top posting a follow-up to an inquiry re. open source cadastral/lrm systems --
The inquiry was regarding implementation in Ecuador (by SA, I meant South America, not South Africa -- apologies for the repeated confusion I caused). As of Jun 22 (my last conversation with my friend who initiated this query), they had received an ok to post a notice in "Development Business," (which, I assume, is either a paper/online/both outlet for international jobs) for entities with interest and experience in open source solutions in cadastral/lrm systems. They would then invited the respondents to demonstrate their solutions, perhaps 5-10 key functions/applications. Those that respond to the demonstration phase, and do so adequately (whatever that means), would be invited to bid on the project. I have sent another email off to my friend to determine if the notice in dev. biz has already gone out, and if there is a link to it somewhere. I will keep the list posted if I learn something new. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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