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Open Source Geospatial Projects Openly Developed?

posted by Satri on Friday October 20, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the come-in-we're-open dept.
Open Source Community OSGeo Software
The Hobu blog has a nice entry about the development process of open source geospatial projects. It reviews all major geospatial open source projects, including ERMapper's ECW, GEOS, GDAL, MapServer and more, with some words on the OSGeo. From the entry's conclusion: "Open source projects, even in the GIS domain, vary widely with respect to their development practices and how open or closed they are. As an open source developer, volunteer, and user, I'm attracted to projects that are openly developed. I will not invest much effort in something where my stake, in effort, is not recognized and respected. Finally, a significant measure of OSGeo's success or non-success in my mind is how good of a job it does at fostering and ensuring open development of its member projects."

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There has been some discussion lately about if open source GIS software is about the users or the developers. The thread started with this story from Paul Ramsey, then Steve's Little World answered and back to Paul. The thread offer really interesting comments, including from Paul: "It is just straightforward observation that if you aren't adding code, documentation, bug reports, or user support to a project, if you are just downloading and using the software, you are not adding any value to the project. From the project point of view, you might as well not exist." There's also Spatial Galaxy worthed entry.
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