[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India

[RAVI KUMAR]

Hi,
"If not for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the
initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences,
the GRASS mirror site in India, would not have
been hosted"

Rightly said.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives
taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, is a shining
example of usage and spread of FOSS GIS in India. 

Infact this publication (2004 FOSS GIS Seminar,
Bakgkok) was very inspiring.
    "Geographic Resources Decision Support System for
land use, land cover dynamics analysis
    Dr. Ramachandra T.V.
    Uttam Kumar, CES, Indian Institute of Science"
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/

The IISc also added GRDSS a GIS to the FOSS GIS
arsenal.

Hope this will not remain as one of those rare
examples, and other educational institutes will follow
and benefit from FOSS GIS.

Ravi Kumar




--- Sudhira H S <hs.sudhira at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to clarify on one aspect relating to
> GIS in educational
> institutes. If not for Indian Institute of Science
> (IISc) and the
> initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences,
> the GRASS mirror site
> in India
> <http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/grass/index.php>
> would not have
> been hosted. Besides I personally know couple of my
> friends here who are
> using QGIS and GRASS. Indeed for the last couple of
> training programmes on
> GIS and Remote Sensing delivered here, we used QGIS
> (with GRASS plug-in) for
> the lab sessions and we did away with MapInfo as
> well!
> 
> Regards,
> Sudhira
> 
> 
> > GIS in educational institutes:
> > Markus Neteler visited and did some work with Anna
> > University Chennai, in early nineties, and they
> still
> > show GRASS GIS in their syllabus. But
> unfortunately
> > there are no takers. There are more than a hundred
> (an
> > approximation) institutes and universities in
> India
> > that offer courses in Geomatics, Remotesensing,
> > including the IITs( top educational institutes of
> the
> > land). All of them teach proprietary GIS (ARC and
> > ERDAS) and  image processing software. The reason,
> > they are driven by the industry's needs, and it is
> a
> > fact that jobs are there for those well versed in
> > proprietary software.
> >
> >
> -- 
>
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> Research Scholar, Ph.D.,
> Department of Management Studies and Centre for
> Sustainable Technologies,
> Indian Institute of Science,
> Bangalore - 560 012, Karnataka State, INDIA
>
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