Improving FreeGIS, ranking

[Silke Reimer]

Hi,

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Rainer Höckmann wrote:
> Hi FreeGIS Team,
> 
> I want to know your opinions to the following proposal:
> 
> In order to improve the ranking of the FreeGIS entries, we could introduce an 
> uniform scale of rankings (e.g. 0-100 or 0.0-1.0). The old rankings could be 
> scaled to the new uniform rankings. In order to make the classification 
> simpler, some examples from the whole range of all current entries (e.g. 10 
> from the top to the bottom) could be displayed when entering a new 
> classification.

I already discussed this with Rainer but I wanted to confirm that in
my opinion this is a good idea. Currently the range for the ranking
of FreeGIS entries is from 0 to infinity. So whoever is editing the
FreeGIS entries does take his own scale leading to the fact that for
example postgis (371 points) is ranking far behind GEOTRANS (600
points). A ranking from 0 to 100 (or 0.0 to 1.0) would not
completely solve this problem but it would at least give a first
hint for a ranking value.

Showing some ranking examples (perhaps even for each subcategory an
entry is belonging to) seems to be a good idea since this does give
the possibility for further 'fine tuning' of the value.

Any other comments?

	Silke 

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Silke Reimer

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