Hi, Thanks again for the initiative Paolo
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Bernd Vogelgesang <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Crowd funding is great! +1 I'm very happy that we are giving it a try now. > 2. There should be a poll/survey on wanted/needed features I think that would introduce unnecessary bureaucracy. If users don't want/need a feature, they won't fund it. If users really want a feature badly, they can just express themselves on the mailing list. > 3. Digest those ideas > 4. Make raw budgets +1 I think it should be announced how much donations are necessary for a feature. This can be very helpful to motivate users to "donate those last x EUR to get it rolling". > 5. Ask for donations > 6. Find developers I'm not sure if that's the order to go. In my opinion it would make more sense to first find a developer since otherwise it's impossible to get budget estimations. What if the feature is offered for x EUR but no developer wants to do it for that amount? Introducing new systems is always a challenge. I think this routing service is a good first try because it's not too huge. So far we only have a C++ plugin which requires the user to have a local copy of the road network and another plugin which requires access to a pgRouting installation and road network data. Getting routes from a well maintained server will be much more user friendly. I would appreciate if there was an additional way to specify start and end points (besides manually clicking the map canvas) such as loading a CSV with start and end points but I guess such can be added later on too. Thanks again! Anita _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
