Open source GIS

• Michael Corey The Des Moines (Iowa) Register
• Tim Henderson The Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.)
• Daniel Lathrop InvestigateWest

Desktop mapping has been out of the reach of many CAR operations, or limited to a few key people, because of the expense of commercial desktop GIS packages. Now a new generation of open-source mapping products is changing the game, putting sophisticated geographic analysis tools in the hands of anyone ready to learn them. Among the free programs striving for attention are QGIS, gvSIG, GRASS. (A)

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