[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC geospatial rights mgt. summit

2009-05-29 Thread P Kishor
I will be attending the OGC Geospatial Rights Mgt. Summit to be held at MIT on June 22. I will be giving a 10 min. lightning talk on SC's thoughts on spatial data, and also be participating in the panel discussions. Please do send me your input on questions/concerns that you would like to see

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC geospatial rights mgt. summit

2009-05-29 Thread Landon Blake
How about OGC support for the Science Commons work on a public domain or creative commons type license for geospatial data. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Mandel
Julia Harrell wrote: Have you considered whether surplused hardware from within your organization could be used for some of this? It may not suffice for a windows server, and i did not see if you already have linux boxes. Surplus would work for a dev/test box, if/when you can manage

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-29 Thread Jason Birch
I think that it's generally less fear of the unknown or job security than it is the cost of adding complexity to what is often an already over-extended support load. In many cases it just makes sense to spend $1000 for a server OS that doesn't require additional training, is easy to get

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparision between MapServer/OpenLayers and ESRI ArcIMS

2009-05-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
John, Your information here is fantastic, and I'd love to see it worked into a case study. This is the sort of information that Government departments ask for all the time. This Open Source stuff sounds great, but who else has used it? Are there any case studies that we can look over? If