jeudi juillet 07, 2005 GIS, mapping & Open Source
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is not a new technology, it is now clearly a mainstream technology. There are probably serveral reasons for that. GIS devices are affordable : GPS are getting cheaper and cheaper. For example, it is now difficult to buy a car without a built-in GPS. GIS based services are useful and popular : Who would be able to live without Google maps or Map Quest ? GIS devices are more and more open : Some GPS have their own SDK. Some Java ME phones are location aware and provides a location API. This democratisation and openness of GIS leads to several Open Souce efforts including a WFS J2EE based server. Usualy, looking at newly published books of mainstream IT publisher always gives some trends. Here are 3 books from 2 publishers (O'Reilly & A Press) that will be published this month: This also confirm this GIS/democratisation/Open Source trends (and market). Now to the trikcy questions... who owns most of the data and who control the mostly used system ? Tags : OSS GIS ( juil. 07 2005, 12:10:40 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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