[postgis-users] [OT] Digital Freedom Expo - South Africa

[Tomas Lanczos]

Hello,

I am working on an offer to the Ministry of Environment in Slovakia a
solution for potential pollution point source management (database and
preliminary risk assessment) based on Postgres/Postgis, Grass and
Mapserver. It could be nice if we have an overview of Postgres/Postgis
and other OSS applications used in state administration all over the
world to show up an example.

BTW, here in Slovakia an EDCL (European Driving Computer Licence or
what) exam is required for employees in state administration - it's
scandalous that in fact it is about using of MS products. Is it the same
in other European countries?

Regards

Tomas Lanczos
Comenius University in Bratislava

Julio Galindo wrote:
> Dear Paul,
> 
> 
> 
> In my country Bolivia, during the last ten years we have the same problem.
> The universities only teach to use commercial software, and by this mistake
> the country suffer the consequences. As you know, the cadastral is an
> extensive GIS – legal problem that it must be develop for each country
> (under his local regulations). It is impossible to any country to buy a
> cadastral system from other country and use it.
> 
> 
> 
> The main problem is that if the students at the universities don't know how
> to develop a GIS-cadastral system, as it is the case now here, they are not
> able to develop software for the specific needs of the country. To make
> short the history, the 9 biggest cities in the country spent millions of
> dollars buying software from the international market and they discover
> that
> they can't use it; neither they can't find people with the knowledge to
> develop or at least "adjust" the existing software to their needs.
> 
> 
> 
> By other way, we developed a complete cadastral system based on Postgis,
> which now is working in 6 cities (unfortunately all the web pages at the
> present are not open to the public). And during this month it is under test
> in La Paz, the main city of the country. The tremendous advantage of the
> open source, free software is so big, that our organization is donating the
> use of this software to the entire country. The use of Postgis in
> economical
> terms, represents that Bolivia will not spent 40 millions dollars in the
> next five years!
> 
> 
> 
> Please let me know about your demonstration and experience, and have good
> luck.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Julio A. Galindo Q.
> 
> Topogen Ltda.
> 
> La Paz, Bolivia.
> 
> 
> On 4/17/07, Paul Scott <pscott at uwc.ac.za> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I will be demonstrating PostGIS at the Digital Freedom Expo at the
>> University of the Western Cape - http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za - on
>> Thursday and Friday this week at our stand.
>>
>> If anyone would like to add some ideas as to what to demo, or send me
>> some URL's of sites that are quite exceptional in terms of the use of
>> PostGIS, I would greatly appreciate it!
>>
>> I have recently done quite a lot of advocacy for PostGIS to the local
>> (South African) GIS community,
>>
>> http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=init_9465_1175672268&userid=7876061207and
>> I think that things should start picking up from this corner of the
>> world very soon!
>>
>> Wish me luck!
>>
>> --Paul
>>
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