Re: [DebianGIS] Bits from the DebianGis Team
On 2007-10-11 12:04 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
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> Hi Debian fellows
>
> Our goals are ambitious and extended, we need more interested and
> motivated people, possibly with some GIS experience
HI. I'm an interested person. I maintain two packages which do very
specialised GIS - Cave surveying (Survex and Therion). At some point I
will add Tunnel now that the Java situation makes it practical.
I have been interested in GIS for years, especially open Geodata so
have told everyone I know about openstreetmap, one of whom then mapped
all of Cambridge UK. We have also been doing some low-tech GIS stuff with
integrating cave data with Googlemaps and wikipedia:
http://seagrass.goatchurch.org.uk/~mjg/cgi-bin/map.py
For years I have been wanting to write something that would let people
with tomtom systems semi-automatically collect openstreetmap data but
have failed to get round to it. So far as I know this still hasn't
been done by anyone.
In practice I don't expect to do anything significant in the DebianGIS
team beyond trying to maintain my cave-survey packages, but I am
interested in this stuff, especially in ways that my specialised stuff
can be integrated with the wider whole. I can also put you in touch with
other interrested people who may have more cycles for actually doing
things than I (Julian Todd, Martin Green)
Wookey
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