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GIS FOSS
Alternatives to COTSIs it time for a change?
Blair AdamsChief Consulting OfficerCity and County of San FranciscoApril 5th, 2007
 
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Agenda
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Why now?Maturity of FOSS
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Virtual Appliances
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Creative CommonsTechnological Perfect Storm?
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ExamplesResources
 
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Why Now?
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Web 2.0 raises the web GIS barGrandma can use it now
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Open standards facilitate Service Oriented Architecture
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Web Feature Service (WFS), vectorWeb Map Service (WMS), raster
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Keyhole Markup Lookup (KML), vector
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‘Legacy’ open source paves the pathApache most popular webserver since April 1996
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60% websites use Apache todayNetcraft Web Server Survey (January, 2007)
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