Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-04 Thread Jody Garnett
The above makes sense, but honestly, I had never heard of this until now, and I have been tinkering with open source for almost a decade now. Most open source projects seemed organic to me. Someone had an itch, they scratched it, they put it out, and the project either gathered traction, or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: David, LISAsoft has a java implementation of OpenLS which we would like to Open Source if we can find a sponsor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: As you are probably aware, just dumping code into sourceforge is not an effective way to start a successful Open Source project. The above makes sense, but honestly, I had never heard of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: As you are probably aware, just dumping code into sourceforge is not an effective way to start a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread Daniel Morissette
P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: David, LISAsoft has a java implementation of OpenLS which we would like to Open Source if we can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: P Kishor wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: David,

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread Picavet Vincent
Hi there, That said, the main theme of my enquiry still remains -- I had never heard of packaging costs until now, and am curious about quantifying them. The term «packaging cost» is not really representative of the actual work it includes. We are in fact speaking of code and project

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread Cameron Shorter
Puneet, I don't have a specific answer for How Much LISAsoft's OpenLS code costs to Open Source yet, I'd need to do the analysis, and so I'll talk in general terms, based on my experience with other projects. 1. For LISAsoft, Just dumping code into Sourceforge is usually not an option. Our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Puneet, I don't have a specific answer for How Much LISAsoft's OpenLS code costs to Open Source yet, I'd need to do the analysis, and so I'll talk in general terms, based on my experience with other projects.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-03 Thread Brian Russo
If you have big commercial customers I'd approach them. If they're heavily invested in your software then they could see the value potentially. I understand what you're saying tho. Most of the organically-grown projects are those that started as open source and don't compare well to closed2open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
David, LISAsoft has a java implementation of OpenLS which we would like to Open Source if we can find a sponsor to cover our packaging costs. Stephen Woodbridge wrote: http://www.openrouteservice.org/ This is the only one that I know about. But last time I looked I did not see a link to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-01 Thread P Kishor
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: David, LISAsoft has a java implementation of OpenLS which we would like to Open Source if we can find a sponsor to cover our packaging costs. What kind of costs are packaging costs, and what do they amount to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-11-01 Thread Jody Garnett
Indeed I talked to LISAsoft a couple years ago about adding OpenLS to GeoTools; we got stuck on GeoAPI interfaces as I remember. Cameron if LISAsoft is still interested we have reduced the amount of effort required to take part in GeoTools with a policy change introducing unsupported

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-10-29 Thread Sampson, David
I am looking for an open source project that has implemented OpenLS specification from OGC. I know their are some groups working on this * PAGC (on their road map) * OpenRouter (any code yet?) * OpenGeocoder (any code yet?) I am looking to see if anyone has this OUT OF THE BOX and ready to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Location Services

2009-10-29 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
http://www.openrouteservice.org/ This is the only one that I know about. But last time I looked I did not see a link to download source code. -Steve Sampson, David wrote: I am looking for an open source project that has implemented OpenLS specification from OGC. I know their are some