Cross-posted from London.pm mailing list.

-----Original Message----- From: Andy Armstrong [mailto:andy@hexten.net] Sent: 20 August 2006 19:36 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: Perl Geospatial Project

I've been doing an informal survey of the various geo, gps, gis and mapping modules on CPAN and while there's certainly a lot of good stuff there, taken collectively CPAN's coverage of geospatial functionality somewhat resembles the state of the email related modules that provided the impetus for the Perl Email Project [1].

I'd like to get started with an effort to rationalise and refactor what's currently there, providing well written, lightweight modules with clean interfaces to cover a well defined set of geospatial functionality - i.e. very much in the spirit of PEP.

To get the ball rolling I've created a mailing list: http://www.hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/geoperl-l

I'm not looking for any particular commitment at this stage - but I'd welcome input from anyone with an interest in this area.

[1] The Wiki homepage of which is currently home to a load of spam.