From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed May 2 17:07:54 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:07:54 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Seeking Consultants and Service Organizations Message-ID: <463927DA.1090300@pobox.com> Folks, OSGeo is finally bringing the Service Provider Directory online. It is essentially a web list of consultants and service organizations in the open source geospatial realm. We are currently seeking consultants and service organizations to register themselves in the directory. In a few weeks, assuming this goes fairly well, we will start trying to publicize the directory to potential clients, and work it into our presentations, materials at conferences and so forth. There is no cost to participate. You just need someone in your organization to register for an OSGeo Userid, then login into the OSGeo web site, and then go to the form to enter your organization details. There are some directions and discussion at: http://www.osgeo.org/spd_help Feel free to contact me, if you have questions about this service provider directory. We anticipate some fine tuning before we promote it vigorously. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue May 15 08:52:05 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:52:05 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Journal Volume 1 Now Available Message-ID: <4649D725.8090305@pobox.com> It is my pleasure to announce that Volume 1 of the OSGeo Journal is now available for your reading pleasure! http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1 This is the first volume of the new Journal and includes many interesting articles, news and updates from our open source communities. We already have some content ready for Volume 2 and have learned many lessons along the way that will help the next volume be even better. A big thanks to the editorial team for their hard work in pulling it all together and to all the great contributions we received from writers, developers, users and project teams. I'm excited to see that we can promote projects, educate readers and provide news/info all in our own professional publication. I hope you enjoy it! Sincerely, Tyler p.s. Please note that the Journal has an official ISSN number (1994-1897) that you can cite in your formal bibliographic references. From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu May 17 11:46:56 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:46:56 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Open Source Geospatial Foundation Announces Request for Proposal for Hosting 2008 Conference Message-ID: <464CA320.9040307@pobox.com> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today released a request for proposal, or RFP, (available at http://www.osgeo.org/files/webfiles/conference/rfp/osgeo-conference-2008-request-for-proposal.pdf) for the hosting of the FOSS4G 2008 conference. As the excitement for the upcoming FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria Canada builds (http://www.foss4g2007.org/), OSGeo aims for the following 2008 conference to be a major geospatial conference during that year. The RFP solicitation closes July 20th, 2007. -- Jeff McKenna DM Solutions Group Inc. http://www.dmsolutions.ca From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu May 17 20:31:41 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:31:41 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] AWare Systems to extend LibTiff library with support for the BigTIFF format Message-ID: <464D1E1D.7030803@pobox.com> AWare Systems to extend LibTiff library with support for the BigTIFF format --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LibTiff (http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/) maintainers have started work on LibTiff 4.0, the next major upgrade of the time-proven TIFF (http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff.html) codec. This upgrade will include support for the new BigTIFF file format. It is planned a preliminary version (LibTiff 4.0alpha1) will be operational by June 15, 2007. Testing and final release improvements for LibTiff 4.0 will be completed by July 30, 2007. BigTIFF logically extends the original TIFF file format (referred to as 'ClassicTIFF' from now on), breaking the 4 gigabyte boundary, with 64bit offsets allowing files up to 18,000 petabytes in size. The BigTIFF specification is the result of work by a variety of parties on the LibTiff mailing list, including the current LibTiff maintainers, Joris Van Damme and Adobe staff. The BigTIFF specification has not yet been officially approved by the TIFF specification owner (Adobe), but implementation within LibTiff could accelerate that process. For more information on the BigTIFF file format, we recommend AWare Systems' BigTIFF page at http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/bigtiff.html. BigTIFF will be especially useful for people and vendors that are confronted with very large images, and still seek to use an open, simple, and extendable format. This requirement is frequently encountered in the geospatial field, but also concerns large format scanners, medical imaging and other fields. The LibTiff BigTIFF upgrade is made possible by four sponsors funding the project. The programming work will primarily be done by Joris Van Damme (AWare Systems). LibTiff's licensing agreement will remain unchanged. More details on the project itself, are available from the BigTIFF in LibTiff project page http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/BigTIFFProposal.html. The sponsors are, in alphabetical order: * ESRI (http://www.esri.com/) has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically since 1969. As the leader in GIS, ESRI applies innovative technologies to help organizations create, analyze, and visualize information for more informed decisions. Running on more than a million desktops and thousands of servers, ESRI applications are the foundation of the world's mapping and spatial analysis infrastructure. * Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (http://gi.leica-geosystems.com/default.aspx) offers a range of workflow solutions for photogrammetry, mapping, remote sensing, catalog management and exploitation of geospatial imagery. Enterprise organizations use this imagery as the basis for generating information for both education and decision making processes. Those who use Leica Geosystems products every day trust them for their precision, seamless integration, interoperability and superior customer support. * Safe Software (http://www.safe.com/) is the maker of FME, a powerful spatial ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool that enables true data interoperability. FME manages the translation, transformation, integration and web-based distribution of geospatial data in 200 GIS, CAD, raster and database formats. Safe Software's FME technology is also embedded in numerous market-leading GIS and ETL applications. * WeoGeo (http://www.weogeo.com/) is a web-based data management resource for the geospatial industry that allows the free market exchange of mapping related imagery products, featuring an innovative solution that efficiently manages digital mapping files of any size. With an intuitive user interface and the scalable power of Amazon Web Services (AWS), geospatial professionals can view, sort, search, and share complex, high volume maps quickly and effectively. From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu May 31 15:09:32 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:09:32 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Charter member nomination period closing soon... Message-ID: <465F479C.5060004@pobox.com> As a follow up to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2007-May/001964.html I am just reminding you that you have 3 more days to submit nominations for new Charter Members for OSGeo. See above URL for more information. Please send to: cro at osgeo.org and include a clear reason for recommending them. Recommendations will be posted publicly after all nominees are confirmed and will help convince others to vote for them. Check this page to see who has been nominated so far: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/New_Member_Nominations Tyler