[GRASS5] National Center for Open Source Policy and Research

[roger at spinn.net]

Thanks.  I stand corrected.

My sources were with the Department of Interior (USGS, BoR, BLM, NRCS, etc).


Roger Miller

Quoting Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov>:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> <http://www.ncospr.org/index.php>
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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