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I know there are some local and district municipalities in South
Africa who have gone partly or completely Open Source. I encourage
you to share your stories as per the request below. Come on Joe
Gqabi DM!<br>
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<td>[Ica-osgeo-labs] Expanding open source GIS in the public
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<td>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:02:29 +0000</td>
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<td>Suchith Anand <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk"><Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk></a></td>
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color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear colleagues,<br>
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It will be really helpful if councils and local
governments who already migrated to Open Source GIS if
they can please share their experiences as blogposts to
the wider community as done by
<b>Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Borough
Council</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/03/using-open-source-gis-in-the-public-sector/"
target="_blank">https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/03/using-open-source-gis-in-the-public-sector/</a> <br>
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Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, migrated to using
open source GIS in 2015 and has found significant
efficiencies in staff time, cost savings and an increase
in the number of departments using GIS. Thank you to
colleagues at Windsor & Maidenhead Borough for their
efforts to support open principles and helping save
hardworking taxpayer's money .<br>
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The days of Iron curtain strategies by some Properitary
GIS vendors to silence open principles are over (i
remember even my emails on Geo4All were not allowed
initially on certain mail lists as the administrators did
not want to annoy sponsor!). It was one reason that i had
to keep emailing (at Geo4All we are just a group of
scientists and academics and don't have any marketing
departments or big budgets unlike some vendors!) so my
emails is the only way to make sure open principles
message reaches everyone.<br>
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So please share your use cases on Open Principles with the
wider community . This also links to the need for National
level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial [1].<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith Anand<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.geoforall.org"
target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org</a> <br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-March/015770.html"
target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-March/015770.html</a> </div>
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