[GRASS5] National Center for Open Source Policy and Research

[Thomas Adams]

There is no U.S. Federal policy on GIS. At best, GIS policy exists on an 
agency-by-agency basis (sometimes at the Dept. level, e.g. maybe at 
Interior). I can say unequivocally thet there is no Dept. of Commerce or 
NOAA or NWS policy on GIS.

Regards,
Tom


Roger Miller wrote:

>I'm not sure how much this can help GRASS in the US.
>
>Several years ago the GAO decided that all federal agencies would use one GIS 
>provider.  They chose ESRI software and that is one of the factors that gave 
>ESRI such a huge share of the US market.  Federal support for other GIS 
>software -- notably GRASS and MOSS -- stopped at about that time.  Major uses 
>of GRASS by Federal agencies (NRCS in particular) were ported to ArcInfo.  
>Research institutions that worked with NRCS (e.g. Texas A&M Blacklands 
>Institute and the Cornell Soil and Water Lab) seem to have drifted away from 
>their commitment to GRASS.
>
>There may be other restrictions on federal agency use of Open Source software.
>
>Roger Miller
>
>On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:21, Michael Barton wrote:
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>>I just came across this new center to help encourage open source software
>>for government agencies. If I understand it correctly, if US government
>>agencies use GRASS and register it here the center will help with
>>distribution of software and information. Might be something to send on out
>>to the user list.
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>><http://www.ncospr.org/index.php>
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>>Michael
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>>School of Human Evolution and Social Change
>>Arizona State University
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