From Jeroen.Ticheler at fao.org Fri Apr 4 18:56:18 2008 From: Jeroen.Ticheler at fao.org (Jeroen Ticheler) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:56:18 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] The GeoNetwork opensource geospatial catalog v2.2.0 is out! Message-ID: <876C1198-190D-4267-A31A-1478EB0F3FF5@fao.org> Sorry for cross-posting. We're happy to announce the release of GeoNetwork opensource 2.2.0. This is a mayor release for the project. GeoNetwork opensource (http://geonetwork-opensource.org) is a standards based geospatial catalog application that helps people and organizations to organize and publish their geospatial data through the web. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world. The software provides an easy to use web interface to search geospatial data across multiple catalogs, combine distributed map services in the embedded map viewer, send annotated interactive maps to friends by email, publish geospatial data using the online metadata editing tools and optionally the embedded GeoServer map server. Administrators have the option to manage user and group accounts, configure the server through web based and desktop utilities and schedule metadata harvesting from other catalogs. You will find support for a number of metadata formats (ISO19115/19119 following ISO19139, FGDC and Dublin Core), a number of catalog interfaces (CSW2.0 ISO profile client and server, OAI-PMH client and server, GeoRSS server, GEO OpenSearch server, WebDAV harvesting, GeoNetwork to GeoNetwork harvesting support). A single, platform independent installer allows to install and run the software on a PC or a server on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The installer can be downloaded as an executable Windows file or as a platform independent .jar installer. It creates a Start menu on Windows computers. Command line installations are also possible for remote installations. Please refer to chapter 6 of the manual for detailed installation instructions. The GeoNetwork community has been expanding quickly over the last years. The current release has been possible because of all those that contributed to the project through code contributions, testing, bug reports and fixes as well as many suggestions. This release is also the milestone for the Open Source Geospatial Foudation (OSGeo, http://www.osgeo.org) incubation process the project is going through. The GeoNetwork Project Steering Committee will now ask OSGeo to graduate the project. Thanks and congratulations to the all community members! Downloads at: http://geonetwork-opensource.org/software/geonetwork_opensource Enjoy! Jeroen Ticheler From netbeans at gatworks.com Sat Apr 5 02:24:10 2008 From: netbeans at gatworks.com (U. George) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:24:10 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Is shapefiles licensed to the public at large? Message-ID: <47F6C6AA.8080002@gatworks.com> More important, is there published documentation? Is there license documentation for the .dbf format? From Bob_Bouvier at dai.com Sat Apr 5 16:00:23 2008 From: Bob_Bouvier at dai.com (Bob_Bouvier@dai.com) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:00:23 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] Bob Bouvier is out of the office. Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20080405/3b1b83b9/attachment.html From mays at lat-lon.de Wed Apr 9 14:49:18 2008 From: mays at lat-lon.de (Judit Mays) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:49:18 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] deegree day 2008 - registration Message-ID: <47FCBB4E.6030002@lat-lon.de> +++ Please find a German version below +++ Dear friends of deegree! The registration for deegree day 2008 is on line and available through http://deegree.org/deegreeday The conference is free of charge. As soon as the Programme Committee has evaluated the paper submissions, the final agenda will be published. An additional workshop programme will be organized based on your wishes. Please vote for your workshop of interest. We are looking forward to welcome you in Bonn on June 17th 2008. Lyn Buesching and Judit Mays Organizing Team +++ German Version +++ Liebe Freunde des deegree-Projekts, die Anmeldung zum deegree day 2008 ist nun online verf?gbar unter http://deegree.org/deegreeday Die Konferenz ist kostenlos. Sobald das Programmkomitee alle eingereichten Paper gesichtet hat, wird die Agenda aktualisiert. Zus?tzlich wird ein Workshop-Programm angeboten, dass auf Basis Ihrer W?nsche zusammengestellt wird. Bitte stimmen Sie f?r den Workshop, der Ihr Interesse besonders weckt. Wir freuen uns, Sie am 17. Juni in Bonn begr??en zu k?nnen. Lyn B?sching und Judit Mays Organisationsteam -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- On June 17 is deegree day - Am 17. Juni ist deegree day http://deegree.org/deegreeday From tutey at o2.pl Thu Apr 17 22:23:31 2008 From: tutey at o2.pl (Maciej Sieczka) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:23:31 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland Message-ID: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> Hi All, A FOSS GIS conference of the CASCADOSS project is going to take place this year in Warsaw, Poland, Jun 16th - Jun 19th. http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php Deadline for registration: 2 May 2008. See you there! Best, Maciek From pb2 at gis.umcs.lublin.pl Fri Apr 18 09:54:09 2008 From: pb2 at gis.umcs.lublin.pl (Przemyslaw Bojczuk) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:54:09 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> Message-ID: <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> Maciej Sieczka wrote: > A FOSS GIS conference of the CASCADOSS project is going to take place > this year in Warsaw, Poland, Jun 16th - Jun 19th. > > http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php > > Deadline for registration: 2 May 2008. Thanks for the info! I have registered of course, though the information came a bit late to be honest... fortunately I didn't have any important plans for mid-June. Regards, PB -- Geographical Information Systems Laboratory Institute of Earth Sciences, UMCS http://gis.umcs.lublin.pl/en/ From mateusz at loskot.net Fri Apr 18 14:07:11 2008 From: mateusz at loskot.net (Mateusz Loskot) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:07:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> Message-ID: <48088EEF.4070302@loskot.net> Przemyslaw Bojczuk wrote: > Maciej Sieczka wrote: > >> A FOSS GIS conference of the CASCADOSS project is going to take place >> this year in Warsaw, Poland, Jun 16th - Jun 19th. >> >> http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php >> >> Deadline for registration: 2 May 2008. > > Thanks for the info! I have registered of course, though the information > came a bit late to be honest... fortunately I didn't have any important > plans for mid-June. I've announced this event on my blog [1] a while ago, so I believe it was annouced on the planetgs.com as well. There has been some discussion started on the OSGeo Discuss mailing list too. [1] http://mateusz.loskot.net/2008/02/12/the-cascadoss-project/ Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net From tutey at o2.pl Fri Apr 18 18:03:35 2008 From: tutey at o2.pl (Maciej Sieczka) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:03:35 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> Message-ID: <4808C657.8010408@o2.pl> Przemyslaw Bojczuk pisze: > Maciej Sieczka wrote: >> A FOSS GIS conference of the CASCADOSS project is going to take >> place this year in Warsaw, Poland, Jun 16th - Jun 19th. >> >> http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php >> >> Deadline for registration: 2 May 2008. > Thanks for the info! I have registered of course, though the > information came a bit late to be honest... fortunately I didn't have > any important plans for mid-June. I'm surprised the organizers didn't announce their conference themselves on freegis ML. Oh well. At least somebody else did that for them :). Maciek From pb2 at gis.umcs.lublin.pl Mon Apr 21 11:00:57 2008 From: pb2 at gis.umcs.lublin.pl (Przemyslaw Bojczuk) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:00:57 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <48088EEF.4070302@loskot.net> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> <48088EEF.4070302@loskot.net> Message-ID: <20080421110057.b758e810.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> Mateusz Loskot wrote: > I've announced this event on my blog [1] a while ago, so I believe it > was annouced on the planetgs.com as well. There has been some discussion > started on the OSGeo Discuss mailing list too. Oh well, I guess one has to read the Internet nowadays to find out about a conference nextdoor. Anyhow, see you there! :-) Regards, PB -- Geographical Information Systems Laboratory Institute of Earth Sciences, UMCS http://gis.umcs.lublin.pl/en/ From mateusz at loskot.net Mon Apr 21 11:27:31 2008 From: mateusz at loskot.net (Mateusz Loskot) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:27:31 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <20080421110057.b758e810.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> <48088EEF.4070302@loskot.net> <20080421110057.b758e810.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> Message-ID: <480C5E03.8050308@loskot.net> Przemyslaw Bojczuk wrote: > Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >> I've announced this event on my blog [1] a while ago, so I believe it >> was annouced on the planetgs.com as well. There has been some discussion >> started on the OSGeo Discuss mailing list too. > > Oh well, I guess one has to read the Internet nowadays to find out about > a conference nextdoor. Anyhow, see you there! :-) IMHO, the simplest way to know about FOSSGIS/OSGeo events is to monitor two planets: http://planet.osgeo.org http://planetgs.com The first one is about the OSGeo Community, the second a general geospatial planet. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net From tutey at o2.pl Tue Apr 22 21:11:03 2008 From: tutey at o2.pl (Maciej Sieczka) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:11:03 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news? Message-ID: <480E3847.7070009@o2.pl> Hi! Anybody has news about the vmap1? On the NIMA website I cannot find any info about its availability, neither for free nor dollars [1]. On the USGS website either. However, on NIMA's page you can find documents from 2006 [2],[3], mentioning the processing is done as of December 2005. The only official NIMA's source [4], which the Mapability website links to [5], still only contains the 57 tiles (out of supposedly 234 total), released several years ago. Interestingly there is a company, East View Cartographic [6] ("headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, with offices in Russia" [7] "and Netherlands" [8]), which provides a *complete* vmap1 coverage at 55 USD per tile. Note it is the same price that, as I heard in rumours [9], USGS was supposed to charge. If the rumours are true, how does the company make their profit ;)? If you know anything please add to the thread. Best, Maciek [1]http://www.nga.mil [2]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/nga0602.pdf [3]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/janfeb06.pdf [4]http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data [5]http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html [6]http://www.cartographic.com [7]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_View_Cartographic [8]http://www.rmib-geoscience.nl [9]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/viewmessage.phtml?id=4423 From editor at gisuser.com Tue Apr 22 22:56:22 2008 From: editor at gisuser.com (GISuser.com - Glenn) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:56:22 -0700 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news? In-Reply-To: <480E3847.7070009@o2.pl> Message-ID: <000e01c8a4bb$5398edb0$6401a8c0@SPATIALGRAPHIC> Hello, Try the links found at http://www.gisuser.com/content/category/10/84/41/50/0/ http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/vmap1_leg end.html And http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam .html Glenn \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Glenn Letham Founder, Managing Editor Spatial Media LLC RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gisusercom editor at gisuser.com ph: 1-970-690-3417 Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gletham Register for the GISuser Today Newsletter http://www.gisuser.com/subscribe.html GISuser.com "Taking You Beyond The Map" www.Amerisurv.com - for land surveyors www.SymbianOne.com - mobile users & developers www.LBSzone.com - mobile geospatial http://gisuser.blogspot.com - Anything Geospatial! Interested in Advertising? Ping adsales at gisuser.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > -----Original Message----- > From: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de > [mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de] On Behalf Of > Maciej Sieczka > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:11 PM > To: freegis-list at intevation.de > Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news? > > > Hi! > > Anybody has news about the vmap1? On the NIMA website I > cannot find any info about its availability, neither for free > nor dollars [1]. On the USGS website either. > > However, on NIMA's page you can find documents from 2006 > [2],[3], mentioning the processing is done as of December 2005. > > The only official NIMA's source [4], which the Mapability > website links to [5], still only contains the 57 tiles (out > of supposedly 234 total), released several years ago. > > Interestingly there is a company, East View Cartographic [6] > ("headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, with offices in > Russia" [7] "and Netherlands" [8]), which provides a > *complete* vmap1 coverage at 55 USD per tile. Note it is the > same price that, as I heard in rumours [9], USGS was supposed > to charge. If the rumours are true, how does the company make > their profit ;)? > > If you know anything please add to the thread. > > Best, > Maciek > > [1]http://www.nga.mil > [2]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/nga0602.pdf > [3]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/janfeb06.pdf > [4]http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data > [5]http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html > [6]http://www.cartographic.com > [7]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_View_Cartographic > [8]http://www.rmib-geoscience.nl > [9]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/viewmessage. > phtml?id=4423 > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://www.intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/fre> egis-list > From tutey at o2.pl Tue Apr 22 23:37:19 2008 From: tutey at o2.pl (Maciej Sieczka) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:19 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news? In-Reply-To: <000e01c8a4bb$5398edb0$6401a8c0@SPATIALGRAPHIC> References: <000e01c8a4bb$5398edb0$6401a8c0@SPATIALGRAPHIC> Message-ID: <480E5A8F.1060701@o2.pl> GISuser.com - Glenn pisze: > http://www.gisuser.com/content/category/10/84/41/50/0/ > http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/vmap1_leg > end.html > http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam > .html Hi Glenn, These are the old well known 57 (or 55?) tiles published around 2004. Where are the remaining 180 :)? One can buy them from a third party company like East View Cartographic. But if NIMA (or any US federal agency) doesn't offer them - neither for free nor for money - how did they get the data? Might be I'm just missing something but the whole story looks strange. Maciek From jachym.cepicky at gmail.com Wed Apr 23 17:24:11 2008 From: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com (Jachym Cepicky) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:24:11 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] CASCADOSS - FOSS GIS conference in Poland In-Reply-To: <4808C657.8010408@o2.pl> References: <4807B1C3.1070107@o2.pl> <20080418095409.c181c132.pb2@gis.umcs.lublin.pl> <4808C657.8010408@o2.pl> Message-ID: <1208964251.8385.43.camel@kocour> Hi, I saw some presentation in Ostrava this year and my feeling was, that the orga team does not ever heard about OpenSource GIS and what it is about. So, it does not surprise me, that they did not announce it in any relevant mailing list :-( I would like to come - I will talk to my boss Jachym Maciej Sieczka p??e v P? 18. 04. 2008 v 18:03 +0200: > Przemyslaw Bojczuk pisze: > > Maciej Sieczka wrote: > > >> A FOSS GIS conference of the CASCADOSS project is going to take > >> place this year in Warsaw, Poland, Jun 16th - Jun 19th. > >> > >> http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php > >> > >> Deadline for registration: 2 May 2008. > > > Thanks for the info! I have registered of course, though the > > information came a bit late to be honest... fortunately I didn't have > > any important plans for mid-June. > > I'm surprised the organizers didn't announce their conference themselves > on freegis ML. Oh well. At least somebody else did that for them :). > > Maciek > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list at intevation.de > https://www.intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky 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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So, it does not surprise me, that they did not announce it in any > relevant mailing list :-( Jachym, I've not heard about orga team, so I can not tell for that. I'm also not going to defend the folks from Cascadoss because I've not seen their outcome yet :-) However, I can tell that they intentionally tried to evaluate FOSS4G stuff independently, in disconnection from the evaluated projects. > I would like to come - I will talk to my boss It would be great to see you here! Contact me if you'll need any assistance here in Poland. Greetings -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net From neteler at osgeo.org Thu Apr 24 18:02:18 2008 From: neteler at osgeo.org (Markus Neteler) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:02:18 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released Message-ID: <86782b610804240902i2c52998y9334198d4b40f666@mail.gmail.com> GRASS GIS releases version 6.3.0 23 April 2008 http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS 6.3.0 is a "technology preview" release, the first beta on the path to GRASS 6.4-stable, and also marks the start of work on GRASS 7. As such GRASS 6.3.0 is not intended to be a stable release with ongoing support, but after five months of quality-assurance review users can be confident to use this version for their day to day work, indeed due to the open development model many already do. This release brings hundreds of new module features, supported data formats, and language translations, as well as a number of exciting enhancements to the GIS. A prototype of the new wxPython user interface is debuted, and for the the first since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS will run on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. This is currently still in an experimental state and we hope that widespread testing of 6.3.0 will mean the 6.4 release of WinGRASS will be fully functional and robust. Existing users will be happy to know that these new features do not disrupt the base GIS which remains as solid as ever and fully backwards compatible with earlier GRASS 6.0 and GRASS 6.2 releases. Several infrastructure changes accompany this release with the project becoming a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). This includes a new home for the website, the Wiki help system, source code repository, community add-on module repository, integrated bug tracking system, and formal membership for the project in a non-profit legal entity. We hope that these changes will guarantee that the GRASS community will be well supported and vibrant well into the future. The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for spatial modeling, visualization of both raster and vector data, geospatial data management and analysis, processing of satellite and aerial imagery, and production of sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS combines powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software package. The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) by volunteers the world over. GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free. Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as on software flexibility and evolution rate. The source code is freely available allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new features, and fast bug fixing. GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. Software download at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ and numerous mirror sites. Full story at http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html