Road Map for commercial use of FOSS4G tools in India · 2011-01-19 · Training Core development,...
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Road Map for commercial use of FOSS4G tools in India
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Open Source Activity Map
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Source - http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/
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FOSS Economic Impact Study
January 19, 2011
FOSS Can Save India $2bn in 2010 – Conservative Estimate
http://www.iimb.ernet.in/~rahulde/RD_FOSSRep2009.pdf
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FOSS – Business Model
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Education and Training
Core development, implementation of
new features.
Installation Maintenance and
Support
Consultancy
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Opensource GIS Matrix
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Thick Clients Thin Clients Mobile Clients Catalogue
Internet/Web Services
Database
• Desktop GIS – Thick Clients
– QGIS
– GRASS
– uDig
– gvSIG
• Thin Clients
– Openlayers
– Mapbender
– Mapbuilder
• Mobile Clients
– GRASS
– gvSIG
• Metadata Catalogue
– GeoNetwork
– Deegree
• Internet/Webservices
– Mapserver
– Geoserver
– MapguideOS
• Database
– PostgreSQL/PostGIS
– MySQL
– Spatialite
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kCube’s Open Source GIS Technology Skill set
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kCube’s Choice for Desktop GIS
Client Layer
Database Layer
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Reasons for Selection
• Quantum GIS is one of the most powerful open
source GIS tool
• User friendly GUI and contains tools to do major
GIS operations
• Provides C++ and Python API to develop Custom
GIS applications
• Integrated well with GRASS to do powerful
analysis operations (Both Vector and Raster)
• Interoperable with majority of the industry data
format’s
• Vibrant community Support and Commercial
Support available.
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Industry Case Studies – Operational Decision Support System for India Post
• Technology – C++,Qt
– Quantum GIS
– GRASS
– PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Functionality – Display beats and the
walking sequence map.
– View workload of a beat in hours which is based on articles and beat distance.
– Generate detailed workload reports.
– Automate Beat Sequence optimization to reduce workload.
– Manual Beat sequencing
– Edit beats (shuffle streets) to balance workload among the beats.
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Industry Case Studies – Precision Agriculture
• Technology
– C++
– Quantum GIS
– PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Functionality – Provides a medium to
understand the farm better and aids in improved decision making
– Capture, Store, Maintain temporal data
– Perform combined and standalone Spatial and Non-spatial queries
– Generate Thematic Maps and reports
– Bulk upload of farm data
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kCube’s Stack for WebGIS
Client Layer
Web Server
WMS/WFS Server
Database Layer
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Reasons for Selection
• MapServer and GeoServer are both powerful Web Mapping Servers
• GeoServer goes well with Java Stream
• MapServer goes well with PHP/.NET Stream
• Openlayers provide powerful client side mapping tools
• GeoExt is a wrapper for Ext JS and has tools to build Geo Web applications with
rich UI.
• Interoperable with majority of the industry data format’s
• Vibrant community Support and Commercial Support available.
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Industry Case Studies – Web Mapping for Micro Insurance Sector –
• Programming Language : Java
• Web Server : Apache Tomcat
• WebMapping Server: Geo Server
• Database : PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Client Mapping API: GeoExt
http://microinsurancemap.com
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Industry Case Studies – Web Mapping for Micro Insurance Sector –
• Programming Language : Java
• Web Server : Apache Tomcat
• WebMapping Server: Geo Server
• Database : PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Client Mapping API: GeoExt
http://microinsurancemap.com
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Advantages of FOSS4G Implementations
• Zero License cost and hence provides
flexibility to implement an robust and
scalable architecture using load
balancing and multi CPU/Core
Capabilities.
• Source code is completely available
which can be customized for customer
requirements.
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