Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN's program..: ESRI and cities mapping

2007-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi Ravi, As a UN employee I guess I have to react on your statement :-) As UN we are trying to provide and use quite a bit of open source technologies. The OSGeo GeoNetwork opensource that I work on is an example of that and there are a number of other activities existing or starting up. tak

[OSGeo-Discuss] UN's program..: ESRI and cities mapping

2007-09-25 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi all, It is unfortunate that United Nations nearly advocates Proprietory GIS. Time we react to this. The developing world is already throwing billions into un-sustainable Proprietory GIS for various GIS jobs. Fope the FOSS4G will discuss this and send a memorandum to UN.. ww2.