Open Source GIS

Open Source vs Open Standards

Open Source Initiative, OSGEO, Sourceforge Motivation
Standards: OGC, W3C, ISO, etc Linus quote
  Sharing, building...

Software/Car analogy

Desktop Client vs Web Client

gvSig, Quantum, Udig, ILWIS, DeeGree, JUMP, GRASS Still not competitive with COTS, closing in...
Mapserver, Autodesk Mapguide, Mapnik, Sharpmap, GeoServer Way better than COTS!!!
Stack: Linux, Apache, Mapserver, PostGIS Our "best practices" setup

Web Mapping examples

Simple CGI with PHP/Mapscript

usgs nasa, glaciers testmap

mapfile

PHTML file - PHP/Mapscript with no fancy Javascript

Production Examples from PSU

LEP - Limited English Proficiency (old LEP)

Glaciers - Glacier Change Database of Western US

Oregon Geology

OSCDL - Oregon Sustainable Communities

LiDAR

NGMDB Geo Srch

Other "frameworks"

OpenLayers, NGMDB Geographic search

Fusion

MapFish

Ka-Map ver 0.2

GMap

FIST

p.mapper

 

Randoms

parallel processing (realtime decision support?): OSSIM, Grass?, PostGreSQL

GNIS

OGC

Geos

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