Just forwarded got an interesting email today, I'll quote some of it;
-------- ...came back from a federal LiDAR conference last week complaining about MAPPS (a lobbying group for engineers, architects and surveyors) agenda to restrict the practice of GIS, mapping, and other geospatial activities to licensed engineers, architects, and surveyors. Their latest attack takes the form of a lawsuit that would require the government to amend the regulations used to implement the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act so that all government contracting for any geospatial related services would have to be awarded to an engineering or architectural firm. A previous lawsuit by MAPPS forced the USGS to abandon its topographic mapping program. --------- I'm not so sure about the facts in that last sentence. I think that's a reference to the esri/grass/usacoe bit from a number of years ago. Here's a link to relevant docs and the like; http://www.aag.org/help/links.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
