The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

E213 - Strategic Buy-In For FOSS4G

Published: October 4, 2023

Duration: 45:47

Embracing Open-Source Geospatial Technology is easy as an individual but what if you want your organization to use FOSS4G

How do you get strategic buy-in?

It turns out that the software does not sell itself and that even in the age of AI we still have to convince a human if we want organizational change to to happen. 

I think the temptation is to say hey look at this long list of specifications and notice how FOSS4G is often better or equal to the close source equivalent. 

Or hey lo...