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I'll be monitoring this regularly over the coming months to see if any
GI-related public domain software appears. Just for interest sake, if
nothing else, as I know from my research into geospatial data policy that
some US states (only a few, thankfully) are now required by State law to
charge for their GIS services (even if the data is made freely available
- which is *not* required by the Freedom of Information Act in the USA -
which applies only to federal level data or data collected using federal
funds). I also want to see if the statement "offering software
freely available for other states to use." means only other State
agencies would have access - or anyone could use this software.<br><br>
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Government agencies to avail open source repository in US <br>
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The fledgling Government Open Code Collaborative has set up a nationwide
repository for government software applications, hosted on a server at
the Massachusetts Information Technology Division data centre in Chelsea.
The first 'deposits' into the repository will be made by Massachusetts
and Rhode Island agencies offering software freely available for other
states to use. <br>
<a href="http://i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src60">http://i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src60
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Regards<br><br>
Roger Longhorn<br>
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