[Fsf-friends] Re: [Free-gis] Reinventing the wheel

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

----- Original Message -----
From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi@hotpop.com>


> The Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India, is
planning to
> invest in developing further their GIS called Gram that runs on
Windows.
> They are also planning to develop support for local level planning,
> which included a decision support system. Much of what they are
thinking
> of is possibly available in the Free GIS GRASS. I think FSF should
point
> this out to the DST and garner support for further developing GRASS,
if
> required, for local level development purposes. An extract from
DST's
> report is given below:
>

This is perhaps the tragedy that has been afflicting the project(s)
since inception. i feel that it'd be better if their particular needs
are identified and then FSFI does provide a comprehensive case for
GRASS. thanks for bringing this to the notice of the members.

-sankarshan


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