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Hey,<br>
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Il 07/04/2012 21.32, Ariel Camino ha scritto:
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freeNetGIS means free networks Geographical Information System (GIS for
community networks).
It is inspired by similar projects, among which may be mentioned:
* NodeShot [0]: -> Maps [1]
* BALLS (Buenos Aires Free Location System) [2] -> Maps [3]
* FFSomething [4] -> Maps [5]
* Guifi.net [6] -> Maps [7]
Has a number of technical features that differentiate it from other
projects, among which are:
- Based on the Django web framework (GeoDjango [8])
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Cool, we are using the same framework.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Abstracts of geospatial queries [9] and the handling of geometric data
types [10] and can be used as a postgis backend [11], mysql, oracle and
/ or SpatiaLite [12].
- You are not restricted only to an propietary API
Use OpenLayers [13] for the map display, which allows using layers of
different servers at the same time:
* Open Street Maps - free [14]
* Google Maps - owner [15]
* Yahoo Maps - owner [16]
* Bing Maps - owner [17]
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this would be cool, I don't really care about yahoo or bing, i care
more about OSM.<br>
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<pre wrap="">- You don't need internet
Using databases that store geographic objects, you can import vector
geospatial (eg shapefiles [18), so you don't need internet connectivity
to display map layers.
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This would be really cool<br>
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<pre wrap="">- It focuses on decentralization
Techniques are being developed using the protocol PubSubHubbub
synchronization [19], this allows you to synchronize the application
with instances of the same system and with other systems using a
standard publication in common, such as GeoRSS [20].
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This would be really cool<br>
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<pre wrap="">Currently the project is in development, the code is hosted at github
[21] and are open to any developer who has wanted to make contributions.
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I would like to collaborate on your project and see if we can implement
some of these ideas.
The website is down (freenetgis.org) :( i have to fix it.
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From my point of view you are mostly welcome in joining the
discussion to see how we can proceed on this. Apparently there is
quite a lot of interest from different communities around the world
on this type of software, so maybe is the right moment to start
collaborating.<br>
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If you know other people that might be interested tell them about
it.<br>
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