Mailman 3 July 2016 - GeoPython

Hi and blog post about the GeoPython 2016 conference
by Just van den Broecke 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi, Great to see this mailing list established as an outcome of the GeoPython 2016 conference! Many cheers to Martin Christen and the organizing team! Looking forward to GeoPython 2017. I am an independent Open Source geospatial developer, trying to contribute by developing software like Stetl [1], and as board-member of the Dutch local OSGeo.org chapter [2]. Using Python as a main prog language. Wrote a short, in times personal, blog post about the successful GeoPython 2016 conf [3]. best, Just [1] http://stetl.org [2] http://osgeo.nl [3] http://justobjects.nl/dances-with-the-geopython-tribe

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pycsw 2.0.0 "Doug" released
by Tom Kralidis 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

12 July 2016 The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 2.0.0 “Doug”. The 2.0.0 “Doug” release brings major features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: - CSW 3 support (OGC Reference Implementation) - Python 3 support - WMTS harvesting (thanks @jfdickens) - JSON output improvements - XML output improvements - GM03 support for Swiss metadata - add temporal extent support to WMS layer harvesting The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/milestone/8. Users are strongly advised to review the migration guide. The 2.0.0 release is codenamed “Doug” in honour of Doug Nebert of the FGDC. Doug was internationally recognized as a champion of metadata, discovery and interoperability. Involved in numerous international standards bodies and spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Doug was one of the editors of the CSW 3.0 specification and encouraged pycsw developers to adopt and implement CSW 3.0 as part of US data.gov efforts. Doug’s vision and expertise will always be remembered and appreciated by the pycsw development team. pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU), providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Source and binary downloads --------------------------- The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download Testers and developers are welcome. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/

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Shapely 1.6.dev0 manylinux1 wheels on PyPI
by Sean Gillies 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hi all, I'm Sean Gillies. I work at Mapbox and am super fond of Python. For about a year now I've been publishing macosx wheels for Shapely (PostGIS operations without a database) that include their GEOS shared libs following the recipe at https://github.com/MacPython/wiki/wiki/Spinning-wheels and they've been a success. Very recently I received a contribution that does the same thing for almost any linux based on the work at https://github.com/pypa/manylinux and have gone ahead and published shapely 1.6.dev0 binary wheels for Linux: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/1.6.dev0#downloads. Here's what this means: on a Linux machine like your Travis CI or EC2 instance or whatever all you need to do is $ pip install -U pip $ pip install --pre shapely and you'll get a fully loaded shapely 1.6.dev0 package with GEOS 3.5. By default pip does not get unstable packages and you must use --dev to get shapely 1.6.dev0, the very early pre-release of Shapely. These new wheels have been made possible by Andy Freeland (see https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely/pull/391). Send Andy thanks and send me bug reports, I'm 100% committed to making these Linux wheels as useful as they can be. Yours, -- Sean Gillies

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Requesting a reviewer for the Journal of Open Source Software
by labarba＠gwu.edu 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Dear GeoPython subscriber, The Journal of Open Source Software is a recently created, developer-friendly journal for research software packages. It is fully open, free and community led. Peer reviews are done in the open, on GitHub. See http://joss.theoj.org We have one submission titled "Advanced viewshed analysis: a Quantum GIS plug-in for the analysis of visual landscapes" for which we've not been able to locate a reviewer after 12 days — this is longer than normal for us! Here is the submission (via a GitHub Issue): https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/32 And here is a related blog post from the software author: http://zoran-cuckovic.from.hr/landscape-analysis/visibility/?ckattempt=1 Peer reviews are aimed at the software and check: installation, documentation, statement of need, tests, community guidelines, etc. The paper itself is a one-page summary. http://joss.theoj.org/about#reviewer_guidelines If any list subscriber would volunteer to review, or forward this request on to their network, we would be most grateful. Regards, L. A. Barba

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Requesting a reviewer for the Journal of Open Source Software
by Lorena A Barba 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Dear GeoPython subscriber, The Journal of Open Source Software is a recently created, developer-friendly journal for research software packages. It is fully open, free and community led. Peer reviews are done in the open, on GitHub. See http://joss.theoj.org We have one submission titled "Advanced viewshed analysis: a Quantum GIS plug-in for the analysis of visual landscapes" for which we've not been able to locate a reviewer after 12 days — this is longer than normal for us! Here is the submission (via a GitHub Issue): https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/32 And here is a related blog post from the software author: http://zoran-cuckovic.from.hr/landscape-analysis/visibility/?ckattempt=1 Peer reviews are aimed at the software and check: installation, documentation, statement of need, tests, community guidelines, etc. The paper itself is a one-page summary. http://joss.theoj.org/about#reviewer_guidelines If any list subscriber would volunteer to review, or forward this request on to their network, we would be most grateful. Regards, L. A. Barba p.s. And do consider submitting your open-source software to JOSS.

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Welcome & Photos of the GeoPython 2016 Conference
by Christen Martin 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

First, welcome to the GeoPython list. The list was announced 2 days ago and already has more than 50 members and is continuously growing. geopython(a)python.org<mailto:geopython@python.org> is the first list on python.org using mailman version 3 and the new Django based web interface. If you experience problems, let me know and I’ll forward it to the admins. We are all doing some sort of beta test for python.org ;-) The basic idea about this mailing list is to exchange ideas about Geo&Python, announce projects/ideas/events, get answers to your (geo-related) Python questions etc. It is also great opportunity to build a large Geo&Python community. If you don’t want to get too many messages from this list you can go to „My Settings“ and change the delivery method to „digest“ to only get one mail per day. The Webinterface can be started here: https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/geopython@python.org/ Some photos of the GeoPython conference are now available on http://www.geopython.net or directly on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/144781014@N02/sets/72157667869241134/ Regards, Martin

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WhereCamp Navigation Conference in Berlin- 2016-11-03/04 - Call for Participation
by Jez Nicholson 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

The 6th WhereCamp Navigation Conference in Berlin will be on Thursday 03 and Friday 04 November 2016. Tickets are free. http://wherecamp.de/ The latest trends and insights around digital mapping, navigation and local intelligence. A very approachable conference with one day of scheduled agenda and one day of unconference. Last year had a big names Philipp Kandal (Founder of Navigon & Skobbler) Steve Coast (Founder of OpenStreeMap), Christof Hellmis (Vice President HERE) and Ed Parsons (Google Geospatial Technologist) and smaller, but no less important names. Apply to speak if you can. http://wherecamp.de/cfp Attend if you want some geo fun in November.

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greetings
by Jachym Cepicky 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hi, thanks for creating this list. Let me introduce myself a little: I'm Jáchym Čepický, Czech republic, fan of open source software and geospatial all things. Member of OSGeo.org, developer of PyWPS and member of PyWPS project steering committee and contributor to various server/desktop/web os. projects. I'm looking forward for the information exchange between open source world as well as proprietary, to make things even more interoperable in the future. Cheers J

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[GeoPython]Welcome to the GeoPython Mailing List
by Christen Martin 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Thanks for joining the GeoPython mailing list. The list is all about Geo + Python. · You can ask (Geo-)Python related questions · Discuss ideas · Announce your new Geo-Python (Open-Source) Project · ... This list is hosted on python.org (thanks!) Martin

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