Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Jody Garnett
Actually the origional point was valid; SLD is pretty darn WMS specific. That is why we got them to split it into two; SLD for the WMS concepts of layers and so on; and SE for the really good part (FeatureTypeStyle and friends). For more fun and games drop by the osgeo standards email list and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:08:06PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > Some support for SLD exists in: > * MapServer > * GeoServer > * OpenLayers (and things which build on top of it) * uDig (read/write and advanced mode for direct editing of XML) * ArcMap -> SLD conversion (http://arcmap2sld

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:28:18PM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: > OGC Styled Layer Descriptor specification does not impress me, and it's > WMS implementation specific. Huh? Why doesn't it impress you? It's the closest thing to a standard that exists. Some support for SLD exists in: * MapServer * G

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Jason Birch
Ari Jomla wrote: > GDAL has feature style specification: > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_feature_style.html Hey, that's pretty cool. Almost JSON or WKT-like. MapGuide has a similar XML-based stylization schema: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14 Jason ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
> ESRI seems to have .mxd files, which is their map definition file. It's > a binary format and probably not documented. Then they have ArcXML (AXL) > which serves the same purpose () as Mapserver mapfiles. BTW, mapfile > format is a result of a lot of thought and practical experience. I > believe

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread Sampson, David
Check out sourceforge.net and do and advanced search using GPRS and JAVA. Found 7 projects. http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?words=%28%2BGPRS+%2B%22java%22%29&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&words=%28%2BGPRS+%2B%22java%22%29&Search=Search Most of them look like phone related projects, but I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Ari Jolma
Brent Fraser kirjoitti: Ari, Traditionally, there has been no widely adopted vendor/system-independent format for specifying style information. Hopefully now that there is an organization (the OGC) addressing open standards for geographic data (including styling: SLD) there will be more suppo

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Kostantinos Vassiliadis
yeah From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sampson, David Sent: Mon 14/04/2008 21:28 To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library > > Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice dataset. Opening these > 39 layers makes me as

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Newbie Question? Any feature for classification?

2008-04-14 Thread Sampson, David
Saka, If you're wanting to use some open source languages in the .NET framework there are pythonNet http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/ which might open up the Python Cartographic Library http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/PCL/ I looked for something in the JAVA world, but no luck (does not mean

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Ari Jolma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second thing would be to have a free OSGeo map symbol set, which the > map description file would refer to and the software use when creating the > map. > > Do I make any sense? Absolutely. I have created a wiki page for

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Sampson, David
Hey folks, Lots of good discussion going on around this proposed library. >From the sounds of it there are many different camps of thinking on this subject which is great. Of course there are many approaches that can be used. Perhaps we might want to talk a little more about the high end user ne

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Newbie Question? Any feature for classification?

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Ames
Saka, Feel free to browse the MapWindow forums here: www.mapwindow.org/phorum and possibly post your question there. We have a very large .NET open source GIS developer community there who may be able to help. Dan On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Saka Royban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Sampson, David
> > Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice dataset. Opening these > 39 layers makes me ask why there's no style information? > Pardon my ignorance on digital cartography, but is it because > of standards or something else? > How do Arc* tools do it? > Think of three separate boxes. One is t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
Ari, Traditionally, there has been no widely adopted vendor/system-independent format for specifying style information. Hopefully now that there is an organization (the OGC) addressing open standards for geographic data (including styling: SLD) there will be more support for a styling standard.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Ari Jolma
Brent Fraser kirjoitti: Bruno, Have a go with my favorite Canadian topographic map (NTS:082H04, "Waterton Lakes" ): Shapefiles: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec/50k_shp/082/h/canvec_082h04_shp.zip Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice dataset. Opening these 39 layers makes me ask

RE: FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Rushforth, Peter
Hi Bruno, > OK, but... you do know that this is only true for small datasets. > For large datasets FOP is a bad choice performance wise. > For instance: if you have to convert an XML to a PDF and you > expect the end result to be 50 pages, Apache FOP might be a > good choice. If you expect 10,00

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Brent Fraser
Bruno, Have a go with my favorite Canadian topographic map (NTS:082H04, "Waterton Lakes" ): Shapefiles: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec/50k_shp/082/h/canvec_082h04_shp.zip or GML: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec/50k_gml/082/h/canvec_082h04_gml.zip If you want road names (with p

RE: RE : RE: RE : RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread Miguel Montesinos
Hello again, if you can send commands to the GPS receiver through the serial port, then you can program an access from your application in the same way. You can use javax.comm.* or gnu.io to get access to serial ports. Once you have that, it's up to you to communicate with the receiver. I don'

RE : RE: RE : RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread dorra labidi
Hi Miguel; The GPS device is a hardware equipment; there is no OS; it can detect the GPRS signals; it accepts commands and send NMEA frames (frames that contain the geographic position od the device; speed, ..etc), collected from the satellite...My problem is how to send commands to it via the

RE: RE : RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread Miguel Montesinos
Hi Dorra, I don't know your requisites, but are you really sure you need to program low-level GPRS communications? I mean, if you have a device with a right set-up, it will automatically connect to your GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA provider whenever any process needs an IP connection. For instance in gv

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Lowagie wrote: > > > As soon as I have the time, I'll make you some examples. > > > > My main problem is that I haven't been on a GIS project since 1997. > Can somebody provide me with some (completely free!) sample

[OSGeo-Discuss] Newbie Question? Any feature for classification?

2008-04-14 Thread Saka Royban
Hi all. I'mnew to this mailing list. I want to write a program in .NET environmentand i need some classes to do feature classification. I mean getting a point shape file, classifying it based on a Z value and convert it to raster.(some kind of Interpolation) Anyone knows anything open source to

RE : RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread dorra labidi
Hi Miguel, Thank you for your advice; No problem for the OS; my Os is windows. Do you think that the GPRS connexion depends on the GPS device? The javax.comm.*, as far as I know, offer 3 connection types: serial,parallel and using sockets. In my case; I have two parameter for the connexion: th

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPRS connection API

2008-04-14 Thread Miguel Montesinos
Hi, Just one note. Javax.comm.* only runs on Solaris and Windows. If you need Linux, Mac OS X, ... support, you'll need other "plug-ins" for original Sun package. Here you have one GPL project we're using at gvSIG[1] I've not used AT commands and GPRS communications in Java, but have done in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Paolo Cavallini wrote: So the question is: is there a free (as speech) and Open Source full blown PDF viewer? I think OSGeo is about open source software. I'm a F/OSS developer, so I'm going to use my standard answer: "What's keeping you from adding OCG support to Evince?" *LOL* My own library

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Bruno Lowagie ha scritto: > Evince is as they promote it "simply a document viewer." > It's not a full blown PDF viewer (well, maybe it is for > most users, but for me as an avid PDF user it isn't). > Evince doesn't support all the features that are explained > in the PDF Reference manual. OCG was

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Wolf Bergenheim
On 14.04.2008 10:31, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Bruno Lowagie ha scritto: On the left, you have a menu. With this menu you can CHANGE the language of the street names. They are in English by default, but you can change them into French or Dutch. You also have menu options to visualize where to fin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Paolo Cavallini wrote: All this does not show off in evince, however. Evince is as they promote it "simply a document viewer." It's not a full blown PDF viewer (well, maybe it is for most users, but for me as an avid PDF user it isn't). Evince doesn't support all the features that are explained

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Bruno Lowagie ha scritto: > On the left, you have a menu. With this menu you can CHANGE the language > of the street names. They are in English by default, but you can change > them into French or Dutch. > > You also have menu options to visualize where to find hotels, museums, > etc... This is o