I think we should create a list of best desktop GIS FOSS case studies. First of all this list will be useful to anyone who considers desktop GIS FOSS for a project as an viable alternative.
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1I guess this should be community wiki?– underdark ♦Aug 11, 2010 at 15:09
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you can also do a question per domain. i.e. FOSS experience in Transportation, Bio, Planning, Bio, etc ...– dassoukiAug 11, 2010 at 15:27
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im new to all this, if community wiki means that anyone can edit, then sure– dodobasAug 11, 2010 at 15:30
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i'm not sure if community wiki 'questions' supposed to have answers or we can always edit question itself?– dodobasAug 13, 2010 at 6:09
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When you're asking a question where the collection of answers is the answer (here, all the various case studies) you should make it community wiki. Each case study should get its own answer, and then people can vote them up or down based on how interesting/useful that particular study is.– Matt ParkerAug 13, 2010 at 15:21
5 Answers
Please add to this answer as you find more!
QGIS
- Working with QGIS in a spatial data infrastructure of Jalisco in Mexico
- Quantum GIS and GRASS in Biogeographical Research in the Iberian Peninsula
- QGIS - an interesting instrument for forestry planning concepts at local and regional level
- QGIS in the governmental FOSSGIS stack of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland
- QGIS as major GIS software in the Laboratory on Experimental and Applied Geography
- QGIS and GRASS applied to paleontological survey in Western Portugal
OpenGeo
- Advanced WEB based vector editing for Swedish Postal Service
- WEB based trip planner built on OpenGeo stack
- GeoServer WFS-T services maintained by Information Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland
- Netherlands WEB based national infrastructure of canals, dams and dikes map portal
- City of New York WFS/GML map viewer
- State of Massachusetts geoportal (851 data layers, ~1TB of data)
- Collaborative map for Western Australia's land data authority (Landgate), using OpenLayers and a Versioning extension to the Web Feature Service Standard
GRASS
http://grass.osgeo.org/applications/
In this GRASS applications list, several case studies are linked.
OSGeo is offering the gallery: http://gallery.osgeo.org/ which links to several use cases.
PostGIS
Some useful links for PostGIS
- BostonGIS
- giswiki.org
- OpenGeo
- Wikipedia
- Postgisonline
- Geoalchemy and
- Post gis manual (1.5.2 edition)