Re: [DebianGIS] Greetings and Ideas
[David Campbell]
> Let me know what you think, where I can best focus my energy, or
> anything else that may be helpful.
Welcome. :)
Did you look at qgis? It it a great and powerful GIS tool, but was
removed from Debian a few months ago because the Debian GIS team is
lacking man-power and was unable to maintain it properly. The active
GIS team consist of roughly two people, with a few others like me
hanging around and helping out when we are able to find a spare minute
to spend. I would find it great if you was able to spend enough time
on it to get it back into Debian. :)
I assume you found the subproject wiki,
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis>. There are a lot of packages
to get into Debian, and the ones we already got in Debian need more
work to improve their quality. Recently, the SUN Java packages
entered Debian/main, and thus we can start to upload Java based GIS
tools into Debian using this.
A year ago I worked a bit on a Debian GIS live CD, to demonstrate the
tools available then. It could use some refreshing to get the latest
improvements. :)
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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