MapLinx or ESRI Buisness Map OSS Replacement

[Luke -Jr]

A Qt app (the GUI) would be quite portable to Windows and OSX... so this 
wouldn't necessarily need to be a Linux-only project, either. So even if 
non-Linux users are interested, they might be able to work on the project as 
well...

On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:14, you wrote:
> I know of a guy who has built his own mapping engines and put together
> location data from public sources.  He's pretty busy, but he might at
> least be able to shed light on certains topics if needed.  Shannon
> Larratt has built many location fetures into bmezine.com and it's
> sister sites.  He's also recently gone Linux and runs Xubuntu on his
> laptop.  He's been moving to UNIX from Windows for a while.  He's done
> some really nifty custom work, including a worldwide location mapper,
> etc.
>
> Jon.
>
> On 11/16/06, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > I mentioned that we could start an open source mapping project in the IRC
> > channel a while back... I'm still interested if we can find enough
> > developers and mappers to make it worth the effort.