Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:38:23 -0000 From: "Paul Robinson" <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Stephen Hilton" <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <julian@elischer.org> Subject: RE: Hi!Dear FreeBSD! Message-ID: <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHKEJDCCAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3E532487.CF23A1C0@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > None of those maps are clickable. They're actually just *tiny* > PNGs of maps-with-pins-in-them, with no obvious correlation to > real location data associated with PERL (e.g. number of pins is > not equal to number of page entries, in most cases, and the pins > for Columbs, Dayton, and other Ohio locations all pops up at the > same pixel location, etc.). Can I just point out Terry, that this is a map of Perl user groups? We're not NORAD and they aren't suspected sites of WMD that we need to target. :-) > It's really unfortunate that no one seems to be willing to put > out the server resources to do real GIS mapping, e.g. using the > data specifications at: Right, I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but are you honestly suggesting that somebody writes a GIS based map rendering system using a relatively complicated set of standards so that people can get 3D representations of where the nearest Perl Mongers group is? I'm actually writing a proposal at the moment that might go up to BSDCon or maybe somewhere else entitled "Why Open Source Software will Ultimately Fail in a Commercial Context". The core argument is that as OSS developers are unpaid, they'll work on whatever they want - i.e. what they think is cool or what they need to get a particular job done. Nobody here at the age of 15 thought they wanted to write word processors or spreadsheets when they grew up, right? Do you mind if I cite this example anonymously as a re-enforcement of my argument? :-) Seriosuly Terry, I can't tell if you were joking or not, but nobody is going to play with opengis stuff, just because it would be a "neat" way of showing where user groups are. :-) -- Paul Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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