Sunday, April 1, 2007

Autodesk's Open Source GIS Software Helps San Francisco's Urban Tree-Planting Project

Autodesk's Open Source Software Helps San Francisco's Urban Tree-Planting Project

By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Associate Editor, March 30, 2007

San Francisco’s Urban Forest Mapping project gained a major boost thanks to a partnership between the city’s Bureau of Urban Forestry, tree-planting advocacy organization Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), GIS application developer Online Mapping Solutions, and open source software maker Autodesk (News - Alert).

San Francisco teamed up with FUF, Online Mapping Solutions, and Autodesk to create a Web-accessible, digital mapping system that shows where trees are planted, their condition, and other key data necessary to maintain the urban forest...

Read the full news story from here @ TMC Net

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