[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS

[Ravi]

Hi,
nice to know this development that Ecuador wishes Open Source Solution for Land records management.

Some clarification needed:
'Non Commercial Open Source' --> Does this mean that they dont want company to sell them a open source solutions / services ?

COPY PASTING THE CONCERNED LINES
'all software at the national level must be
non-commercial open source'. 
OR
Commercial to be read as Proprietary

Ravi Kumar

--- On Thu, 15/7/10, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Thursday, 15 July, 2010, 8:54 PM
> top posting a follow-up to an inquiry
> re. open source cadastral/lrm systems --
> 
> The inquiry was regarding implementation in Ecuador (by SA,
> I meant
> South America, not South Africa -- apologies for the
> repeated
> confusion I caused).
> 
> As of Jun 22 (my last conversation with my friend who
> initiated this
> query), they had received an ok to post a notice in
> "Development
> Business," (which, I assume, is either a paper/online/both
> outlet for
> international jobs) for entities with interest and
> experience in open
> source solutions in cadastral/lrm systems. They would then
> invited the
> respondents to demonstrate their solutions, perhaps 5-10
> key
> functions/applications. Those that respond to the
> demonstration phase,
> and do so adequately (whatever that means), would be
> invited to bid on
> the project.
> 
> I have sent another email off to my friend to determine if
> the notice
> in dev. biz has already gone out, and if there is a link to
> it
> somewhere. I will keep the list posted if I learn something
> new.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to
> each one of you
> > separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add
> more info to
> > this query.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm
> that develops such
> >> a product catering to cadastral and land records
> management, but using
> >> a completely open source stack?
> >>
> >
> > A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a
> new policy that
> > all software at the national level must be
> non-commercial open source.
> > A nice idea, but it plays havoc with their current
> cadastral and
> > registry records management system running on a
> commercial,
> > closed-source (well known) software platform. They now
> want to expand
> > from a few municipality pilot to 10 times as many
> munis, and to
> > eventually cover the entire country in the next
> decade. Their desire
> > is to try replicate the current system using open
> source software.
> >
> > They have an estimate for the programming job,
> primarily based on the
> > amount spent on programming the current system (not
> including the
> > licenses for the base, commercial software). Their
> hope is to spend a
> > similar amount programming an open source solution
> that can be
> > replicated in the 200 or so munis without any
> additional cost for the
> > software licenses.
> >
> > They have seen at least one other open source
> cadastral system
> > implemented in a country in Africa, but found that
> system to be very
> > weak, amateurish.
> >
> > --
> > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
> > Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
> > Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org
> > Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
> > Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
> >
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