in memory of Sol Katz

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

As someone who grew up in GIS using a lot of Sol's tools, I think this'd
be an excellent idea.

Gerry

Schuyler Erle wrote:
> Here's a really nice suggestion from Sonny Parafina for a "Sol Katz
> Memorial Open Source Geospatial Award" to be given out at MUM... Folks
> on the Geowanking list seemed to feel it was a good idea. Does anyone
> have any thoughts about this?
>
> SDE
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Sonny Parafina <sparafina at comcast.net> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:25:27 -0500
> From: "Sonny Parafina" <sparafina at comcast.net>
> To: <geowanking at lists.burri.to>
> Subject: RE: [Geowanking] Anyone at ETech this year?
>
> I think that open source geospatial / MUM is the place to be this year.
>
> As an aside, I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the late Sol
> Katz of the BLM.  In the early nineties, Sol was a proponent of open source
> geospatial software and posted many utilities for converting DEM's, reading
> SDTS files, providing a reverse engineered specification of the ESRI E00
> format, and of course maintaining PC MOSS (an early raster GIS).  Sol passed
> away in 1999 from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
>
> Sol's utilities are still available from here: ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/
> And, his site with web mapping and metadata references is still available:
> http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html
>
> I think would great to recognize Sol's contributions to the geospatial
> community by creating an award for Geospatial FOSS in his name. Does anyone
> think that this is a good idea to suggest to organizers of open source
> geospatial / MUM?
>
> sonny

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