[Board] [OSGeo] #94: Mailing List for NAS converter development

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#94: Mailing List for NAS converter development
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Reporter:  arnulf            |       Owner:  tmitchell
    Type:  task              |      Status:  new      
Priority:  blocker           |   Component:  SAC      
Keywords:  new mailing list  |  
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 Hello,
 at the German language FOSSGIS conference 2007
 (http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/2007) a group of 30 individuals from
 several FOSS projects, companies and public administrations decided to
 start a workgroup for the development of a converter software. The German
 survey map format named NAS will be introduced in the next few years and a
 Free and Open Source Software converter will dramatically improve chances
 for a long list of FOSSGIS projects to be used in all aspects related to
 the cadastral  base map (which in Germany is miraculously available almost
 to 100% with a precision of a few centimeters ((OK; admittedly in some
 places only several tens of meters))).

 The project is in an early stage and now needs a home for a lot of
 dicussion from a very heterogenenous group of people from at least 5 FOSS
 projects (Java, Python, C++, more), 10 companies (the usual suspects plus
 some OS lurkers) and potentially hundreds of users from the public
 administraion, survey engineers, insurance companies, construction
 companies, real estate, etc. This will be a big thing in the next years!

 To have the project take off in a somewhat coordinated manner this group
 of people plans to first discuss how to do it, find out what already is
 available and then potentially even raise funding throught the German
 Local Chapter legal entitiy GAV e.V.

 Mind me, this is all in an early planning stage.

 For this to happen a web page has been started in the OSGeo Wiki that will
 grow in the next weeks:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Deutsch/NAS

 There is a list of participants of the workshop who showed interest in
 actively participating but before we send the link around so that people
 sign up to the list in the Wiki we want to have the mailing list ready so
 that people don't have to go there twice.

 We suggest the name of the list to be:
 nas at lists.osgeo.org

 I have filed a Trac ticket with blocker priority (sorry for that but I
 want to make sure it comes quickly).

 Regards, Arnulf

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