[OpenLayers-Users] GIS StackExchange

[George Silva]

They also participate in the scope of GIS StackExchange website. PostGIS,
Oracle Spatial, Spatial Algorithms, etc  are a part of the website scope
too.

George

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Imran Rajjad <rajjad at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about core programming libraries like Geotools and GDAL and mapnik???
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Great announcement Christopher.
> >
> > The website right now is the most voted/commited in stackExchange and I
> have
> > a very strong feeling that will congragate many users from many
> communities,
> > all in one place.
> >
> > The easy of use of StackOverflow and the quickness that everything gets
> > answered there can be a major tool for all of us, using OpenLayers,
> MapFish,
> > MapServer, GeoServer, ESRI, Autodesk, and the vast diversity of softwares
> > that we work with.
> >
> > George
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM, <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A proposal has been made for a GIS-centric StackExchange site:
> >>
> >>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems
> >>
> >> For those of you who are not aware, StackExchange is a website
> >> that allows for reputation-based question + answering, and provides
> >> users a way to find good answers to many questions.
> >>
> >> Currently, there are users of StackOverflow asking OpenLayers questions
> >> there:
> >>
> >>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/openlayers
> >>
> >> The quality of answers in general on StackOverflow is high:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559431/how-to-display-data-using-openlayers-with-openstreetmap-in-geodjango
> >>
> >> The reputation-based feedback to users encourages users to
> >> create high-quality answers.
> >>
> >> I have participated in other StackExchange sites (3500 rep, woohoo)
> >> and enjoyed the process immensely, but the StackOverflow site has
> >> too small of a ratio of OpenLayers questions for me to follow it
> >> regularly.
> >>
> >> If you are interested in having another way to ask/answer questions
> >> related to OpenLayers, I would recommend committing to the
> >> GIS site on the area51 link above. I can personally promise that
> >> I will be participating in the StackExchange site in question if
> >> it is set up, and I think that many other users could give and
> >> receive help in this format.
> >>
> >> (I'd also probably like to set up some cross-linking between the
> >> mailing list and OpenLayers-tagged questions on a potential GIS
> >> SE site, if one gets set up, to encourage cross-platform communication
> >> about the topics in question.)
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> --
> >> Christopher Schmidt
> >> Nokia
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > George R. C. Silva
> >
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> >
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>
> --
> I.R
>



-- 
George R. C. Silva

Desenvolvimento em GIS
http://blog.geoprocessamento.net
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