Hello - I had one busy week, but also thanks to the replies I had in and out of the list I am able to take step 2 on this...
I haven't yet had time to check some of the sources I was referred to (blogs etc)...I will try to do so at some point.... 1) the first question of the survey was actually self-contained in the first mail: how many people from the OSGeo community participated to the event in Limerick. 2) topic #2 is: for those who participated. from 0 to 10, how would you rank the level of "adversity" of a "pure OpenStreetMapper" to "pure GIS technology" ? take 0 as: "OpenStreetMap technology = GIS technology...there is simply a distinction in OSM being a project" take 10 as "GIS is history: OpenStreetMap is here" 3) I am not posing such questions as a form of casual conversation nor, with a formal role in a local OSGeo chapter, am I rushing to conclusion that "GIS is better than OSM" I am seeing, however, at the national level that there is not (yet) a consensus on the relationship between "OSM and GIS", so I would like to think what the OSGeo community thinks about this, as food for thought. 4) let me know if this sounds like an over-sophistication of an issue, or if you don't even see it as an issue. 5) as things are taking shape for our association at the national level, I trust that we will be gradually able to cover more directly "international" aspects, and may have a more direct view of such issues. in the meantime: please bear with our "user survey" postings ;) Regards, Andrea Giacomelli aka pibinko vice president and media relations manager - GFOSS.it - Italian OSGeo Chapter 2008/7/16 andrea giacomelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all - I was about to pose my request on the IRC channel, but I > figured I prefer e-mail. > > I'd like to run a quick survey: did anybody from this list attend the > State of the Map event in Limerick, last week-end ? > > regards > > Andrea, aka pibinko > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
