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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Tony Atkin wrote:
The Open GIS consortium http://www.opengis.org/ is concerned with open interfaces and protocols, not the same thing as open source, but a good thing nevertheless.
Indeed, it's an industry consortium with substantial membership fees.
Anyone with skills at C++ coding (which counts me out) who would like to support an open source GIS project might like to look at Quantum GIS http://qgis.sourceforge.net/ an attempt to build GPL GIS software for unix/linux using the QT libraries. There is a big index of open and free GIS software and data over at http://freegis.org/index.en.html .
There are various opensource GIS projects, any of which could presumably
use use some effort if you cared for it:
* GRASS (academic roots, many years old, still well-reputed)
* OSSIM (run by ImageLinks, a commercial company with excellent
opensource track record)
* UMN Mapserver (for webserver based apps)
* OpenMap (JAVA codebase)
I've not heard of qgis before today.
I am delighted to announce circa £4 million of grants to fund 100 projects around the globe to support organisations wishing to build open web services based on the Open GIS Consortium's interoperability standards. The grants demonstrate Intergraph's commitment to make significant investments in OGC programmes in order to help advance true 'open' collaboration and communication across departments, organisations, and platforms.
Neither OGC nor Intergraph have (AFAIK) any opensource credentials. But thanks for posting, anyway. -- Nick Kew -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.