[DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and Please vote on a logo...

[Daniel Ames]

Arnold,

Thank you very much for offering to join the DotSpatial steering committee.
I'm copying the dotnet osgeo list so that others can see the kind of
excellent resume you bring to the task.  I've added you to the page and
Google Group.

- Dan

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Arnold Helmut Engelmann <ahe at dhi.us> wrote:

>  Hi Dan,
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> I’d like to volunteer for this committee. As I’m new to this list (I joined
> after seeing your post on the GeoAPI.NET forum on codeplex), and relatively
> new to the open source scene, I should probably introduce myself.
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> I studied under John Radke at Berkeley and Duane Marble at Ohio State in
> the 1990’s and joined my current employer, DHI Water and Environment (
> www.dhigroup.com) in 1999. I also interned at ESRI in 1995 and worked
> briefly for the Ohio EPA. In the last 11 years I’ve been involved in
> developing GIS based water modeling applications for DHI, mostly based on
> ESRI software. We started using .NET with ArcGIS relatively early (in 2002),
> and recently have begun using open source GIS in newer products. We use
> SharpMap in a web dashboard product which acts as a portal to our modeling
> software. We are using NTS (along with the associated GeoAPI.NET) in a new
> desktop application framework associated with managing spatial/temporal data
> and also for executing water models and analyzing results.
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> We are putting a significant effort into developing these platforms with
> about 15 developers in Copenhagen, New Delhi, and Shanghai working on these
> (including myself in Portland). I’m in charge of the GIS related
> development. I would very much like to see something more unified and
> consistent developed in regard to these GIS libraries, and would definitely
> like to contribute.
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> Regards,
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> Arnold Engelmann
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> Senior GIS Programmer/Analyst
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> DHI Solutions West
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> ahe at dhi.us
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> www.dhigroup.com
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> *WATER  •  ENVIRONMENT  •  HEALTH*
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> *From:* dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Ames
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 07, 2010 22:57
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> *To:* dotnet at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and
> Please vote on a logo...
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> HI all,
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> A couple months back I proposed on this list that we ought to consider
> moving towards a common "de-branded" low level API that could be shared
> across multiple desktop and web based projects and that would integrate all
> the best common aspects of NTS, GeoAPI, SharpMap, MapWindow, various Proj4
> ports, etc. The idea here is to lower the bar of entry for potential users
> of these libraries by giving them a common look and feel and ensuring close
> adherence to .NET Framework coding practices. This is obviously a
> non-trivial goal, but has the potential for being a major step forward for
> OSGeo.NET.
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> I'm interested in moving this project forward following all of the best
> practices for Open Source projects. So one of the first tasks I believe,
> should be formation of a steering committee. If you think that this project
> is a good idea and feel like you have something to contribute, will you
> please volunteer to be on the steering committee? I have already gotten
> agreement from Ted Dunsford and Gennadii Donchyts to be on this steering
> committee and am looking for 2-4 more people who are active user/developers
> on NTS, SharpMap, GeoAPI or other projects who are willing to be on the
> steering committee.
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> Secondly, I've taken the liberty of registering the
> dotspatial.codeplex.com site as well as dotspatial.org to use for managing
> this project and Ted Dunsford has already started contributing some code for
> people to look at and to "get the conversation going" as to what would be
> included in such a project. We've also been listed on the top of the
> CodePlex "find project openings" page (
> http://www.codeplex.com/site/search/openings) and as a result we've got
> several programmers already volunteering to work on the project. (Hence the
> need for a steering committee to make sure we give these people the right
> tasks...)
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> Thirdly, I also asked a friend to take a shot at designing some potential
> logos for us to use for the project. Will you please vote on a logo here:
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> http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=logo&referringTitle=Home
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> (feel free to leave a vote in the comments for that page and/or make
> suggestions on improving any of the logos)
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> Thanks all.
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> - Dan
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> (By the way, I saw a very cool demo of a project by Gennadii here at the
> iEMSs Conference in Ottawa yesterday in which he used a number of .NET OSGeo
> tools that included work from many of you, I'm sure.  Very cool stuff...)
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> --
> Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
> Associate Professor, Geosciences
> Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
> amesdani at isu.edu
> geology.isu.edu
> www.mapwindow.org
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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
amesdani at isu.edu
geology.isu.edu
www.mapwindow.org

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