September
August is actually a holiday time , but that's not the case of FreeGIS. In fact, the FreeGIS's team has kept on working very hard during the summer and very important meetings were organized . These meetings had the aim to detect new potential projects and working groups that could create important synergies with our project.
July
June was really an important month for the Free GIS project. The first advisory board's meeting took place; the advisory board is a working group which will lead and advise the operators during the whole project. On June 17, there was an important convention about the "Humbold-framework". The convention was joined by several operators and technicians .
The FreeGIS Project
The Free GIS Project aims to approach the recording , the analysis and the return of geographic information through the use of open data formats and Free Open Source Software. .
FreeGIS is an Interreg Italy-Switzerland project financed by the Program of superregional cooperation Italy-Switzerland 2007-2013 of the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and the European Union. It is an in-depth analysis of the Interreg Italy-Switzerland project called CoCOS and it is consolidated through the Software Centre South Tyrol of the TIS innovation park in Bolzano
The aims of Free GIS are: to identify the characteristics of the development of multilingual capabilities of GIS software; to define the details of a Reference Implementation composed exclusively by Free Software components; to identify a FreeGIS Data Licence, which is appropriate for the community and national requirements. All actions are preceded by an analysis of the status quo and generate the publication of guidelines dealing especially with the Public Administration.
The main aims of the projects are:
-
to create a Reference System
-
to identify a suitable Free GIS Data Licence
-
to identify protocols of Open Data Formats
The project started on August 2, 2010 and ends 26 months later, on August 1, 2013
