[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap birthday

Thu Nov 29 15:57:04 GMT 2012

Congratulations Steve and anyone on the list who contributed to this 
great project! Mkgmap has really become a remarkable application.

On 26/11/2012 21:46, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On this day, 6 years ago, revision 1 was committed to svn.
>
>     $ svn log -r1
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     r1 | steve | 2006-11-26 20:46:08 +0000 (Sun, 26 Nov 2006) | 1 line
>
>     Created mkosmgmap project
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> As you can see it originally had a slightly different, but equally
> hard to pronounce, name.
>
> It took less than a month to get the first working map, primitive as
> it was, and it has grown massively from there.  I never have imagined
> at the time that it would still be getting bigger and better all this
> time later.
>
> I'd like to thank everyone on this list who uses mkgmap and especially
> to those that have helped to develop it in the past and those that are
> doing so now.
>
> To celebrate I thought that I would break everything ;)
>
> I've updated the www.mkgmap.org.uk website to make it easier to add
> content, documentation, short news items about new features etc. in
> the future.
>
> You can now also sign up and get svn access to your own branch on any
> of the projects. If you already have svn access that you've used
> in the last couple of years, then you already have an account with
> the same login details as your svn account.
>
> There may be problems with things missing from the web site,
> subversion commit permissions, commit emails to the mailing lists etc.
> I'll probably notice from the error logs, but if you notice something
> wrong persisting, then let me know.
>
> Best wishes to all.
>
> ..Steve
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