Hi Puneet, Now I'm having fun trying to guess where you're talking about! I just read about an ArcGIS-based pilot that was done a couple of years ago for Zanzibar - so is it Tanzania?
Please ignore me if you're not at liberty to name names. Steve Stanton --- On Tue, 22/6/10, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS > To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> > Date: Tuesday, 22 June, 2010, 6:12 > Hi all, > > Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each > one of you > separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more > info to > this query. > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm > that develops such > > a product catering to cadastral and land records > management, but using > > a completely open source stack? > > > > A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new > policy that > all software at the national level must be non-commercial > open source. > A nice idea, but it plays havoc with their current > cadastral and > registry records management system running on a > commercial, > closed-source (well known) software platform. They now want > to expand > from a few municipality pilot to 10 times as many munis, > and to > eventually cover the entire country in the next decade. > Their desire > is to try replicate the current system using open source > software. > > They have an estimate for the programming job, primarily > based on the > amount spent on programming the current system (not > including the > licenses for the base, commercial software). Their hope is > to spend a > similar amount programming an open source solution that can > be > replicated in the 200 or so munis without any additional > cost for the > software licenses. > > They have seen at least one other open source cadastral > system > implemented in a country in Africa, but found that system > to be very > weak, amateurish. > > -- > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org > Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org > Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org > Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor > Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with > evidence is science > ======================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss