[Freegis-list] Clearinghouse

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Alexander,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:17:09AM +0100, Alexander Pucher wrote:
> I'm recently planning to set up an geodata clearinghouse using free 
> software. Right now, all data is stored in an ArcGIS personal 
> geodatabase. I've searched the web and found some stuff from the FGDC 
> (mainly the Isite package).

the concept of a Clearinghouse does not really require special
Clearinghouse software. A set of general tools will do the
job quite efficiently as well (clearinghouse packages are
more or less nothing else than a collection of some standard
tools).

To my knowledge noone compiled a Clearinghouse package out
of Free Software packages.

If you start with a requirements document for you clearinghouse,
some recommendations for Free Software applications will be much easier.
There are some interesting Free GIS Software tools that Imo
can be assembled to set up several flavours of GIS Clearinghouses.

Best

	Jan
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