Hiya. I'm about to start work on some GIS programming in Perl, and will likely end up with a few modules that might usefully go onto CPAN.
From what I've read on the FAQs though, it seems like a bit of a minefield to choose a name that someone else doesn't want, and to find out if anyone's already working in the same area. I did some searches on the CPAN website for likely modules, while the documentation suggests I ask on some mailing lists, which I presume includes this one? As a first step, I was considering adding a module to read GSHHS data [a binary format for coastline data] and give it a name something like Geo::GSHHS. More info at the site: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html Any comments? Is this the right place to ask? Is there already code somewhere that does it? Would anyone be offended if I wrote the module? Thanks, Oliver White www.blibbleblobble.co.uk
