[OSGeo-Discuss] End of life for Community Mapbuilder

Mike Adair madair at dmsolutions.ca
Mon Jul 28 08:06:31 PDT 2008


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> In fact, I've been just thrilled
> by the degree of cooperation achieved between several of the web 
> mapping client
> side projects in recent years.  The experience and efforts focused on
> improvement and exploitation of OpenLayers by those involved in 
> Mapbuilder,
> ka-map and other projects has helped turn OpenLayers into what I would 
> argue
> is the "best of breed" role it plays now. 
I just want to point out that a key event in this process was the web 
mapping client BoF at Lausanne where all of the FOSS client projects got 
together and decided to stop re-inventing the wheel.  For me, this is a 
tangible demonstration of the benefits that OSGeo can achieve.

Mike



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