Re: new category: GIS

2006-04-03 Thread Mark Prins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote on Saturday, April 01, 2006 1:08 PM: >> i'm not sure tools designed for working with information about places >> on earth should belong in astronomy. > > indeed, astronomy would not be appropriate. > i think "geography" could be added. I second "geo" or something simil

Re: new category: GIS

2006-04-01 Thread steven mestdagh
Chris Kuethe [2006-03-31, 13:11:39]: > On 3/31/06, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolay Sturm wrote: > > > > > > Personally, I am not a big fan of new categories. Last ones (biology and > > > telephony) were not that successful. > > > > > > > > Yet. :-) > > > > But they are better than

Re: new category: GIS

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 3/31/06, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolay Sturm wrote: > > > > Personally, I am not a big fan of new categories. Last ones (biology and > > telephony) were not that successful. > > > > > Yet. :-) > > But they are better than putting everything that comes along in misc. so maybe G

Re: new category: GIS

2006-03-31 Thread Ian Darwin
Nikolay Sturm wrote: Personally, I am not a big fan of new categories. Last ones (biology and telephony) were not that successful. Yet. :-) But they are better than putting everything that comes along in misc.

Re: new category: GIS

2006-03-31 Thread Nikolay Sturm
* Chris Kuethe [2006-03-31]: > i'm just wondering if we should add a new category, "gis" for various > and sundry things that deal with location data. Personally, I am not a big fan of new categories. Last ones (biology and telephony) where not that successful. Nikolay

Re: new category: GIS

2006-03-31 Thread Bernd Ahlers
Chris Kuethe [Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:44:15AM -0700] wrote: >i'm just wondering if we should add a new category, "gis" for various >and sundry things that deal with location data. > >I needed gpsbabel for something, so i tossed together a port of it, >and while we c

new category: GIS

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Kuethe
i'm just wondering if we should add a new category, "gis" for various and sundry things that deal with location data. I needed gpsbabel for something, so i tossed together a port of it, and while we could drop it in misc with gpsd, i'd prefer to see gpsd, gpsbabel, gpsdrive,