The vendor made the tool available publicly as a project under the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGF). Mapping software with geospatial data is typically used by city planners to query ...

Open-source geospatial technology has proved its mettle in state and local government and the nonprofit and private sectors, providing significant services, value, innovation, transparency and a ...

LocationTech open source project provides core technology for geospatial big-data analytic solutions. LocationTech has released five open source projects that provide core technology used to build ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

When the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency released eight new open-source coding projects earlier this spring, the move marked a milestone in the agency's efforts to share the task of software ...

The partnership has paid off. In December, Monsanto and Boundless contributed open source geospatial code to the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) community.

Vendors offer industry-specific GIS software, which, in turn, enhances the potential for the GIS software segment. The market, however, is witnessing the threat of counterfeit and pirated products.

I’d love to hear from more folks about their open source GIS apps. Please send me a quick email. The first letter points out an important fact about open source GIS that I didn’t touch on last week.

Open source GIS software can read and write all GIS data formats. Open source GIS software will run on multiple platforms. No license fees are due for open source software.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved ...