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{{Short description|Nonprofit organisation for mapping}}
{{Distinguish|Open Geospatial Consortium}}
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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]]
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|leader_title = President
|leader_name = [[MaríaAngelos Arias de Reyna]]Tzotsos<ref name="presboard">{{cite web|url=https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-newsabout/osgeo-board-directors-names-osgeo-president-executive-positions/ |title=OSGeo Board of Directors Names OSGeo President and Executive Positions|publisher=Open Source Geospatial Foundation|access-date=17 January 2018|accessdate=20182020-0105-1725}}</ref>
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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|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225151219/http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html|archivedatearchive-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==
 
The OSGeo Foundation is community driven and has an organizational structure consisting of elected members and nine directors, including the president.<ref name="board" /> Software projects have their own governance structure, by requirement. ''see [https://www.osgeo.org/about/faq/#Projects_Joining_the_Foundation FAQ]''. The OSGeo community [[Collaboration|collaborates]] via a [[Wiki]], [[Mailing List]]s and [[IRC]].
 
==Projects==
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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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* MapFish &ndash; Framework for building rich web-mapping applications based on the Pylons Python web framework.
* [[OpenLayers]] &ndash; AJAX library (API) for accessing geographic data layers of all kinds.
 
====Specification====
* [[Tile Map Service|Tile Map Service (TMS)]] &ndash; a specification for tiled web maps.
 
===Metadata Catalog===
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OSGeo runs an annual international conference called [http://foss4g.org FOSS4G] – Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. Starting as early as 2006, this event has drawn over 1100 attendees (2017 Boston) and the tendency is to increase this number every year. It is the main meeting place and educational outreach opportunity for OSGeo members, supporters and newcomers - to share and learn from one another in presentations, hands-on workshops and a conference exhibition. The FOSS4G ribbon, part of every FOSS4G event logo, symbolizes the flow of ideas, innovation, and sharing within the Open Source geospatial community. The event history dates back to an important face-to-face meeting of the 3 original founders of the event (Venkatesh Raghavan, Markus Neteler, and Jeff McKenna), who met initially in Bangkok Thailand in 2004, and planned to create a new annual event for the whole Open Source geospatial community, with the event named "[[FOSS4G]]"; the event would go on to help change the history of the geospatial industry.
 
There are also many regional and local events following this [[FOSS4G]] philosophy. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.osgeo.org/events/ |title=OSGeo Events |publisher=osgeo.org }}</ref>
 
==Community==
 
The OSGeo community is composed of participants from everywhere in the world. {{As of|20182020|0105|0124}}, there were 3035,049176 unique subscribers to the more than 272384 OSGeo mailing lists. {{As of|2012|09}}, OSGeo projects were built upon over 12.7 million lines of code contributed by 657 code submitters including 301 that have contributed within the last 12 months.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats |title=Project Stats - OSGeo Wiki |publisher=Wiki.osgeo.org |access-date= |accessdate=2014-02-15}}</ref>
 
==Sol Katz Award==
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* [[Free Software]]
* [[GIS Live DVD]]
* [[Open Source]]
* [[Open Geospatial Consortium]] (OGC) – a standards organization
* [[OpenStreetMap]]
 
==References==
 
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
* {{Official website}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170913194138/http://www.osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation Site]
* [httphttps://wiki.osgeo.org/ OSGeo Wiki]
* [httphttps://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo Linux VM]
* [httphttps://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History Open Source GIS History]
* [https://av.tib.eu/search?f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/FOSS4G Recordings of FOSS4G conferences] in the AV-Portal of [[German National Library of Science and Technology]]
 
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