I was at the North Carolina GIS conference in Raleigh a few weeks ago and was very impressed by some of the work being down at county-levels. Obviously there is still a very heavy ESRI bias - but with shrinking budgets, no time for training and customized development and lack of support for true interoperability they're looking around.
The most advanced use was the county of Mecklenburg - full open-stack and really good insights on the value the API's and data had on local businesses. The only issue here was the it was all done by a single, incredibly talented developer. Hopefully though through his presentations and documentation that other counties and municipalities can follow his lead - either by using "off the shelf" open tools or even utilizing public repositories to offload that work and just put up to various other systems. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David William Bitner <[email protected] > wrote: > I work for a government airport authority in Minnesota. > > We have an OSGeo Local Chapter where historically most of us have been > government folks. Government GIS mingling also happens through government > sponsored groups around here such as the MN Governor's Council on GIS and > MetroGIS. The largest meeting for government (and business and non-profit) > types in MN is the annual conference put on by the MN GIS/LIS consortium. > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:53 PM, David Fawcett <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I work in state government in Minnesota. >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Charles Greer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Brian Denzer wrote: >> >> >> >> > Do we have any civil service folks on this list at all I wonder? It >> felt at >> > the county that the ESRI user conference was the only place all the gvt >> > types mingled. >> > >> > Charles >> > >> >> - Show quoted text - >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > > -- > ************************************ > David William Bitner > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 [email protected] http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
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