From timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de  Mon Dec  3 19:46:57 2007
From: timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de (Tim Michelsen)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:46:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
Message-ID: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>

Hello,
I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
file.

The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
Gnumeric.

Is there a tool which can convert a dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?

I found a Freeware tool from a German website:
WinDBF32 Datenbank Editor - http://www.buchenwald.de/software/index.html

Is there something like this as FOSS?

Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a GRASS
vector to ascii?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Tim



From jgomezdans at gmail.com  Tue Dec  4 12:07:48 2007
From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Jos=E9_G=F3mez-Dans?=)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:07:48 +0000
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <200712041107.48543.jgomezdans@gmail.com>

On Monday 03 December 2007 18:46:57 Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Is there something like this as FOSS?
>
> Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a
> GRASS vector to ascii?

OGR (part of GDAL) will do this for you. I don't have any GRASS vector file at 
hand, but with a shapefile, it works. You might want to have a look at 
ogr2ogr's myriad options.

$ ogr2ogr -f CSV output world.shp world
$ head -n 10 output/world.csv
NAME,CAPITAL,APPROX,AREA,SOURCETHM
GUATEMALA,GUATEMALA,        9705000,109727.896245869997074,Country_col_regi
BOLIVIA,LA-PAZ,        7411000,1092978.782902699895203,Country_col_regi
PARAGUAY,ASUNSION,        5003000,401654.615222979977261,Country_col_regi
URUGUAY,MONTEVIDEO,        3151000,176325.416958260000683,Country_col_regi
SURINAME,PARAMARIBO,         413000,144337.565436019998742,Country_col_regi
FRENCH GUIANA,CAYENNE,         151187,83835.861705215997063,Country_col_regi
WESTERN SAHARA,LAAYONE,         222631,268271.005264799983706,Country_col_regi
GAMBIA,BANJUL,         916000,10603.453404558000329,Country_col_regi
MOROCCO,RABAT,       27005000,416438.776374819979537,Country_col_regi

Cheers,
Jose

-- 
NERC Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics,
Department of Geography, University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK



From neteler at osgeo.org  Tue Dec  4 14:57:23 2007
From: neteler at osgeo.org (Markus Neteler)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:57:23 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <86782b610712040557g359c1db3k355941fc65ca0310@mail.gmail.com>

Tim,

right now I have added db.out.ogr to GRASS 6.3-CVS. It exports
into various formats, in your case in CSV.

You can grab it from CVS, the next Saturday's snapshot or
directly from here:
http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/scripts/db.out.ogr/

Enjoy
Markus

On Dec 3, 2007 7:46 PM, Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
> file.
>
> The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
> Gnumeric.
>
> Is there a tool which can convert a dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?
>
> I found a Freeware tool from a German website:
> WinDBF32 Datenbank Editor - http://www.buchenwald.de/software/index.html
>
> Is there something like this as FOSS?
>
> Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a GRASS
> vector to ascii?
>
> Thanks in advance and kind regards,
> Tim
>
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
>



-- 
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://www.osgeo.org/
http://www.grassbook.org/



From dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca  Tue Dec  4 20:35:49 2007
From: dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca (Dan Putler)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:35:49 -0800
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <1196796949.6469.2.camel@whitebox>

R (www.r-project.org) can do it via its foreign library. The underlying
code that the R foreign library uses is Frank Warmerdam's ShapeLib C
library (http://shapelib.maptools.org).

Dan Putler

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:46 +0000, Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
> file.
> 
> The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
> Gnumeric.
> 
> Is there a tool which can convert a dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?
> 
> I found a Freeware tool from a German website:
> WinDBF32 Datenbank Editor - http://www.buchenwald.de/software/index.html
> 
> Is there something like this as FOSS?
> 
> Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a GRASS
> vector to ascii?
> 
> Thanks in advance and kind regards,
> Tim
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
-- 
Dan Putler
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia



From tutey at o2.pl  Wed Dec  5 17:49:50 2007
From: tutey at o2.pl (Maciej Sieczka)
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:49:50 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4756D6AE.9050101@o2.pl>

Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
> file.
> 
> The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
> Gnumeric.

Try editing it in OO.org Base instead of Calc.

Maciek



From martin.weis.newsadress at gmx.de  Wed Dec  5 17:59:48 2007
From: martin.weis.newsadress at gmx.de (Martin Weis)
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:59:48 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <1196796949.6469.2.camel@whitebox>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
	<1196796949.6469.2.camel@whitebox>
Message-ID: <4756D904.7080606@gmx.de>

Hello Tim!

> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:46 +0000, Tim Michelsen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
>> file.
>> Is there a tool which can convert a dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?


I used xbase successfully (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/), but
you may try this one also:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbf/

There are some more projects on sf.net...

-- 
Martin Weis
PGP-Key: http://datenroulette.de/pgp.php

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From tzajc at conae.gov.ar  Wed Dec  5 19:27:05 2007
From: tzajc at conae.gov.ar (Tomas zajc)
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:27:05 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] Tool for evaluating topography
Message-ID: <200712051527.05971.tzajc@conae.gov.ar>

Hi. I'm looking for a tool to retrieve terrain height (above geoid egm96 or 
elipsoid wgs84) from lat lon. Is there any application available?

   Thanks, Tomas



From neteler at osgeo.org  Wed Dec  5 23:40:47 2007
From: neteler at osgeo.org (Markus Neteler)
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:40:47 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Tool for evaluating topography
In-Reply-To: <200712051527.05971.tzajc@conae.gov.ar>
References: <200712051527.05971.tzajc@conae.gov.ar>
Message-ID: <86782b610712051440o29df8ddbp237e3461b7f6d02b@mail.gmail.com>

This could be a starting point:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm96/intpt.html

Markus

On Dec 5, 2007 7:27 PM, Tomas zajc <tzajc at conae.gov.ar> wrote:
> Hi. I'm looking for a tool to retrieve terrain height (above geoid egm96 or
> elipsoid wgs84) from lat lon. Is there any application available?
>
>    Thanks, Tomas

-- 
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://www.osgeo.org/
http://www.grassbook.org/



From bfraser at geoanalytic.com  Wed Dec  5 23:54:38 2007
From: bfraser at geoanalytic.com (Brent Fraser)
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:54:38 -0700
Subject: [Freegis-list] Tool for evaluating topography
References: <200712051527.05971.tzajc@conae.gov.ar>
Message-ID: <080701c83791$d08f0a80$140002c0@shark>

Tomas,

  You could have a look at OSSIM's (http://www.ossim.org)
ossim_height:

C:\>ossim_height
Usage: ossim_height <lat degrees> <lon degrees>

Description:
ossim_height Returns a MSL and ellipoid height given a lat
lon position

Options:
  --disable-elev    Will disable the elevation
  --disable-notify  Takes an argument. Arguments are ALL,
WARN, NOTICE, INFO,
                    FATAL, DEBUG.  If you want multiple
disables then just do
                    multiple --disable-notify on the command
line.  All argument
                    are case insensitive.  Default is all
are enabled.
  --disable-plugin  Will disable the plugin loader
  --ossim-logfile   takes a logfile as an argument.  All
output messages are
                    redirected to the specified log file.
By default there is
                    no log file and all messages are
enabled.
  -K                specify individual keywords to add to
the preferences
                    keyword list: name=value
  -P                specify a preference file to load
  -T                specify the classes to trace, ex:
ossimInit|ossimImage.*
                    will trace ossimInit and all ossimImage
classes
  -h or --help      Shows help



Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomas zajc" <tzajc at conae.gov.ar>
To: <freegis-list at intevation.de>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:27 AM
Subject: [Freegis-list] Tool for evaluating topography


> Hi. I'm looking for a tool to retrieve terrain height
(above geoid egm96 or
> elipsoid wgs84) from lat lon. Is there any application
available?
>
>    Thanks, Tomas
>
> _______________________________________________
> Freegis-list mailing list
> Freegis-list at intevation.de
> https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list



From stephan.holl at intevation.de  Thu Dec  6 07:58:20 2007
From: stephan.holl at intevation.de (Stephan Holl)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:58:20 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] [ANN]: EDBSilon 0.9.2 released
Message-ID: <20071206075820.5ab6092e@intevation.de>

Hello,

the free EDBS- and BZSN transformator EDBSilon is available in a new
version.

What is edbsilon?
edbsilon is a converter for EDBS- abd BZSN-data. The data can be
transformed into SQL-statements ready for Oracle 9 Spatial or into any
OGR-supported vector format.

What is new in version 0.9.2:
* some bugs fixed
* support for 'Rahmenobjekte'
* example configuration for lower saxony EDBS-files

edbsilon is Free Software under the term of GNU General Public License
(GNU/GPL).

edbsilon is implemented in python.

The current version can be found here:

	http://edbsilon.intevation.de/download.html

Best regards

	Stephan Holl

-- 
Stephan Holl <stephan.holl at intevation.de>, http://intevation.de/~stephan
Tel: +49 (0)541-33 50 8 32 | Intevation GmbH | AG Osnabr?ck - HR B 18998
Gesch?ftsf?hrer:  Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner



From wharms at bfs.de  Thu Dec  6 10:19:40 2007
From: wharms at bfs.de (walter harms)
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:19:40 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <4756D6AE.9050101@o2.pl>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org> <4756D6AE.9050101@o2.pl>
Message-ID: <4757BEAC.60606@bfs.de>



Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Tim Michelsen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
>> file.
>>
>> The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
>> Gnumeric.
> 
> Try editing it in OO.org Base instead of Calc.
> 

depends what you would like to do.
simple calculationen can be done with shell or awk (perl) etc.
this tools can be faster than a db.

just my 2 cents,
 wh



From frank.koormann at intevation.de  Thu Dec  6 10:39:59 2007
From: frank.koormann at intevation.de (Frank Koormann)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:39:59 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
In-Reply-To: <4756D904.7080606@gmx.de>
References: <loom.20071203T184255-450@post.gmane.org>
	<1196796949.6469.2.camel@whitebox> <4756D904.7080606@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <20071206093959.GB22568@intevation.de>

Hi,

* Martin Weis <martin.weis.newsadress at gmx.de> [071205 18:00]:
> >> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to
> >> process as an ascii file.  Is there a tool which can convert a
> >> dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?
> 
> I used xbase successfully (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/), but
> you may try this one also:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbf/
> 
> There are some more projects on sf.net...

http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~fkoorman/software/dbftools.en.html
is a very small tool I once implemented in C.
 
HTH,

        Frank

-- 
Frank Koormann  |  ++49-541-335 08 30  |  http://www.intevation.de/
Intevation GmbH, Georgstr. 4, 49074 Osnabr?ck, DE | AG Osnabr?ck, HR B 18998
Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner



From jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de  Thu Dec 20 10:43:02 2007
From: jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:43:02 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] Intevation Geospatial Team: Open position
Message-ID: <200712201043.04829.jan-oliver.wagner@intevation.de>

Hello,

Intevation is looking for someone to strengthen
our Geospatial team. It will be all about
Free GIS Software products.

However, one requirement is skills in German
language - they should be moderate at least.
Therefore the actual descripton remains in german ;-)

######

Hallo,

nach einem intensiven Jahr 2007 mit vielen erfolgreichen
Projekten und einer Vergr??erung des Teams allein
um drei neue Vollzeitmitarbeiter (und gleichzeitig hoher
Auslastung unserer Partner-Unternehmen) blicken wir auf ein
spannendes Jahr 2008 f?r das die Notwendigkeit weitere
Verst?rkung bereits feststeht.

Intevation Geospatial (www.intevation.de/geospatial) konzentriert sich auf
Anwendungsentwicklung, Professionellen Support und Schulung f?r Freie GIS Software.
WebGIS, DesktopGIS, Geodatenbanken und sichere GDI sind einige unsere
Themen. Wir sind produkt-unabh?ngig, verwenden viele der bekannten
Anwendungen (PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, OpenJUMP, etc), entwickeln
aber auch selbst neue Komponenten und experimentieren mit
neuen L?sungsans?tzen.

F?r das Geospatial Team suchen wir eine neue Mitarbeiterin oder einen
neuen Mitarbeiter mit folgenden Eigenschaften:

- Team-F?higkeit und Selbstst?ndigkeit
- Gute Kommunikations-F?higkeiten
- flie?end Englisch
- Erfahrungen mit den Freie Software Communities
- Erfahrungen mit GNU/Linux Arbeitsumgebungen
  und diversen Freie GIS Anwendungen
- Erfahrung im Projektmanagement und
  in der Kundenbetreuung
- Gern gesehen sind auch Schulungserfahrungen


Wir bieten:

- ein junges und sehr engagiertes Team
- abwechslungsreiche Kunden-Projekte mit immer
   neuen Herausforderungen.
- einen sehr umfangreiches und tiefes Know-How zu
  Netzwerk-Technologie, Internet-Protokollen, Software-Desgin
  und -Entwicklung sowie Sicherheitstechnologien.
- Methoden und Verfahren f?r eine effiziente Durchf?hrung
  von Projekten und Kunden-Support
- einen Erfahrungsschatz von ?ber 8 Jahren Dienstleistungen
  zu Freier Software. Intevation wurde genau f?r dieses Ziel
  gegr?ndet und ist nie davon abgewichen.

Ich denke, diese Beschreibung gibt einen allgemeinen
Eindruck - die meisten werden uns ja bereits kennen ;-)

Interessenten melden sich am besten direkt bei
mir. Wie ?blich werden alle Anfragen absolut vertraulich
behandelt.

Viele Gr??e

        Jan-Oliver Wagner

-- 
Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner                        Intevation GmbH, Osnabr?ck
Amtsgericht Osnabr?ck, HR B 18998             http://www.intevation.de/
Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner



From stuff at de-schorsch.de  Sun Dec 30 16:00:46 2007
From: stuff at de-schorsch.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Georg_=28=F6ffentlich=29=22?=)
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:00:46 +0100
Subject: [Freegis-list] GIS auf dem Linuxtag 2008/GIS at Linuxtag 2008
Message-ID: <4777B29E.8090608@de-schorsch.de>

See english version below

.........................................................................

Hallo,

der 14. Internationale LinuxTag in der Zeit vom 28. - 31. Mai 2008 auf
dem Messegel?nde unter dem Funkturm in Berlin legt dieses Jahr einen
eigenen Schwerpunkt auf das Thema Geographische Informationssysteme
(GIS) und stellt diesem Thema einen eigenen Vortragstrack zur Verf?gung.

Wir bitten um Bewerbungen f?r diesen Track und laden alle Interessierten
ein ihre Projekte, Ideen oder alles andere was zum Thema passt in diesem
Rahmen vorzustellen.

Der Linuxtag ist Europas f?hrende und gr??te Konferenzmesse zum Thema
Freie Software und hat im letzten Jahr knapp 10.000 Anwender, Experten
und Interessenten rund um Linux, Freie und Open Source Software aus ganz
Europa, Asien, Afrika und Nordamerika angezogen.

Das Thema GIS und damit raumrelevante Themen sind in der Gesellschaft
wie auch im Linuxbereich durchaus weit verbreitet.
Allt?gliche Anwendungen (Google Maps), gemeinschaftliche Projekte
(Wikipedia-Geotagging oder Open Street Map) bis hin zu konkreten
Softwarel?sungen (OpenMoko) zeigen die breite Palette der L?sungen.

Einerseits soll der GIS-Track diese Vielfalt darstellen und gleichzeitig
auch neue Interessierte an das Thema Freie Software und GIS heranf?hren.

F?r die Beitr?ge gibt eine nur eine Einschr?nkung: Das Thema muss sich um
Freie Software bzw. Freie Geodaten drehen.

Die Beitr?ge k?nnen bis zum 11. Januar ?ber das Virtual Conference
Center des Linuxtag eingereicht werden: https://www.linuxtag.org/vcc/.
Um sicher  zu gehen, dass wir den Beitrag als GIS relevant wahrnehmen,
sollte dem Titel der Tag [GIS] voran gestellt werden.

Wir freuen uns das das Thema GIS und Freie Software nun einen weiteren
Schritt in das ?ffentliche Bewusstsein nimmt und freuen uns auf
interessante Beitr?ge.

.........................................................................

Hello,

the 14. International LinuxTag from 28. - 31. Mai 2008 at the
"Messegel?nde unter dem Funkturm" in Berlin, Germany has this year a
special emphasis on the topic Geographic Informationsystems (GIS)
and plans an own session for this.

The Call for Papers is open and we invite everyone to present his (or
her) project, idea or something else what suits to the topic.

The Linuxtag is the biggest and leading european confernece concerning
Free Software. In 2007 nearly 10.000 users, developer and interested
people of Linux, Free and Open Source Software from Europe, Asia, Africa
and Northamerica came to Berlin.

The topic GIS and therefore spatial relevant problems are popular in the
society  as well as in the Linux community.
Common projects (Google Maps), community tasks (Wikipedia-Geotagging
oder Open Street Map) and real softwaresolutions (OpenMoko) show the
wide base.

On one hand the GIS-Track should show this variety, on the other hand it
should affect new participants to this theme.

The papers have only one constraint: The subject has to deal with Free
Software or Free Geodata.

You can submit your proposals until 11th of January via the Virtual
Conference Center of Linuxtag: https://www.linuxtag.org/vcc/. To ensure
that we recognize the paper as GIS relevant please mark the titel with
the prefix [GIS].

We are happy that the topic GIS and Free Software makes a next step to
popular awareness and looking forward for interesting papers.


Silke Reimer

Georg L?sel

Session Chair GIS-Track