[MetaCRS] Motion: Include spatialreference.org project in MetaCRS

[Frank Warmerdam]

Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> I would like to motion that we include the spatialreference.org project 
> in MetaCRS.  While it has been mostly Chris and I's side project, our 
> last iteration garnered some additional development support from Josh 
> Livni and Dane Springmeyer.  I have been maintaining the subversion 
> repository for it on my own server, and Chris has been running the 
> website on his hardware.
> 
> I think spatialreference.org can be a significant part of our 
> collaboration going forward, and a number of other open source gis 
> projects take advantage of the website already.  I would like to 
> formalize the relationship of spatialreference.org to OSGeo, give it a 
> proper subversion repo / trac instance, and invite other coordinate 
> system hackers to come in and help improve the site.  When some 
> additional hardware becomes available at TelaScience, we would likely 
> move the hosting as well.

Howard,

+1

So far we have one svn for all of metacrs, presumably you would live in that?

I'm thing spatialreference.org is a good fit with metacrs.

Best regards,
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