Posted by
Cory Horner on
Feb 16, 2007; 6:49pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/front-de-liberation-de-codes-postal-tp884p909.html
Elli MacDonald wrote:
> I work for an environmental not-for-profit organisation on a community-based
> GIS project. The Enviroplace website provides data and discussions on a
> range of environmental topics, for the purpose of educating communities on
> the state of their local environment and to share environmental data with
> local communities. We want the site to be an example of how public data
> should be freely available and presented in a way, which allows local
> communities to be empowered to become involved in the environment around
> them and the decisions being made on their behalf.
>
> To make a long story short! We have a mapping application that was developed
> for us by a consultant a few years ago, based on open source software, which
> allows the users to explore a large variety of different environmental,
> standardized, data sets (government, industry, conservation authorities,
> local health units, etc). The site has so far been successful, however, the
> site is a pilot and we would like to develop it further. Open source
> capability has obviously improved considerably since our application was
> developed, so we would like to work with someone to improve the present
> application or, if necessary, start afresh and develop a new open source
> application. Either way I was hoping you may be able to able to give me
> some ideas or advise me on someone who would be interested in helping us.
>
Cool!
Which way are you leaning on this Elli, gathering volunteers and
proceeding, or gathering a bundle of gov't cash and doing an overhaul?
Hopefully this isn't perceived as poaching, but if you're looking for
new consultants, I work for Refractions Research
(
http://www.refractions.net) which specializes in the area of
open-source GIS. We've done some similar projects including
"Populations at Risk" for the UN FAO (food and agriculture org).
Personally, i'd really like to work on such a project -- it's a nice mix
of geospatial with civic-access goals, but there are so many cool
projects to work on, and only so much volunteer time :(
Cheers,
Cory.