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Open Source Geographic Information Systems

Posted by michael on from the whereami dept.

RGillig writes "The second MapServer Users Meeting and the first ever Open Source GIS Conference was held on June 9th to 11th in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The initial response from the Open Source GIS community is that the conference was a huge success. It was great to have people from private, government, academia, and communities all together discussing how Open Source GIS applies to their needs. Here is a presentation given by Paul Ramsey, Director, Refractions Research Inc. that outlines the current state-of-the-art for Open Source GIS, and includes links and information about all of the current software packages/efforts, etc."

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  1. Re:You don't have a clue by shaitand · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I suppose the politically correct way would be to spend more time time to create the same goddamn thing using OO"

    Exactly what part would take longer to make in OO? Unless perhaps your used to the menu's in MS office (which are by no means intuitive).

    And yes, it makes perfect sense to me that you'd write promote open software in an open format.

    Believe it or not, the open source software you use, like OO. Actually wasn't written and worked on so that leeches such as yourself could get a free ride and then bitch about the people who write the software at every opportunity (while still enjoying your free ride I might add).

    So get off your ass and contribute something back. Or take option B and keep leeching off the sweat and blood of others. But if you choose option A rather than B please do us all a favor and STFU because we volunteered to write some software you can use, we didn't volunteer to hear you whine.