Thursday, November 5. 2009

Tuscany's Open Source GIS Evolves

Officials of the Tuscany region (Italy) have published a new version of its GIS website built on SagaDB (Sistema di Accesso Georeferenziato alle Banche Dati).

The development effort began back in 2001and originally used GRASS. The latest version, released under GPL does't use it anymore. The solution supports "the creation of dynamic or pre-processed maps, where the graphic attributes can be processed by either the client or the server."

Why is app open source? "According to [dev team member Viviana] Cossi, the Tuscany regional administration decided to publish Sagabd as open source for two reasons. "Making it available as open source makes it easy to incorporate existing code into a project", she says. Secondly, the region as a matter of principle has a policy to select open source software wherever possible."

- eGov Monitor

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 06:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

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#1 Anon Y. Mouse on 2009-11-05 08:19 (Reply)

Thanks Mouse and sorry Tuscany!

#1.1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2009-11-05 11:32 (Reply)

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