FOSS GIS in Africa WAS Re: [postgis-users] postgis & php

[Allan Doyle]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 01:19, Paul Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:55 -0500, Nelson Guda wrote:
>> Many thanks for the detailed help!  It is greatly appreciated!  I
>> will probably have a chance to try it out this weekend.
>> nelson
>>
>
> Nelson,
>
> I am busy setting up a site for African Free Software GIS where this
> project will have a dedicated content area, with discussion forums,  
> wiki
> etc that people can use to collaborate. I would like to invite you to
> join the site, and add your questions/comments there as well.
>
> The URL is: http://fsiu.uwc.ac.za/gis/

Thanks for the link.

I added this to the list of links here:
http://www.eogeo.org/Projects/projects_wiki/ 
GeographicAndTechnicalAssistanceLinks - I wasn't quite sure what the  
call it, so I put it under "African FOSS GIS" for now.

There's also a more general FOSS effort in South Africa at http:// 
floss.meraka.org.za/

	Allan

>
> Anyone else on this list that is interested in helping out with this
> site, are more than welcome to join too. There is a section  
> dedicated to
> PostGIS already (although I haven't had time to populate any content
> yet).
>
> This site is primarily to foster awareness of FOSS based GIS  
> options in
> Africa, as well as a means to create collaborative communities around
> Africa in a number of GIS projects.
>
> If anyone would like to start creating content for PostGIS, please let
> me know...
>
> --Paul
>
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