[OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

[Helena Mitasova]

Some examples can also be found among contributions for the FOSS4G  
conferences.
One that comes to mind is the migration of Corps of Engineers wetland  
inventory
tools presented at the conference in Victoria (it included  
information about cost
and time savings and other interesting info).

Another place is Mecklenburg county in North Carolina
http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/ft/

Helena


On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, we
>> were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to
>> Geospatial Open Source.
>> The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would
>> be much easier to sell to upper management if they could draw upon
>> experiences of other agencies who have done something similar.
>> Can anyone point me to reports, or programs which have migrated from
>> ESRI/Oracle applications (ArcGIS in particular) to Open Source
>> equivalents?
>
> I guess one of the odd parts about this is that several government  
> agencies went open source to begin with for some things.
>
> CDF was mapping fires in California with Mapserver in 2003
> Nasa wrote Worldwind and invests in other applications.
> Quite a few governments in Europe seem to fund gvsig and some other  
> tools.
> Grass started as a US gov project and if you look through the  
> manuals, you'll find government workers in things like Army Core of  
> Engineers authoring the manual.
> FGDC and CIA both run Plone for their webserver.(Not exactly GIS  
> but abstractly related)
>
> I'll poke around for some converts though since I understand the  
> cause.
>
> Alex
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