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[Bear K <bear@ursine-design.com>]

> > I'd also like to say it seemed like a very good event. Met and talked 
> > with quite a few interesting people. One person (Mark) works with a 
> > guy (@ onevillage.biz) who has done ecological GIS work in Kenya, etc 
> > and knows those systems very well. So good overlap with what Lawrence 
> > has been wanting.
>
> A GIS expert helping us would be a very valuable resource, usually 
> hard to find
> for small projects and expensive (because of the high demand for GIS 
> services,
> prices are very high). I wonder if there is a family of opensource GIS 
> software
> products being developed?
I've looked into it to some degree, and it seems there is...
I can't pull all the links together right now...
This might get you started:
http://opensourcegis.org/

Or the Virtual Terrian Project:
http://www.vterrain.org/

Also, newer versions of mySQL feature spatial data operations....

Cheers,
Bear