Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

2011-05-27 Thread Ari Jolma
Charlie, There are existing global databases of surface water boundaries, water quality, DEMs, etc. In some cases more than one. Those could be one starting point - license permitting. The other would of course be OSM itself, which already contains surface water features. Adding a possibility

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

2011-05-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, The CommonMap.org API will be able to handle data-extracts, so then independent maps can be remixed into new works. Especially for data like 'groundwater', it'll probably be added to CommonMap, but might not get to OpenStreetMap. Cheers, Sam On 5/27/11, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > On 5/27

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

2011-05-27 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/27/2011 9:51 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote: Hi, I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an "open stream map" project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too... It is an interesting idea -- roa

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open "StreamMap"?

2011-05-27 Thread Charlie Schweik
Hi, I find myself wondering if there is a possibility of starting an "open stream map" project in a similar way to open street map? With the idea that this might be connected to an invasive plant species effort too... It is an interesting idea -- roads are relatively stable. Streams have add

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Meteo.DWG] multi-lingual WMS-legends [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-27 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Fyi, Thanks Jeff, Bruce On 28/05/11 12:06 AM, "Jeff de La Beaujardiere" wrote: There is already an HTTP mechanism for language negotiation: the Accept-Language header described at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4 and elsewhere. OGC and OSGeo should not invent an

[OSGeo-Discuss] 2011 Sol Katz Award: Call for Nominations

2011-05-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2011 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS comm