Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Landon Blake wrote: Frank wrote: "Clarifying such a matter is not trivial in an organization with many different ideas like OSGeo." Roger that. So I guess it boils down to the internal support for this type of service. Landon, Yes, I suppose. I will say there is certainly support for OSGeo h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
I just filled out the form on this Amazon page. This has been previously discussed as a viable option for OAM. Jeff On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > Amazon perhaps. Google might find it cuts a little too close to the > bone. Chris, have you approached the AWS folks about hos

[OSGeo-Discuss] Addressing and openstreetmap

2008-12-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, (talk-openstreetmap, osgeo-list) Sorry that i dont speak your language (still learning programming code) AFAIK getting the address system to work on OSM is not an easy task. Im just wondering if u guys are involved with trying to make address search possable in the USA? Just so u know (m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Ramsey
Amazon perhaps. Google might find it cuts a little too close to the bone. Chris, have you approached the AWS folks about hosting OAM? It's a little more involved than just data storage, they'd also need to provide a couple EC2 instances to receive and process the new data, but it would remove the h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Szczepanek
> We are aiming at icons for applications, not at map symbols (correct > me if I'm wrong robert) so while there is a big need for mapsymbols, > I'm not going to address them just yet. Creating a thorough set of > icons for all foss4g application to use is enough work for the moment. > [...] > Steve

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Joseph Gentle
If need be, I suspect both amazon and google would be happy to help with hosting. http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ -J On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > Frank wrote: "Clarifying such a matter is not trivial in an organization > with many different ideas like OSGeo." > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Steven M. Ottens
We are aiming at icons for applications, not at map symbols (correct me if I'm wrong robert) so while there is a big need for mapsymbols, I'm not going to address them just yet. Creating a thorough set of icons for all foss4g application to use is enough work for the moment. Luckily Robert ha

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Landon Blake
Frank wrote: "Clarifying such a matter is not trivial in an organization with many different ideas like OSGeo." Roger that. So I guess it boils down to the internal support for this type of service. Frank wrote: "I'm not sure if telascience accepts public donations or not, nor whether it is 501(c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Landon Blake wrote: Frank wrote: "In addition to the servers provided by Telascience we also have two rented servers at Peer1 (svn, trac, drupal, and mailman are on one of these servers). We are paying nearly $15K/yr for these two servers." Wow! Does our traffic require two dedicated servers lik

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the OSGeo

2008-12-22 Thread Landon Blake
Frank wrote: " Telascience has kindly donated servers, bandwidth and support services to OSGeo. I'm not aware of a lot of official documents about the relationship, it is mostly based on personal connections and the fact that goals of telascience and OSGeo in the geo-computing space have substanti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Dan Putler
Another potential set to add to the list are the public domain US National Park Service symbols (http://www.nps.gov/hfc/carto/map-symbols.htm). Dan On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:07 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Bob Basques > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a set

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Szczepanek
Hi Bob, > Is there a set of icons already available to start from? > > bobb My unordered way in chronological order: - assumptions and first draft http://www.szczepanek.pl/icons.grass/ - second draft http://www.szczepanek.pl/icons.grass/v.0.1/ - short research http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/wi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Bob Basques wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a set of icons already available to start from? Yes, see links in http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Bob Basques
Hello, Is there a set of icons already available to start from? bobb >>> "Steven M. Ottens" 12/22/08 2:31 PM >>> Hi Robert, On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote: > Hi Steven, > >> Fate will that I just send a mail to the osgeo-discuss list with the >> proposal to use the Ta

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-developer] Icons symbology and naming

2008-12-22 Thread Steven M. Ottens
Hi Robert, On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote: Hi Steven, Fate will that I just send a mail to the osgeo-discuss list with the proposal to use the Tango-set for foss4g applications and create a GIS superset for our specific needs. So I'm very happy with the work you've done

[OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess rendering quality 0f cartographic servers?

2008-12-22 Thread lee brian
Gilles Bassiere: hey, how is your research about the rendering quality of cartographic servers going? Regards Brian Lee From: Gilles Bassière To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:01:14 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: 3.0 OpenLayers code sprint - call for sponsorships

2008-12-22 Thread David JONGLEZ
Hi Lorenzo ! Hi Erik ! First, I wanted to make some responses off Discuss ML, but answers could interest others. I've already made a response to Erik. Here it is ... Erik Uzureau wrote: > > David, > > > > It looks like this is shaping up to be quite an event! > > > > The dates on the wiki page s