[mapserver-users] [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common map printing specifications project [Fwd: Students: Get Paid to work on this project]]

[Stephen Woodbridge]

FYI. This seems like something that we might want to get more involved 
with or at least be tracking from a development perspective.

-Steve W

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common map printing specifications project 
[Fwd: Students: Get Paid to work on this project]
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:52:56 -0700
From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>

Hi all, just forwarding this note to this more general OSGeo channel,
since it applies to several projects and communities.

Year after year, one of the largest complaints about open source mapping
applications is the ability to output large, high quality, printable
maps.  It's often "the issue" that some proprietary users say prevents
them from moving to an open source platform.  Recognising that we can
always do better, the "Carto" project is an effort to address this in a
standard way, so that all open source applications may output
configuration files according to a specification and have a common
'engine' application produce an output file.  By using a standards-based
approach, developers can work together on improving printing output
overall instead of doing it in dozens of different ways.

That said, attached is my attempt to try to find some students to work
on the project through Google's Summer of Code :)  I'm also forwarding
it here for those others who are interested in trying to help move this
initiative along.  Either way, join our list and say hi.[1]  Except for
some interesting work with Mapnik and QGIS together (Dane Springmeyer's
  Quantumnik!) this is pretty much still theoretical.

Tyler

[1]  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/carto

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