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[News] A Free Software Approach to Mapping Pays Off

  • Subject: [News] A Free Software Approach to Mapping Pays Off
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:41:46 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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


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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. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| "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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