<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">"http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">other FOSS GIS software."</span><br> <br> True to a large extent, but there are some nice exceptions. NIC Chennai, pioneers in using open source for webserving maps. They are also actively evangelising FOSS GIS through participation in OSGeo India chapter.<br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">"There is another effort in India GRAM++ http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm"</span><br> This is a wonderful effort by IIT Mumbai, with active support from Department of Science and Technology. It will set a welcome trend in India if it
is released as Open-Source, and also will assure a continuity for the software unlike those developed earlier (by Isro etc). As an example, ITC Holland has assured ILWIS it's GIS a continued life by joining the Opensource domain.This is one of the most welcoming developments for the Opensource community. Even 'IDRISI', a product from educational institute (http://www.clarklabs.org/), hopefully will follow suite.<br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">The GISDA of Pune-Chindwaramunicipal corporation</span> is a much awaited development, and releasing documentation of the effort will encourage more such efforts. If the data generated for GRASS, Qgis and PostGIS, is released, It will immensely benifit, the FOSS GIS community in India. <br><br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">GIS tools vs GIS label:<br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GIS is more of a principles, of technology and it should not be
labeled with any proprietory product. GIS datasets derived from any software Open Source or even proprietory can be used across platforms, and are indipendant to a large extent.Emphasis is to be on GIS tools and principles, and not on GIS brand labels.<br> <br> Ravi Kumar<br> </span></span><br><b><i>"H.S.Rai" <hardeep.rai@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 8/11/07, Arup Dasgupta <arup @ieee.org=""> wrote:<br>><br>> No body wants to touch OSS because it is perceived to be a nerd thing/<br>> not useful/ not maintainable/etc.<br><br>Can there be possibility of following for perceiving such things:<br><br>a) Lack of confidence/competency<br>b) Getting few events sponsored from vendors<br>c) co mission<br><br>http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and<br>in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS
and<br>other FOSS GIS software.<br><br>There is another effort in India GRAM++<br><br>http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm<br><br>and there may be more such efforts (including NIC's), but problem is<br>they are neither co-ordinating among themselves, nor their products<br>are FREE and / or Opensource. We just want to use FOSS software at the<br>most, but don't release our own developed software as FOSS. So we<br>unable make use of benefits of FOSS.<br><br>> efforts. You can ask Dadhwal what happened to ISROGIS, ISROVISION,<br>> SIPS and GeoSpace.<br><br>If ISRO, NIC, IITB and other such organisations join hands and try to<br>use and refine existing FOSS software, then things can change<br>dramatically, India can save billions of rupees, but at at the cost of<br>loss to software vendors ;-)<br><br>-- <br>H.S.Rai<br>===================<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing
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