Research Worksheet

Usage

This topic is used as a staging area for open-source in government. Use it to note sites or stories that look interesting and need further exploration. Eventually notes will move to content on the open-source government web or be dropped (note: any material removed from the current topic view can always be referenced by going back to earlier revision control views of the topic).

Open What

Open Standards (minimum)
- see !OpenGIS
Open source-code (best)

Notes (for Gov)

From the Economist

The Open Source Dilemma for Governments

Open GIS Consortium

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through our member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. Adopted specifications are available for the public's use at no cost

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