[Ica-osgeo-labs] Expanding open source GIS in the public sector - use cases needed

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

It will be really helpful if councils and local governments who already migrated to Open Source GIS  if they can please share their experiences as blogposts to the wider community as done by Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Borough Council  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/03/using-open-source-gis-in-the-public-sector/

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, migrated to using open source GIS in 2015 and has found significant efficiencies in staff time, cost savings and an increase in the number of departments using GIS. Thank you to colleagues at Windsor & Maidenhead Borough for their efforts to support open principles and helping save hardworking taxpayer's money .

The days of Iron curtain strategies by some  Properitary GIS vendors to silence open principles are over (i remember even my emails on Geo4All were not allowed initially on certain mail lists as the administrators did not want to annoy sponsor!). It was one reason that i had to keep emailing (at Geo4All we are just a group of scientists and academics and don't have any marketing departments or big budgets unlike some vendors!) so  my emails is the only way  to make sure open principles message reaches everyone.

So please share your use cases on Open Principles with the wider community . This also links to the need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial [1].


Best wishes,

Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-March/015770.html




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