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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

January 19, 2011

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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