Tuesday, July 11. 2006

Open Source GIS Tackles Soybean Rust

It's a regular old, "GIS is helping in agriculture article (GCN)" focusing on a USDA website to help both farmers and researchers tackle soybean rust. Then it gets interesting:

The soybean rust system is an open-source, Linux system. Other than the open-source code and the MapServer GIS mapping applications, ZedX has written the code, [Joe] Russo [ZedX company president and senior scientist] said.

“Open source links us to a larger community of developers. It saves the government and removes any issue of licensing,” he said.

Other government organizations, such as the National Weather Service, are using open source or leaning that way because of the the potential cost savings.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 05:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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