[OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

[Cameron Shorter]

Miguel,
Based upon my very limited Spanish, and skimming the titles, these look 
like excellent case studies.

Do you think these would be any chance of encouraging the responsible 
departments to translate to English?

The business case for a sponsor is that sponsoring a Case Study will 
greatly increase the chance that other agencies will also migrate to 
Open Source, which in turns means these agencies will invest in Open 
Source which is good for all Open Source users.

Miguel Montesinos wrote:
> Hello Cameron,
>  
> In Spain there are several case studies.
>  
> Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software[1]. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build gvSIG[2]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, geoNetwork opensource).[2]
>  
> Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir river (Spain). A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, Geonetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree [3]
>  
> [1] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2
> [2] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2
> [3] http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf 
>  
> Sorry [3] is in Spanish.
>  
> I can provide more if you need.
>  
> Regards
>  
>  
>
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> 	From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of andrea giacomelli
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> 	Hi, not sure about the time zones involved in Gary replying...I think he is referring to:
> 	
> 	http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/fs-basins4.html
> 	
> 	Gary, please correct me if I am wrong ;)
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> 	Regards,
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> 	Andrea, aka pibinko
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> 	2008/1/29, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>: 
>
> 		Yes Gary, that would be great.
> 		Do you know where we can find information about this?
> 		
> 		On Jan 29, 2008 2:07 PM, Gary Watry <gwatry at fsu.edu> wrote:
> 		>
> 		> Would the U.S. EPA moving from ESRI to Open Source for their Watershed model help
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> 		> ----- Original Message -----
> 		> From: Cameron Shorter
> 		> Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 21:39
> 		> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?
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> 		> > After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, we<BR>> were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to
> 		> > Geospatial Open Source.
> 		> >
> 		> > The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would
> 		> > be much easier to sell to upper management if they could draw upon
> 		> > experiences of other agencies who have done something similar.
> 		> >
> 		> > Can anyone point me to reports, or programs which have migrated from
> 		> > ESRI/Oracle applications (ArcGIS in particular) to Open Source
> 		> > equivalents?
> 		> >
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