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On 4/26/05, Gérald Fenoy <djayweb@××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm new on this list, so I quickly present myself. I currently work |
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> for the entreprise 01map which is specialised on providing a Geographic |
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> Information System solution, this is done principaly for the french |
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> administrations (as for exemple the Environment Ministery |
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> http://carto.languedoc-roussillon.environnement.gouv.fr/ in french only |
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> sorry ... ). We are especialy involved in the postgis development for |
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> which we contribute (Gerald Fenoy and Jean David Techer are from |
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> 01map), but also with all the dependanced projects as for instance : |
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> mapserver. |
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> |
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> I would like to know if there is any GIS team (not for Gentoo |
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> Installation System but for Geographic Information System ...) or any |
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> effort on that way ? |
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I dont know .. I think not. |
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> Indeed, I could see that the postgis ebuild is so old, we currently |
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> work with the 1.0 version but the postgis ebuild is for 0.7 version ... |
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> I've also seen that there is some purposes to include the postgis |
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> directly into the postgresql ebuild, but do you know that the futurs |
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> versions (it's already the case for the cvs one) don't need at all the |
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> postgresql sources to compile it ? |
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> Futhermore the postgis ebuild is used but there is no geos ebuild in |
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> portage (but I've already made it too) so postgis will be less usefull |
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> as it could be with it (geos provide functionalities for using all |
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> known projections systems). |
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> With our "postgis developers" team we have also made an update of the |
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> qgis ebuild to work with the lastest postgis version (which has the |
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> geos support) ebuild we also made. |
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> To conclude I give you the tree of our work on the Geographic |
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> Information System : |
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> |
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> dev-db/postgis |
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> dev-db/postgis-cvs |
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better make that postgis-9999.ebuild |
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> sci-libs/geos |
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> sci-geosciences/mapserver |
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> sci-geosciences/cartoweb (which use the webapp-config system) |
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> |
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> here is the list of the ebuilds developped by others contributors of |
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> our independant project : |
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> sci-geosciences/qgis |
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> I hope that you've understand my query to create a new team specialy |
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> involved on developping and *maintaining* more GIS relatives ebuilds. |
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5 Packages seem to be too few for a separate herd. |
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Maybe you are also interested in GPS related pkgs? |
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Do they have to do anything with GIS at all? |
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See this post for gps: |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27259 |
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Regards, |
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Stefan |
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