> Hello Olivier, Daniel, Maxence - it's great to hear from you - especially
> on a very interesting project :) I just need to know a couple more
> things. Do you _need_ a home for the project or is it sitting okay on the
> geosysin site for a while? The reason I ask is because the OSGeo 'labs'
> idea simply helps improve your infrastructure - mailing list, svn, etc.
> And doesn't provide you with any other good benefits.
>
> Have a look at
http://osgeo.org/incubator - in particular look at the
> 'guideline' document and see how you are measuring up. I am assuming that
> the project is still quite small, with a fairly small internal development
> community - true? If so, that it is perhaps not the best time to seek to
> join incubation. However, if you feel the project is mature and well
> supported, then it might be valuable to try incubation. Either way, you
> can bring up the question with the incubation committee mailing list and
> get a second opinion. You can also ask there about hosting for the
> project, even if it doesn't not enter incubation.
>
> Does that help? I was thinking a lot today about cartography. i just
> heard about QuantumNik - mapnik exporter from QGIS! I will have to check
> it out :) How could PAL relate to Mapnik or our other OSGeo apps? I'd
> love to see QGIS or Mapserver have improved label placement from PAL.
>
> Hope you are well, keep in touch with any questions. Please consider
> asking similar question on the incubator list:
>
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator>
> Bon regards,
> Tyler
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>> Hi Tyler,
>> I hope you already heard something (interesting) about this PAL project
>> we started two years ago within our institute ?
>> Just one link :
http://geosysin.iict.ch/PAL>>
>> To summarize, PAL is a library dedicated to label placement for high
>> quality cartographic production. It's LGPL licensed. It's written in
>> C++, through a JNI wrapper we made an integration for gvSIG (extJPAL),
>> and currently a GSoC is running for an integration towards QGIS, it's
>> promising.Also, some people from MapWindow are interested for an
>> integration.
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>> Well, the beast is now walking also outside our institute, better and
>> better. We think now to build a PAL community platform, and meanwhile we
>> were also thinking about an OSGeo shared project. What do you advice so
>> as to build PAL inside OSGeo framework ? We are no aware exacty about
>> the incubation process ! and what is OSGeo labs ? Do you think we should
>> first go for OSGeo labs before incubation.
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>> I'm not sure about what I'm saying here concerning possibilities inside
>> OSGeo, so your help would be so precious.
>> Thanks a lot for your lights, and I wish you a nice end of summer.
>> Olivier.
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