On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:54 PM, STEPHEN STANTON <sstan...@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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?
You are off by a continent. SA = South America, not South African. In any case, Tanzania née Zanzibar would be Eastern Africa, no? > > Please ignore me if you're not at liberty to name names. I don't know if I can name names, so I am withholding on doing so until I can determine for sure. > > 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 > -- 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