Open Source GIS Index

[Ben Lewis]

Thanks Matt, I will make those changes.

The site is embryonic - one thing this will be eventually is a very 
comprehensive index which didn't seem to be out there.  Freegis.org is a 
great site, but didn't meet my personal needs.  As a consultant trying to 
make the case for open source GIS tools to people who only know ESRI or 
Erdas or Intergraph or AutoCAD, I wanted a site that is a bit gonzo in 
completeness and casts the net broadly in terms of what constitutes relevant 
software, focuses on software, and is easy to look stuff up on. At least 
that's the idea...

- Ben


>From: "Matt.Wilkie" <Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca>
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: Open Source GIS Index
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:33:34 -0800
>
> > Since getting bitten by the open source bug a couple years
> > ago i've been  building a list of URLs to such GIS software
> > efforts.  I have found this  list handy and finally organized
> > it and put it out there:  http://opensourcegis.org
>
>Thanks Ben, I hadn't discovered this one yet. Is there something
>you do, or plan to, which is appreciably different from FreeGIS.org?
>Just wondering if I should of this as a mirror of sorts or a
>project which only looks that way because it is still embryonic.
>
> > I believe a number of you run projects mentioned here. If you
> > see good ones  missing or would like your project to read
> > differently please email me.  I  tried to take descriptive text
> > from the projects themselves.  Didn't always know the license tho...
>
>-BLM GIS Utilities is public domain
>-dbf2info is public domain.
>
>-FIASCO is no more. :(
>"3/5/2001: Since my Ph.D. supervisor claims copyright of some parts of the
>FIASCO source code, I removed all sources and binaries. The sources are not
>under the GPL anymore, until the situation is clear. Moreover, do not use
>the already distributed code. Thanks for you co-operation. "
>
>
>-matt
>
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>Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS
>http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/
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