Re: [OSGeo_discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India

2007-08-11 Thread H . S . Rai
On 8/11/07, Arup Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No body wants to touch OSS because it is perceived to be a nerd thing/ not useful/ not maintainable/etc. Can there be possibility of following for perceiving such things: a) Lack of confidence/competency b) Getting few events sponsored from

Re: [OSGeo_discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India

2007-08-11 Thread RAVI KUMAR
http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and other FOSS GIS software. True to a large extent, but there are some nice exceptions. NIC Chennai, pioneers in using open source for webserving maps.