{"id":204,"date":"2007-03-26T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2007-03-26T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:12:33","slug":"fed-up-with-planetgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/204\/fed-up-with-planetgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed up with PlanetGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got fed up with Planet GeoSpatial this weekend. Too much Google, too many formatting mess ups, and in general, too much crap. Although I appreciate that those who are working in the GeoSpatial space have a large interest in ESRI, Google Earth and Maps, and the general &#8216;state of the industry&#8217;, my target interests are much smaller. I just want to know about what&#8217;s going on in the world which affects Open Source GeoSpatial software: I wanted what is essentially &#8220;Planet OSGeo&#8221;, rather than &#8220;Planet Geo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that this is a commentary mostly on my specific interests, rather than on Planet GeoSpatial, which James Fee has done a wonderful job on maintaining for the wider target audience he has.)<\/p>\n<p>To that end, and with Sean Gillies&#8217; excellent recommendation of <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/code\/venus\/\">Venus<\/a>  (omg, a version of Planet that *works*?), I&#8217;ve set up <a href=\"http:\/\/planetosgeo.crschmidt.net\/\">Planet OSGeo<\/a>, a collection of Open Source GIS blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, I&#8217;ve not included several topics here, even though they are at least tangentially related to Open Source Geo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GeoRSS. There are a half dozen people who are regularly blogging about GeoRSS &#8212; not least, the GeoRSS blog. However, GeoRSS is not in and of itself &#8220;software&#8221;, which is my target interest, and I think the primary field in which OSGeo has thus far expressed an interest.<\/li>\n<li>OpenStreetMap. Although collection of Open Geodata is within the realm of OSGeo, at the moment I&#8217;m targeting software, and most of OSM&#8217;s blogging is not about software development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I&#8217;m happy to take feedback on my choices &#8212; or suggestions for more blogs!)<\/p>\n<p>Notably lacking in this Planet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog for OpenLayers. Thus far, I&#8217;ve not set up a seperate infrastructure for OpenLayers blogging, sticking instead to the MetaCarta Labs blog. I think the time has come to grow out of that, and move into some OpenLayers infrastructure for blogging.<\/li>\n<li>Blog for GDAL. The library at the base of much of the Geo software on the web doesn&#8217;t have an RSS feed &#8212; for either announcements or general project discussion. Some of this is probably representative of the stability of the project: certainly after as many years as GDAL has been around, there&#8217;s limited content in terms of &#8220;Rapid Development&#8221; that many other tools like web mapping clients are still undergoing. Still, an announcements log with an RSS feed would be cool.<\/li>\n<li>MapServer. MapServer doesn&#8217;t seem to have a blog or RSS feed out of its website that provides interesting announcement-style updates, which would be good to see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think the things I see as &#8216;missing&#8217; clearly demonstrate my bias in development and usage of tools &#8212; so I&#8217;m sure more people can point out what else I&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to any feedback you might have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got fed up with Planet GeoSpatial this weekend. Too much Google, too many formatting mess ups, and in general, too much crap. Although I appreciate that those who are working in the GeoSpatial space have a large interest in ESRI, Google Earth and Maps, and the general &#8216;state of the industry&#8217;, my target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}