“GS: Looks like you’ve been around the OSS GIS world for
a while. Can you give us your perspective on its roots and where
its headed?“As I dug into the roots of OSS GIS, I found a tremendous group
of programmers. I was really encouraged to see so many Canadians
involved with the tools I was using, that was a bonus. When you
look at the core of many of the tools, you see some of the same
data access libraries over and over again. Without these libraries,
we’d all be re-inventing the wheel. Special credit needs to be
given to the libraries Frank Warmerdam has produced,
GDAL/OGR…”