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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I’m late getting back to the party, but…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>* How does MapWindow v6 do its graphics – WPF, Forms, GDI,
DirectX, ..?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>* I’m totally in favor of filling out a Spatial namespace.
Not sure if it is PC to hijack the System top level namespace, but that aside I’d
love to see something like this come together. Especially if we can keep
things safe for Mono folks too. What can I do to help? GDAL
and liblas both have .NET bindings, so those could be used for raster and LAS
support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>* “OSGeo.NET” has a nice ring to it :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>* Do we have a listing of .NET geo projects somewhere? I
started a page (<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DotNetProjects">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DotNetProjects</a>)
once upon a time, but it is likely very out of date now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>-mpg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Daniel Ames<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> dotnet@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DotNet-OSGeo] More introductions and a joint development
proposal...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to all of you who have joined this list in the last
couple of days since we created it. Very cool to see that there is indeed
interest in .NET open source! (Of course we all knew it...).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>OK, so by way of introductions, I've been the project leader
of the MapWindow project for the past several years (<a
href="http://www.MapWindow.org">http://www.MapWindow.org</a>) which is a C++
ActiveX control wrapped by a <a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a> desktop
application that hosts plugins - mostly written in C#. Of course it's all open
source from the ground up. Our desktop app is probably the most popular tool in
our arsenal with about 6,000 downloads per month.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Our latest effort has been to create a fully C# version of
everything for reasons that I'm sure you all would understand (such as getting
away from ActiveX/COM "DLL Hell"...) That project is here: <a
href="http://mapwindow6.codeplex.com">http://mapwindow6.codeplex.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>As we've been working on this here in my lab in Idaho, it
struck several of us that we should start working as a broader OSGeo .NET group
on constructing a core set of libraries that fit snugly into the .NET
Framework. The goal here would be to build on a common namespace in such a way
that we result in tools that all live and work nicely together.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So here is my proposal... we would like to participate in a
group effort to develop a set of .NET based GIS related libraries under the
"System.Spatial" namespace. This could include things such as
"System.Spatial.Projections" "System.Spatial.Data" etc. All
of these would be compatible libraries that - together - give programmers a
complete set of tools for building GIS enabled software. We would just need all
of the interested parties who are working on separate tools, to contribute
their tools - retooled under the new namespace...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Who knows... if we do it right, maybe Microsoft would go so
far as to give it a stamp of approval and link to it from their .NET developer
sites...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In any case, please give this idea some thought... We have
started a placeholder CodePlex project for this effort at <a
href="http://dotspatial.codeplex.com">http://dotspatial.codeplex.com</a> and
have made the first contribution which is a full port of PROJ4 to a C# DLL
called System.Spatial.Projections.dll. We've also started listing ideas on what
the various sub-namespaces could be (on that codeplex site home
page). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Any feedback or thoughts on this idea would be much
appreciated! Also, anyone have any ideas on what a good
"dotSpatial" logo might look like? and how could/should we get
various developers of various low-level C# DLLs to contribute?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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-- <br>
Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>
Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br>
<a href="mailto:amesdani@isu.edu">amesdani@isu.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://geology.isu.edu">geology.isu.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mapwindow.org">www.mapwindow.org</a><br>
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See you at IEMSS 2010: <a href="http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/">http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/</a><br>
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