[GRASS-user] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations

hellik · July 2, 2017, 8:46pm

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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the
2017 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial(FOSS4G)
will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G
community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly
through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial
realm.

Sol Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G and left behind a large body of work
in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at
the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early FOSS4G archive provided both
source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also
a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much
guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol, unfortunately, passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his
legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a
donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can
do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to SolKatzAward@osgeo.org
with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be
accepted until end-of-day July 28th Anywhere on Earth
(https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe). A recipient will be decided
from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G 2017 event in August, in Boston,
U.S. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community
members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are
not eligible.

Past Awardees:

2016: Jeff McKenna
2015: Maria Brovelli
2014: Gary Sherman
2013: Arnulf Christl
2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
2011: Martin Davis
2010: Helena Mitasova
2009: Daniel Morissette
2008: Paul Ramsey
2007: Steve Lime
2006: Markus Neteler
2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2017:

Jeff McKenna (chair)
Frank Warmerdam
Markus Neteler
Steve Lime
Paul Ramsey
Sophia Parafina
Daniel Morissette
Helena Mitasova
Martin Davis
Venkatesh Raghavan
Arnulf Christl
Gary Sherman
Maria Brovelli

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Jeshua_Lacock2 · July 4, 2017, 12:32am

Greetings,

Is it possible to import NAIP data using the USDA WMS server with r.in.wms?

Instructions how to use their WMS server is here:

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/APFO/2013_apfo_web_service_931.pdf

To download the NAIP for say California, its not clear to me what to specify for the layer(s) name(s).

Whatever I have tried I get a message:

"Unable to import pyGRASS: grass_gis.7.2.1 not found.”

I’m not sure if that has anything to do with not being able to get any data to download or I just don’t know what I am doing.

Thanks,

Jeshua Lacock
Founder/Engineer
<3DTOPO.com>
GlassPrinted.com

rjhale1971 · July 4, 2017, 2:57am

I don't know if it would help but you can grab the NAIP from the USDA Datagateway: https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGHome_DirectDownLoad.aspx

They are SID format - so I download and uncompress them to tiff.

Randy

On 07/03/2017 08:32 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote:

Greetings,

Is it possible to import NAIP data using the USDA WMS server with r.in.wms?

Instructions how to use their WMS server is here:

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/APFO/2013_apfo_web_service_931.pdf

To download the NAIP for say California, its not clear to me what to specify for the layer(s) name(s).

Whatever I have tried I get a message:

"Unable to import pyGRASS: grass_gis.7.2.1 not found.”

I’m not sure if that has anything to do with not being able to get any data to download or I just don’t know what I am doing.

Thanks,

Jeshua Lacock
Founder/Engineer
<3DTOPO.com>
GlassPrinted.com

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Jeshua_Lacock2 · July 4, 2017, 3:41am

On Jul 3, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Randal Hale <rjhale@northrivergeographic.com> wrote:

I don't know if it would help but you can grab the NAIP from the USDA Datagateway: https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGHome_DirectDownLoad.aspx

They are SID format - so I download and uncompress them to tiff.

Hi Randy,

Thank you.

Unfortunately the SID versions are too compressed for my needs - I am looking for the JP2 data.

I got a list of all of them from the National Map, but they only have links to meta data - not the full res JP2 file. For instance:

Field names:
Result Number,NAIP Entity ID ,State,Agency,Vendor,Map Projection,Projection Zone,Datum,Resolution,Units,Number of Bands,Sensor Type,Project Name,Acquisition Date,Center Latitude,Center Longitude,NW Corner Lat,NW Corner Long,NE Corner Lat,NE Corner Long,SE Corner Lat,SE Corner Long,SW Corner Lat,SW Corner Long,Center Latitude dec,Center Longitude dec,NW Corner Lat dec,NW Corner Long dec,NE Corner Lat dec,NE Corner Long dec,SE Corner Lat dec,SE Corner Long dec,SW Corner Lat dec,SW Corner Long dec,Entity ID,FGDC Metadata Link,Display ID,Ordering ID,Browse Link

Example record:
1,M_4012110_NE_10_1_20120720,CA,USDA,USDA-FSA-APFO,UTM,10N,NAD83,1.000000000000000,METER,4,CNIR,201204_CALIFORNIA_NAIP_1X0000M_CNIR,2012/07/20,40∞50'37.60"N,121∞46'52.35"W,40∞52'42.79"N,121∞48'58.02"W,40∞52'40.09"N,121∞44'42.14"W,40∞48'32.38"N,121∞44'46.81"W,40∞48'35.08"N,121∞49'02.42"W,40.8437777,-121.7812082,40.8785527,-121.8161166,40.8778027,-121.7450388,40.8089944,-121.746336,40.8097444,-121.8173388,71275,http://earthexplorer.cr.usgs.gov/metadata/fgdc/5280/71275,M_4012110_NE_10_1_20120720,71275,https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/browse-link/5280/71275

I would be able to walk a directory, but they don’t allow access to view them, and I can’t find a way to create a bulk download request with the National Map (as far as I can tell you have to add each page of results to the download cart).

Best,

Jeshua Lacock
Founder/Engineer
<3DTOPO.com>
GlassPrinted.com

jmckenna · July 4, 2017, 12:41pm

Hi Jeshua,

I haven't tested r.in.wms yet, but I can help you to learn about the WMS layers:

- as the r.in.wms manual[1] states, you must always look at the capabilities of the WMS service to get the layer names

- a list of NAIP services can be found at https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAIP/

- clicking on the NAIP/California service, on the resulting page there will be a small "WMS" link in the top left of the page, this is the GetCapabilities for that service, click it (https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS)

- look for a <layer> <name> parameter in that response. Unfortunately ArcGIS services are awful for metadata, so you can see here that the layer is named "0" (lovely, so very helpful, ha).

- if you want another way to find your WMS layer names, use that service in QGIS and click on the "Add WMS layer" button, create a new connection, and use this for the URL: https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?

Hope that helps.

[1] https://grass.osgeo.org/grass73/manuals/r.in.wms.html

-jeff

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[1] https://grass.osgeo.org/grass73/manuals/r.in.wms.html

On 2017-07-03 9:32 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote:

Greetings,

Is it possible to import NAIP data using the USDA WMS server with r.in.wms?

Instructions how to use their WMS server is here:

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/APFO/2013_apfo_web_service_931.pdf

To download the NAIP for say California, its not clear to me what to specify for the layer(s) name(s).

Whatever I have tried I get a message:

"Unable to import pyGRASS: grass_gis.7.2.1 not found.”

I’m not sure if that has anything to do with not being able to get any data to download or I just don’t know what I am doing.

Thanks,

Jeshua Lacock
Founder/Engineer
<3DTOPO.com>
GlassPrinted.com

jmckenna · July 4, 2017, 1:54pm

Followup: I was able to get the NAIP California WMS service working with GRASS, here were my steps:

- installed winGRASS 7.3-dev from https://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass73/x86_64/

- followed steps in the manual to execute a GetCapabilities request:

- in "Console" tab, executed this command:

r.in.wms -c url=https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?

- then used the "Add web service layer" menu item in GRASS:

- File/Map display/Add web service layer

- in the "Server" box enter: https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer? and click "Connect"

- wait for GetCapabilities to be parsed

- you should see a new dialogue window below open, with a layer listed

- click on the layer, select "EPSG:4326" as your source projection (assuming you have setup a GRASS location for that projection), select "png", and press "Add Layer"

- the California image should appear in your map display

- note that I used another WMS service to load the world continents (such as http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wms?) and then zoomed into California extents that way, so I could see that layer

- should look like: https://pasteboard.co/GznOi0u.png

Hope that helps! Have a good week (and happy late Canada Day!!)

-jeff

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MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 2017-07-04 9:41 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Hi Jeshua,

I haven't tested r.in.wms yet, but I can help you to learn about the WMS layers:

- as the r.in.wms manual[1] states, you must always look at the capabilities of the WMS service to get the layer names

- a list of NAIP services can be found at https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAIP/

- clicking on the NAIP/California service, on the resulting page there will be a small "WMS" link in the top left of the page, this is the GetCapabilities for that service, click it (https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS)

- look for a <layer> <name> parameter in that response. Unfortunately ArcGIS services are awful for metadata, so you can see here that the layer is named "0" (lovely, so very helpful, ha).

- if you want another way to find your WMS layer names, use that service in QGIS and click on the "Add WMS layer" button, create a new connection, and use this for the URL: https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?

Hope that helps.

[1] https://grass.osgeo.org/grass73/manuals/r.in.wms.html

-jeff

jmckenna · July 4, 2017, 2:12pm

I guess I cheated here and used d.wms (gui) instead of an r.in.wms command. Anyway, I tried

-jeff

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MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 2017-07-04 10:54 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Followup: I was able to get the NAIP California WMS service working with GRASS, here were my steps:

- installed winGRASS 7.3-dev from https://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass73/x86_64/

- followed steps in the manual to execute a GetCapabilities request:

    - in "Console" tab, executed this command:

          r.in.wms -c url=https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?

- then used the "Add web service layer" menu item in GRASS:

    - File/Map display/Add web service layer

    - in the "Server" box enter: https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer? and click "Connect"

    - wait for GetCapabilities to be parsed

    - you should see a new dialogue window below open, with a layer listed

    - click on the layer, select "EPSG:4326" as your source projection (assuming you have setup a GRASS location for that projection), select "png", and press "Add Layer"

- the California image should appear in your map display

- note that I used another WMS service to load the world continents (such as http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wms?) and then zoomed into California extents that way, so I could see that layer

- should look like: https://pasteboard.co/GznOi0u.png

Hope that helps! Have a good week (and happy late Canada Day!!)

-jeff

Jeshua_Lacock2 · July 4, 2017, 11:23pm

On Jul 4, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

Followup: I was able to get the NAIP California WMS service working with GRASS, here were my steps:

Hi Jeff,

Awesome, thank you! Can you tell if the compression used is with SID? I can’t find any documentation anywhere stating what the compression used for the WMS data is.

- installed winGRASS 7.3-dev from https://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass73/x86_64/

Do you think 7.3-dev is required? I am running 7.2 and am hesitant to install 7.3-dev for a production environment.

- followed steps in the manual to execute a GetCapabilities request:

- in "Console" tab, executed this command:

r.in.wms -c url=https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?

I had tried that, but I get an error:

ERROR: Unable to load GDAL python bindings

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this error? I am using the Mac OS X binaries installed with MacPorts.

Best,

Jeshua Lacock
Founder/Engineer
<3DTOPO.com>
GlassPrinted.com

hellik · July 5, 2017, 7:14pm

I am running 7.2 and am hesitant to install 7.3-dev for a production
environment.

7.3-dev is very stable; there is a good chance that it will become the
upcoming grass 7.4.0 in the near future.

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