Projects (5 entries)

The Cooperative GIS Project
Homepage: http://gis.anu.edu.au/
FreeGIS-summary on The Cooperative GIS Project ; Last update: 10.08.2001 11:01:57.00 CEST

The aim is to establish a user-driven effort to map the world (or at least parts of it). The result will be free, digital thematic maps containing geographic and temporal data on any land features that people decide to map. This may include natural landmarks, cities or even pubs in your local area.

Free Geospatial Data in Canada
Homepage: http://www.freedata.ca/
FreeGIS-summary on Free Geospatial Data in Canada ; Last update: 21.06.2002 09:05:05.00 CEST

This site is dedicated to the issue of public access to government geospatial data across Canada. It is a place to discuss, issues, educate, coordinate and encourage change. Promotes the idea of free distribution of canadian governmental geographic data. Free in this case basically means at no charge though more comments are being made on the importance of "liberty" as well as "no charge".

FREEMAP
Homepage: http://www.freemap.nett.org/english/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on FREEMAP ; Last update: 10.08.2001 11:04:28.00 CEST

This efford tries to digitize the streets of Oslo, Norway with GPSs to offer it as Free Geographic Information (planned is GPL as license). The map shows the lines logged by volunteers (each one will have his own color) underlayed with a proprietary map.

Free-Open Source GIS Suite (FGS)
Homepage: http://maxine.harmeny.com/twiki/bin/view/Fgs
FreeGIS-summary on Free-Open Source GIS Suite ; Last update: 07.08.2004 23:04:12.00 CEST

FGS is a project pulling together various other projects (most of them are listed on freegis.org) into an easily redistributable package. First target platform is Linux on intel x86 architecture. Second target will be windows.

mapbuilder (Community Map Builder)
Homepage: http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
FreeGIS-summary on mapbuilder ; Last update: 06.05.2002 10:21:25.00 CEST

The Community Map Builder allows users to enter geographic features in a web browser, save it to a server along with other features, then present the features back as a map layer in a web browser.