Hi Charith,

On Apr 3, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Charith Madusanka wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Hi chris,
> 
> What I was thinking is that it would be great if e.g., we could dump
>> the data out of SIS in a standard GIS format (right now we could
>> focus on vector data), and maybe dump it out in GeoJSON, or
>> write a WCS or WMS interface for SIS so that we could then easily
>> load a layer in QGIS. Thoughts?
> 
> 
> If that doesn't work or is too hard, I'd be totally open to having
>> a small, manageable GUI of our own, as you originally suggested.
>> I'd love to hear your thoughts. The advantage there would be that
>> it would be Apache version 2 licensed.
>> 
> 
> Providing a GeoJSON or GML interface is simple than implementing a GUI tool
> from the scratch. Thinking about the future of the SIS framework we
> must provide a GUI client (under Apache licensed ) for SIS. Can we put
> a separate task to build GUI client ?

+1, that would be a great JIRA issue to file and another great project to
undertake. I think it would be awesome and I'm all for it (a SIS ALv2 
GUI).

Thanks!

Cheers,
Chris

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