Project request

[Arnulf Christl]

Hi,
we (Arnulf) have been asked whether we (OSGeo) could provide an SVN 
branch for a joint project that we (companies CCGIS & www.krz.de, the 
county of OBK, ++individuals) implemented to convert the German 
cadastral base map exchange format EDBS to OGC WKT for storage in 
PostGIS, rendering in MapServer, access with GeoServer and display with 
Mapbender.

http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/ALK_mit_Freier_Software
http://sourceforge.net/projects/edbs2wkt
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/EDBS
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/FreeZVAut
etc.

This project comes together with four UMN MapServer MAP files 2 symbol 
files, 8 ttf files with 250 symbols. You need all of this to render the 
maps conforming to German jurisdiction. Conformancy is required because 
the output generated by the system is used for building application 
requests. And yes, every federal state in Germany has its own 
interpretation... To manage and develop all of this collaboratively SVN 
access has been requested.

Now - where to put this?

There is definitely an Open Source software project (GPL) involved but 
it is of type benevolent dictator. Because this project addresses only a 
tiny subset of the worlds population (Germans with an affinity to survey 
data) this is fine with me but it does not justify to create a separate 
OSGeo subdomain. On the other hand it is an exemplary example of 
combining Public Geodata with Open Source Software to give people at 
large better access to spatial data.

It could be branched in Mapbender SVN but that does not make sense, same 
is true for MapServer. Maybe this would best fit into the Public Geodata 
SVN? Ideas, comments?

Arnulf.