From gilles.bassiere at makina-corpus.com Wed Oct 10 12:00:08 2007 From: gilles.bassiere at makina-corpus.com (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gilles_Bassi=E8re?=) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:00:08 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] How to assess rendering quality? Message-ID: <470CA2A8.5030602@makina-corpus.com> Hi list, I'm doing a comparative study of OpenSource cartographic servers (Mapserver, Geoserver and Mapnik). Beside raw performance and features, I'd like to assess the rendering quality, say how pretty produced maps are. Precisely, I'm interested in the quality of the drawing work, my point is not about symbology, nor styling of maps. I have some problems to find a set of objective criteria I could benchmark my servers against. So far, I have already identified the following: - sharpness of details - smoothness of lines - uniformity of colors I'm open to any comments. Do you think these criteria are consistent regarding the purpose of my study? Does anyone have other criteria to suggest? Regards -- Gilles Bassiere MAKINA CORPUS 30 rue des Jeuneurs FR-75011 PARIS http://www.makina-corpus.com From jachym.cepicky at gmail.com Wed Oct 10 13:44:11 2007 From: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com (Jachym Cepicky) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:44:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] PyWPS releases version 2.0.0 Message-ID: <1192016651.7873.39.camel@mellon> 8.10.2007 http://pywps.wald.intevation.org After a year of development, Python Web Processing Service (PyWPS) 2.0.0 is new stable release, which fixes number of bugs and instabilities in previous 1.0.0 version, as well as adds new functionality. PyWPS implements OGC Web Processing Service 0.4.0 standard [1]. It is developed with native support for GRASS GIS [2], however, it can be used with other GIS command line tools too (PROJ, GDAL/OGR, ...), as well as with the R Project for Statistical Computing. OGC Web Processing Service specification provides client access across a network to pre-programmed calculations and/or computation models that operate on spatially referenced data. The calculation can be extremely simple or highly complex, with any number of data inputs and outputs. It does not specify the specific processes that could be implemented by a WPS. Instead, it specifies a generic mechanism that can be used to describe and web-enable any sort of geospatial process. Several client applications can be used with PyWPS, e.g. Embrio project [3] and there is also plugin for OpenLayers [4][5]. Major changes: * New Process interface for easier coding * More stable, temporary files should be deleted in any case * More verbose, better debugging output * OGC WPS 0.4.0 still not fully implemented, but much more * ... New development should be focused at implementation of the OGC WPS 1.0.0 specification. Jachym & PyWPS Development Team [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/28 [2] http://grass.itc.it [3] http://pywps.ominiverdi.org [4] http://openlayers.org [5] http://www.bnhelp.cz/mapserv/pokusy/OpenLayers/jachym/openlayers/examples/wps.html -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is developed with native support for GRASS GIS [2], however, it can be used with other GIS command line tools too (PROJ, GDAL/OGR, ...), as well as with the R Project for Statistical Computing. OGC Web Processing Service specification provides client access across a network to pre-programmed calculations and/or computation models that operate on spatially referenced data. The calculation can be extremely simple or highly complex, with any number of data inputs and outputs. It does not specify the specific processes that could be implemented by a WPS. Instead, it specifies a generic mechanism that can be used to describe and web-enable any sort of geospatial process. Several client applications can be used with PyWPS, e.g. Embrio project [3] and there is also plugin for OpenLayers [4][5]. Major changes: * New Process interface for easier coding * More stable, temporary files should be deleted in any case * More verbose, better debugging output * OGC WPS 0.4.0 still not fully implemented, but much more * ... New development should be focused at implementation of the OGC WPS 1.0.0 specification. Jachym & PyWPS Development Team [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/28 [2] http://grass.itc.it [3] http://pywps.ominiverdi.org [4] http://openlayers.org [5] http://www.bnhelp.cz/mapserv/pokusy/OpenLayers/jachym/openlayers/examples/wps.html -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym at bnhelp.cz URL: http://www.bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Jachym Jachym Cepicky p??e v St 10. 10. 2007 v 13:43 +0200: > 8.10.2007 > http://pywps.wald.intevation.org > > After a year of development, Python Web Processing Service (PyWPS) 2.0.0 > is new stable release, which fixes number of bugs and instabilities in > previous 1.0.0 version, as well as adds new functionality. > > PyWPS implements OGC Web Processing Service 0.4.0 standard [1]. It is > developed with native support for GRASS GIS [2], however, it can be used > with other GIS command line tools too (PROJ, GDAL/OGR, ...), as well as > with the R Project for Statistical Computing. > > OGC Web Processing Service specification provides client access across a > network to pre-programmed calculations and/or computation models that > operate on spatially referenced data. The calculation can be extremely > simple or highly complex, with any number of data inputs and outputs. It > does not specify the specific processes that could be implemented by a > WPS. Instead, it specifies a generic mechanism that can be used to > describe and web-enable any sort of geospatial process. > > Several client applications can be used with PyWPS, e.g. Embrio project > [3] and there is also plugin for OpenLayers [4][5]. > > Major changes: > * New Process interface for easier coding > * More stable, temporary files should be deleted in any case > * More verbose, better debugging output > * OGC WPS 0.4.0 still not fully implemented, but much more > * ... > > New development should be focused at implementation of the OGC WPS 1.0.0 > specification. > > Jachym & PyWPS Development Team > > [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/28 > [2] http://grass.itc.it > [3] http://pywps.ominiverdi.org > [4] http://openlayers.org > [5] > http://www.bnhelp.cz/mapserv/pokusy/OpenLayers/jachym/openlayers/examples/wps.html > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop will kick-off with the keynote speech by Dr. Le Gruenwald, Program Director - Information Integration & Informatics (III) Cluster at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Gruenwald will discuss the NSF initiatives including CDI and the relevance of spatial and spatial-temporal data mining research to those initiatives. There will be a dynamic panel in the afternoon on Spatial-Temporal Patterns in Human Activity Data Sets. The details of the workshop program can be found at http://spatial.nvc.cs.vt.edu/sstdm07. The program is also repeated below. We look forward to your participation in the workshop. Ashok Samal Chang-Tien Lu Shashi Shekhar Co-Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair ------------------------------------------ International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining http://spatial.nvc.cs.vt.edu/sstdm07 Call for Participation ------------------------------------------ October 28, 2007 @ Room H Omaha, NE, USA In cooperation with IEEE ICDM 2007 http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/ The 2nd International Workshop on Spatial and Spatial-temporal Data Mining aims to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in the field of spatial and spatio-temporal data mining in order to identify current research foci, vital areas of need, and critical points of synergy. The workshop facilitates the cross-fertilization of novel ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing effective mining systems and pursuing spatial and spatial-temporal mining applications. Selected papers will appear in the ??GeoInformatica?? journal as a special issue. SSTDM will have an invited speaker, a workshop panel, 9 full papers and 7 short papers. ================ Keynote Speech ================ Dr. Le Gruenwald,, Program Director - Information Integration & Informatics (III) Cluster, NSF Dr. Gruenwald will discuss the NSF initiatives including CDI and the relevance of spatial and spatial-temporal data mining research to those initiatives. ================ Workshop Panel ================ Spatial-Temporal Patterns in Human Activity Data Sets A distinguished panel will be held at 2:20 PM. It will cover major issues in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining research and practice related to human activity datasets. Recent solicitation from National Institute of Justice (NIJ) on Geospatial Technology will be discussed. Panelists Tom Casady, Chief of Police, Lincoln, Nebraska Amit Khanna, Chief Information Officer, InfoUSA Ned Levine, Software Architect, CrimeStat Dr. Jim Shine, US Army - Topographic Engineering Center ================ Program Schedule ================ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30AM Welcome -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:45AM Keynote Speech Speaker: Dr. Le Gruenwald, National Science Foundation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00AM Coffee Break -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30AM Regular Presentations Session Chair: Dr. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas - Wei Ding, Christoph Eick, Xiaojing Yuan, Jing Wang, and Jean-Philippe Nicot, On Regional Association Rule Scoping - Ranga Raju Vatsavai and Budhendra Bhaduri, An Hybrid Classification Scheme for Mining Multisource Geospatial Data - Elizabeth Wu and Sanjay Chawla, Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the relationship between South American Precipitation Extremes and the El Nino Southern Oscillation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:30AM Short Presentations Session Chair: Dr. Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech - ZongBo Shang and Jeffery Hamerlinck, Applied Statistics and Spatial Data Mining to Study Land Cover in Wyoming: Can We Predict Vegetation Coverage from Environmental Variables? - Ana Cristina Costa and Amilcar Soares, Space-Time Interpolation and Uncertainty Assessment of an Extreme Precipitation Index Using Geostatistical Cosimulation - Florian Verhein and Ghazi Al-Naymat, Fast Mining of Complex Spatial Co-location Patterns using GLIMIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00AM Lunch -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00PM Lunch (Poster Viewing) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:30PM Short Presentations Session Chair: Wei Ding, University of Houston - Tsegaye Tadesse, The Vegetation Outlook (VegOut): A New Tool for Providing Outlooks of General Vegetation Conditions Using Data Mining Techniques - Vikramaditya Jakkula, Aaron Crandall, and Diane Cook, Knowledge Discovery in Entity Based Smart Environment Resident Data Using Temporal Relations Based Data Mining - Sigal Elnekave, Mark Last, and Oded Maimon, A Compact Representation of Spatio-Temporal Data - Shyamanta M. Hazarika, Pattern Mining as Abduction: From Snapshots to Spatio-temporal Sequential Patterns -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:20PM Panel on Spatial-Temporal Patterns in Human Activity Data Sets Tom Casady, Chief of Police, Lincoln, Nebraska Amit Khanna, Chief Information Officer, InfoUSA Ned Levine, Software Architect, CrimeStat Dr. Jim Shine, US Army - Topographic Engineering Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30PM Coffee Break (Poster Viewing) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00PM Regular Presentations Session Chair: Dr. Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney - Peter Phillips and Ickjai Lee, Areal Aggregated Crime Reasoning through Density Tracing - Leonardo Mariote, Claudia Medeiros, and Ricardo Torres, Diagnosing similarity of oscillation trends in time series - April Kerby, David Marx, Ashok Samal, and Viacheslav Adamchuck, Spatial Clustering -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:00pm Regular Presentations Session Chair: Dr. Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Marc Joliveau and Florian de Vuyst, Space-time summarization of multisensor time series. Case of missing data. - Angelica Garcia and Peter Baumann, Modeling Fundamental Geo-Raster Operations with Array Algebra - Falko Schmid, Formulating, Identifying and Analyzing Individual Spatial Knowledge -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00PM Audience Feedback & Closing Remarks -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================ Organization ================ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization Committee -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-Chairs Ashok Samal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Publicity Chair Jing (David) Dai, Virginia Tech, USA Publication Chair Feng Chen, Virginia Tech, USA Manu Shukla, Virginia Tech, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, Germany Vania Bogorny, Hasselt University, Belgium Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA Christoph Eick, University of Houston, USA Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Griffith University, Australia Shashi Gadia, Iowa State University, USA Diansheng Guo, University of South Carolina, USA Yan Huang, University of Northern Texas, USA Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt University, Belgium Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong David Marx, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Michael May, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany Mirco Nanni, KDD Laboratory ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Dieter Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA Jin Soung Yoo, University of Minnesota, USA May Yuan, University of Oklahoma, USA Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Workshop_Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 232156 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20071026/b44c76fe/Workshop_Flyer.pdf From jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca Tue Oct 30 00:54:57 2007 From: jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:54:57 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Open Source Geospatial Foundation Announces Request for Proposal for Hosting 2009 Conference Message-ID: <472672D1.5050302@dmsolutions.ca> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today released a request for proposal, or RFP, (available at http://www.osgeo.org/sites/osgeo.org/files/webfiles/conference/rfp/2009/osgeo-conference-2009-request-for-proposal.pdf) for the hosting of the FOSS4G 2009 conference. With the overwhelming success of the recent FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria Canada (http://www.foss4g2007.org/), and as excitement begins to build for FOSS4G 2008 in Cape Town South Africa (http://www.foss4g2008.org/), OSGeo again aims for the 2009 conference to be a major geospatial conference during that year. The RFP solicitation closes January 11th, 2008. -- OSGeo Conference Committee