Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 17:44:10 -0500 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, pav@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New category: geography Message-ID: <200605181744.11710.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1147989509.69696.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <1BC08CCE-1820-45A5-BCAB-FE424BED0CC1@brooknet.com.au> <1147989509.69696.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:58, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Sam Lawrance p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v =C4=8Dt 18. 05. 2006 v 20:41 +1000: > > I would like to create a new category "geography", encompassing the > > following types of ports: > > > > - Mapping - editing, viewing, format conversion (eg. graphics/jumpgis) > > - Geographic information systems and utilities (eg. databases/postgis) > > - GPS applications (eg. astro/gpsman) > > - Weather (eg. astro/gdesklets-goodweather) > > - Other software/services related to location (eg. net/GeoIP) > > Excuse me, pal, but how exactly does weather fit into a geographical > applications? My guess would be that Meteorology is being considered as a subset of Geolo= gy,=20 which isn't really the same as Geography.=20 > Sounds more like a deskutils type of business. And, of course, it's > rather fine where it's now, in astro. It dosn't really fit well in Astronomy either. Personally, I would think th= at=20 weather apps would fit best in ports/science unless there are enough of the= m=20 to justify their own category of ports/wx David =2D-=20 Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.
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