MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

Don Isgitt djisgitt at SOUNDENERGY.COM
Thu Dec 1 11:07:20 EST 2005


Bob Basques wrote:
> Hmmm, how about . . .
> 
> "Open Spatial Foundation"
> 
> Kinda has a ring to it, short acronym OSF, seems easy to remember, in 
> acronym form anyway.
> 
> Still thinking about it though . . .
> 
> bobb
> 
> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> 
>> Why limit it to webmapping only? This would exclude things like 
>> PostGIS, =
>> uDIG etc. from joining.
>>
>> My suggestion would be Open Source GIS Foundation or Open Source GIS =
>> Software Foundation.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>


"opengis.org" as Gary mentioned sounds very good to me. Web site name 
and foundation name the same. No extra acronym required.

Don



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