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Our local police forces are going through a merger, looking to save money, seem to be struggling with very twentieth-century looking software, like someone took a paper based system and reworked it in Visual Basic. <br>
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Anyway, I find their problems really interesting. I'm fantasising about getting free software + open geodata quickly solving some of the problems. <br>
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OSGeo tools are obviously at the heart of that. And OSGeo with its guarantee of standard quality, persistence, should help as a convincer for what remains of their upper management. A glossy information pack would help, is there something like that around that one can send off for? <br>
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My previous employer, EDINA, are big OSGeo users in the way that fish are big water users - what do you mean, option? - and I could invite them in to tell reassuring stories about things becoming more reliable and manageable as they migrated. (They still work with Cadcorp as well, though) <br>
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Now, I don't know about the ethics of this: OSGeo would also serve as a flag of convenience for me. It would be "may I come and talk to you about OSGeo" rather than "may I talk to you as some kind of private consultant" (which I wouldn't really be doing either. I mostly just want a good look around). I mean, I would do justice to it too, I would hope. Would that be all right. <br>
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