[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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> 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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>>> >
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