Arnulf,
I already submitted a request as requested by Tyler Mitchell. (That was
actually a few days ago.)
We can always use a Google Group (or something similar) but I thought it
was a topic of discussion suitable for the OSGeo, as did others.
About how long will it take SAC to make a decision?
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:51 PM, John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We need a map layer for an application and are looking for a candidate. We
> want to be able to move tracks and other information over maps. The update
> rate is rather high. Currently we use WVS that we display with our o
[...]
> There is this cultural pressure on "standards" to be marketing tools.
> Because of the government and military context for GIS, this pressure
> is particularly intense for us. It starts to loop back on itself somewhat
> like this, http://frot.org/on_standards/statements.html
Jo,
Thanks for
> Free of patents? ESRI has always been the "Microsoft of GIS", so beware
> of patents on this particular format.
We should be specific in what we say. ESRI has not registered any patents
(they might have inherited some from acquisitions) and they claim to have
a company wide policy to never regis
[...]
> I thought we were talking about forcing governments to offer up
> information in a "open standard" format. Are you saying that if a city
> has standardized on MS Office, it would be ok for them to continue to
> post .doc? I got the feeling that folks are saying these cities need to
> aba
wrapping up...
On Fri, May 9, 2008 00:32, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> P Kishor wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> One important point that Fogel makes that I think is worth noting
>>> here is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially
>>> successful softw
On Fri, May 9, 2008 21:11, Landon Blake wrote:
> It looks like the Java collaboration idea is starting to warm up.
> Several programmers from the different Java GIS projects have been
> exchanging e-mails, and someone suggested we start a mailing list to
> discuss collaboration issues. We'd like to
