TerraServer Releases Site Upgrade Built on Open Source Technology
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| The new upgrade was made possible by utilizing open source technologies
| including MapServer and PostgreSQL as well as the acquisition of new servers
| and storage.
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http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=20200&trv=1
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Open Source Map site faces success and growing pain
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| The idea was to avoid costly software licenses associated with commercial GIS
| software since the service were originally thought to be of very little
| scope. Nonetheless, we found existing open source GIS software at the time to
| be of a good enough quality to develop complex applications, and with every
| step we raised the stakes from the original project to include routing and
| more.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/29/future-of-open-source-map-site-that-beats-google-maps
Open Source Mapping Database For Broadband Data Recommended
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| A user-generated mapping database could compliment and verify
| existing data collection methods, ITIF said, adding that current
| information is flawed in at least one more way. Recent reports
| from South Dakota indicate 2.5 broadband lines per business
| in that state.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070531/tc_cmp/199703633
Open Source Mapping Database For Broadband Data Recommended
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| A user-generated mapping database could compliment and verify
| existing data collection methods, ITIF said, adding that current
| information is flawed in at least one more way. Recent reports
| from South Dakota indicate 2.5 broadband lines per business
| in that state.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070531/tc_cmp/199703633
DM Solutions Group Announces Support for Open-Source Web Mapping Technology
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| The open-source Web-mapping user community has been growing exponentially
| in the past few years -- the MapServer user base alone is estimated to be
| between 40,000 and 70,000 worldwide. As these communities have grown and
| evolved, user's needs for heightened support have grown with it.
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http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=371640
Mapping the Future of Open Source Data
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| Data sharing may be the next logical step in the movement
| toward open systems and networks.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061117/tc_cmp/194400701
Open-source project treads on Google Maps turf
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| Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the
| likes of Google Maps and Britain's Ordnance Survey by creating
| a free, open-source wiki-style map of the planet.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6134871.html
GOSCON Emphasizes Building Government Community
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| Question: The previews of this year's GOSCON indicate that the Department
| of Defense's new Open Technology Roadmap and at least one of its authors
| will play a prominent role in the conference. Why is it important to
| address the roadmap now?
|
| Bryant: The roadmap comes at a time where there's a great demand for
| this kind of reference model. At the open source lab where I work at OSU,
| the phone is ringing off the hook with questions that you'll find
| sprinkled throughout the roadmap. We get calls from public agencies,
| municipalities and counties about open source development
| methodologies...
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=20267
Open source creeps into mapping software
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| Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), MapGuide Open
| Source enables organizations to develop and distribute spatial and design
| data over the Web.
|
| [...]
|
| "We think there is a direct analogy between what's happening in Web
| mapping [software market], and what happened with Web servers in the
| beginning," Zeiss said, noting that the trend toward commoditization
| had convinced Autodesk to contribute MapGuide Open Source to the OSGF.
|
| "This was a strategic way of creating a much bigger market than we could
| have ever created with a closed-source product," he added.
|
| With an open source product on its cards, Zeiss said Autodesk is also
| following the footsteps of other open-source software vendors--that is,
| to charge for premium services and support.
|
| [...]
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| "To open-source AutoCAD will be giving away valuable trade secrets to
| competitors. There's no prospect for doing that at all," he explained.
|
| IDC noted in a June 2006 report that it is too early to assess the
| long-term impact of Autodesk's open source strategy. "But initial
| indications are that geospatial users and the open source community are
| responding positively, perhaps to the point of shifting Web-based
| geospatial interfaces to a predominantly open source model," the
| analyst company said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61952140,00.htm
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