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{{Short description|Nonprofit organisation for mapping}}
{{Distinguish|Open Geospatial Consortium}}
{{Infobox organization
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|abbreviation = OSGeo
|motto = Your Open Source Compass
|founded_date = {{start date and age|2006|02|04}}
|founding_location = Chicago, USAUS
|founders = [[Arnulf Christl]], [[Chris Holmes (entrepreneur)|Chris Holmes]], [[Gary Lang]], [[Markus Neteler]], [[Frank Warmerdam]]
|extinction =
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The '''Open Source Geospatial Foundation''' ('''OSGeo'''), is a [[non-profit]] [[non-governmental organization]] whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open [[geospatial]] [[technology|technologies]] and data. The foundation was formed in February 2006 to provide financial, organizational and legal support to the broader [[Free Software|Libre/Free]] and [[Open-source-software movement|open-source]] geospatial community.<ref>{{cite press release|date=March 6, 2006|title=Open Source Geospatial Foundation Created to Strengthen Collaborative Development of Open Geospatial Technologies|url=http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html|publisher=OSGeo|access-date=2017-01-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225151219/http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html|archive-date=December 25, 2016}}</ref> It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources.
 
OSGeo draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [[Apache Foundation]], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects who are selected for membership status based on their active contribution to foundation projects and governance.
 
The foundation pursues goals beyond software development, such as promoting more [[Open data|open access]] to government produced geospatial data, and completely free[[FAIR_data]] geodata, suchand as thatgeodata created and maintained by the [[OpenStreetMap]] project. Education and training are also addressed. Various committees within the foundation work on implementing strategies.
 
==Governance==
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* FDO &ndash; API (C++, .Net) between GIS application and sources; for manipulating, defining and analyzing geospatial data.
* [[GDAL|GDAL/OGR]] &ndash; Library between GIS application and sources; for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats (GDAL) and simple features vector data (OGR).
* [[GeoTools]] &ndash; [[Open source]] GIS toolkit (Java); to enable the creation of interactive geographic visualization clients.
* [[JTS Topology Suite#GEOS Library|GEOS]] &ndash; A C++ port of the [[JTS Topology Suite|Java Topology Suite]] (JTS), a geometry model.
* MetaCRS &ndash; Projections and coordinate system technologies, including [[PROJ]].
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* Geomajas &ndash; Development software for web-based and cloud based GIS applications.
* [[GeoServer]] &ndash; Allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Written in Java using [[GeoTools]].
* [[deegree]] &ndash; Java framework
* [[PyWPS]] &ndash; implementation of the OGC [[Web Processing Service]] standard, using Python
* [https://pygeoapi.io/ pygeoapi] - A Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards for geospatial data.
 
====Client====
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* [[Free Software]]
* [[GIS Live DVD]]
* [[Open Source]]
* [[Open Geospatial Consortium]] (OGC) – a standards organization
* [[OpenStreetMap]]
 
==References==
 
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