[OSGeo Africa] 1: 500 000 hydrogeological maps of south africa

Gavin gavinjfleming at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 02:43:29 EST 2012


I'm with you there Paul

This is a FOSS GIS list so please keep on topic. 

As Paul says, employers should not be asking software-specific
questions. Government employers especially, seeing that we have an Open
Source policy in South Africa and ALL government GIS and other software
WILL be FOSS within a few years. 

In the same vein, government tenders are not allowed to request specific
software. Rather, they have to request a solution. This enables ALL
software and solutions providers an opportunity to bid while the FOSS
industry grows. Eventually Government tenders will enforce FOSS software
requirements.

Please help lobby and advocate FOSS in your environment, especially if
you work in Government. Start by sharing GIS tenders and job adverts on
this list and acting as watchdogs for tenders and job adverts that name
proprietary software - share them on this list so that action can be
taken. 

Gavin    

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:11 +0200, Paul Scott wrote:

> So many proprietary software specific questions? Why? Rather ask
> around concepts, not functions in specific software packages - those
> can be learned.
> 
> This is OSGeo right? OS being relevant at some point?
> 
> Just checking...
> 
> -- Paul
> 
> On 21/02/2012 11:46, Tshikororo.J wrote:
> > Define versioning and list its main events How will release com
> > objects. If you want to update 'n' number of features in
> > featureclass which interface will you use (performance wise) What
> > is Callback in ArcGIS Server? Explain security model employed in
> > ArcGIS Server . Whats new in 9.3? What is projection ? What are
> > different projection systems and what is difference between
> > projected coordinated system and geographic coordinate system What
> > is a scale.? What is geocoding? What is reverse geocoding? What is
> > geo-referencing? What is geo-processing? What is ArcSDE. What is
> > database which you used?. If two persons updating the particular
> > row of the table in database?. How does the system work?. How do
> > you load data into SDE? How will create a SDE view? What is an
> > interface to implemented for callback ? What is difference between
> > queryfilter and querydef?, when to use ? Difference between
> > IFeatureLayer and Layer What is generic class used to hold a set of
> > properties for database connection? Whether every controls in Web
> > ADF has a property "CallBackresults"? Give few command line ArcSDE
> > commands? Difference beteween personal geodatabase and enterprise
> > geodatabase What is ASP.NET AJax model used in ArcGIS Server 9.3
> > and 9.3 What is BLOB? What is difference between Overriding and
> > overloading Difference between abstract class and interface What is
> > GPS ?
> 
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