Introduce myself and my projects

[Bob Basques]

Philip,

I'm not sure I'm following your description below.

I'm replying though because I have some experience with GPS data 
collection techniques, and also work on government projects.

I wonder if you wouldn't mind going into some more detail about what 
you're after as far as a end product.  I haven't combined GPS and 
Government work except for some small projects a few years ago.

Are you describing a Survey type of GPS collection (Very accurate) or 
more of a AVL version (less accurate)?

Thanks

bobb



Philip Mark Donaghy wrote:

>Hi I read about this foundation in Linux Format LXF-76 and I see that
>Markus, who I have met in Trento and Bangkok, is on the board.
>Congratulations Markus!
>
>I've been following the open source geography movement for a while as
>a tourist but now I am involved in some mapserver projects.
>
>My projects are related to computer assisted dispatch for fire and
>police departments in two different countries. In France and in the
>US.
>
>I have always been concerned by the licenses. BSD being my preferred
>license, I have a question. Is the foundation going to have a
>foundation wide licence like the Apache License. And will it be based
>on the BSD license? Also what are peoples thoughts on avoiding the
>LGPL license?
>
>I would like to get involved in a MapServer project that facilitates
>the creation of spatial data from gps receivers.
>
>I think that a nearby project would be very interesting, I think that
>google is making the most progress with this. But their algorithm is
>not complicated. Basically they find addresses from websites,
>categorize the content, and plot it on a map that is created using
>query information. I think it would be interesting to have a site that
>defaults to your ip address location and use cookies to store
>categories that you like.
>
>I would also like to create/assist in a project for a shared
>geospatial data repository targeted at governments creating data. For
>this to be valuable and interesting to users the datasets would be
>validated and modified by real people given privileged access to
>editing the data or a copy of the data. The idea would be to create
>branches and the ability to merge just like a source code revision
>system.
>
>That reminds me, is the foundation going to use the subversion system.
>I read that the samba group is going to start using a Bazar NG system
>which are distributed repositories. Sounds interesting.
>
>Some developers/people say I my ideas are too costly in infrastructure
>which is a valid argument which is why I bring these ideas to a
>foundations such as yours. I have also discussed this on the Apache
>community mailing lists. If anyone is interested in these ideas then
>we should create a project.
>
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>Philip Donaghy
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