poll results?

Howard Butler hobu at IASTATE.EDU
Thu Dec 1 12:55:31 EST 2005


Jeremy,

http://ms.gis.umn.edu/community/polls/naming/questionnaire_view_results

Howard

At 11:30 AM -0500 12/1/05, Sears, Jeremy wrote:
>Hi all,
>Can one view the current status of the namming poll somewhere on
>ms.gis.umn.edu? If so where?
>Thanks
>Jeremy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu]On
>Behalf Of Allan Doyle
>Sent: December 1, 2005 11:25 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
>
>
>OpenGIS is a registered trademark of the Open Geospatial Consortium, 
>formerly known as the Open GIS Consortium, formerly known as the Open 
>GRASS Foundation...
>
>On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:07, Don Isgitt wrote:
>
>>  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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