[RNFdev] How is everyone

[Dan Putler]

New project members are good. Walter and I have bandwidth problems,  
so help on a number of dimensions would be welcome.

I saw the message as well (I'm also on that mailing list). The  
current match with PAGC isn't there. However, getting in contact with  
Arnulf could be useful to find out if he constructed the polygons. If  
he did, he will be further along the learning curve than we are, and  
he may have some helpful hints about how to proceed with our efforts  
to create FSA polygons. The other thing that this brings up is the  
ability to use his data to create an augmented RNF that would work  
with PAGC. The problem in Europe is that, unlike Canada and the US,  
there are no government provided, publicly available RNFs. Jo Walsh's  
post today on that list had news about the EU's INSPIRE initiative,  
but I don't really have a sense of what the implications are of that  
in terms of there being more public RNFs. My suspicion is that it is  
still the case that the only public road data available in Europe is  
what OSM is creating. The coverage of that data is very limited, and  
I don't think it has much address range information in it at the  
moment for the areas that are mapped. I think a lot of contributors  
are solely focused on loading GPS tracks and turning them in to  
"ways" (OSM-speak for road segments) without providing much in the  
way of attribute information.

Dan

On 22-Nov-06, at 10:33 AM, Sampson, David wrote:

> If you're looking for members. Have we achieved this status?
>
> BTW I pointed someone from germany who is assembling german postal
> shapes to check out PAGC
>
> From geodata at geodata.osgeo.org
>
> ============
> Hi,
> I would like to host 8270 postal code polygons of Germany in OSGeo's
> geodata repository. Ideally as downloadable PostGIS SQL Dump and shape
> file as well as WMS and WFS services. At a later stage (when I finally
> got around to finishing off implementing an automated history) also as
> WFS-T with a Mapbender digitizing front end for people to maintain the
> polygons Wiki style.
>
> ...
>
> Arnulf
> =============
>
> You mentioned internationalization as a goal. And with going the
> sourceforge route this might be a good ally to have
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Putler [mailto:putler at sauder.ubc.ca]
> Sent: November 22, 2006 13:26
> To: can_rnf at geodata.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [RNFdev] How is everyone
>
> So David and Frank, is it time to add you to the PAGC project member
> list?
>
> Dan
>
> On 22-Nov-06, at 10:18 AM, Sampson, David wrote:
>
>> Good to hear you made it through the comma.
>>
>> Having a CVS setup will be great.
>>
>> Thanks for the update
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Putler [mailto:putler at sauder.ubc.ca]
>> Sent: November 22, 2006 12:46
>> To: can_rnf at geodata.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [RNFdev] How is everyone
>>
>> I'm coming out of my teaching comma at the moment, and have been in
>> touch with Zed Shaw who setup the PAGC site on SourceForge for use
>> back in 2001. He and I have scheduled some time this afternoon to
>> setup the CVS for the site.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 22-Nov-06, at 6:52 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>>> Sampson, David wrote:
>>>> Hey folks,
>>>> Thought I would drop a line to see how and where everyone is at.
>>>> We have all been busy lately so a little update of when we  
>>>> expect to
>
>>>> do another couple of things would be cool.
>>>> 1. What is the status of moving code to a versioning system, maybe
>>>> sourceforge
>>>
>>> Good question.  I'm wondering if I should just proceed based on the
>>> last drop of the code?
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>