<DIV><A href="http://193.43.36.138/">http://193.43.36.138/</A></DIV> <DIV>GeoNetwork CD</DIV> <DIV>The CD contains besides the GeoNetwork opensource software a wide range of other Free and Open Source Software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X of interest to the geospatial community (GeoServer, MapServer, gvSIG, uDig,QGIS, GRASS, MapBuilder, MapLab, ka-map and PostGIS).</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Gavin Fleming <GavinF@mintek.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)" name=Generator><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:SmartTagType name="Street" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="address" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="country-region"
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{mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </STYLE> <DIV class=Section1> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi al<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Have any of you worked on or do you know about a good CD of OS GIS resources that you’d recommend for distribution? Or, are you keen to help develop one that we could all use?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS, UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local compilation by Agileworks. What do you think of these?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What I’m after is something like the following, to promote and facilitate the availability and use of GIS in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- simple interface to contents, perhaps html-browser
driven.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- collection of recent, stable, popular/good OS GIS software binaries for multiple platforms (min Windows and Linux). A complete suite from desktop to spatial DB to web map server to analysis to image processing to develop tools and libraries, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- compilation or pointers to support material for installation and configuration<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- a collection of free data<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- a collection of metadata, available through metadata software like GeoNetwork
desktop.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- standalone, but with extra resources that can be obtained if you have a network connection. Many users will not be online.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Nice to have: multilingual<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- not a once-off – this can be a resource that we can update over time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- everything as standards-compliant as possible<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- the whole thing released under open content / open source
licences<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I‘d appreciate any comments, offers of assistance or suggestions for other content or good ideas for setting it up.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">thanks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Gavin Fleming<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">GISSA Open Source SIG <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Sustainable Development Researcher<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mintek <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">w: +27-11-709-4668<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">c:
0845965680<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">f: 0866164820</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">xmpp (Jabber, Google Talk, etc.): </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><A href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com"><FONT size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">postal: P/Bag X3015, Randburg, 2125<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">physical: <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">200 Hans Strijdom Drive</st1:address></st1:Street>,
Randburg<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoPlainText><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">South Africa</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=3><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">27.9782E 26.0896S<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com