MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Allan Doyle]

OpenGIS is a registered trademark of the Open Geospatial Consortium,  
formerly known as the Open GIS Consortium, formerly known as the Open  
GRASS Foundation...

On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:07, Don Isgitt wrote:

> Bob Basques wrote:
>> Hmmm, how about . . .
>> "Open Spatial Foundation"
>> Kinda has a ring to it, short acronym OSF, seems easy to remember,  
>> in acronym form anyway.
>> Still thinking about it though . . .
>> bobb
>> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>> Why limit it to webmapping only? This would exclude things like  
>>> PostGIS, =
>>> uDIG etc. from joining.
>>>
>>> My suggestion would be Open Source GIS Foundation or Open Source  
>>> GIS =
>>> Software Foundation.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bart
>>>
>
>
> "opengis.org" as Gary mentioned sounds very good to me. Web site  
> name and foundation name the same. No extra acronym required.
>
> Don
>

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