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Re: Function shaperead for octave


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: Function shaperead for octave
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:35:14 +0200

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Alain Foehn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> Thanks for your support and your quick answers this afternoon.
>> With further investigations, I found a package of functions for Matlab
>> working also under Octave having a function m_shaperead that does almost
>> what I am looking for. Just outputs are slightly different, but this
>> function is of great help. The package is available on
>>
>> http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html
>>
>> I think it would be a good thing to have such a function available in a
>> "official" package for octave. I don't know the procedure for such an
>> addition, mostly with a function written by someone else. I think some other
>> functions could also be added to the mapping package of octave and would
>> reinforce Octave strength in GIS field (I am a new engineer in a Alpine
>> environment research centre and trying to show how Octave could be a good
>> replacement to Matlab, so such arguments are welcome...).
>> I will probably work on it next week a bit. Would you be interested by the
>> modified version (I had some warnings of "matlab-looking syntax" or
>> something like when I did tests today).
>> Thanks a lot again and greetings,
>> Alain
>
> Hi Alain,
>
> Great job! Sadly the code is proprietary and cannot be distributed
> with GNU Octave unless we get the owner to release under a GPL
> compatible license.
>
> The procedure is as follows. Just write an e-mail to the owner of the
> package explaining our needs. Read these examples that I have send in
> the past:
> http://wiki.octave.org/Asking_for_package_to_be_release_under_GPL:_exmaples
>
> Use them as templates if you want. I particularly like the ones I sent
> to the Non-negative matrix factorization people. Do not forget to add
> the OctaveForge mailing list (address@hidden) in the
> CC.
>
> Once we have the package under GPL we can start the port.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
> -----
> PhD Student
> University of Zürich
> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

I am adding José to the list of e-mails. He is our mapping expert ;)

@José: What do you think of this package?
http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html Does it complement octPROJ
nicely?


-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/


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