Hi Martin, Thank you for the description. I just put it as a place holder on the website as well - http://sis.apache.org/ . The website setup is fully functional now (thanks to Joe Schaefer from ASF INFRA). Over the weekend, I will put out some instructions on how to edit the CMS and also answer your other question on how other projects do docs.
Suresh On May 27, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Adam Estrada <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Martin, > > Hmmm...I am not sure how to stop google from doing this. Maybe try going in > to googles web master tools and generate the key file and then upload it to > the new site? The incubator site will eventually get cleaned out of google's > indexes that way. > > I like your description. If no one else objects I say move forward with it! > Also, remember that Andrew gave us a new logo that looks really really good. > I would love to see that in the new site's home page too! I think it can be > found in Jira. > > AdamMartin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote:Hello all > > Some of our peoples are talking about SIS around us, but we are facing > the problem that a Google search on "Apache SIS" still give the old > incubator page [1]. Does anyone known how to remove that page? > > For now, it seems to me that our most up-to-date page is the web site > generated by Maven [2]. Is there an easy way to get > http://sis.apache.org/ to point to that page until the main web site is > ready? > > On the home Maven page, the current description is a little bit short. > Would the following description be okay? > > Apache SIS is a free software, Java language library for developing > geospatial applications. The library can be used for desktop or > server applications. SIS is an implementation of GeoAPI 3.0 interfaces. > > SIS provides data structures for geographic data and associated > metadata along with methods to manipulate those data structures. The > SIS metadata module forms the base of the library and enables the > creation of metadata objects which comply with the ISO 19115 > metadata model and which can be read from or written to ISO 19139 > compliant XML documents. The SIS referencing module will enable the > construction of geodetic data structures for geospatial referencing > based on the ISO 19111 model such as axis, projection and coordinate > reference system definitions, along with the associated operations > which enable the mathematical conversion of coordinates between > different systems of reference. The SIS storage modules will provide > a common approach to the reading and writing of grid coverages > applicable to simple imagery as to many dimensional data structures. > > > Martin > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/sis/ > [2] http://builds.apache.org/job/sis-trunk/site/ >
