Hi Bruce,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wrt the Brazillian TerraLib toolkit mentioned in your paper:
- I've had a quick look at the web site. The product appears to be quite
mature and functional.
- Has anyone from this list had a technical look at the products and
like to share their observatio
In putting together some words for the Aust-NZ chapters bid to host the
2009 FOSS4G conf, I went looking at what OSGeo stands for and how we
could answer that mission in our conf hosting bid. I looked at
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html and got the distinct
impression it was quit
Hi Gilberto,
Gilberto Camara schrieb:
> (Markus)
So from my point of view it is possible to compete in the GIS market
using an open source business model without any high-level government
intervention (although it surely helps)
I respectfully disagree. I doubt you could achieve the same
succ
Dear Markus, Frank, and all
I will try to dwell a bit further on some
issues raised by Frank and Markus. Sorry
for the long message. Certain issues deserve it...
Message from Frank Warmerdam
Comments from Gilberto
(Frank)
(...) But, I am left with the impressi
IMO.
Gilberto,
>
> In 2003, I did a F00S4G market survey and published the
> results as a chapter of a US National Academy of Sciences book:
> "Open Source GIS Software: Myths and Realities"
> .
>
> We analysed 70 FOSS4G software projects taken from the
> FreeGIS list, and divided them into t
David,
Thanks for that example. I typically work with GIS in
"single-desktop"situations, and I never really consider the problems of scaling
a custom GIS solution over a network might bring.
I appreciate the ability to use scripting to increase productivity. It is
something we try to do with o
Just a short response,
The best reception I ever got about open source in government was by saving a
project (in the gov) a measureable amount of money (enough to have someone take
a risk on saving money anyhow) and by drasticaly increasing productivity. This
was achieve by moving from an older
