[Qgis-user] Announcing Qgis-mapper project

[John C. Tull]

On Nov 17, 2008, at 6:51 AM, Martin Dobias wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to announce that we're starting a new QGIS-based project at
> our university. We've formed a group of five students from our faculty
> that will work on this project. It will introduce some improvements
> int QGIS and create tools for simpler creation of roadmaps. There's
> planned support for OpenStreetMap, topology handling, better rendering
> and editing capabilities, better handling of large data and even more
> stuff :-)
>
> You'll find more in the specification:
> http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/swproj/spec.html
>
> The project will be run for nine months, at the end of this period we
> should have all features from the specification ready.
>
> Public access to source repository is not available, but we will try
> to release some useful parts of the project during the development -
> PostGIS manager plugin is an example. There's Trac running for our
> project, those interested can take a look at the progress:
> http://urtax.ms.mff.cuni.cz/qgis-mapper/

This sounds quite useful and ambitious. I look forward to seeing the  
fruits of your efforts.

John