[OSGeo-Alberta] Introduction

[Stefan Steiniger]

Hei Brent,

need to catch up with emails the next days.
Anyway - thanks for introducing yourself - knowing now what your 
specialty areas are :)

I hopefully send some email around the next days on my latest 
discoveries/activities on FOS GIS

stefan

Brent Fraser schrieb:
> Since Stefan asked, I'll introduce myself.
> 
>   I'm Brent Fraser and I work for GeoAnalytic Inc., a Calgary geomatics 
> company specializing in processing remotely sensed imagery (but we do 
> other things involving geomatics and software).
> 
>   Lately we've been integrating imagery and GIS data on the web using 
> Mapserver (http://mapserver.org/) and GeoMOOSE (http://www.geomoose.org/).
> 
> Some of the other Open Source Geo projects we've contributed to are:
> 
> GDAL (http://www.gdal.org/)
>     - good for reading/writing
>     
> OSSIM (http://www.ossim.org)
>     - ortho rectification of satelite imagery
>     
> VTP (http://www.vterrain.org/)
>     - a desktop 3d environment
>     
> 
> 
>   One of the things I'd like to work on is a FOSS tool set (and data 
> model?) for creating a DLS (aka Township grid) dataset suitable for GIS 
> use.  This would involve ingesting the data from the 3 or 4 provincial 
> governments (if their licensing allows it), "normalizing" it, and 
> creating various output formats. And of course handling updates when the 
> provinces issue new datasets.
> 
> 
>   I'm also interested in freeing some of the City of Calgary and 
> Provincial data.  Here are a few links to get your creative thoughts 
> flowing:
> 
>   http://emaps.calgary.ca/asp/emaps.asp
>   http://dmzwww2.gov.calgary.ab.ca/FairshareMapPortal/script/Citywide.asp
>   http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=3 (not City data, but kinda 
> cool)
> 
>   http://www.altalis.com/prod_base_small.html
> 
> Please feel free to ask me questions about Western Canadian GIS data, 
> imagery, or Open Source Geo software...
> 
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
> 
> 
> 
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