication, Logo & Cover designs) Message-ID: <20050215003743.98061.qmail@web12209.mail.yahoo.com> This may be of interest to some here... Some background: I presented a paper on fishery data visualisation based on GMT & OpenDX at the 2001 Symposium. It was very well received, with the interest being at least as much on the fact that this could be done with free software as the actual visualisations (sigh!). Given the proportion of attendees from 3rd world countries, the idea that you could do all this GIS stuff without keeping Microsoft & ESRI profits up was quite exciting. In his closing speech, the keynote speaker commented that the future of fisheries GIS may well lie more with OS than commercial/closed source software. I agreed to prepare a 2nd paper for the proceedings, describing how a GIS for fisheries work could be implemented using just free (as in speech :-) data & software. Given the upcoming conference is in China may make the presentation of OS GIS capabilities even more appropriate. I hope to be there & to present a paper describing a fisheries GIS set up with PostGIS, QGIS & GMT. I'd love to see others from the OS GIS community presenting a paper/poster or demo there as well!! Cheers, Brent Wood --- Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group wrote: > From: "Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group" > To: > Subject: [I4]Announcement (Fishery GIS Symposium, Publication, Logo & Cover > designs) > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:41:55 +0900 > > **************************************************************************** > If you have troubles to read this e-mail and/or the web sites below, > please contact to the Secretariat of the Fishery-Aquatic GIS > Research Group at aco20320 at par.odn.ne.jp . > **************************************************************************** > > Dear Colleagues and Friends, > > We are pleased to inform three announcements today: > > (1) 'Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses > in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences' . > > This Symposium will be held in the Shanghai Fisheries University, > Shanghai, China from August 22-26, 2005. For details, please refer to: > > http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/3rd/01_01.pdf > > (Deadline for the registration and submission of abstract is June 15, 2005) > > > (2) Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium > (Textbook: GIS/Spatial analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 2). > > This book has been published. A limited number of the copies is now > being printed and will be ready by the end of February, 2005. > For details and the order, please refer to: > > http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/2nd/sympo15.htm > > > (3) Winners of LOGO & Cover Designs > > Regarding this competition, refer to > > http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/announcements.pdf > > For the winners of the logo, please refer to: > > http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/logo/Results%20of%20the%20votes%20logo.pdf > > For the winners of the cover designs refer to: > > http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/logo/Results%20of%20the%20votes%20cover.pdf > > > Best wishes, > > PS: Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues or friends > who might be interested in its contents. > > ==================================================================== > Secretariat > Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group, > E-mail address : aco20320 at par.odn.ne.jp > Postal address : C/o Environment Simulation Laboratory, > 2F Noble Building, 2-4-1, Arajuku-Cho, Kawagoe-city, > Saitama-ken, Japan (zip code) 350-1124 > http : www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/index.htm > Phone : 81(Japan)-492-42-9262, > FAX : 81(Japan)-492-41-2442 > ==================================================================== > > > > > > > From starged at videotron.ca Tue Feb 15 04:39:10 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:39:10 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com> <20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> Message-ID: <42116EDE.5000203@videotron.ca> Hi Markus, Markus Neteler wrote: >>They are in GeoTiff format and you can get them as WRS2 tiles as well as the normal degrees tiles. > > I was interested to understand why you wrote that the original tiles are > the unfinished product (known), but the GLCF data are sort of finished. To > my knowledge the data are identical, just re-tiled and stored in GeoTIFF. Well, according to the description here: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/desc.shtml it's the unfinished product. But they also state that the finished version would be available in September 2004 and this has not happened. > Yes, the GLCF SRTM data sets are more convenient of course. But > the data quality is identical, right? Maybe you got data that didn't have as many gaps as some others. The datasets I have downloaded so far have a lot of missing data... From cavallini at faunalia.it Tue Feb 15 07:59:17 2005 From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:59:17 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] ECW SDK Message-ID: <200502150759.18342.cavallini@faunalia.it> Hi all. I wrote to ERMapper. asking for a more free licence for ECW SDK. They had a moderately positive response. All the best. pc ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi Paolo, Thanks for your email. We are having discussions on the Open Source licensing issues at the moment, so i appreciate your input. I am sure that in the near future, modifications will be made to ensure the licensing terms better cater for open source needs. I will get back to you when i know more. Best wishes, Richard Orchard www.ermapper.com TEL: +61 (0)8 9388 2900 FAX: +61 (0)8 9388 2901 -- Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it www.faunalia.it www.faunalia.com Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953 From keerapullman at bellsouth.net Tue Feb 15 13:50:47 2005 From: keerapullman at bellsouth.net (Keera Pullman) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:50:47 -0600 Subject: [Freegis-list] Europe Base Map Message-ID: <004201c5135c$f93116b0$61cb4dd8@Keera> HI, I am looking for a base map of Europe with the following features: major water bodies, major roads, province boundaries, major cities/urban areas. I am looking all over the web to see what I can find--If anyone had any tips on good sites to visit I'd be grateful. Many thanks, Keera -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It includes the above mentioned layers. does anyone have a bittorrent source for vmap0 or the subsets of vmap1 that have been declassified? i have found vmap0 availability to drop on and off the net quite a bit :/ coverage of province boundaries i have seen to be highly variable (e.g. only sub-countries for the UK, but lots of local regions for france) ... also be aware that vmap0 road lines are very, very inaccurate... and that a lot of the boundary data dates back to the late 80s... http://makeashorterlink.com/?T12825B7A is a mapserver/vmap0 browser that my partner Schuyler threw together, gives you an idea of level of detail (for your purposes, probably spot on). i heard from a #worldwind regular that they were getting a couple of irc questions a day saying "why is the satellite imagery so blocky everywhere that's not in the US"... sigh -jo From aaslier at hotmail.com Tue Feb 15 15:05:25 2005 From: aaslier at hotmail.com (ahmet aslier) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:05:25 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] RE: Welcome to the "Freegis-list" mailing list (Digest mode) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20050215/ae6f2f61/attachment.html From werchowyna at pf.pl Tue Feb 15 23:36:58 2005 From: werchowyna at pf.pl (Maciek Sieczka) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:36:58 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de><20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it><20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it><529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com><20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> <42116EDE.5000203@videotron.ca> Message-ID: <034001c513c0$1a9d9270$75c61d3e@eustahiush> Folks > it's the unfinished product. But they also state that the finished version > would be available in September 2004 and this has not happened. Over 2 months ago, on 09.11.04 I asked them at the umiacs.umd.edu when they expected the finished 3" SRTM to be available and I was told: | We are currently in the process of transferring the data into our office. | We then need to process it before we post it on our website. So, | currently, there is no time table for when the finished SRTM datasets | will be available. An announcement will be posted on our website | when progress has been made. Hope this helps. and later: | "Finished" SRTM data is already available for purchase fromt he EROS Data | Center. For more information on the production of the 'finished' SRTM | product, please refer to the USGS SRTM web page. http://srtm.usgs.gov/ I thought you might be interested in this. Does it seem like they are trying to commercialize the 3" SRTM - at least temporarily? Cheers, Maciek From jan at intevation.de Wed Feb 16 16:28:43 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:28:43 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Open Source Geospatial '05 Conference Announcement In-Reply-To: <20041215083906.GA28599@intevation.de> References: <20041215083906.GA28599@intevation.de> Message-ID: <20050216152843.GA25454@intevation.de> Hi FreeGIS people, please note that the web site for this conference is extended (program) and operational (online bookings) now. Note that the early registration ends April 14, 2005. Best Jan On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:06AM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > I received this announcement from Steve Lime, one of the guys with the > longest Free GIS Software developement track record. I expect this event > to be quite interesting for the community around Free Software and GIS. > > Best > > Jan > > | Open Source Geospatial '05, an international conference addressing > | geospatial data technologies developed by or of relevance to the Open > | Source community, will be held June 16-18, 2005 in Minneapolis, > | Minnesota, USA. The conference will bring together the MapServer, > | EOGEO, and OSGIS communities with the intent to be broadly inclusive. A > | committee has been working since July to design a program with elements > | that will interest participants from the novice to the expert. The > | conference strives to build on the successes and enthusiasm generated > | by previous, related meetings. This exciting event is being held on > | June 16 - 18, 2005, at the University of Minnesota campus in > | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. > | > | Important dates to note (dates are approximate and subject to change): > | > | Call for presentations: January 1st, 2005 > | > | Online registration begins: January 1st, 2005 > | > | Abstracts for presentations due: April 1st, 2005 > | > | Early registration ends: April 15th, 2005 > | > | Make your plans to attend early, as hotel space on and around the > | University campus is expected to fill up quickly for the week of the > | conference. > | > | For more information as it becomes available, please visit the > | conference website at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mum/mtg2005.html > | > | Take advantage of the opportunity Open Source Geospatial '05 offers to > | network with fellow geospatial data professionals, renewing old > | acquaintances and making new ones. Hope to see you there! -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From martin at vigerske.de Wed Feb 16 18:35:03 2005 From: martin at vigerske.de (Martin Vigerske) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM to contourlines Message-ID: Hi, I am looking for a free tool to convert SRTM-Data (a GeoTiff from GLCF) to contourlines (as dxf or an other vector-format). I tried GRASS, but couldn't manage it yet. Maybe there is a free tool out there? Best wishes, Martin Vigerske From fwarmerdam at gmail.com Wed Feb 16 19:00:52 2005 From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:00:52 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM to contourlines In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <931f8ea90502161000360d8685@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:35:03 +0100, Martin Vigerske wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a free tool to convert SRTM-Data (a GeoTiff from GLCF) > to contourlines (as dxf or an other vector-format). > > I tried GRASS, but couldn't manage it yet. > > Maybe there is a free tool out there? Martin, You can use the gdal_contour command from GDAL to accomplish this. The main downside of the gdal_contour command is that it produces very dense contours (1 line segment for each pixel crossed by the contour). It can be found as part of the pre-build FWTools suite if you wish. http://fwtools.maptools.org/ Details on gdal_contour can be found at: http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html#gdal_contour I would add that gdal_contour products contours in any GDAL/OGR writable vector format, which does not include DXF. The default output is Shapefiles. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From fwarmerdam at gmail.com Wed Feb 16 19:06:24 2005 From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:06:24 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM to contourlines In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <931f8ea905021610061f98cd60@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:35:03 +0100, Martin Vigerske wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a free tool to convert SRTM-Data (a GeoTiff from GLCF) > to contourlines (as dxf or an other vector-format). > > I tried GRASS, but couldn't manage it yet. > > Maybe there is a free tool out there? Martin, You can use the gdal_contour command from GDAL to accomplish this. The main downside of the gdal_contour command is that it produces very dense contours (1 line segment for each pixel crossed by the contour). It can be found as part of the pre-build FWTools suite if you wish. http://fwtools.maptools.org/ Details on gdal_contour can be found at: http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html#gdal_contour I would add that gdal_contour products contours in any GDAL/OGR writable vector format, which does not include DXF. The default output is Shapefiles. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From jvarga at boulder.net Thu Feb 17 05:07:33 2005 From: jvarga at boulder.net (Jack Varga) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:07:33 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS Fellowship for grad LA students Message-ID: <42141885.3080605@boulder.net> The attached is a forwarded announcement directed at graduate students of Landscape Architecture for three annual $10,000.00 grants to be used "to promote and facilitate the integration of art, science, method, and technology in the study and profession of landscape architecture, and encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a framework for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment and intervention." While the Fellowship is sponsored in part by ESRI, and includes "free" - as in beer - ESRI software (although I don't know exactly which, or if support is included), along with a computer and access to online ESRI training, it does NOT state you must use their software so long as the research promotes the use of GIS. What an excellent opportunity for someone in any of the assorted communities pertaining to open source geospatial applications! Unless the prerequisites are re-written to require the exclusive use of ESRI software, it is open to any landscape architecture graduate student in the US (and perhaps Canada) using the tools of their choice. Even if it were modified to require the un-exclusive use of ESRI, one could demonstrate the effectiveness of using open source geospatial components along side COTS implementations. Please forward this to any other lists you may subscribe to that are related to open source geospatial projects, (Thuban, PostGIS, OpenMap, etc.). Best regards, Jack Varga -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [LARCH-L] The Dangermond Fellowship Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:09:41 -0500 From: James F. Palmer Reply-To: Landscape Architecture Electronic Forum To: LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) is pleased to announce a new, unique research funding opportunity for graduate students of landscape architecture and their faculty advisors­the Dangermond Fellowship. I am writing to encourage you to broadly disseminate this exciting opportunity. Please go to www.laprofession.org/DangermondFellowship.htm to print one or more 8˝” by 11” color posters, and then display the information prominently in your department on bulletin boards and in graduate studios. The Dangermond Fellowship, a national fellowship for graduate students of landscape architecture at institutions in the United States, is jointly sponsored by LAF, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The purpose of the fellowship is to promote and facilitate the integration of art, science, method, and technology in the study and profession of landscape architecture, and encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a framework for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment and intervention. The fellowship program will generate approximately $30,000 annually, providing three fellowships of $10,000 each per year. Fellowship winners will also receive a computer, ESRI software, and access to technical training via ESRI’s Virtual Campus. Fellowship recipients will be invited to present their projects at the ESRI Annual User Conference (July/August) and at the ASLA Annual Convention (October/November). Separate funds will be available to pay for the travel costs to these events for the students and their principal advisor. The fellowship program invites students, with support from their respective universities, to submit project proposals to the fellowship committee for review and evaluation. The fellowships will be awarded on the merits of the proposals, demonstrated capacity of the student(s) to complete the work, and the likelihood of success. Students can submit proposals addressing any aspect of landscape architecture as long as the proposal demonstrates the use of GIS as an integrating framework for performing both landscape analysis and landscape planning, design and management. Application requirements and selection criteria are available at www.laprofession.org/financial/scholarships.htm. Applications must be postmarked by March 31, 2005. Sincerely, Ron Figura Landscape Architecture Foundation Scholarship Manager 202-331-7070 ext 10 rfigura at lafoundation.org \%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ James F. Palmer, Ph.D., FASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY 13210 voice: 315 470-6548 internet: zooey at mailbox.syr.edu \%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ From ari.jolma at tkk.fi Thu Feb 17 10:34:25 2005 From: ari.jolma at tkk.fi (Ari Jolma) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:34:25 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] MapWindow Message-ID: <42146521.6030604@tkk.fi> I mentioned a while ago about open sourcing MapWindow, now it seems they have decided on the licence and selected the Mozilla Public Licence. I'm not too well educated in the licencing matters but doesn't it warrant MapWindow to get listed in freegis.org? http://www.mapwindow.com/licensing.html Ari -- Prof. Ari Jolma Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Feb 17 15:53:32 2005 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:53:32 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] FWTools 0.9.6 Release Message-ID: <4214AFEC.8080501@pobox.com> Folks, I have prepared an FWTools 0.9.6 release. They are available for download at the usual place: http://www.gdal.org/dl/fwtools/ FWTools is a pre-built and integrate suite of free GIS components including GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, OGDI, MapServer and OpenEV. General information is available at: http://fwtools.maptools.org/ On windows this release catches the various projects up to the current development version but otherwise things have not changed noticable. On Linux though there have been a number of changes in 0.9.5. Noteable: o Rebuilt all C++ components with gcc 3.2.3. I had been using gcc 2.95 which was inadequate for some of the more demanding projects. o Added GEOS support in the OGR build (also installed the geos dev environment) (Hmm ... it just occured to me I didn't include MapServe GEOS support ... I will try and hit that for 0.9.7). o Added ECW support using the ERMapper 3.1beta ECW SDK. Yippee! o Added netcdf (and GMT netcdf) driver support. I needed to rebuild the HDF libraries to avoid exporting a netcdf style API to make this work. As usual let me know if you encounter problems. For FWTools packaging problems submit bugs in FWTools bugzilla. For issues related to particular packages that isn't related to how they are built and distributed in FWTools submit to the appropriate projects. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From jvarga at boulder.net Thu Feb 17 19:22:57 2005 From: jvarga at boulder.net (Jack Varga) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:22:57 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] Followup: The Dangermond Fellowship Message-ID: <4214E101.9060406@boulder.net> I asked for clarification from LAF regarding the three $10,000.00 grants for LA grad students pertaining to the use of GIS. Any tool the recipient desires to use is ok, (i.e., can be open source and doesn't need to include ESRI software), so long as the Fellowship's objectives... > promote and facilitate the integration of art, science, method, and technology in the study and profession of landscape architecture, and encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a framework for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment and intervention. ...are met. Official response below. -jv -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [LARCH-L] The Dangermond Fellowship Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:50:29 -0500 From: James F. Palmer Reply-To: Landscape Architecture Electronic Forum To: LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU I asked for a clarification to Jack Varga's question from LAF and ESRI. Here is the official response. Jim Palmer The answer to Jack Varga's question is that students are free to use whatever GIS technology they wish. The important thing is to show how GIS can be used in both landscape analysis and intervention (design). I think all of us ... at ESRI and in the associations ... would like the students to explore the power and potential of GIS and other spatial technologies as applied to the field of landscape architecture. \%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ James F. Palmer, Ph.D., FASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY 13210 voice: 315 470-6548 internet: zooey at mailbox.syr.edu \%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ From ArvindK at fbe.unsw.edu.au Fri Feb 18 02:56:33 2005 From: ArvindK at fbe.unsw.edu.au (Arvind Kumar) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:56:33 +1100 Subject: [Freegis-list] origin-destnation lines Message-ID: <88DD51542A23F1428A5F6AB2E36FF9920161C978@emumail.fbe.unsw.edu.au> Hi A very basic question: Can someone tell me how can lines between origin destination points be generated automatically from teh data? Thanks. --Arvind From iamtherenz at hotmail.com Thu Feb 10 23:18:37 2005 From: iamtherenz at hotmail.com (Keera Pullman) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:18:37 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Europe base map Message-ID: Hi, I am looking for a base map of Europe that has the following features: country and province boundaries, major roads, major water bodies, and major cities. I know ArcGIS 9 offers a CD with this base map, but alas it is out of my price range. Any ideas where I can get a copy of this CD or and sites with this info? Many thanks, Keera From Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de Fri Feb 18 09:27:43 2005 From: Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de (Michel.Garand@frankfurt-oder.de) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:27:43 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?Free_Software/OSS_and_public_invit?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ation_to_tender_=28=F6ffentliche_Ausschreibungen=29?= Message-ID: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC9E037@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Greetings! As I am faced with the following position from Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann (im Auftrag von micorsoft) see http://www.kommune21.de/meldung.php?id=4237 and www.innrego.de/osvergabegutachten.pdf, with regard to legal apsects public tendering practice in Germany. I am looking for public administrations with experience dealing with Free Software/OSS and public invitation to tender (?ffentliche Ausschreibungen) or any recent articles or research dealing with this topic and not financed by microsoft. Thanks in advance for any hints, advice or even moral support dealing with my city administration. Best regrads, 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 / 552-6016 Fax: +49 (0)335 / 552-6099 michel.garand at frankfurt-oder.de From topologis at t-online.de Fri Feb 18 09:38:32 2005 From: topologis at t-online.de (pk topologis) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:38:32 +0100 Subject: AW: [Freegis-list] Europe base map In-Reply-To: Message-ID: http://webgis.dyndns.org:8080/giswiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FreieGeodaten -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de]Im Auftrag von Keera Pullman Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 23:19 An: freegis-list at intevation.de Betreff: [Freegis-list] Europe base map Hi, I am looking for a base map of Europe that has the following features: country and province boundaries, major roads, major water bodies, and major cities. I know ArcGIS 9 offers a CD with this base map, but alas it is out of my price range. Any ideas where I can get a copy of this CD or and sites with this info? Many thanks, Keera _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From bernhard at intevation.de Fri Feb 18 11:15:14 2005 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:15:14 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Free =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sof?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?tware=2FOSS_and_public_invitation_to_tender_=28=F6ffentlic?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?he?= Ausschreibungen) In-Reply-To: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC9E037@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> References: <4951B8C94306D9118ABF00105A096D7EC9E037@nt_server_3.frankfurt-oder.de> Message-ID: <20050218101514.GM27281@intevation.de> Am 18. Feb 2005 um 09:27:43 schrieb Michel.Garand at frankfurt-oder.de: > As I am faced with the following position from Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann (im > Auftrag von micorsoft) A legal study payed by microsoft. > see http://www.kommune21.de/meldung.php?id=4237 and > www.innrego.de/osvergabegutachten.pdf, with regard to legal apsects public > tendering practice in Germany. I only read the summary to far. First it states the obvious: Tendering should be done neutral and describe functionality not products. In practice should would a step forward for Free Software if this would be done, because of course there is already infrastructure and it is easier to buy a bundle of licenses than a Free Software equivalent. Of course Microsoft takes this and turns this around and says: A political decision for Free Software cannot bypass the bylaw for tendering, neglecting that this is done for proprietary software all the time. And then the summary says that software always has product part, which is unwarranted and discriminatory towards Free Software business models. > I am looking for public administrations with experience dealing with Free > Software/OSS and public invitation to tender (?ffentliche Ausschreibungen) > or any recent articles or research dealing with this topic and not financed > by microsoft. In Germany: Check the work by the Germany Ministry of the Interiour (BMI), the KBST and the German Federal Agency of IT-security (BSI). http://www.kbst.bund.de/ They have a Free Software competence centre. The BSI also has put out a few tenders (Intevation has won a couple, so I know.) Contact the Kbst, because their statement was along the lines: Every public administration that wants to contract Free Software does not have a principal problem with it, even with current tendering practices. > Thanks in advance for any hints, advice or even moral support dealing with > my city administration. Depending on what you want to do, contact Free Software businesses in your vicinity or thematic area. Hit them the weight (not all of the content) of the BMI migration guidelines (new edition pending) (English pdf at http://www.kbst.bund.de/Anlage304428/Migration_Guide.pdf) and the financial benefits. Best, Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) Experts for complex webmapping! In business since 1999: http://intevation.net/services/gis/webmapping.en.html Pay for FreeGIS if you like it: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This is why I do not recommend it, but of course it is great to have one more piece of Free Software! A good check for licenses is to look them up at: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html Mozilla Public License (MPL) This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason. However, MPL 1.1 has a provision (section 13) that allows a program (or parts of it) to offer a choice of another license as well. If part of a program allows the GNU GPL as an alternate choice, or any other GPL-compatible license as an alternate choice, that part of the program has a GPL-compatible license. > http://www.mapwindow.com/licensing.html -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) Experts for complex webmapping! 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Feb 2005 um 12:56:33 schrieb Arvind Kumar: > A very basic question: > Can someone tell me how can lines between origin destination points be generated automatically from teh data? Hi Arvind, can you rephrase this, because I think I do not understand the question well enough. If you have two points and want to generate a line between them, must software will just let you do this. To automise this highly depends on the software you are using. A lot of GIS software can be scripted or extended. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) Experts for complex webmapping! In business since 1999: http://intevation.net/services/gis/webmapping.en.html Pay for FreeGIS if you like it: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Feb 2005 um 13:32:37 schrieb poth: > Christopher Jon Jursa wrote: > you may have a look at the attached xsl-file. We used this in context > with deegree WFS to receive SVG instead of GML > > References: <200502150759.18342.cavallini@faunalia.it> Message-ID: <20050218102922.GQ27281@intevation.de> Am 15. Feb 2005 um 07:59:17 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: > I wrote to ERMapper. asking for a more free licence for ECW SDK. > They had a moderately positive response. Thanks, good work! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards. Raj From fwarmerdam at gmail.com Sat Feb 19 03:47:34 2005 From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:47:34 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Clipping raster with OpenEV In-Reply-To: <4216960C.3020805@hotpop.com> References: <4214AFEC.8080501@pobox.com> <4216960C.3020805@hotpop.com> Message-ID: <931f8ea90502181847d7d6cd4@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:27:40 -0500, Rajkumar Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this question was answered on the list before so please > forgive my ignorance. I did a search on Google but didn't find anything > substantial either. I'm trying to clip a DEM (GTOPO30) using a box > defined by two pairs of latitude/longitude coordinates. Is there anyway > to do it without having to define the ROI by drawing a box? Or is there > any other free software I can use besides GRASS? If there are any > tutorials online please point me to them. Thanks for all responses. Raj, You can clip out a subrectangle using gdal_translate. eg. gdal_translate -projwin ulx uly lrx lry in.tif out.tif Using the -projwin argument, the corners are in the coordinate system of the file in question. With GTOPO that would be lat/long. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From reed at interreality.org Sat Feb 19 17:40:33 2005 From: reed at interreality.org (Reed Hedges) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:40:33 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] typical elevation data format Message-ID: Hello. I'm pretty new to GIS but want to start experimenting with rough maps and 3D visualizations. What are some of the most common DEM data formats? I want to write scripts to import them into a 3D modeling and animation program (Blender). Looking at some of the free data linked from freegis.org, I see that: 1. NOAA "GLOBE" and USGS "GTOPO" files contain binary signed 16 bit sequences, with new rows starting after X values (but no row seperator). 2. The "GTOPO" .HDR file specifies byte order, #rows, lat/lon registration, etc. (Looks like ARC View format?) 3. The "GLOBE" .hdr file has similar info, but with a different syntax. (For the GeoVu sofware) Are there other formats I should consider? Thanks, Reed From fwarmerdam at gmail.com Sat Feb 19 18:13:00 2005 From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:13:00 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] typical elevation data format In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <931f8ea905021909134426f970@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:40:33 -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > > Hello. I'm pretty new to GIS but want to start experimenting with rough > maps and 3D visualizations. > > What are some of the most common DEM data formats? I want to write > scripts to import them into a 3D modeling and animation program > (Blender). > > Looking at some of the free data linked from freegis.org, I see that: > > 1. NOAA "GLOBE" and USGS "GTOPO" files contain binary signed 16 bit > sequences, with new rows starting after X values (but no row > seperator). > 2. The "GTOPO" .HDR file specifies byte order, #rows, lat/lon > registration, etc. (Looks like ARC View format?) > 3. The "GLOBE" .hdr file has similar info, but with a different syntax. > (For the GeoVu sofware) Reed, GeoTIFF, USGS ASCII DEM (same as Canadian CDED) and DTED ( US Military) are also pretty common formats. SDTS, UK NTF and many others also exist. You might consider using the GDAL library to read these formats as it supports most already. http://www.gdal.org/ Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From bwilson at clickshift.com Sun Feb 20 04:37:45 2005 From: bwilson at clickshift.com (Brian Wilson) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:37:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Freegis-list] typical elevation data format In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Reed Hedges wrote: > > 1. NOAA "GLOBE" and USGS "GTOPO" files contain binary signed 16 bit > sequences, with new rows starting after X values (but no row seperator). What scale map are you talking about and what area? Globe and Gtopo are both small scale world-wide datasets so if you want to cruise around a 3d image of your own vicinity you will be disappointed at the resolution. If you want to fly over the Himalayas at high altitude you might be okay. If you are in the United States you can get 10m and 30m datasets from gisdatadepot.com or seamless.usgs.gov. Your local county or municipal government might be willing to share 1m data if they have it. As far as getting the data into a format you can use... see GRASS. Brian From reed at interreality.org Sun Feb 20 14:24:41 2005 From: reed at interreality.org (Reed Hedges) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:24:41 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] typical elevation data format In-Reply-To: <931f8ea905021909134426f970@mail.gmail.com> References: <931f8ea905021909134426f970@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > GeoTIFF, USGS ASCII DEM (same as Canadian CDED) > and DTED ( US Military) are also pretty common formats. OK, I'll try to import these too, any hints on where I can find some free data to test this with? > You might consider using the GDAL library to read these > formats as it supports most already. Thanks. I just noticed that libgdal has a Python interface, by looking at the tutorial, I never noticed that before! Reed PS. http://www.blender3d.com and http://www.blender.org btw. From ral at alum.mit.edu Sun Feb 20 14:59:00 2005 From: ral at alum.mit.edu (Roger Longhorn) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:59:00 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Government Open Code Collaborative in USA In-Reply-To: <20050218110002.CD0CD102C49@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20050220135507.0345d530@pop.freeserve.com> List I'll be monitoring this regularly over the coming months to see if any GI-related public domain software appears. Just for interest sake, if nothing else, as I know from my research into geospatial data policy that some US states (only a few, thankfully) are now required by State law to charge for their GIS services (even if the data is made freely available - which is *not* required by the Freedom of Information Act in the USA - which applies only to federal level data or data collected using federal funds). I also want to see if the statement "offering software freely available for other states to use." means only other State agencies would have access - or anyone could use this software. Government agencies to avail open source repository in US ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The fledgling Government Open Code Collaborative has set up a nationwide repository for government software applications, hosted on a server at the Massachusetts Information Technology Division data centre in Chelsea. The first 'deposits' into the repository will be made by Massachusetts and Rhode Island agencies offering software freely available for other states to use. http://i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src60 Regards Roger Longhorn ral at alum.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Longhorn Director, Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd EC Projects Office 1A Potters Cross, Wootton Bedfordshire MK43 9JG, U.K. Computer voicemail & Fax +44 (0)870 134 6492 E-mail: ral at alum.mit.edu Mobile +44 (0)7879 875288 From starged at videotron.ca Wed Feb 23 04:07:53 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:07:53 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? In-Reply-To: <034001c513c0$1a9d9270$75c61d3e@eustahiush> References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de> <20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it> <20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it> <529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com> <20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> <42116EDE.5000203@videotron.ca> <034001c513c0$1a9d9270$75c61d3e@eustahiush> Message-ID: <421BF389.6050801@videotron.ca> Hi, Maciek Sieczka wrote: > Over 2 months ago, on 09.11.04 I asked them at the umiacs.umd.edu when they > expected the finished 3" SRTM to be available and I was told: > > | We are currently in the process of transferring the data into our office. Hey, thanks Maciek for that info! I know it's kind of late to reply to this but since nobody else did... > | "Finished" SRTM data is already available for purchase fromt he EROS Data > | Center. For more information on the production of the 'finished' SRTM > | product, please refer to the USGS SRTM web page. http://srtm.usgs.gov/ > > I thought you might be interested in this. Does it seem like they are trying > to commercialize the 3" SRTM - at least temporarily? I wouldn't know... but I'll wait and get it for free from the GLCF when it's ready :) From expert at scs-net.org Fri Feb 25 04:57:19 2005 From: expert at scs-net.org (Mr.Labani) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:57:19 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] convert DEM to ESRI GRID Message-ID: <001001c51aee$5f9f2110$e401010a@expert2> how can I convert DEM USGS file to ESRI Grid without using ArcGIS Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks Steve From jan at intevation.de Wed Feb 23 15:50:28 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:50:28 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] MapWindow In-Reply-To: <42146521.6030604@tkk.fi> References: <42146521.6030604@tkk.fi> Message-ID: <20050223145028.GA14506@intevation.de> Hi Ari, On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:34:25AM +0200, Ari Jolma wrote: > I mentioned a while ago about open sourcing MapWindow, now it seems they > have decided on the licence and selected the Mozilla Public Licence. > > I'm not too well educated in the licencing matters but doesn't it > warrant MapWindow to get listed in freegis.org? > > http://www.mapwindow.com/licensing.html I finally added it to FreeGIS. Thanks for the hints. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From jo at frot.org Wed Feb 23 22:12:51 2005 From: jo at frot.org (Jo Walsh) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:12:51 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Announce: Forum on Open Geodata, London, April 14th Message-ID: <20050223211251.GY28504@vishnu.tridity.org> List members concerned about the issue of access to state-owned geodata in the UK and Europe might find the following event interesting... Forum on Open Geo-Data ====================== == Where and When == * When: Thurs April 14th 2005 * Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [http://www.stanhopecentre.org/about/directions.shtml Directions] * Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so please notify us if you can via okforums-info at okfn.org. * Who is speaking: * Steve Coast ([http://openstreetmap.org openstreetmap]) * Roger Longhorn (geodata policy expert) * Giles Lane ([http://socialtapestries.net social tapestries]) * Jo Walsh ([http://mappinghacks.com mapping hacks]) * TBC == Subject Matter == ''One thing the projects in the civic information forum share, is a dependency for spatial information in their service; even if that's as simple as 'enter my postcode'...'' The Open Knowledge Forum on geo-data is bringing together people working on free of copyright mapping and open geo-data projects, with those working on local government and NGO which need maps and spatial analysis. The UK is one of the best-mapped surfaces on the planet, but our national mapping resources are highly-priced and administered by a semi-private company that acts as a monopoly based on Crown Copyright. The Public Sector Information Directive emphasises the benefits and importance of access to geographic information. But local governments don't own the information they gather, and arguably millions are wasted providing expensive "viewing" services which present pictures of the data, instead of raw information. This forum will be a discussion about different applications with a civic society focus, such as participatory planning or problem reporting, which could be initially built using free base maps and geocoding facilities. For more information please see: * http://www.okfn.org/geo/ * http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenKnowledgeForums * http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenGeoData From werchowyna at pf.pl Wed Feb 23 23:50:48 2005 From: werchowyna at pf.pl (Maciek Sieczka) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:50:48 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] convert DEM to ESRI GRID References: <001001c51aee$5f9f2110$e401010a@expert2> Message-ID: <00d801c51a00$01505050$1bd21d3e@eustahiush> > how can I convert DEM USGS file to ESRI Grid without using ArcGIS if ESRI ASCII GRID is ok for you GDAL would do no way to convert into ESRI BINARY GRID though AFAIK Maciek From werchowyna at pf.pl Thu Feb 24 00:38:23 2005 From: werchowyna at pf.pl (Maciek Sieczka) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:38:23 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? References: <20050204070326.83D3536EE4@mail.intevation.de><20050206160122.GB20053@thuille.itc.it><20050210115116.GC31212@thuille.itc.it><529o01h7bh19ubtdn4mqsl3lccqu4ndfoo@4ax.com><20050211085819.GD20549@thuille.itc.it> <42116EDE.5000203@videotron.ca><034001c513c0$1a9d9270$75c61d3e@eustahiush> <421BF389.6050801@videotron.ca> Message-ID: <00e401c51a00$c7999320$1bd21d3e@eustahiush> From: "Mario Beauchamp" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved? > Hi, > > Maciek Sieczka wrote: > >> Over 2 months ago, on 09.11.04 I asked them at the umiacs.umd.edu when >> they >> expected the finished 3" SRTM to be available and I was told: >> >> | We are currently in the process of transferring the data into our >> office. > > Hey, thanks Maciek for that info! I know it's kind of late to reply to > this but since nobody else did... > >> | "Finished" SRTM data is already available for purchase fromt he EROS >> Data >> | Center. For more information on the production of the 'finished' SRTM >> | product, please refer to the USGS SRTM web page. http://srtm.usgs.gov/ >> >> I thought you might be interested in this. Does it seem like they are >> trying >> to commercialize the 3" SRTM - at least temporarily? > > I wouldn't know... but I'll wait and get it for free from the GLCF when > it's ready :) It's been almost 3 months now and the data still seems to be "in the process of transferring" and not there. I wonder what is the situation for real. Would somebody else bug them a little? Maciek From gisdude at hotpop.com Thu Feb 24 01:35:22 2005 From: gisdude at hotpop.com (Rajkumar Singh) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:35:22 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Looking for DEM editing software Message-ID: <421D214A.3040603@hotpop.com> Hi, I'm looking for a free software to visually edit the elevation values in DEMs (SRTM datasets) preferably for the Windows platform. Any ideas. Thanks for all replies. Raj From ArvindK at fbe.unsw.edu.au Fri Feb 18 12:04:14 2005 From: ArvindK at fbe.unsw.edu.au (Arvind Kumar) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:04:14 +1100 Subject: [Freegis-list] origin-destnation lines Message-ID: <88DD51542A23F1428A5F6AB2E36FF992017505E8@emumail.fbe.unsw.edu.au> Dear Bernhard Thanks for taking time to answer my question. I have data on origin and destinations in tabular form from a Job to Work Survey, which shows how many trips are made to a particular travel zone from different zones (one to many relationship), and also how many trips originate from that particular zone to various other zones. I am interested in documenting these trips graphically, with lines (with attribute carrying info about number of trips). Since there is a large number of zones involved in the operation, it will have to be automated. If you could let me know how a line can be generated between two points and scripts that may used to deal with larger number of points, I shall be grateful to you. I am not a regular user of GIS, and a self taught person I this area. I am prepared to use ArcGIS 8.1, Arcview 3.2, Mapinfo 6.5/ 7 or Autodesk MAP to accomplish this, thought arcGIS is the preferred software. An example table is attached, I am not sure if it will go through the mail. Pl let me know if you cant read the table. Origin zone id Destination[PARA]zone id Frequency (number of trips) 1 8 23 3 8 13 4 8 3 6 8 33 1 4 12 3 4 14 Best regards, --Arvind Arvind Kumar PGRC FBE UNSW Sydney. -----Original Message----- From: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de] On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005 9:24 PM To: freegis-list at intevation.de Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] origin-destnation lines << File: ATT122841.dat >> << File: ATT122842.txt >> Am 18. Feb 2005 um 12:56:33 schrieb Arvind Kumar: > A very basic question: > Can someone tell me how can lines between origin destination points be generated automatically from teh data? Hi Arvind, can you rephrase this, because I think I do not understand the question well enough. If you have two points and want to generate a line between them, must software will just let you do this. To automise this highly depends on the software you are using. A lot of GIS software can be scripted or extended. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) Experts for complex webmapping! In business since 1999: http://intevation.net/services/gis/webmapping.en.html Pay for FreeGIS if you like it: http://freegis.org/about-paying.en.html From jan at intevation.de Thu Feb 24 15:01:30 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:01:30 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] C library for raster algebra In-Reply-To: <419B2D83.9060804@hut.fi> References: <419B2D83.9060804@hut.fi> Message-ID: <20050224140130.GA16806@intevation.de> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:52:51PM +0200, Ari Jolma wrote: > I repackaged the raster algebra / hydrological terrain analysis C > library from my old Grid.pm Perl module into a separate module and > uploaded it to sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libral/ I add this as an entry to FreeGIS finally (slipped out of my attention, sorry). Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From bernhard at intevation.de Thu Feb 24 19:05:37 2005 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:05:37 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] origin-destnation lines In-Reply-To: <88DD51542A23F1428A5F6AB2E36FF992017505E8@emumail.fbe.unsw.edu.au> References: <88DD51542A23F1428A5F6AB2E36FF992017505E8@emumail.fbe.unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <20050224180537.GL23009@intevation.de> Hi Arvind, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:04:14PM +1100, Arvind Kumar wrote: > I have data on origin and destinations in tabular form from a Job > to Work Survey, which shows how many trips are made to a > particular travel zone from different zones (one to many > relationship), and also how many trips originate from that > particular zone to various other zones. > > I am interested in documenting these trips graphically, with > lines (with attribute carrying info about number of trips). Since > there is a large number of zones involved in the operation, it > will have to be automated. > > If you could let me know how a line can be generated between two > points and scripts that may used to deal with larger number of > points, I shall be grateful to you. I can tell you how I would approach it. To me this looks like a visualisation problem, less a question of quantitative geographical analysis. First I would do a map and then put it in a vector drawing package like Skencil. I would identify a one middle point per zone and save this information somewhere for the script and then generate a nice arrow as Skencil object with Skencil's build in python scripting depending on the intensity of the trips. > I am not a regular user of > GIS, and a self taught person I this area. > > I am prepared to use ArcGIS 8.1, Arcview 3.2, Mapinfo 6.5/ 7 or > Autodesk MAP to accomplish this, thought arcGIS is the preferred > software. This all is non-free software and this email list is specific to Free Software. > An example table is attached, I am not sure if it will go through the mail. Pl let me know if you cant read the table. > > > Origin zone id Destination[PARA]zone id Frequency (number of trips) > 1 8 23 > 3 8 13 > 4 8 3 > 6 8 33 > 1 4 12 > 3 4 14 Best, Bernhard -------------- 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/20050224/4fb15c32/attachment.bin From artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net Fri Feb 25 11:36:18 2005 From: artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net (Artem Pavlenko) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:36:18 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] new free GIS Message-ID: <421EFFA2.2070002@pavlenko.uklinux.net> Hello List I have released my new project http://mapnik.berlios.de which I hope will be of interest to some here. Mapnik is a free C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications. It is in its early stages and aimed at developers primarily at the moment. I would be grateful for any comments, suggestions etc. Artem Pavlenko From pertile at Argentina.com Sat Feb 26 00:09:10 2005 From: pertile at Argentina.com (pertile@Argentina.com) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:09:10 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] Studying FreeGIS In-Reply-To: <20050104110003.70DEB102C05@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: <421F863800000C7C@webmail.argentina.com> Hi, I am trying to take a master or something like that in GIS, and I THINK that I have read about there of a GIS studying that included FreeGIS, but I can't remember where is it and I cannot find it now. If someone has any idea please answer me, or may be you could recommend something. Leopoldo Federico P?rtile Resistencia, Chaco --- E-mail y acceso a Internet UltraVeloz totalmente GRATIS en 25 ciudades, Nro. de acceso 5500-5500 Usuario: Argentina Password: Argentina http://www.Argentina.com From mtse2 at link.net Sun Feb 27 15:44:58 2005 From: mtse2 at link.net (Essam Salah) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:44:58 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] migrating ESRI-GeoMedia to Open source Message-ID: <003601c51cda$e9775f90$4d00000a@mtslan> Dear All I used to develop applications for AVL,GPS Logging as Add-ins for ESRI ArcView or VB6+GeoMedia Objects I want to migrate my existing applications to use open source or Free software to lower the cost of the total solutions that I am providing to new customers Please advice about what software will be equivalent in functionality to ArcView or GeoMedia; beside being easy in integration or customization Thanks in advance Essam Salah Senior Developer MTSE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20050227/bb3b132c/attachment.html From jan at intevation.de Mon Feb 28 09:25:40 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:25:40 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Fw: Viewing GIS In Web In-Reply-To: <002301c51f4b$87f202c0$6401010a@expert2> References: <002301c51f4b$87f202c0$6401010a@expert2> Message-ID: <20050228082540.GA20209@intevation.de> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:15:18PM +0200, Mr.Labani wrote: > Is there a(php or Perl or CGI) Code for just viewing any kind ofGIS vector and > raster files without the need for web mappingserver any code serving a map though http is in fact already a web mapping server. If you are looking for a web mapping server that does not apply the OGC WMS specification (which does seldomly make sense IMHO), then you should search for map rendering code in a programming language you prefer and extract it from the application for your own purpose to build some http Perl or PHP stuff around. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net Mon Feb 28 10:55:04 2005 From: artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net (Artem Pavlenko) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:55:04 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] mapnik update Message-ID: <4222EA78.6050606@pavlenko.uklinux.net> Hello Listers Just to let you know that I released mapnik's source tarballs at http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3133. This is an alpha, and I expect (lots of!) bugs, TODOs etc. I also updated my website to give some background about me and mapnik. I really look forward to hearing any questions, opinions etc. Best wishes Artem From bernhard at intevation.de Mon Feb 28 11:44:49 2005 From: bernhard at intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:44:49 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] migrating ESRI-GeoMedia to Open source In-Reply-To: <003601c51cda$e9775f90$4d00000a@mtslan> References: <003601c51cda$e9775f90$4d00000a@mtslan> Message-ID: <20050228104449.GN506@intevation.de> Am 27. Feb 2005 um 16:44:58 schrieb Essam Salah: > I want to migrate my existing applications to use open source or Free > software BTW: "open source" is just another word for Free Software, so you can only have it (with both words basically meaning the same) or nothing. > to lower the cost of the total solutions that I am providing > to new customers A worthwile goal, the rule of thumb is that Free Software can help to reduce the 30% of the total cost of operations over the mid or long-term ranges. > Please advice about what software will be equivalent in functionality > to ArcView or GeoMedia; beside being easy in integration or > customization It depends. Thuban, QGIS and OpenEV being candidates. There is also Jump and openmap, but with both you currently might fall in the Java trap easily. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best regards Gilberto. > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:44:58 +0200 > From: "Essam Salah" > Subject: [Freegis-list] migrating ESRI-GeoMedia to Open source > To: > Message-ID: <003601c51cda$e9775f90$4d00000a at mtslan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" > > Dear All > > I used to develop applications for AVL,GPS Logging as Add-ins for ESRI ArcView or VB6+GeoMedia Objects > > I want to migrate my existing applications to use open source or Free software to lower the cost of the total solutions that I am providing to new customers > > Please advice about what software will be equivalent in functionality to ArcView or GeoMedia; beside being easy in integration or customization > > Thanks in advance > > Essam Salah > Senior Developer > MTSE -- =========================================== Dr.Gilberto Camara Director for Earth Observation National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil voice: +55-12-3945-6499 fax: +55-12-3945-6460 web: http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto ============================================ From yyxxuu at gmail.com Mon Feb 28 20:38:27 2005 From: yyxxuu at gmail.com (yxu) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:38:27 -0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] terrain database, how? Message-ID: Hello guys, I am working on a terrain visualization software that is capable of visualizing huge areas. But I have no idea on how to organize the data. Should I organize the data in conventional way: that is to break up the whole area into lots of small files, or to use database software such as mysql? I am very impressed with the "Seamless data distributed system" of USGS. Does anyone here know how they organize the data (DEM, land use, etc.)? Thanks in advanced yxu From cavallini at faunalia.it Mon Feb 28 20:56:27 2005 From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:56:27 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] terrain database, how? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200502282056.29441.cavallini@faunalia.it> There have been discussions about extending PostGIS capabilities to raster data. Might be worth the while to investigate this. All the best. pc At 20:38, luned? 28 febbraio 2005, yxu has probably written: > Hello guys, > > I am working on a terrain visualization software that is capable of > visualizing huge areas. But I have no idea on how to organize the > data. Should I organize the data in conventional way: that is to break > up the whole area into lots of small files, or to use database > software such as mysql? I am very impressed with the "Seamless data > distributed system" of USGS. Does anyone here know how they organize > the data (DEM, land use, etc.)? > > Thanks in advanced > > yxu > > _______________________________________________ > 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 www.faunalia.com Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953