[Live-demo] new project natural earth!

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 19:56:13 EDT 2010


Thanks Jody, that is the Natural Earth covered (for our presentations) 
but not the rst file yet.

That just leaves gdal/ogr for a write up.

On 31/08/10 09:57, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Cameron there is an overview in my slides; go ahead and take it.
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> If the application can be executed (as opposed to a library which needs to
>> be incorporated into software), then there is a place to write a project
>> overview for the application.
>>
>> I understand that gdal/ogr can be run from the command line?
>>
>> I think that the Natural Earth dataset will be used by lots of projects and
>> should get its own overview.
>>
>> If someone can write a Project overview for gdal/ogr and/or Natural Earth
>> within the next 36 hours, (COB Tuesday if you are in the USA), then I can
>> talk about it in the 20 minute lightening talk due to be finished in 48
>> hours.
>>
>> The overview should be updated as per:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31/08/10 02:03, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>>      
>>> I specifically asked about gdal/ogr earlier
>>> but Cameron was very focused on 'untrained end users' and sort of shot it
>>> down
>>>
>>>   -Brian
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> We talked about making overview pages for some of the other software
>>>> (geos, proj, geotools, gdal, ogr) but we stopped for lack of time.
>>>>
>>>> Jody
>>>>
>>>> On 30/08/2010, at 5:49 PM, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi Jody,
>>>>> GDAL/OGR and proj are also installed but not mentioned as projects. As
>>>>> far as
>>>>> I know, maptiler is included in recent GDAL versions.
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Pirmin
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Montag, 30. August 2010, um 05.37:40 schrieb Jody Garnett:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> As I write things up I noticed we did not mention the natural earth
>>>>>> dataset; it is kind of worth its own overview RST page.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jody
>>>>>>
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