[GRASS-dev] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> (just submitted to OSGeo-Discuss)
>
>  I would like to launch the idea of an "OSGeo Cartographic Library" to
>  share concepts, source code and regression tests:
>
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library
>
>  GRASS, QGIS and others are in the need of own map printing tools
>  for high quality output but these projects should not start from scratch.
>  There is a wealth of underlying code already in Mapserver, Mapguide etc
>  which could be re-used in the terms of their respective licenses and
>  certainly of programming language compatibility.
>
>  Please hack the wiki page and post your ideas.
>
>  Markus

Thanks for starting this Markus -- I was just thinking about
formalizing some GRASS-GMT integration with the new python bindings
available in both packages. I will forward this information to the GMT
folks and see if they are interested.

Dylan