From jan at intevation.de Thu May 2 11:23:52 2002 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:23:52 +0200 Subject: [Mapit] ANN: FreeGIS-CD 1.2.0 for GNU/Linux-Systems available Message-ID: <20020502092352.GC1086@intevation.de> Hi, after comprehensive testing, finally the new FreeGIS CD is released: FreeGIS-CD 1.2.0 for GNU/Linux-Systems available In its eighth edition (v1.2.0) the FreeGIS-CD continues to bring geographic information procession capabilities to GNU/Linux distributions. Osnabr?ck, Germany, 2nd of May 2002. The Intevation GmbH successfully puts Free Software for spatial data processing on the map with its eighth edition of the FreeGIS-CD, officially available from today. Testing has been done with major GNU/Linux distributions such as RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian to make sure that the prebuild binaries can be installed using the packaging system. The CD contains an up to date selection of GIS applications, libraries and data sets, e.g. GRASS, GMT, MapServer, PROJ and GLOBE. For the first time a digital FreeGIS tutorial in German is included on the CD. Printed copies are available separatly. The textbook explains how to do common GIS task with Free Software. Naturally it has been placed under the GNU Free Documentation License. "It may not always be highly visible, but the Free Software community in the area of GIS is making steady progress to bring full power combined with freedom to its users.", explains Jan-Oliver Wagner, who is in charge for the production of the CD at Intevation, "Thus we included many updated applications to bring you this solid release." The FreeGIS-CD v1.2.0 can be ordered for 30 Euros through Intevation GmbH and ships out of Germany and North America. http://freegis.org/order.en.html About the FreeGIS Project: -------------------------- The FreeGIS project focusses on Free Software and data related to geographic information processing and mapping. A comprehensive overview about available software can be found on the website. Map creation and analysis of spatial data is becoming a widespread application. The project exclusivly promotes Free Software solutions which means that everybody has the freedom to use, modify and redistribute them. http://freegis.org About Intevation GmbH --------------------- The Intevation GmbH is a high level Free Software consulting company based in Osnabr?ck, Germany. Intevation offers communication management for Free Software projects and strategic consulting for Free Software business models. Additional business units are geographic information systems and usability design. Intevation GmbH actively contributes to the Free Software Community and supports freegis.org and the FSF Europe among other projects. http://intevation.net Press contact: intevation at intevation.de -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ From FA.VAN-DEN-BUSSCHE at haute-garonne.pref.gouv.fr Fri May 17 19:54:53 2002 From: FA.VAN-DEN-BUSSCHE at haute-garonne.pref.gouv.fr (VAN DEN BUSSCHE FA PREF31) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:54:53 +0100 Subject: [Mapit] Raster data in "info" Message-ID: <200205171651.SAA17811@checkpoint.interieur.gouv.fr> Hi (from France this is why my poor english) I discover MapIt! when I looked at FreeGIS searching solutions for a project in operational crisis room (if you remind AZF the 21/09/2001). MapIt! seems to be the right thing I need. But I would like to know how to realize the tiles in the easiest way. My organization uses, for GIS, the WindowsAPP "Geoconcept". My maps are very numerous (4Kmx4Kmin 1:25000, TIFF format, about 101 different files) and I have no time to spend to convert/calculate any "info" file (my is job is NOT only in computers). What is the good way. The original import file for the rasters is a text file with, for each line, the file name of the TIFF file, the x and y coord of the center of this tile. --- Franz-Albert VAN DEN BUSSCHE SIRACED-PC Haute-Garonne Chef de Bureau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/mapit/attachments/20020517/a5a87898/attachment.html From bh at intevation.de Wed May 22 17:03:27 2002 From: bh at intevation.de (Bernhard Herzog) Date: 22 May 2002 17:03:27 +0200 Subject: [Mapit] Raster data in "info" In-Reply-To: <200205171651.SAA17811@checkpoint.interieur.gouv.fr> References: <200205171651.SAA17811@checkpoint.interieur.gouv.fr> Message-ID: <6qptzousw0.fsf@abnoba.intevation.de> Hi, VAN DEN BUSSCHE FA PREF31 writes: > But I would like to know how to realize the tiles in the easiest way. > My organization uses, for GIS, the WindowsAPP "Geoconcept". My maps are very > numerous (4Kmx4Kmin 1:25000, TIFF format, about 101 different files) and I > have no time to spend to convert/calculate any "info" file (my is job is NOT > only in computers). Well, you'll either have to generate an info file for MapIt! or extend MapIt! to support whatever format the information you have is in. Generating the info file will probably be far easier. > What is the good way. > The original import file for the rasters is a text file with, for each line, > the file name of the TIFF file, the x and y coord of the center of this > tile. It seems to me that with the information you have about the tiles, it should be fairly simple to write a script that reads the text file you described and produces an info file for MapIt!. You already have the coordinates of the centers of the tiles so you can probably calculate the coordinates of the corners from that (assuming the other information you have is enough to determine the size of a tile in that same coordinate system). The other thing to do would probably be to rename the files to match the names expected by MapIt!. E.g. for an entry in the info file like # [6,5] 2000 2000 2400 2400 the filename would have to be 6x5.png (or .tif). The Python Imaging Library used by MapIt! can read some tif files but doesn't support all of TIFF's possibilities, so you may have to convert the files to a different format as well, such as PNG. Regards, Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://www.mapit.de/