[Xastir] boot from external drive?

[Jason Winningham]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:

> Fortran-based GUIs are, of course, an exercise for the truly  
> interested student.

Or the minimum-wage earning student.  Once upon a time, I implemented  
some text support for a graphics library that was written in FORTRAN- 
IV (which, the historically or chronologically gifted will recall had  
no real character or string support).  I forget the name of the  
graphics package, but I understand the brain will block out certain  
kinds of trauma as a defensive mechanism.

> I'd like, at this point, to start arguing that if we do adopt our  
> own internal format for maps that we produce a product capable of  
> interacting with the Open Geospatial Consortium's standards for GML  
> and servers.

Yeah, if there are already standards, we definitely want to target them.

Given what's going on with the free data (GNIS data loses useful  
fields, TIGER may chage for the worse, etc) I would hope we could  
replace some of the data we're losing with data that is in some of  
the freely available mapservers that are out there.  Maybe somebody  
will even figure out a sane way to replace TIGER with user- 
contributed GPS road tracks, or something along those lines.

> I'll also echo Curt's call for enhanced security here.  We likely  
> want to invoke some implementation of GeoDRM, even though it's got  
> a lot of baggage associated with the name.

I'm gonna assume that GeoDRM is more about appropriate access control  
levels to data and not like ScrewYouDRM as propagated by recording  
industries.

I had assumed Curt was talking about more security aware code, less  
subject to buffer overflow attacks and the like.

-Jason
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