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

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 11:51:15 PST 2008


Thank you Miguel,
Please keep us informed of your progress, like any level of commitment 
or timeline an agency signs up for.

Miguel Montesinos wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Regarding Valencian Regional Ministry, I can ask about it. Probably there may be some presentation, and it should not be hard to translate into English as part of the spreading of the project. I can do that task.
>
> Regarding the Hydrographic Confederation, I'll contact them. The responsible of that project has moved to another Government Agency, so finding time may be difficult. But I'll encourage him.
>
> Cheers
>
> ---------------------------------
> Miguel Montesinos
> Director Técnico
> PRODEVELOP
> C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10
> 46004 Valencia. Spain
> e-mail: mmontesinos at prodevelop.es
> http://www.prodevelop.es
> Tlf: +34 963510612
>
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:34 PM
>> To: OSGeo Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to 
>> Geospatial FOSS?
>>
>> Miguel,
>> Based upon my very limited Spanish, and skimming the titles, 
>> these look like excellent case studies.
>>
>> Do you think these would be any chance of encouraging the 
>> responsible departments to translate to English?
>>
>> The business case for a sponsor is that sponsoring a Case 
>> Study will greatly increase the chance that other agencies 
>> will also migrate to Open Source, which in turns means these 
>> agencies will invest in Open Source which is good for all Open 
>> Source users.
>>
>> Miguel Montesinos wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello Cameron,
>>>  
>>> In Spain there are several case studies.
>>>  
>>> Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport 
>>>       
>> is under a 
>>     
>>> project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software[1]. As a 
>>> matter of fact, that was the reason to build gvSIG[2]. All 
>>>       
>> geospatial 
>>     
>>> infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source 
>>> (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, geoNetwork opensource).[2]
>>>  
>>> Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir river (Spain). A 
>>>       
>> migration 
>>     
>>> of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with 
>>> use of gvSIG, Geonetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, 
>>>       
>> deegree [3]
>>     
>>>  
>>> [1] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2
>>> [2] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2
>>> [3] 
>>>
>>>       
>> http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pd
>>     
>>> f
>>>  
>>> Sorry [3] is in Spanish.
>>>  
>>> I can provide more if you need.
>>>  
>>> Regards
>>>  
>>>  
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>>
>>> Miguel Montesinos
>>>
>>> Director Técnico
>>>
>>> PRODEVELOP
>>>
>>> C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10
>>>
>>> 46004 Valencia. Spain
>>>
>>> e-mail: mmontesinos at prodevelop.es
>>>
>>> http://www.prodevelop.es
>>>
>>> Tlf: +34 963510612
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
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>>> 	From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>>>       
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of andrea giacomelli
>>     
>>> 	Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:10 AM
>>> 	To: OSGeo Discussions
>>> 	Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating 
>>>       
>> to Geospatial FOSS?
>>     
>>> 	
>>> 	
>>> 	Hi, not sure about the time zones involved in Gary 
>>>       
>> replying...I think he is referring to:
>>     
>>> 	
>>> 	http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/fs-basins4.html
>>> 	
>>> 	Gary, please correct me if I am wrong ;)
>>> 	
>>> 	Regards,
>>> 	
>>> 	Andrea, aka pibinko
>>> 	http://pibinko.altervista.org
>>> 	
>>> 	
>>> 	2008/1/29, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>: 
>>>
>>> 		Yes Gary, that would be great.
>>> 		Do you know where we can find information about this?
>>> 		
>>> 		On Jan 29, 2008 2:07 PM, Gary Watry 
>>>       
>> <gwatry at fsu.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> 		>
>>> 		> Would the U.S. EPA moving from ESRI to Open 
>>>       
>> Source for their Watershed model help
>>     
>>> 		>
>>> 		>
>>> 		> ----- Original Message -----
>>> 		> From: Cameron Shorter
>>> 		> Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 21:39
>>> 		> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for 
>>>       
>> migrating to Geospatial FOSS?
>>     
>>> 		> To: OSGeo Discussions
>>> 		>
>>> 		> > After giving a presentation recently about 
>>>       
>> Geospatial Open Source, we<BR>> 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?
>>> 		> >
>>> 		> > --
>>> 		> > Cameron Shorter
>>> 		> > Geospatial Systems Architect
>>> 		> > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>>> 		> > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>> 		> >
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