Yeah, I was probably a little naive on this one. When I saw the page on desktop GIS with all of the OpenSource projects listed, I thought that there might be a chance...
David. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Sean Gillies <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:01 PM, David Fawcett wrote: > >> If people are looking for another venue to promote better ways to use >> Python in GIS, I see via PlanetGS that ESRI's wiki.gis.com is looking >> for more participants. Apparently they are making an attempt to make >> this more vendor neutral: >> http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Help:What_wiki.GIS.com_is >> >> Not that it doesn't give me a rash that ESRI owns the domain gis.com.... >> >> Here is the page on Python: http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Python >> >> The page on GIS software actually contains a pretty full list of >> OpenSource geospatial projects: >> http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_GIS_software >> >> David. > > Most of the gis.com wiki seems copied from wikipedia. See > > http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cartogram&action=history > > vs > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cartogram&action=history > > But then compare > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) > > to > > http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Python > > They've gutted the Python page. This has fail written all over it. > > -- > Sean > >
