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Changing role of big geospatial companies
by Tyler Mitchell
Jun. 4, 2005
URL: http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=876
Directions Magazine had an excellent "Open Letter to GIS/Geospatial Software Companies". It touched on 9 main points of change now weighing on the traditional GIS vendors. They basically state: "Here's where things are headed" and ask: "How are you going to keep up"? I look forward to their response.
Tyler Mitchell
is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.
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