Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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| legal form | Nonprofit organization |
| founding | February 4, 2006 |
| founder | Arnulf Christl, Chris Holmes, Gary Lang, Markus Neteler , Frank Warmerdam |
| Seat | USA, Delaware |
| motto | Your Open Source Compass |
| main emphasis | Promotion of free and open source software in spatial data processing |
| method | NGO |
| Action space | Worldwide |
| Chair | Venkatesh Raghavan (President), Helena Mitasova (Vice-President) |
| Volunteers | 1000+ |
| Website | www.osgeo.org |
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation ( OSGeo ) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Delaware , USA and was founded to promote the development and use of free and open source geographic information systems (GIS). She has been organizing the FOSS4G conference since 2006 . OSGeo is represented in German-speaking countries by the FOSSGIS association.
history
In November 2005, the Technical Working Group of announced MapServer ( "MapServer Technical Steering Committee") , the University of Minnesota , the DM Solutions Group and the software company Autodesk a foundation for MapServer that "MapServer Foundation" to. At a meeting on February 4, 2006, the foundation called "The Open Source Geospatial Foundation" was established.
The goals of the foundation are:
- Promotion of open source software related to geographic information systems
- Promote free geospatial data
- Improve the presence of open source GIS in teaching
The work of the foundation takes place a. in regional working groups, the so-called "Local Chapters" , which endeavor to address the concerns of OSGeo in their respective regions . In the German-speaking area, FOSSGIS e. V. active.
Projects
Software projects
One focus is on the joint development of software projects for the management of geographic information. The OSGeo Foundation ensures legal security for the user through an acceptance process ( "incubation" ), which all OSGeo projects must go through, and ensures a healthy developer community .
Web mapping software
The area of web mapping software includes web-based map applications such as map servers, client environments and service orchestration and management software. The services, which are often distributed worldwide, can be loosely coupled with one another using the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Map services generate dynamic image files consisting of vector, raster data, or a combination of these two types of data. Web applications request the map images via the surrounding rectangle. Additional interactivity is offered by the possibility of changing vector data.
Desktop GIS
Desktop geographic information systems are the applications that most GIS users have direct contact with. The focus of the desktop GIS is on resource-intensive calculations, for example the processing of rasterized maps. The possibility of integrating distributed services has been adapted from the web-based GIS.
Software libraries
One software library implemented in C ++ and one implemented in Java for spatial data processing form the basis of many other OSGeo open source projects.
Metadata catalogs
A metadata catalog is used in order to be able to link the globally distributed services in a meaningful way (semantically and syntactically correct).
Education and teaching
Another goal of OSGeo is the cooperation with universities and educational institutions to support the creation and maintenance of curricula. The efficient use of software requires that it is not only good, but also that it is used competently. The good training of specialists is therefore very much in the interests of OSGeo.
Public geospatial data
As a third focus, OSGeo promotes the free availability of spatial data. Geodata arise at all levels and in the most varied of forms, a large area comes from public administration and is therefore also a public good. To value this asset, to make it usable and to promote it is a long-term and sustainable task that is made considerably easier by the use of free and open source software. Furthermore, the OSGeo also contact to licensing issues , commercial use of public data and partnerships with the private sector.
FOSS4G conference
OSGeo has organized the FOSS4G conference every year since 2006, where FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial .
| Surname | date | place |
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| FOSS4G2006 | Sep 12 - Sep 15 2006 | Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| FOSS4G2007 | Sep 24 - 27 Sep 2007 | Victoria (Canada) |
| FOSS4G2008 | 29 Sep - Oct. 3, 2008 | Cape Town (South Africa) |
| FOSS4G2009 | Oct 20 - Oct 23, 2009 | Sydney (Australia) |
| FOSS4G2010 | 6 Sep - Sep 9 2010 | Barcelona (Spain) |
| FOSS4G2011 | Sep 12 - 16 Sep 2011 | Denver (USA) |
| FOSS4G2013 | 17 Sep - Sep 21 2013 | Nottingham (United Kingdom) |
| FOSS4G2014 | 8 Sep - Sep 13 2014 | Portland (USA) |
| FOSS4G2015 | Sep 14 - 19 Sep 2015 | Seoul (Korea) |
| FOSS4G2016 | 22 Aug - 26 Aug 2016 | Bonn (Germany) |
| FOSS4G2017 | Aug 14 - Aug 19, 2017 | Boston (USA) |
| FOSS4G2018 | 27 Aug - 2 Sep 2018 | Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) |
| FOSS4G2019 | Aug 26 - Aug 30, 2019 | Bucharest (Romania) |
OSGeoLive
With OSGeoLive , OSGeo offers a live system that comes up with free and open source GIS software, free sample data and documentation. The system is based on Lubuntu (up to version 7.9 on Xubuntu ) and contains the OSGeo projects as well as other free GIS software, some of which can also be installed on Windows and Mac. An ISO image for creating OSGeoLive on DVD or USB stick is available on the association's website . Versions are published annually, every six months until 2017.
| version | date | Type, name, occasion |
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| 2.0.3 | 2009-10-04 | FOSS4G2009 Sydney |
| 3.0 | 2010-07-31 | Arramagong |
| 4.0 | 2010-09-05 | FOSS4G2010 Barcelona |
| 4.5 | 2011-03-20 | Spring Barcelona |
| 5.0 | 2011-08-30 | FOSS4G2011 Denver, Intergeo Nuremberg |
| 5.5 | 2012-02-26 | FOSSGIS conference Dessau |
| 6.0 | 2012-08-20 | Intergeo Hanover |
| 6.5 | 2013-02-24 | FOSSGIS conference Rapperswil, AGIT 25 Salzburg |
| 7.0 | 2013-09-09 | FOSS4G2013 Nottingham |
| 7.9 | 2014-03-10 | |
| 8.0 | 2014-08-22 | FOSS4G2014 Portland |
| 8.5 | 2015-02-24 | |
| 9.0 | 2015-09-03 | FOSS4G2015 Seoul |
| 9.5 | 2016-03-22 | |
| 10.0 | 2016-08-03 | FOSS4G2016 Bonn |
| 11.0 | 2017-08-09 | FOSS4G2017 Boston |
Sol Katz Award
The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Geodata Software GFOSS ( Geospatial Free and Open Source Software ) is given annually by OSGeo to people who have shown a pioneering role in the GFOSS community.
Prize winners were:
- 2005 - Frank Warmerdam, developer of the GDAL / OGR program library
- 2006 - Markus Neteler, GRASS GIS developer since 1998 and founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- 2007 - Steve Lime, head of the MapServer project
- 2008 - Paul Ramsey, head of the PostGIS project
- 2009 - Daniel Morissette, Co-Head of the MapServer project and developer of the GDAL / OGR program library
- 2010 - Helena Mitasova, employee at GRASS GIS , author and promoter of FOSS4G
- 2011 - Martin Davis, founder and developer of the Java Topology Suite
- 2012 - Venkatesh Raghavan, sponsor of FOSS4G and its community
- 2013 - Arnulf Christl, played an important role in the Mapbender project, founding director of OSGeo
- 2014 - Gary Sherman, founder of the QGIS project
- 2015 - Maria Antonia Brovelli
- 2016 - Jeff McKenna
- 2017 - Andrea Aime, GeoServer and GeoTools developer
- 2018 - Astrid Emde
- 2019 - Even Rouault
See also
- FOSSGIS , local association of OSGeo in the German-speaking area
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- Free content
Wikipedia: WikiProjekt Geoinformatik - Wikipedia-internal specialist editorial office on the subject of geoinformatics
Web links
OSGeo
- Official website of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- OSGeo mailing lists
- OSGeo Wiki (English)
- German OSGeo Wiki
- Summary for OSGeo in the FreeGIS database
Free GIS software
- OSGeoLive - free GIS software and geodata on DVD from OSGeo
- GIS-Knoppix
- Website of the DebianGIS project (English)
- Overview of the UbuntuGIS project (English)
FOSS4G
- Conference website FOSS4G
- FOSS4G in the OSGeo Wiki
- Video recordings of FOSS4G conferences in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
Individual evidence
- ^ New OSGeo President and Updated Board of Directors . Open Source Geospatial Foundation. February 2, 2016. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to establish a foundation
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DA-CH
- ↑ GRASS User Association becomes FOSSGIS eV and Local Chapter of OSGeo. Press release. FOSSGIS eV, September 29, 2008, accessed on December 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Live GIS Disc Press Release 54. In: OSGeo Wiki. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Live GIS Disc in the OSGeo Wiki
- ↑ OSGeo / OSGeoLive: Releases. In: GitHub. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
- ^ Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. In: old.osgeo.org. Retrieved on August 2, 2018 (English, 2017).
- ↑ FOSS4G 2008 Cape Town, South Africa: Internet Roundup. (No longer available online.) Directions Magazine, archived from the original on December 12, 2008 ; accessed on June 14, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
