Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Israel and Romanian local chapter?

2008-02-26 Thread Micha Silver
Hi Tyler: I'd certainly be pleased if there were more OSGeo activity here in Israel (and adoption of other open source software as well). However ESRI is very solidly implanted here. For the most part Israelis equate GIS with Arcview, and are not aware of alternatives. In my estimation,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Israel and Romanian local chapter?

2008-02-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Micha Silver ha scritto: ESRI is very solidly implanted here. For the most part Israelis equate GIS with Arcview, and are not aware of alternatives. In my estimation, there's an uphill climb before reaching the level where we can start talking about a local chapter. A more positive word:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Israel and Romanian local chapter?

2008-02-25 Thread Vasile Craciunescu
Hello Tyler, I was a little quiet in the last two months. As we already wrote on the mailing list we are very interested in creating a Romanian local chapter. I'm saying we as the local community gathered around http://www.geo-spatial.org. More about this topic was posted at