[DotNet-OSGeo] More introductions and a joint development proposal...

[Daniel Ames]

OSGeo.NET does have a nice ring... That's a great way to characterize those
involved in these .NET projects. I was thinking of proposing using this for
a core shared namespace, but we've leaned towards System.Spatial just for
the sake of totally "debranding" the lowest level of stuff - even from the
OSGeo brand... with the idea that maybe we could pick up more commercial
users who could ultimately help fund further development - assuming that
commercial developers might be more comfortable with a totally generic
naming convention. Anyway it's a starting place I suppose.

Also, I would like to get you all thinking about a meeting in June 2011 in
San Diego... Sort of a FOSS4g.NET chapter meeting...

- Dan

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at lizardtech.com>wrote:

>  I’m late getting back to the party, but…
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> * How does MapWindow v6 do its graphics – WPF, Forms, GDI, DirectX, ..?
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> * I’m totally in favor of filling out a Spatial namespace.  Not sure if it
> is PC to hijack the System top level namespace, but that aside I’d love to
> see something like this come together.  Especially if we can keep things
> safe for Mono folks too.  What can I do to help?   GDAL and liblas both have
> .NET bindings, so those could be used for raster and LAS support.
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> * “OSGeo.NET” has a nice ring to it :-)
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> * Do we have a listing of .NET geo projects somewhere?  I started a page (
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DotNetProjects) once upon a time, but it is
> likely very out of date now.
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> -mpg
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> *From:* dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Ames
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:49 PM
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> *To:* dotnet at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [DotNet-OSGeo] More introductions and a joint development
> proposal...
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> Thanks to all of you who have joined this list in the last couple of days
> since we created it. Very cool to see that there is indeed interest in .NET
> open source! (Of course we all knew it...).
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> OK, so by way of introductions, I've been the project leader of the
> MapWindow project for the past several years (http://www.MapWindow.org)
> which is a C++ ActiveX control wrapped by a VB.NET desktop application
> that hosts plugins - mostly written in C#. Of course it's all open source
> from the ground up. Our desktop app is probably the most popular tool in our
> arsenal with about 6,000 downloads per month.
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> Our latest effort has been to create a fully C# version of everything for
> reasons that I'm sure you all would understand (such as getting away from
> ActiveX/COM "DLL Hell"...) That project is here:
> http://mapwindow6.codeplex.com
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> As we've been working on this here in my lab in Idaho, it struck several of
> us that we should start working as a broader OSGeo .NET group on
> constructing a core set of libraries that fit snugly into the .NET
> Framework. The goal here would be to build on a common namespace in such a
> way that we result in tools that all live and work nicely together.
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> So here is my proposal... we would like to participate in a group effort to
> develop a set of .NET based GIS related libraries under the "System.Spatial"
> namespace. This could include things such as "System.Spatial.Projections"
> "System.Spatial.Data" etc. All of these would be compatible libraries that -
> together - give programmers a complete set of tools for building GIS enabled
> software. We would just need all of the interested parties who are working
> on separate tools, to contribute their tools - retooled under the new
> namespace...
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> Who knows... if we do it right, maybe Microsoft would go so far as to give
> it a stamp of approval and link to it from their .NET developer sites...
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> In any case, please give this idea some thought... We have started a
> placeholder CodePlex project for this effort at
> http://dotspatial.codeplex.com and have made the first contribution which
> is a full port of PROJ4 to a C# DLL called System.Spatial.Projections.dll.
> We've also started listing ideas on what the various sub-namespaces could be
> (on that codeplex site  home page).
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> Any feedback or thoughts on this idea would be much appreciated!  Also,
> anyone have any ideas on what a good "dotSpatial" logo might look like? and
> how could/should we get various developers of various low-level C# DLLs to
> contribute?
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> Dan
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> --
> Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
> Associate Professor, Geosciences
> Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
> amesdani at isu.edu
> geology.isu.edu
> www.mapwindow.org
>
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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
amesdani at isu.edu
geology.isu.edu
www.mapwindow.org

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