"http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and
in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and
other FOSS GIS software."
True to a large extent, but there are some nice exceptions. NIC Chennai,
pioneers in using open source for webserving maps. They are also actively
evangelising FOSS GIS through participation in OSGeo India chapter.
"There is another effort in India GRAM++
http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm";
This is a wonderful effort by IIT Mumbai, with active support from
Department of Science and Technology. It will set a welcome trend in India if
it is released as Open-Source, and also will assure a continuity for the
software unlike those developed earlier (by Isro etc). As an example, ITC
Holland has assured ILWIS it's GIS a continued life by joining the Opensource
domain.This is one of the most welcoming developments for the Opensource
community. Even 'IDRISI', a product from educational institute
(http://www.clarklabs.org/), hopefully will follow suite.
The GISDA of Pune-Chindwaramunicipal corporation is a much awaited
development, and releasing documentation of the effort will encourage more
such efforts. If the data generated for GRASS, Qgis and PostGIS, is released,
It will immensely benifit, the FOSS GIS community in India.
GIS tools vs GIS label:
GIS is more of a principles, of technology and it should not be labeled with
any proprietory product. GIS datasets derived from any software Open Source
or even proprietory can be used across platforms, and are indipendant to a
large extent.Emphasis is to be on GIS tools and principles, and not on GIS
brand labels.
Ravi Kumar
"H.S.Rai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/11/07, Arup Dasgupta wrote:
>
> No body wants to touch OSS because it is perceived to be a nerd thing/
> not useful/ not maintainable/etc.
Can there be possibility of following for perceiving such things:
a) Lack of confidence/competency
b) Getting few events sponsored from vendors
c) co mission
http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and
in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and
other FOSS GIS software.
There is another effort in India GRAM++
http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm
and there may be more such efforts (including NIC's), but problem is
they are neither co-ordinating among themselves, nor their products
are FREE and / or Opensource. We just want to use FOSS software at the
most, but don't release our own developed software as FOSS. So we
unable make use of benefits of FOSS.
> efforts. You can ask Dadhwal what happened to ISROGIS, ISROVISION,
> SIPS and GeoSpace.
If ISRO, NIC, IITB and other such organisations join hands and try to
use and refine existing FOSS software, then things can change
dramatically, India can save billions of rupees, but at at the cost of
loss to software vendors ;-)
--
H.S.Rai
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