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1 UW-Milwaukee GIS Day November 17 th Open Source Alternatives to Commercial GIS Tools James Beaudoin Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2 Applied Population Laboratory Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison Since 1965 applied demography; spatial information and analysis; community development and planning; and information applications

3 My background in GIS Open Source Started Using Open Source 4 years ago Frustrated with lack of flexibility and software bugs 85% to 90% of the tools I use are Open Source

4 What is Free Open Source software? Very often developed in a public, collaborative manner It s freely distributed Source code must be included Anyone can modify the source code Can be redistributed The license must not require the exclusion of other software or interfere with the operation of other software

5 Commercial (proprietary) Software It s NOT freely distributed. You are given the right to use the software under certain conditions You can NOT modify the source code or reverse engineer Can NOT be redistributed

6 Can I use Open Source?

7 Its not only on Linux

8 You don t have to be a programmer

9 Perceived advantages of Commercial over Open Source Packaged, comprehensive Reliable Professional support Easy to use More secure than Open Source

10 Debunk perceived advantages of Commercial over Open Source In many cases Open Source does as well as or better then commercial software Packaged, comprehensive Reliable Professional support Easy to use More secure then Open Source

11 Packaged, comprehensive

12 Reliable

13 Professional Support

14 Easy to Use

15 More secure then Open Source

16 Other Open Source advantages Innovation Freedom Flexibility Free to try

17 Open Source Desktop GIS Quantum GIS ( MapWindow GIS ( GRASS GIS ( SAGA ( OpenJUMP (

18 Quantum GIS

19 MapWindow GIS

20 Creating an GIS Open Source Website

21 Basic needs for a GIS web site Client Internet

22 Spatial Database Management Systems PostgreSQL /PostGIS ( MySQL Spatial ( TerraLib ( Spatialite for SQLite (

23 Web Map Server Geoserver ( Mapserver ( MapGuide ( Spatialite GIS (

24 Software Development Frameworks and Libraries (for web applications) OpenLayers ( Google, Yahoo, Mapquest MapFish ( GeoMoose ( MapBender (

25 Questions? Website: me:

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