[OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

Arnulf Christl arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com
Fri Jan 18 09:30:09 PST 2008


Mike Adair wrote:
> I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in 
> Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under 
> the OSGeo umbrella.  Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the 
> idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a community 
> around the various coordinate system projects, each of which likely 
> wouldn't be able to sustain that on their own.
> 
> My immediate motivation for bringing this up now is that I need to set 
> up a project infrastructure for proj4js [1]  (svn, trac, email, PSC, 
> etc.).  This might be a good fit as an OSGeo 'Lab' project as discussed 
> a few months ago, either as a project on it's own or within a group of 
> projection projects.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Mike Adair

I support this idea, good thing. It will be a place to help solve the biggest problem in the spatial web world that results from the tiniest imaginable dissent. Axis order confusion. 

Regards, 
Arnulf. 



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