[Qgis-user] Brochure from FIG/FAO: FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risk

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all,

I would like to bring to your attention that the FIG (International
Association of Geomatics Engineers), together with the FAO (UN) and the
Swiss federal administration released the brochure titled "FLOSS in
Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risk".

It is available at http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf

They base their software comparison chart on QGIS 1.3, which is a bit
outdated. And sometimes they make wrong statements, like "Quantum GIS is a
light-weight frontend for GRASS data which works also well with PostGIS
data." It would be ok, when it was stated like "Quantum GIS is also a
lightweight frontend for GRASS data ...."

One weakness of QGIS is however topology validation - it is probably one
area where OS competition (such as gvSIG) is ahead.

But it is good to see that they recommend the use of FOSSGIS in
development countries and list samples and use cases, also from
Middle-Europe.

Hopefully this will also result in some business opportunities for
companies involved with FOSS-GIS, so all can profit from each other.

Andreas


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Andreas Neumann
http://www.carto.net/neumann/
http://www.svgopen.org/