We at Green Eminent with our Geomatics Consulting group have desired to work on the FOSS and Open Source Teams for the develoment of GIS and Image Processing Tools, specifically for the low end client groups. Often the proprietory software developed by the companies still available at prohibitive cost and rigid in its structure. Softwares like Open Geo, Map Window, GRASS++, etc are devloping and contributing well for the progress of geo sciences.
Our experience with the Indian Geomatics developers have very positive about the access and availability of the tools required by the low end users specifically researchers, institutions and NGOs. They cannot afford to bear the high cost of proprietary softwares, claiming the project life cycles meant for the civil society.
We would appreciate fellow Geoinformatics -Geosciences professionals to team up here to support good efforts globally and have some collective benefits (non commercial) in development.
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