Free Software and the Spatial Data Infrastructure

Dec 20, 2001, 10:44 (2 Talkback[s])

Franck writes:

The following paper describes how free software can contribute to the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and how Free software can benefit from SDI.

This paper also describes the various offerings in Geomatic software and where Free software is positioned against non-free counterparts.

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