I think that Redlands is seeing some of this too and is working hard on state-wide enterprise licenses.
The other thing about working for the State of MN right now is the projected $5 Billion deficit. Tim will have to come here to talk because most of us can't get approval for a Motel 6 in rural MN, let alone an out of state trip to a conference. Locally, we have obviously had MapServer, but the GeoMoose http://www.geomoose.org/moose/ project grew out of the City of St. Paul, and has worked to make it easy for local governments to create Web maps for property info, assets, etc. Bitner has done some nice work with PostGIS at the airport too. We have a local OSGEO chapter. David. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Charles Greer <[email protected]> wrote: > Wasn't surprising to see Minnesota speak up -- a shining light in gvt open > source GIS for a long time. I'm glad to hear of changes afoot. Although I'm > not doing GIS or government work now, part of why left government work for > O'Reilly was my isolation from Open Source in government computing. > > Tim O is very interested these days in getting more involved with > government, and has always been into GIS, but there's not a lot of focus on > local government, where as you all know most GIS data comes from. If > there's anything that could be rolled up into a get together for Where 2.0 > or wherecamp I'd be happy to represent for O'Reilly. I've known Bruce > Joffee for a long time too; perhaps he could be brought more explicitly into > the open source camp. > > Charles _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
