Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 30, 2008 1:44 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Marco Fioretti
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Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process: they let citizens directly add geographic information to the official, high-quality GIS databases by drawing or clicking on digital maps.

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