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An Introduction to Open Source Geospatial Tools (O'ReillyNet)

Tyler Mitchell presents an overview of open-source Geospatial tools on O'Reilly. "The development of open source geospatial software is an exciting part of the new geospatial landscape. Open source project offerings cover the spectrum of tools: command-line data conversion, spatially aware enterprise databases, internet mapping applications, desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) applications, geoprocessing libraries, and more."
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5 years of www.FreeGIS.org

Posted Jun 13, 2005 17:08 UTC (Mon) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

End of 1999 I was founding www.FreeGIS.org together with my friends at Intevation. Over the years we collected many Free Software components for geospatial processing and it is nice to see the word spreading now and more application to be written.

A bit of concern arises from the java trap that many of the new developments have fallen into. But there are alternatives...

5 years of www.FreeGIS.org

Posted Jun 13, 2005 19:23 UTC (Mon) by frankie (subscriber, #13593) [Link]

In debian-gis we are trying to port applications to free VMs, in order to avoid the non-free trap of java-based software. See the subproject page at
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JavaList

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