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* [[MapServer]] [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/]
* [[GDAL|GDAL/OGR]] [http://www.gdal.org]
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* [[GRASS GIS]] [http://grass.itc.it/]
* [[OpenLayers]] [http://www.openlayers.org/]
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The OSGeo is thoroughly community driven and has a lightweight organizational overhead consisting of 45 initial members, 9 directors and the president [[Frank Warmerdam]]. It is organized in more than 20 projects. Eight of these focus on software development projects (see above) or organizational matters like board issues, web site, visibility, education, public geodata and promotion. The OSGeo community [[Collaboration|collaborates]] via a [[Wiki]], [[Mailing List]]s and [[IRC]].
==GeoNetwork opensource==
This project is a [[free software|free and open source]] cataloging application, released under [[GNU General Public License]], to manage spatially referenced resources. It is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, [[cartography|cartographic]] products and related [[metadata]] from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet.
[[Maps]], including those derived from [[satellite imagery]], are effective communicational tools and play an important role in the work of decision makers (e.g., sustainable development planners and humanitarian and emergency managers) in need of quick, reliable and up-to-date user-friendly cartographic products as a basis for action and to better plan and monitor their activities; [[GIS]] experts in need of exchanging consistent and updated geographical data; and [[spatial analysis|spatial analysts]] in need of [[interdisciplinarity|multidisciplinary]] data to perform preliminary geographical analysis and make reliable forecasts.
The software has been deployed to various organizations, the first being FAO-GeoNetwork and VAM-SIE-GeoNetwork, both at their headquarters in [[Rome]], [[Italy]]. Furthermore, the WHO, UNEP, CGIAR and the Global Change Information and Research Centre (GCIRC) of China are working on GeoNetwork opensource implementations as their spatial information management capacity.
==External links==
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