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Boost.Geometry mailing list moved

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I have moved mailing list of the Boost.Geometry library from server at OSGeo to Boost mailing list server. All existing subscribers and archives have been moved to the new server.

The new list is available at geometry at lists dot boost dot org. It is also mirrored at Nabble as Boost.Geometry.

The old ggl at lists dot osgeo dot org will be wiped out soon.

If anyone experiences any problems with the new geometry at lists.boost.org, please contact me directly.

Big thanks to the OSGeo Foundation for hosting the ggl mailing list and thanks to Boost admins for help with the new server.

My first question to StackOverflow

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Recently, I’ve got a bit sucked in by the StackOverflow and related communities. Even if I don’t completely understand how it is supposed to be different to my favourite old-school-but-still-the-best communication channels to share knowledge, meaning Usenet and mailing lists. Web X.Y generally sucks! I never liked the idea of Web discussion boards – doesn’t feel user-friendly for me at all and it’s way more time consuming to participate in discussions on such boards than in mailing lists. The idea of StackOverflow works for me, somehow. A couple of times I got sucked quite deeply and stole two or three ours of my sleep to take the challenge, to benchmark my brain a bit.

After lurking and kicking my own axons, it’s time to nudge stackoverflowers with my first question. Here we go:

Which macro to wrap Mac OS X specific code in C/C++

graphics@lists.osgeo.org

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Robert Szczepanek initiated a new public mailing list that has just been added to the stack at the OSGeo mailing lists server – graphics@lists.osgeo.org:

Let’s create common, resuable graphical elements for many OSGeo projects.
We focus our discussion on design aspects of graphics – symbols, icons and signs.


GIS Icons Theme by Robert Szczepanek

Robert has been working on graphics and icons for GIS for long time.

OSGeo archives inquisitor

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All OSGeo mailing lists are managed by GNU Mailman. Mailman is a great piece of software but it lacks of user friendly search engine. In order to search, for instance, gdal-dev archives I usually feed Google with a query like this:

+libtiff +crash site:http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev

It works well but requires me to know and input direct URL of archives I want to scan. There are nearly 100 OSGeo mailing lists and sometimes I need to juggle quite many of them. Not much fun. The Nabble comes in handy when I have to do many searches at the same time.

I have been using Safari as main Web browser since I moved to Mac OS X – it just runs faster on my PowerBook G4. Shortly, I discovered Inquisitor plugin for Safari and my lists searching practice have changed. Thanks to Inquisitor’s feature of additional search engines, I use it as an interface to the OSGeo mailing lists archives and OSGeo.org.

inquisitor-searching-osgeo-2

With a very little configuration, the Nabble and OSGeo.org search engines are accessible in the Safari search box and also using keyboard shortcuts.

Configuration steps:

  1. Install latest version of Inquisitor
  2. Go to Inquisitor pane in the Safari preferences dialog box and click Edit sites…
  3. Add OSGeo add-ins to the additional search engines (see screenshot below)
  4. Click on the plus button to Add new custom search shortcut… and input Site Name, search engine URL with query placeholder and optional Shortcut.

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Here are texts I used to define the three search shortcuts:

Site Name: OSGeo.org
URL: http://www.osgeo.org/search/node/%@

Site Name: OSGeo Mailing Lists
URL: http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=18127&local=y&query=%@

Site Name: GDAL Mailing List
URL: http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=1192&local=y&query=%@

Notice the %@ part, it is a search query placeholder.

Use of the shortcuts is simple, issue Cmd + Option + F to jump to the Google search box in Safari, input a query and use custom keyboard shortcut of desired search engine, for instance I press Cmd + Shift + G to search gdal-dev list. Alternatively, while you type your query, the Inquisitor drops down Spotlight-like box and then use arrow keys to select one of listed search engines.