Re: Volunteering to maintain proj and shapelib packages

["Shawn McCann" <mccann0011 hotmail com>]

> From: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov newmail ru>
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> Subject: Re: Volunteering to maintain proj and shapelib packages
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:56:17 +0400
>
> Shawn McCann пишет:
>
> > I'm looking to get involved in the Fedora project and was drawn to the 
> > list of packages needing a maintainer. As I've used proj and shapelib 
> > before, volunteering to maintain them seems a good place to start.
>
> It would be great!
> We got another GIS-related package w/o maintainer - GEOS, which blocks 
> inclusion of QuantumGIS to FE.

Yes, GEOS is currently maintained by another local company. I can likely 
take this on as well once I get up to speed on proj and shapelib. From what 
I can see FC3 has proj-4.4.8 and proj-4.4.9 is now available. For shapelib, 
FC3 has the latest version already.

> > The company I work for builds systems around the world in various domains, 
> > especially for remote sensing from satellites. I've recently been working 
> > with on projects to deploy Linux (RHEL) and GIS systems in developing 
> > countries, hence my renewed interest in the discussions on adding GRASS to 
> > Fedora Extras.
>
> GRASS needs another problem to be solved - GDAL and GDAL-GRASS plugin.

I setup mapserver and grass last year and ran across some of these issues. 
Should be solvable with a little effort.

> FYI we also got AutoTrace, a good free, opensource vectorizer, w/o 
> maintainer.

Haven't used it yet, but it sounds interesting.

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