http://www.blacksworld.net/blog free maps - free beer - free love Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/presentations/open-source-tools-for-geoinformatics/comment-page-1/#comment-3648 Neogeography and the AGI: Have they got the wrong idea? | OMB Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:23:18 +0000 http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/?page_id=89#comment-3648 [...] There’s a lot of cross over between the worlds of neo-geography and the worlds of Free and open source software (FOSS) and neo-geography, but they are not the same thing. FOSS applications exist that fill every space of the geo-stack - from heavyweight databases to desktop GIS to rendering engines. I talked about FOSS for geo-informatics at UCL earlier this year and have a brief list of applications here. FOSS exists to provide free alternatives to proprietary software and to create new software that might not exist if a proprietary form. FOSS projects usually have a focus on democracy and equal access and are based on the fundamental principal that everyone should have access to the source code. [...] [...] There’s a lot of cross over between the worlds of neo-geography and the worlds of Free and open source software (FOSS) and neo-geography, but they are not the same thing. FOSS applications exist that fill every space of the geo-stack – from heavyweight databases to desktop GIS to rendering engines. I talked about FOSS for geo-informatics at UCL earlier this year and have a brief list of applications here. FOSS exists to provide free alternatives to proprietary software and to create new software that might not exist if a proprietary form. FOSS projects usually have a focus on democracy and equal access and are based on the fundamental principal that everyone should have access to the source code. [...]

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