[From nobody Thu Jun 7 16:11:10 2018 Return-Path: <postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net> Delivered-To: frank.koormann@intevation.de Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.intevation.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45D836EED; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:04:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from netnation.refractions.net (refractions.net [64.40.101.106]) by mail.intevation.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF6736E19; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:04:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from refractions.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by netnation.refractions.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1801542C232; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:06:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net Delivered-To: postgis-users@netnation.refractions.net Received: from web12208.mail.yahoo.com (web12208.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.92]) by netnation.refractions.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E6D6442C22F for <postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net>; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20040609090418.40882.qmail@web12208.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.97.2.242] by web12208.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:04:18 PDT Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Wood Brent <pcreso@pcreso.com> To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net, jump-users@lists.jump-project.org, qgis-user@lists.sourceforge.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gmt-help@hawaii.edu, rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr Subject: [postgis-users] Mandrake Linux GIS project? 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The msg below is from a Mandrake Linux development list. The idea behind the chemistry site is interesting (to me anyway). The reason I'm bringing it up: I'm using a variety of Open Source GIS/mapping packages/tools/libraries on Mandrake & the idea of setting up a comparable resource with the support of Mandrakesoft I believe is a good one. I know there are things like licencing issues (eg: Postgres/PostGIS) but a repository or even extra CD with Open Source GIS resources seems feasible. At a GIS related conference a couple of years ago I presented a 3D visualisation system for fisheries data, and the response from the group was impressive. Not because what I did was so great, but that it could be done with "free" software. There is a real growth in fisheries GIS worldwide, especially in the third world, supporting coastal fisheries managment and aquaculture, and budgets for Arc & Oracle spatial are limited. The most impressive thing I have found with Open Source GIS in the last couple of years is the interoperability. I can download shapefiles, e00 data or many other formats. Use avcimport, ogr2ogr, shapelib, shp2pgsql to extract & reformat, or load into PostGIS. I can query/browse with psql, pgaccess or graphically with QGIS/JUMP, I can analyse with GRASS or R & prepare high quality publication maps with GMT. Then toss mapserver at it to web-enable the stuff. Add some GPS capture software. The mix of software seems suitable for releasing as a GIS toolkit, complete with operating system, office suite, image editing software, etc. While we have Geoware releasing GMT & supporting data & freegis.org with a CD compilation, I'm not aware of anyone offering everything in a nice, ready to install with a package manager approach. So my questions: Do others believe that the concept of such a GIS toolkit is worth taking further? Are the various people working with all these packages interested in working with Mandrake to develop such a system? Is Mandrakesoft interested in adding such a software compilation to it's list of packages, perhaps even a Mandrakemove version of GIS Knoppix? Am I way too far out in left field? Brent Wood >Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake for scientists >Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:00:49 -0400 > >On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:26 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >> I'd like to communicate more on this topic, for two reasons: >> - first, most admins only knows about redhat, and tend to install it >> everywhere >> - second, i'd like to lobby scientist themselves for choosing free >> software licences instead of crappy "free for non commercial use" or >> worst licensing agreement. >> >> Anyone interested ? > >http://groundstate.ca/mdk4chem >is almost 2 years old. > >Austin _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users ]