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🐘The British Geological Survey (BGS) has moved away from proprietary GIS to a fully open-source stack for field data capture using and . 🗺️💻

They’ve built a custom plugin that handles complex database constraints (using GeoPackage/SQLite) directly in the field. This allows for seamless data capture on both Windows tablets and mobile devices without vendor lock-in.

It's a huge win for open science and reproducible research.

Read the case study: merginmaps.com/case-studies/op

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