From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 3:38:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A0137B401; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:38:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from murdoch.servitor.co.uk (murdoch.servitor.co.uk [217.151.99.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0069543F85; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from mmu-firewall.mmu.ac.uk ([149.170.101.200] helo=miter96pq2w1fz) by murdoch.servitor.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 18lSYZ-0006mJ-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:38:31 +0000 From: "Paul Robinson" To: "Terry Lambert" , "Nik Clayton" Cc: "Stephen Hilton" , , Subject: RE: Hi!Dear FreeBSD! Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:38:23 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3E532487.CF23A1C0@mindspring.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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