There were a few recent threads about software standards. Some of these
threads dealt specifically with the role of OSGeo in software standards
development and the OGC. I didn't what this conversation to die out,
because I think it is very important to the survival of open source
software, and a to
Michael,
Standards bodies are a good thing if they produce good standards.
OGC standards tend toward fussy intricacy (compare WFS-T to the Atom
Publishing Protocol) and pointless abstraction (all the so-called
distributed computing platforms that no one uses). I don't know why, but
I suspect
Thanks for the reminder Sebastian. The MapServer community really needs
a MapLab replacement, so yes, I'm interested! (i've now joined your list!)
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jeff
Sebastian Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
maybe you have heard of MapStorer - an easy-to-use frontend for managing
Mapserver mapfiles running on to
FYI, later this week at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver we're having a
discussion on this hot topic:
> Ever wonder why we need standards bodies? Can we just do it with a Wiki?
> We have open source, why not open source open standards? What about
> intellectual
> property protection? Can I
Hi,
maybe you have heard of MapStorer - an easy-to-use frontend for managing
Mapserver mapfiles running on top of a MySQL, PostgreSQL database
written in PHP and JavaScript. If not, now you have. See mapstorer.org
for more information including mailing lists and a demo application.
We feel th
