[Freegis-list] Possibly OT

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hello Fernando,

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:46:21AM -0300, Fernando M. Maresca wrote:
> I'm subscripted for about one day and i don't see any post to the list,
> so there is mine:

It is a high level list as you can see from the archive,
so we try to keep the noise low. ;)
Your question is ontopic as far as I can see.

> I'm looking for pure GNU solution/group of programs/wathever can take a
> georeferenced city map (this is a CAD/graphic map with the streets name,
> wheter if they are asphalted or not, roads, traffic way, railways, etc.)
> and a DB containing some gps-taked points. 

There are many Free Software solutions for this.
www.freegis.org has them, but it might take some knowledge
to get them assembled. (This would not be different from proprietary
solutions, though.)

Note that you asked for a pure GNU solutions.
To be very precise only software belonging to the GNU project,
are purely GNU. The GNU project contains many key component 
of Free Software systems, but it is not possibible to build 
software purely from GNU components. Common GNU/Linux operating
systems for instance contain Linux and X11.
It is possible to build operatings systems with applications
that only run Free Software!

Most applications listed on www.freegis.org 
are not part of the GNU project, but all of them are Free Software.

> In my projected app ach point is a customer, so my intention is to use a 
> projector to show a map over the wall at the control room, and ligth on a
> spot in the location of the customer that has an event.
> In the movil computers in the cars, i wish to spot the customer
> location, and the possibles iterations from the point the car is to the
> customer location.

You could use UMN Mapserver and Postfix for instance.

> Although there are commercial solutions to this, the company that i work
> to has near everything over GNU/Free software, so i'm looking inside the
> field. Can anybody give me advice on this, or at least point me in the
> right direction?

You are comparing Free Software solutions with proprietary solutions.
http://intevation.de/~jan/infos/dont_oppose_commercial_and_free_software.en.html
There are many commercial Free Software solutions to your problem.
You can look for a company or try to get going to build 
the system yourself.

	Bernhard

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