From anselm at hook.org Wed Nov 2 20:36:04 2005 From: anselm at hook.org (Anselm Hook) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:36:04 -0700 (MST) Subject: postgis / mediawiki / postgresql was Re: [Freegis-list] Re: [GENERAL] Map of Postgresql Users (OT) In-Reply-To: <200510282147.17612.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: An interesting bit of commentary from another list regarding structured wiki's: > On Friday 28 October 2005 06:44, Arnulf Christl wrote: > > Yet another idea: Mediawiki (the > > Wikipedia software) is also right now introducing geometries to the Wiki > > database - obviously also using PostgreSQL/PostGIS. This would be > > another cool multiplier.. and there we also meet with Google again. > > Wha? mediawiki is planning to use postgis with thier software? I'm currently > working with some folks on a working port of wikimedia to postgresql > (allowing things like transactions and full text searching all in the same > database). That would certainly seem to dovetail into this... you have any > links I could read up on the wikipedia/postgis effort on ? > > -- > Robert Treat > Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL Interesting for a couple of reasons: 1) Twiki, Ning, Salesforce, Jotspot, Google base, Openguides and others are now attempting to provide generic datastores... These datastores seem to all be elliptically grazing the idea of RDF despite admonitions to the contrary [ they're semi-structured, define schemas 'in grammer' and use world unique subject identifiers among other things ]. 2) There seems to be a burgeoning new literacy (apparently there was a talk on this subject at oscon 2005). It could very well be that in the near future we're going to see an inability to program being looked at as something of a handicap; much like not being able to type. This also may imply pressure on software authoring tools to become perhaps not simpler but more consistent; something way beyond what ruby on rails does today... more like some kind of wizard or lego building block tool. - a From imissgema at hotmail.com Fri Nov 4 12:31:44 2005 From: imissgema at hotmail.com (=?gb2312?B?uLUgwek=?=) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:31:44 +0000 Subject: [Freegis-list] how I can make the screen shot? Message-ID: Hi, there I'm prepareing a ppt focus on GIS-Knoppix right the momnent. But I found out that I can not make screen shots as it's a liveCD. I tried several methods, but there is no internet connection when using this CD, and usb is not working neither. Somebody has a good idea? Thanks a million before hand! Best Regard, Lynn From mateusz at loskot.net Fri Nov 4 12:42:49 2005 From: mateusz at loskot.net (=?UTF-8?B?TWF0ZXVzeiDFgW9za290?=) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:42:49 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] how I can make the screen shot? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <436B4939.4060406@loskot.net> ? ? napisa?(a): > Hi, there > I'm prepareing a ppt focus on GIS-Knoppix right the momnent. > But I found out that I can not make screen shots as it's a liveCD. > I tried several methods, but there is no internet connection when using > this CD, > and usb is not working neither. > > Somebody has a good idea? If you have working ethernet on this Knoppix then you can connect by VNC (even fro Windows) and catch screenshots or even better you can record your screen to movie using http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ Cheers -- Mateusz ?oskot http://mateusz.loskot.net From andres at dgeo.udec.cl Fri Nov 4 20:54:21 2005 From: andres at dgeo.udec.cl (Andres Sepulveda) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:54:21 -0300 (CLST) Subject: [Freegis-list] S-57 --> ASCII converter Message-ID: <3731.152.74.216.173.1131134061.squirrel@www.dgeo.udec.cl> Hello, I am looking for a way to extract the depth (sounding) data from an Electronic Navigation Chart (ENC) in S-57 format, to ASCII. Basically, I want to retrieve the lat,lon, and depth of each sounding. Do you know a program that can do this? Thank you, Andres From jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca Fri Nov 4 21:20:53 2005 From: jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:20:53 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] S-57 --> ASCII converter In-Reply-To: <3731.152.74.216.173.1131134061.squirrel@www.dgeo.udec.cl> References: <3731.152.74.216.173.1131134061.squirrel@www.dgeo.udec.cl> Message-ID: <436BC2A5.9090100@dmsolutions.ca> Although i am not the developer, I do know this is possible using FWTools (http://fwtools.maptools.org/). Open the 'FWTools Shell' window and execute an ogr2ogr command (http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html) such as the following: $ ogr2ogr -f "CSV" test-dir mys57file.000 This will convert your s-57 data into several csv files. Others may have more details for you on this, but this might get you started. There might be driver specific options that you can set also (s-57 export http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_s57.html), but i haven't tried that for this format. i hope this helps a little. jeff Andres Sepulveda wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a way to extract the depth (sounding) data from > an Electronic Navigation Chart (ENC) in S-57 format, to ASCII. > > Basically, I want to retrieve the lat,lon, and depth of each sounding. > > Do you know a program that can do this? > > Thank you, > > Andres > -- Jeff McKenna DM Solutions Group Inc. http://www.dmsolutions.ca From warmerdam at pobox.com Sat Nov 5 02:05:27 2005 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:05:27 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] S-57 --> ASCII converter In-Reply-To: <436BC2A5.9090100@dmsolutions.ca> References: <3731.152.74.216.173.1131134061.squirrel@www.dgeo.udec.cl> <436BC2A5.9090100@dmsolutions.ca> Message-ID: <931f8ea90511041705v66fe5da4xabf3f6612f4cdf8d@mail.gmail.com> On 11/4/05, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Although i am not the developer, I do know this is possible using > FWTools (http://fwtools.maptools.org/). Open the 'FWTools Shell' window > and execute an ogr2ogr command > (http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html) such as the following: > > $ ogr2ogr -f "CSV" test-dir mys57file.000 > > This will convert your s-57 data into several csv files. Others may > have more details for you on this, but this might get you started. > There might be driver specific options that you can set also (s-57 > export http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_s57.html), but i haven't tried that > for this format. Jeff, OGR should be able to do the trick though Andres might need to do some manipulation to get the information into a suitable format. The soundings are all in a layer called SOUNDG so one approach would just be to do: ogrinfo abc.000 soundg > out.txt This dumps all the sounding features into out.txt. Now if you just want the sounding locations, some extra work might be called for. Either a script parsing out.txt, or write a Python script using OGR to dump out the points in a desired format. As noted, you can find the S-57 reader and other parts of OGR pre-built in the FWTools package. 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 sgillies at frii.com Sat Nov 5 16:40:18 2005 From: sgillies at frii.com (Sean Gillies) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:40:18 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] New project page for Python Cartographic Library Message-ID: <16DD1DE3-9F68-4315-B716-6EA130D09A55@frii.com> Hi all, Inspired by Karl Fogel's book, http://producingoss.com/, I've rewritten and moved the PCL project page to http://zcologia.org/cartography/ cheers, Sean --- Sean Gillies sgillies at frii dot com http://zcologia.com/news From starged at videotron.ca Mon Nov 7 00:22:12 2005 From: starged at videotron.ca (Mario Beauchamp) Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:22:12 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] ANN: Fusion Tool major update Message-ID: <436E9024.9020406@videotron.ca> Hi all, This is to announce a major revision of my fusion tool for OpenEV. However, I don't really have time now to fully test it so I'm hoping those interested in this tool will give it a real try out and report any bug encountered :) You can find it at the usual place: http://pages.infinit.net/starged/openev/index.htm Thanks for your attention. -- Mario B. From cresques at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 23:17:30 2005 From: cresques at gmail.com (Luis W. Sevilla) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:17:30 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] gvSIG version 0.4.2 available Message-ID: <437123FA.2000309@gmail.com> gvSIG version 0.4.2 is available. This release fixes some bugs detected by our users in the last published version. This version is a partial update for the current version 0.4. It is also available in the gvSIG's download web page. Beyond the improvements in the version 0.4.1, this version includes changes accesing to some WCS servers, it solves some graphical user interface problems with some servers. New WMS servers to access to using gvSIG and some interesting links have been added to the web site . Greetings From sp_ml at sourcepole.ch Mon Nov 7 11:41:45 2005 From: sp_ml at sourcepole.ch (sp_ml@sourcepole.ch) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:41:45 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] how I can make the screen shot? In-Reply-To: <200511071125.52610.sp@sourcepole.ch> References: <200511071125.52610.sp@sourcepole.ch> Message-ID: <200511071141.45358.sp_ml@sourcepole.ch> Hi Lynn You can start the snapshot with the command ksnapshot You can save the image on a floppy disk or on a vfat or linux partition. Regards Mehmetaj Artur Sourcepole AG From kcchang at ntnu.edu.tw Wed Nov 9 15:54:29 2005 From: kcchang at ntnu.edu.tw (Dr. Harry Chang) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:54:29 +0800 Subject: [Freegis-list] Any SW to convert XYZ to DEM Message-ID: <00e001c5e53d$7ce9f3c0$630ba8c0@twnrsworld> Dear listers, I am looking for software that can do batch conversion of over 4000 small XYZ text files into a single DEM file? Many thanks in advance. 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The VTP already does fairly realistic virtual cities, is open-source, cross-platform, and while it isn't a full-blown GIS, it can take any sort of GIS data as input and do many GIS-like operations. -Ben _____ From: I?igo Telleria Elola Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:53 AM To: freegis-list at intevation.de I am doing a proyect about 3D realistic virtual cities. I have to choose a GIS OpenSource program (for example: Jump, uDig, qgis, grass, ...). With choosed program I will do 3D plugins. I have read a lot about these program and it's the moment to choose the program based in some criterias: interoperability, portability, easiness to develop plugins, ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20051114/ea61c8f2/attachment.html From cholmes at openplans.org Mon Nov 14 14:08:46 2005 From: cholmes at openplans.org (Chris Holmes) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:08:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Freegis-list] Choose a GIS program In-Reply-To: <20051114110003.716DE101EE3@lists.intevation.de> Message-ID: > I am doing a proyect about 3D realistic virtual cities. I have to choose > a GIS OpenSource program (for example: Jump, uDig, qgis, grass, ...). > With choosed program I will do 3D plugins. > I have read a lot about these program and it's the moment to choose the > program based in some criterias: interoperability, portability, easiness > to develop plugins, ... > I know that grass+qgis is powerfull tool, but I haver read it is very > difficult to program qgis plugins on windows. About Jump there is few > documentation. Maybe uDig is a good choice?but I'm not sure?which I have > to choose. Can anybody help me? Which program is appropriate? I'd say uDig probably makes the biggest effort to make it's plug-ins easy, with good documentation, and building upon the eclipse plug-in system, which has many books written on it. And their rendering system is modular, so I think it could handle a 3D plugin. Also Eclipse 3.2M2 has opengl support - I don't think they're on 3.2 yet, but I don't think it would be hard to plug their framework into 3.2. Another option you might check out is gvSig - http://gvsig.org They have a pretty good plug-in system I believe. Though their documentation on writing plug-ins isn't there, as far as I know. But all the open source desktop GIS systems are still pretty young, so to some extent it may depend on how long your project runs and what work the different options have planned. The all have various strengths and weaknesses, the best thing to do is probably evaluate each for a bit, as a user, and then try to write a very simple plug-in, and see how hard it is. best regards, Chris From bryan at geomega.com Mon Nov 14 18:29:47 2005 From: bryan at geomega.com (Bryan Keith) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:29:47 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] contours as polygons Message-ID: <4378C98B.9060606@geomega.com> I have a number of different tools to create contours as lines from a surface. Does anyone know of a tool or have some code that will create polygons instead of lines when contouring a surface? Each polygon would represent the area between n1 and n2. I have the ConRec code and thought about writing this myself, but it gets complicated with donut polygons. I bet someone's done this before. Maybe there's a better mailing list for this question? Thanks. Bryan Bryan Keith GIS Specialist Geomega, Inc. Boulder, CO, USA From oceatoon at gmail.com Tue Nov 15 10:57:14 2005 From: oceatoon at gmail.com (Tib Kat) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:57:14 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Digital Street Map of Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. ? Message-ID: <4379B0FA.403@idealys.com> Hi everyone I'm looking for a clear digital street map of Santo Domingo, Dominican republic. Does anybody know a site with free or even paying versions of this location ? Thanks for the help. From napoogle at gmail.com Thu Nov 17 00:10:35 2005 From: napoogle at gmail.com (Napo) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:10:35 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? Message-ID: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> Where i can find a software to convert a SVG file into a GIS format? For example svg2gml or svg2shp From gould at lsi.uji.es Mon Nov 14 12:04:07 2005 From: gould at lsi.uji.es (michael gould) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:04:07 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Choose a GIS program In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <001d01c5e90b$2246bb20$79568096@acerc49cfd35b8> The developers of gvSIG are currently working on 3D, with researchers at Univ Politecnica Valencia. www.gvsig.gva.es ------- Michael Gould Dept. Information Systems (LSI) Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castell?n, Spain Email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es Email2: mgould (at) opengeospatial.org www.geoinfo.uji.es www.mgould.com -----Mensaje original----- De: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de] En nombre de I?igo Telleria Elola Enviado el: lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2005 11:53 Para: freegis-list at intevation.de Asunto: [Freegis-list] Choose a GIS program Hi, I am doing a proyect about 3D realistic virtual cities. I have to choose a GIS OpenSource program (for example: Jump, uDig, qgis, grass, ...). With choosed program I will do 3D plugins. I have read a lot about these program and it's the moment to choose the program based in some criterias: interoperability, portability, easiness to develop plugins, ... I know that grass+qgis is powerfull tool, but I haver read it is very difficult to program qgis plugins on windows. About Jump there is few documentation. Maybe uDig is a good choice but I'm not sure which I have to choose. Can anybody help me? Which program is appropriate? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20051114/d9135ccf/attachment.html From gould at lsi.uji.es Mon Nov 14 12:55:24 2005 From: gould at lsi.uji.es (michael gould) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:55:24 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] Choose a GIS program In-Reply-To: <015f01c5e911$de82b130$9b02a8c0@DellWork> Message-ID: <001f01c5e912$4c3f09d0$79568096@acerc49cfd35b8> 3D cities in Google Earth style only requires extrusion of building footprints and application of simple textures (or not). How realistic they are is another question ------- Michael Gould Dept. Information Systems (LSI) Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castell?n, Spain Email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es Email2: mgould (at) opengeospatial.org www.geoinfo.uji.es www.mgould.com -----Mensaje original----- De: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de] En nombre de Ben Discoe Enviado el: lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2005 12:52 Para: 'I?igo Telleria Elola' CC: freegis-list at intevation.de Asunto: RE: [Freegis-list] Choose a GIS program I?igo, 3D realistic cities is a bit beyond the state of the art in GIS, let alone open-source GIS. The most you are likely to find is extruded footprints. Please allow me to recommend instead that you look at projects like ours, the Virtual Terrain Project ( http://vterrain.org/ ). The VTP already does fairly realistic virtual cities, is open-source, cross-platform, and while it isn't a full-blown GIS, it can take any sort of GIS data as input and do many GIS-like operations. -Ben _____ From: I?igo Telleria Elola Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:53 AM To: freegis-list at intevation.de I am doing a proyect about 3D realistic virtual cities. I have to choose a GIS OpenSource program (for example: Jump, uDig, qgis, grass, ...). With choosed program I will do 3D plugins. I have read a lot about these program and it's the moment to choose the program based in some criterias: interoperability, portability, easiness to develop plugins, ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20051114/7525dc4c/attachment.html From lehmann at fh-nuertingen.de Thu Nov 17 10:12:32 2005 From: lehmann at fh-nuertingen.de (lehmann@fh-nuertingen.de) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:12:32 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? In-Reply-To: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <437C5790.27997.44B1C1@localhost> Hi Napo, I don't know if there exist a direct way to export to shapefiles. Possible it helps first to write dxf-files, so you have a least the geometry. A link that may help: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~squiresm/ Dieter On 17 Nov 2005 at 0:10, Napo wrote: > Where i can find a software to convert a SVG file into a GIS format? > For example > svg2gml or svg2shp > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From jegou at univ-tlse2.fr Thu Nov 17 10:20:01 2005 From: jegou at univ-tlse2.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Laurent_J=E9gou?=) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:20:01 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? In-Reply-To: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> References: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <437C4B41.6000400@univ-tlse2.fr> Hi, i've coded a svg2mif converter, it's a personnal tool so not extensively tested, but it works with OO Draw SVGs. Here it is : http://www.geotests.net/svg2mif.exe and : http://www.geotests.net/svg2mif.jar It's a java program, so a JVM is a prerequisite. -- Laurent J?gou IGE Cartographe UTM - D?pt. G?ographie 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 - 05.61.50.43.89 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/geoprdc From jan at intevation.de Thu Nov 17 10:38:18 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:38:18 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? In-Reply-To: <437C4B41.6000400@univ-tlse2.fr> References: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> <437C4B41.6000400@univ-tlse2.fr> Message-ID: <20051117093818.GA7608@intevation.de> Hello Laurent, On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:20:01AM +0100, Laurent J?gou wrote: > Hi, i've coded a svg2mif converter, it's a personnal tool so not > extensively tested, but it works with OO Draw SVGs. > > Here it is : > http://www.geotests.net/svg2mif.exe > and : > http://www.geotests.net/svg2mif.jar > It's a java program, so a JVM is a prerequisite. do you plan to release this tool as Free Software? Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner: www.intevation.de/~jan | GISpatcher: www.gispatcher.de Kolab Konsortium : www.kolab-konsortium.de | Thuban : thuban.intevation.org Intevation GmbH : www.intevation.de | Kolab : www.kolab.org FreeGIS : www.freegis.org | GAV : www.grass-verein.de From jegou at univ-tlse2.fr Thu Nov 17 10:45:36 2005 From: jegou at univ-tlse2.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Laurent_J=E9gou?=) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:45:36 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? - correction In-Reply-To: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> References: <49456d740511161510o3c43eaf8u@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <437C5140.9030406@univ-tlse2.fr> Sorry the url was false, here is the good one : http://www.geotests.net/beta/svg2mif.exe and : http://www.geotests.net/beta/svg2mif.jar -- Laurent J?gou IGE Cartographe UTM - D?pt. G?ographie 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 - 05.61.50.43.89 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/geoprdc From topologis at t-online.de Thu Nov 17 13:56:22 2005 From: topologis at t-online.de (pk topologis) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:56:22 +0100 Subject: AW: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? - correction In-Reply-To: <437C5140.9030406@univ-tlse2.fr> Message-ID: Perhaps this link: http://www.giswiki.de/index.php/SVG can help you Heinz -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de]Im Auftrag von Laurent J?gou Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 10:46 An: Napo; freegis-list at intevation.de Betreff: Re: [Freegis-list] SVG to a gis format converter? - correction Sorry the url was false, here is the good one : http://www.geotests.net/beta/svg2mif.exe and : http://www.geotests.net/beta/svg2mif.jar -- Laurent J?gou IGE Cartographe UTM - D?pt. G?ographie 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 - 05.61.50.43.89 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/geoprdc _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list at intevation.de https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list From sgillies at frii.com Sun Nov 20 17:09:15 2005 From: sgillies at frii.com (Sean Gillies) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:09:15 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] PCL 0.9.1 source release, yet another Python projection package Message-ID: Hi all, I made a source release of PCL yesterday, and it is available from http://www.gispython.org/downloads/gispy/ From now on, all releases will be from that URL. 0.9.0 was the last sourceforge release. Changes in this version: 0.9.1: 19 November 2005 ----------------------- - Fixed typo in PostGIS LineString type, patch by jdenisgiguere (issue 81). - Auto label angle is now the default for text symbolizers (issue 83). - Default TextSymbolizers now should exhibit the "best" placement possible using collision avoidance and automatic label rotation. Distance between duplicate labels, and padding between labels can also now be controlled (issue 90). - New cartography.referencing module can be installed and used independently of the rest of PCL. It depends *only* on the PROJ.4 library (ticket:20). It's the last of these that inspired me to cut a release. If you've got PROJ.4 on your system, you can build, install, and use cartography.referencing independently of the rest of the Python Cartographic Library. This work is a by-product of my recent work on Nuxeo's CPSGeo product. Notes about the development and testing of the module at http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/ReferencingTransform and usage documentation at http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/HowToTransformCoordinates Why cartography.referencing? I've been itching for something between OGR's osr.py (too complex) and PyProjection (forward/inverse only). cartography.referencing uses pj_transform() from PROJ.4 and so is roughly equivalent to the cs2cs utility function. For best performance, transform coordinates en masse rather than one at a time. cheers, Sean --- Sean Gillies sgillies at frii dot com http://zcologia.com/news From ari.jolma at tkk.fi Mon Nov 21 19:08:10 2005 From: ari.jolma at tkk.fi (Ari Jolma) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:08:10 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CFP: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, 3rd biennial meeting, July 9-12, 2006, Vermont USA Message-ID: <43820D0A.5030209@tkk.fi> Dear freegisers, The International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) organizes its 3rd biennial meeting July 9-12, 2006 in Vermont USA. iEMSs is a not-for-profit grass-roots scientific society interested, among other things, in promoting development and use of software to advance environmental science and decision making. The two previous meetings, in Switzerland and Germany, were very successful (~300 participants) and truly international, with for example a large group of Australians participating. The reason I'm promoting this conference on this list is that I'm co-organizing a workshop (currently there are 21 workshops planned besides more traditional sessions) on FOSS geospatial tools. There is also a workshop, which discusses the use of FOSS in modeling research and education in general. Please take a look at http://www.iemss.org/iemss2006/ and consider submitting an abstract by December 15th. Best regards, Ari Jolma -- 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 j.j.green at sheffield.ac.uk Wed Nov 23 22:10:02 2005 From: j.j.green at sheffield.ac.uk (J.J.Green) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Freegis-list] ODB format Message-ID: Hi all I saw a thread on this list about the ArcView ODB format, the basis for their AVL legend format; the discussion was very helpful since I wanted to extract the colour gradient information from AVL files. The program (avlcpt) is now finished and available as part of the cptutils package http://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg/code/cptutils.html GPL, Unix/POSIX. The source is C and includes a library, libodb, which parses ODB files and places the results in a simple array structure. This might be of independant interest to others who want to read ODB-base formats. Cheers Jim -- J. J. Green, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hicks Bd., Hounsfield Rd., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. +44 (0114) 222 3742, http://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Nov 25 15:37:26 2005 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:37:26 -0500 Subject: [Freegis-list] Next Generation Blue Marble Torrents Message-ID: <931f8ea90511250637g21fa3a21r160712897f74c930@mail.gmail.com> Folks, The "Next Generation" Blue Marble datasets from NASA have been converted to ECW format, and made available as torrents at http://www.geotorrent.org/. Each torrent includes 12 distinct world images for each month of the year, each 86400 x 43200 pixels in size. At 50:1 compression these ecw files are about 260MB or 2.8GB per torrent. Three versions exist: Enhanced with Topolography and Bathymetry http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=61 Enhanced with Topography http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=60 "Real" View http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=59 A variety of software package support the ECW format, including the FWTools builds of OpenEV/MapServer/GDAL at: http://fwtools.maptools.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 steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us Mon Nov 28 14:37:04 2005 From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Steve Lime) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:37:04 -0600 Subject: [Freegis-list] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter Message-ID: An Open Letter to the MapServer Open Source Web Mapping Community November 28, 2005 Greetings MapServer community, We are pleased to share with you some exciting news about the future of open source web mapping. Over the past few years MapServer adoption has grown ten-fold and has become the web mapping platform of choice for many businesses, government agencies, nonprofit groups and individuals. The MapServer developers have added powerful new features. The community has enjoyed three incredible conferences and continues to support each other and enhance the community. We want to ensure that this success and momentum continues for the MapServer product and community. MapServer continues to run well in diverse environments and its rich set of features play an indispensable role in many organizations. More than ever, we are committed to improving MapServer and providing exceptional value to the community. To this end, we take this opportunity to share two bits of news: the creation of the MapServer Foundation and welcoming the addition of Autodesk's next-generation web mapping platform (previously known as Tux) as open source into the foundation. MapServer Foundation We are delighted to announce the creation of the MapServer Foundation (mapserverfoundation.org). The foundation is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide a supportive framework for open, collaborative development of geospatial software. Several groups and individuals are collaborating to help launch and sponsor the new foundation. Financial support from Autodesk will allow us to get the foundation up and running. In this letter, we present some ideas of how we think the foundation can help the community, but these ideas need broader discussion and debate within the community. We looked to other successful open source movements, such as Apache, to see how our community could benefit from the creation of an independent foundation. It is clear that the time has come to create a formal infrastructure to help further support and promote the professional open source web mapping development environments and communities. While initially focused on web mapping projects, we hope the foundation will adopt other open source geospatial projects that need a home. Forming the foundation is only the beginning, as we now seek community involvement and participation. The foundation will have a governance model that allows it to be run by a Board of Directors that represents the community. How it is ultimately going to be run is up to the members of the community. The foundation will also have a set of bylaws that provide structure and can be amended through a community voting process. Role of the foundation The first priority for the foundation is to engage the broader MapServer community. Members of the community are encouraged to join and get involved. Consider this letter as your invitation to participate. The community web site is the place where you, as a user and participant in the community, can follow and contribute to the development of the MapServer Foundation family of projects. The primary responsibilities of the foundation may include: * Support code repository and other project infrastructure * Formalized process for decision-making (e.g. where to host the next conference) * Legal protection for the source code and developers of the software * Paying for development work on minor improvements of the platform * Acting as a central repository for marketing, branding and professional image development of the product * Providing process for mitigating disputes * Financial support for advocacy, sponsorship, community events and conferences Many of these community-related functions have been overseen in an ad-hoc manner or deferred to the University of Minnesota or other organizations in the past. The foundation will streamline the coordination of legal, administrative and governance efforts. As MapServer will now be officially managed by the foundation, it no longer makes sense to call it UMN MapServer. Product branding is also becoming more important and this is a good opportunity to introduce a more visual name for the product. We propose calling it MapServer Cheetah. This presents a fast and agile image that suits the product well and will help differentiate it from other MapServer products. MapServer Cheetah & MapServer Enterprise We are also very excited about Autodesk's decision to release their next generation web mapping platform into the open source community through the MapServer Foundation. This adds further legitimacy to our open source development platform. Their product will be named MapServer Enterprise and is the successor to Autodesk MapGuide but built on an entirely new architecture. MapServer Enterprise and MapServer Cheetah will be run as two separate but parallel projects. There are no plans to merge them into one but we aim to share technologies between the two projects wherever possible. We also hope to provide utilities that allow the community to easily use one or both platforms. MapServer Enterprise will be licensed using the OSI-approved GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). MapServer Cheetah will continue to be licensed under an MIT-style open source license. Autodesk is eager to participate in an open and transparent development process driven by independent guidance from the community. We encourage you to check out MapServer Enterprise, which is available today on the community web site. We are proud to be part of this community and we hope you will join us in establishing the MapServer Foundation. For more information on how to get involved, please visit the community site at: mapserverfoundation.org and join the mailing list discussions. Sincerely, Steve Lime, Chair, MapServer Technical Steering Committee (MTSC) Yewondwossen Assefa, MTSC Member Howard Butler, MTSC Member Daniel Morissette, MTSC Member Perry Nacionales, MTSC Member Frank Warmerdam, MTSC Member Tom Burk, University of Minnesota David McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group Tyler Mitchell Claude Philipona, Camptocamp SA and FOSS4G 2006 organizing committee Gary Lang, Autodesk