More use-case driven development and improved GUIs, user experience and map production fall under specific topics at FOSS4G 2008 so this discussion is quite apt and I hope to see its fruit or at least some well-defined plans presented and discussed in Cape Town in September. As we know these are some of the remaining gaps that need filling to convince the hesitant masses to go open source. Gavin Fleming MSc, Pr. GISc Technologist Senior GISc and Sustainable Development Researcher FOSS4G2008 conference chair Mintek, 200 Malibongwe Drive (formerly Hans Strijdom Drive) P/Bag X3015, Randburg, 2125, South Africa w: +27-11-709-4668 c: 0845965680 f: 0866164820 xmpp (Jabber, Google Talk, etc.): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: phlemingo 27.9782E 26.0896S
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Sent: Mon 2008/04/07 06:36 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library On 7-Apr-08, at 1:53 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: > I would like to launch the idea of an "OSGeo Cartographic Library" to > share concepts, source code and regression tests: Thanks Markus - you beat me to it! :) Having grown up learning ArcPlot, I long for the ability to compose maps and output them in a high-quality plotter-ready format. Also, I miss the ability to script the creation of maps which is needed in many industrial or highly-productive mapping environments (e.g. GUI- based map design tools are the bane of productivity in many offices I've been in). I'll add my notes to the wiki and start to use the discussion page too. Tyler _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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