[DotNet-OSGeo] Re: DotNet Digest, Vol 8, Issue 3

Tue Feb 8 21:11:19 EST 2011

hi

you do you think about the sharpmap projet
Pier

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:54:46 -0800
From: Sunburned Surveyor <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DotNet-OSGeo] Too quite...
To: Stephen Wealands <srweal at gmail.com>
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Steve,

Do you have any interests in cartography?

I was kicking around ideas for an open source cartography engine with
another Dot Net programmer at the OSGeo. Let me know if you are
interested in getting involved.

Landon

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Wealands <srweal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> This is my first post here after seeing that the list existed just 
> recently.
> Just thought I’d share what I do on this front.
>
>
>
> I’m using .NET with the GDAL/OGR C# bindings on the server, crossed with
> OpenLayers on the client to provide basic web mapping apps for clients
> throughout Australia. Most have relatively simple data input/output needs
> and a desire to manage multimedia files combined with with spatial data. I
> provide them with a means to edit, view, report and retrieve all this 
> stuff
> in a nicely formatted manner.
>
>
>
> My development experience in this has involved piecing together bits and
> pieces from web examples, trying to get the basics going. Once that 
> happens,
> I typically find I re-write things to work exactly as I want. I store
> geometries as WKB, but transfer them to the client as GeoJSON. I use OGR 
> for
> conversions and OSR for projections. I render image tiles using the 
> SharpMap
> library, which works pretty well and renders nice line work, symbols and
> fills. For background imagery, I tend to pre-render JPG tiles using
> gdal2tiles and then serve them direct from Amazon S3. For public facing
> sites, I can use the Google basemaps or OSM.
>
>
>
> If there are others using a similar ‘stack’ of tools, I’d be keen to
> exchange notes and potentially collaborate on some work. You can contact 
> me
> directly if that sounds like you. I'm not great on the client-side
> development stuff, so if you are keen for some work in this area, maybe we
> could get it happening.
>
> Steve
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:57:48 -0800
From: Sunburned Surveyor <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DotNet-OSGeo] Too quiet...
To: Dan Weaver <danofweaver at googlemail.com>
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MPG wrote: "What are people working on?"

I've been learning WiX. I'd like top create an installer for OpenJUMP with 
it.

I'm also writing some Visual Basic code to manage stand-alone point
databases from CAD.

Landon

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Dan Weaver <danofweaver at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> - What are people working on?
> Using MapWindow and DotNet to model epidemiology- specifically polio
> 1916 NE US.
> I’ve been working on Kohonen neural networks for some years and have
> created a MapWindow plugin to help visualise and analyse highly
> dimensional, multi-temporal data.
>
>  - What problems are people facing in the .NET open source world?
> I’ve had five years programming experience now and still find the
> conduits for learning this stuff extremely convoluted.
> MapWindow help resources are very good and there are some solid
> examples around but I’d love to see more very basic examples for using
> each method and property.
> OS GIS appeals greatly to those who recognise that the problems we now
> face require an approach that encompasses all manner of skills and
> knowledge domains. For this reason basic customization approaches need
> to be more accessible.
>
> Microsoft’s online usage examples generally give the code for a
> ‘build-planet’ style method without skimping on the detail. I’d like
> to see more videos of performing common tasks step- by- step as this
> prevents the storyteller missing out some step that is obvious to a
> seasoned programmer but not to others.
> One wonderful thing about OS is the quality of forum posts; on
> MapWindow community I’ve noticed that answerers refrain from turning
> the thread into a battleground and usually come up with an
> understandable explanation- well done MapWindow people!
>
> Warm regards to all, don’t forget the last line in the following:
>
> While Not TaskComplete
> {
> encounter problem;
> solve;
> pat self on back;
> }
>
> Dan Weaver
>
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>
> On 2 February 2011 19:16, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:
>> This list hasn't seen any action lately, so I'll try to start 
>> something...
>>  - What are people working on?
>>  - Is anyone going to the Montreal code sprint next month?
>>  - What problems are people facing in the .NET open source world?
>>
>>
>> My responses:
>>
>> - I've just pushed the first release of SlimDXControl
>> (slimdxcontrol.codeplex.com), a WPF control which hides all the messiness 
>> of
>> the infamous D3DImage control, so you can more easily do DirectX/D3D10
>> graphics inside of a WPF app.
>>
>> - I'll be attending the Montreal sprint, working on liblas 
>> (www.liblas.org)
>> stuff.  It's C++, but I'm adding C# bindings as we go along.  Lidar is 
>> k00l.
>>
>> - I've left my old job and am freelancing these days, aiming to 
>> specialize
>> in helping people at the intersection of {open source, geo, C#/.NET}.  I 
>> see
>> a lot of people in the .NET world who could use open source alternatives,
>> but as they often come from the "traditional" Microsoft world they aren't 
>> as
>> used to the dynamics of the communities we play in nor are they familiar
>> with how to find the domain-specific packages that could help them, e.g. 
>> geo
>> stuff.  Any ideas how can we help out here?
>>
>> -mpg
>>
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