New category: geography

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 18 21:59:06 UTC 2006


Sam Lawrance píše v čt 18. 05. 2006 v 20:41 +1000:

> I would like to create a new category "geography", encompassing the  
> following types of ports:
> 
> - Mapping - editing, viewing, format conversion (eg. graphics/jumpgis)
> - Geographic information systems and utilities (eg. databases/postgis)
> - GPS applications (eg. astro/gpsman)
> - Weather (eg. astro/gdesklets-goodweather)
> - Other software/services related to location (eg. net/GeoIP)

Excuse me, pal, but how exactly does weather fit into a geographical
applications?

Sounds more like a deskutils type of business. And, of course, it's
rather fine where it's now, in astro.

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