[OSRS-PROJ] commercial apps

Jan-Oliver Wagner jan at intevation.de
Wed Sep 19 00:02:36 PDT 2001


Hi Marc,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:23:37PM -0600, Marc Pelletier wrote:
> Can anyone tell me about commercial apps using Proj4 for their projection 
> engine? I'm trying to make a case against roll-our-own for my boss.

we will soon release a commercial application that uses PROJ.
It will be free software, so I like you to not set equal commercial
and proprietary. In the area of free software you will  find several
products using PROJ. Frank, how about maintaining a list
of all the products (free and not free) that use PROJ?

I recommend not to develop your own projection. The costs would
be immense where testing would take the most.
You can better spend far less money when you adopt a free software
library and pay the maintainer to quickly fix or extend where needed.
So, PROJ itself is a commercial product (Frank Warmerdam can
offer professional service for PROJ and from my personal
experience he is doing a very good job).

All the best

	Jan

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