[Freegis-list] new project: Community Map Builder

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:58:40PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
> Below you'll find information on a project announced recently.
> 
> It follows the OpenGIS specs and relies on a couple of others (already opengis-compliant) free gis software.

The Community Map Builder is a really intersting project.
Cameron makes it right in picking the best tools for his purpose
from the Free GIS Software packages.

For those of you who are participating in the project:
Please consider also other approaches such as
The Cooperative GIS Project: http://gis.anu.edu.au/
It will surely turn out to be fruitful to discuss
matters of the concept.

I am now waiting for the first release to have a look at :-)
However, I found no reliable statement on the license, so I can't add
it to FreeGIS. Of course the project contributes code
to others which definitely are Free Software ones and
it hosted at sourceforge, so there is good evidence
the results will be Free Software :-)

Jan

> <copy&paste from http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> Community Map Builder
> Empowering communities to build and share geographic maps.
> 
> The Community Map Builder will provide an Open Source framework which will
> allow communities to jointly build geographic databases and share them over
> the web.  It will be particulary useful where geographic knowledge is spread
> across a large group of people.  For instance:
>  - Collecting animal sitings
>  - Mapping favourite off-street bicycle routes in a city
>  - Mapping bush fire and walking trails
> The Community Map Builder is being built to Open GIS standards, which
> means it will be inter-operable with numerous other Web Mapping Services.
> Initial development will focus on enhancing the current open source
> components, before working on the core Community Map Builder
> functionality.

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