[Geodata] Geodata Mission

[Lorenzo Becchi]

I would not worry too much about the irrational anti-osgeo movement.
This are the typical things that happen when projects are young and find 
difficult (effort, time) to look out of the window.
IMO, we should go on conscious that both OSGeo and OSM are great project 
and that both need their time to set up and mature.

Talking about our situation I think we should just take the time needed 
to let the "mass" come "critical".
New persons are joining and focusing on specific interests, this happens 
in all committees, and if Geodata is not yet the most active is just a 
matter of time, maybe :-) 

The great effort Chirs and Martin offered is not wasted time, it will be 
soon or later, valued.

My personal task for the Geodata (to help Jeroen to set up the new 
version of GeoNetwork and make a little module for OpenLayers to search 
it) held waiting for new GeoNetwork version to be published. hopefully soon.

ciao
Lorenzo


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:01:14AM -0600, David William Bitner wrote:
>   
>> What are the hurdles to this?  Why is there an (perceived or real)
>> anti-OSGeo streak?  Get this stuff in the lists.
>>     
>
> I think the primary reason that some of the main movers behind OSM are
> against using donated resources is:
>
> 08:54:52 <TomH> and I'm not interested in constructing (and then having
> to manage!) vast global inrastructures cobbled together from donated
> bits and bobs
>
> Certainly, there was significant push-back from TomH (the main server
> admin for OSM) against moving OSM's distributed tile management service
> (http://tah.openstreetmap.org/) to TelaScience hosted resources. In the
> end, it didn't matter: the OSM servers couldn't cope with the load, so
> it moved, end of story. But any situations which doesn't involve
> shipping hardware to UCL is typically seen as a 'rogue' action.  
>
> There is also, in my experience, an irrational anti-OSGeo movement
> within the OSM community, centered around the view of OSGeo as a "GIS
> community", and "OSM is not GIS". http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=198 is
> representative of that feeling, I believe.         
>
> Regards,
>