[mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched

[Nyk Cowham]

Lowell:

As the developer I did in fact submit a request for a link to MapServer
to be included on the credits page of the site before the site launched.
However, the client argued that if we include links to MapServer, then
why not also include links to Apache, MySQL, PHP and all the other
software we have used (which they will not approve). I am having much
better luck arguing for credits to National Atlas for providing the base
map data. The credit to Forum One on the site was contractual condition
before development on the site started and I was not involved in that.

If there was provision in the Mapscript license that required branding
for MapServer to be included for all uses that would have been a
different matter. Essentially, we did not use the CGI application but
Mapscript - which is a perl module/library. Again, if we credited
Mapscript, then why not Template Toolkit which was also and important
library we used for developing the application.

If you can give me a compelling argument I can use for why
Mapscript/MapServer should be credited and not the other technologies we
used I will be happy to hear it. You can also try lobbying the client to
include a credit for our use of mapscript.

I have not been coy about crediting the MapServer project with providing
excellent base technology for the application; including promotiton of
MapServer at The Perl Conference in San Diego last month in both the
talk on Geo::TigerLine and Geo::Walkabout and in the BOF, and on various
Perl Monger lists.

The GREEN site may be publically cited on any site promoting
Mapscript/MapServer.

Nyk Cowham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nyk Cowham 
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
> 
> 
> Last week Forum One Communications finally launched the Earth Force
> GREEN site (http://www.green.org/). The site provides resources for
> educators who are teaching courses in watershed water quality
> monitoring. Educators can create a water monitoring project 
> and add data
> to a central database of water quality data. They can then generate
> charts comparing this data over time and with other multiple 
> comparator
> monitoring sites.
> 
> We used MapServer and Perl Mapscript to provide an easy way 
> for project
> owners to locate their monitoring site and find the watershed HUC code
> and lat/long coordinates of the site. Once they have selected 
> their site
> location it will be added to the national map of GREEN 
> monitoring sites
> (http://www.green.org/sites/map/index.cgi?map=greensites.map)
> 
> Special thanks go to Stephen Lime for helping me add an additional
> method to mapscript to handle templates.
> 
> Nyk Cowham
> Forum One Communications
> http://www.forumone.com/
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