<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Olivier and all, <br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm a 5 years old user of Mapserver, and I'm sure that is the best web mapping option so far (and it will be for so long).<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You could always read in the Mapserver's site: <span style="font-weight: bold;">MapServer is not a
full-featured GIS system, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">nor does it aspire to be</span>.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That is why I was looking for another options which take care of the "<span style="font-style: italic;">functional holes</span>" of Mapserver. Then I found the awesome, </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">little but powerful TinyOWS project.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I know that the merge with Mapserver can have some benefits, but I really think that TinyOWS must be apart from the <br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mapserver project.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That is my very humble
opinion.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div> </div><div><font style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0, 96, 191);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2">IC Carlos Ruiz</font><br><br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Olivier Courtin <olivier.courtin@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TinyOWS users discuss list <tinyows-users@lists.maptools.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 8, 2011 12:14 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TinyOWS-users] [Important] Merging TinyOWS project with MapServer one<br></font><br>Hi folks,<br><br>Since months, there's discussion
to put TinyOWS project under<br>MapServer umbrella.<br><br>The main idea is to bring end users, something more integrated, more<br>powerfull and also<br>more widely tested.<br>The TinyOWS MapFile config file parser was a first step in this<br>direction, to allow a single<br>config file for both apps.<br><br>Current discussions documents could be found there:<br><br><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TinyOWSModGeocacheIntegration" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TinyOWSModGeocacheIntegration</a><br><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TinyOWSModGeocacheIntegration-UserNotice" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TinyOWSModGeocacheIntegration-UserNotice</a><br><a href="http://mapserver.org/es/development/rfc/ms-rfc-70.html" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/es/development/rfc/ms-rfc-70.html</a><br><br><br>To be practical, for TinyOWS users, things who will change are:<br>- mailings list (we will
use MapServer ones instead)<br>- name of the application will become: MapServer TinyOWS<br>- documentation will be put on mapserver.org website.<br>- adding a new feature will imply a MapServer PSC discussion and<br> a related vote rather than a autocratic Yes or No from myself ^^.<br>- And we hope it will leads to allow new users to play with TinyOWS<br><br><br>If something need to be cleared for you,<br>it could be the moment, before anything is yet voted.<br><br>-- <br>Olivier<br>_______________________________________________<br>TinyOWS-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TinyOWS-users@lists.maptools.org" href="mailto:TinyOWS-users@lists.maptools.org">TinyOWS-users@lists.maptools.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tinyows-users" target="_blank">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tinyows-users</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>