Free Software has been widely discussed by Brazilian private organizations as well as Federal Government. Brazilian politicians and economists are interested in the use of Free Software platforms for social services provisioning. Not only because this kind of product that can lead to important cost savings, but also because it can become a key point to the nation interests, in terms of internal development and competition regarding foreign markets. This paper presents a Web-based distributed platform for visualization, manipulation and edition of maps, which can potentially improve the government efficiency in planning, provisioning and management of social actions.
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