[OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

Milo van der Linden milo at dogodigi.net
Sat Dec 8 02:19:28 PST 2012


Would it be good if opengeocoder joins forces with openstreetmap nominatim?
 Op 29 nov. 2012 03:05 schreef "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
het volgende:

> On 11/28/2012 7:31 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo
>> Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part
>> of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are "in"
>> labs. There is a short list of "stable" and "young and experimental"
>> projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page
>> today, here is the list:
>>
>> Stable Projects:
>> - GeoWebCache
>> - pgRouting
>>
>> Young and Experimental Projects
>> - GeoExt
>> - GeoFunctions
>> - Geoinformatica
>>
>
> I think these are more or less mine:
>
>  - OpenGeocoder
>> - OpenRouter
>>
>
> There is an OpenGeocoderRouter list that I started but there is no viable
> activity on it at this time.
>
> OpenRouter is a project related to internet routing. I started
> OpenGraphRouter using a GSoC project to get started. The goal was to create
> a routing solution that was MIT-X licensed instead of GPL. We have sine
> joined forces with pgRouting and are developing the code that is MIT-X
> algorithms, which can be bundled with pgRouting effectively making them
> dual licensed.
>
> OpenGeocoder.net appears to be Steve Coast @ Microsoft and not related to
> OSGeo stuff.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OpenGeocoder<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder>never got off the ground, but I have been working with PAGC over the last
> few years. Our big issue at the moment is addressing some serious
> performance issues when you scale up from county level data sets to
> national data sets. Basically it is just me and Walter, the developer,
> working behind the scenes on these technical issues. Once these are
> resolved I hope to see if we can some activity going again with this.
>
> On a side note, I have take the address standardizer from PAGC, built it
> as a library and wrapped it into a postgresql stored procedure extension.
> Based on that I have prototyped up a Tiger geocoder that works very well
> and is very fast. I'm still work on various things so it is not ready for
> prime time but this might eventually become OpenSource also.
>
> I'm not sure what it means or how you get a project like these "in labs"
> but these are mostly orphaned except I have an interest in them and will
> respond to queries about them.
>
> Thanks,
>   -Steve
>
>  - Grids
>> - OSGeo Graphics
>> - pycsw
>> - OWSLib
>> - SemanticGeo
>> - ZOO-Project
>>
>> Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these
>> projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are "in" labs, and
>> then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them
>> get ready for official incubation.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs,
>> please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback
>> from other OSGeo members.
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