Freedom in geoinformation science and software development: A GRASS GIS contribution
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Over the past decade geoinformation field has evolved from a highly specialized niche to a technology with broad impact on society and its interaction with nature. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications now range from simple navigation to critical and extremely complex tasks, such as prediction and management of natural disasters. Due to the increased use of GPS, faster access to georeferenced data, expanding field of remote sensing and real-time monitoring, GIS technology is entering many new disciplines and industries and GIS is becoming a part of general computational infrastructure. It is therefore natural that geospatial tools are being developed also within the Open Source and Free Software community [60]. Several important trends can be identified in the current development of geospatial technology:
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