<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Hi Guy and Harel,</div><div><br></div><div>It is good to see your collaborative effort in building your Website and data.</div><div><br></div><div>However, from what I can see on your Wiki page, I don’t think that this equates to a software project.</div><div><br></div><div>In case I’m wrong, how do you see that other people not affiliated with your Website would use the software that you develop?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br>On 25 Jul 2018, at 01:07, Harel Mazor <<a href="mailto:harel.mazor@gmail.com">harel.mazor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="rtl">
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hi Jody,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This is an open source project as can seen in the<span> </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Israel_Hiking_and_Biking_Maps" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">wiki</a><span> </span>page.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The sources are located in the "<a href="https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/Map" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Map</a>" and "<a href="https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/Site" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Site</a>" repositories and are rich with functionality that doesn't exist in other projects such as unique map styling, merging POIs algorithm and find missing OSM tracks among other code examples on how to use other GIS open source libraries. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We are deeply engaged with the open source GIS community to contribute to other repositories which we use as well.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I hope this answer the questions, but if not we'll be happy to elaborate.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Best Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Harel Mazor.</div>
<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="rtl">בתאריך יום ג׳, 24 ביולי 2018 ב-16:07 מאת Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That looks really great, may I ask if it is an open source project?<br><br>OSGeo is set up as a software foundation, with the incubation committee focused on helping development teams create new open software software for mapping and spatial applications. <br><br>It looks like your website uses open source, rather than creates open source for others to use.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:43 AM Guy Shakhar <<a href="mailto:guy.shakhar@gmail.com" target="_blank">guy.shakhar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear OSGeo Incubation Committee,<div><br></div><div>We would like to apply to become a Community Project in OSGeo.<br></div><div>Our project - "Israel Hiking and Biking maps" is described in a Wiki page <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Israel_Hiking_and_Biking_Maps" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div>It is a free participatory mapping project which is based on open code and open data and has an opensource license.</div><div>We plan to turn it into a world-wide project and would appreciate your help in integrating into the international OpenSource GIS community.</div><div>Feel free to ask us for any clarifications.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Guy Shakhar, Harel Mazor, Zeev Stadler.</div><div>Israel Hiking and Biking maps<br></div></div>
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