This document provides an overview of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It discusses OSGeo's mission to support open source geospatial software and promote its use. It outlines OSGeo's structure and governance, as well as the many open source geospatial projects it supports. It also discusses OSGeo's role in connecting the geospatial community through events, chapters, and initiatives like Google Summer of Code. Finally, it provides examples of organizations using open source geospatial software and announces that the FOSS4G conference will be coming to Atlantic Canada in 2022.

1. The Open Community
& a surprise announcement
Jeff McKenna
2018-05-30

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Finding My Passion

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Growing My Passion for Open
Steve PrashkerDan Patterson Peter Pulsifer Amos Hayes

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Growing My Passion for Open

5. Blue Rocks, NSAh, I’m home.

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Focus on helping organizations share
spatial information through
Open Software and Open Standards, since 1998

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But what is “Open Source”?

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“Open source is a development method
for software that harnesses the power
of distributed peer review and
transparency of process.
” The Open Source Initiative http://www.opensource.org/

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Open Source Definition
1. Freely distributed
2. Source code must be included
3. License must allow modifications
4. Integrity of the author's source code
5. No discrimination against persons
6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor
7. License covers entire product
8. License must not be specific to a product
9. License must not restrict other software
10. License must be technology neutral

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Open Source + Geospatial

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1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)
Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
PROJ4 library
PostgreSQL (spin-off of Ingres RDBMS)
Open GRASS Foundation (OGF) founded
OGF re-structured as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
UMN MapServer
International team takes over GRASS development
PostgreSQL goes open source
Geotools java toolkit
OGC simple features specification
GDAL/OGR
GRASS license changed to GNU GPL
OGC Coordinate Transformation Services (CTS) specification
OGC Web Map Server (WMS) specification
PostGIS
Quantum GIS
GEOS library
OGC Web Feature Server (WFS) specification
OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) specification
OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) specification
Geoserver 1.0
GvSIG
ISO approved WMS Specification
Mapguide Open Source
Open Source Geospatial Foundation founded
OpenLayers
Tiling protocol for tiling web-based maps
Mapfish framework for OpenLayers
Open Source GIS Timeline
based on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History

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Community
“a body of persons of common and
especially professional interests
scattered through a larger society”

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Why Open Source Geospatial?
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Easily accessible
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Affordable
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Stable
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Strong communities
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Innovative
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Standards support are not add-ons or afterthought
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Backed by OSGeo

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Strong Link Between
Open Standards and Open
Source
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The Open GRASS Foundation (OGF) started in 1992
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OGF restructured to become the “Open GIS Consortium”
in 1994
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Renamed in 2004 to Open Geospatial
Consortium

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What is OSGeo?
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation (www.osgeo.org)
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A non-profit organization
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Legally registered in Delaware, United States
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Started in February 2006
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Now the leading voice for open geospatial software
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Everyone is a volunteer (no paid staff)
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Today has over 30,000 members

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OSGeo's Mission Statement
“To support the development of open source geospatial
software, and promote its widespread use.”

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Sponsors of OSGeo

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QGIS
Project Sponsors

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OSGeo Structure
2013-02-20 | OSGeo 2013. All rights reserved
Committees
Committees
Committees
Board of 9 Directors
and President
Local
ChaptersLocal
ChaptersLocal
Chapters
Officers
Officers
Officers
Local
ChaptersLocal
ChaptersFoundation
Projects
Committees
Committees
Committees
elected by Membership390 Charter Members
Charter Members vote
represent
Sponsors

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OSGeo Charter Members

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OSGeo Projects (part 1)
deegree
geomajas
GeoMoose
Mapbender
Web mappingWeb mapping
Mapfish
MapGuide Open
GeoServer
MapServer
OpenLayers
pyWPS

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OSGeo Projects (part 2)
GEOS
GDAL
GeoTools
Geospatial libraries
OSSIM
PostGIS
FDO
Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)

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OSGeo Projects (part 3)
Metadata Catalog
GeoNetwork
pycsw

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OSGeo Projects (part 4)
GRASS
Marble
QGIS
Desktop
gvSIG
Content Management
Systems
GeoNode

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OSGeo Projects in Incubation
ZOO Project
Team Engine
opticks
MetaCRS
istSOS
Oskari
OSGeoLive

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Requirements to Become an
OSGeo Project
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Code is under an OSI approved license
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Geospatial software
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Mature software
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Substantial user community
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Diverse developer community
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Support relative standards
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Links to existing OSGeo projects
(see: https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/)

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Role of Local Chapters
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Bring a more local context to OSGeo
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Provide networking opportunities
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Provide training and support to local community
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Promote OSGeo through events
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Translate documents, websites, software

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Role of Local Chapters

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Role of Local Chapters

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Role of Local Chapters

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Number of unique registrants in OSGeo email lists.
(2018-05-01)
QGIS-user 2531
GDAL-dev 1762
PostGIS-users 1691
OpenLayers-users 1325
Discuss 1299
Africa-chapter 1044
GRASS-user 1035
QGIS-developer 946
MapServer-users 776
30,460

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live.osgeo.org

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live.osgeo.org

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OpenStreetMap
MapServer
MapFish
web mapping
GRASS GIS
Quantum GIS OSSIM
desktop GIS
metadata
GEOS
GDAL/OGR
GeoTools
libraries
MetaCRS
PostGIS
GeoMajas
Quantum GIS
MapServer
deegree
OpenLayers
GeoServer
MapGuide OS
deegree GIS
MapNik
Viking
KOSMO
gvSIG
SpatialLite
uDig
Geopublisher
Mapbender
pycsw
GeoKettle
GMT
ZOO Project
FDO
GeoNetwork
live.osgeo.org

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OSGeo Service Providers
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Local private companies
offering professional support for
OSGeo projects
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Very important for community

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OSGeo Service Providers

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Working with other Global
Communities
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Current synergy between UN + OSGeo
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MOU’s with various global organizations (AGU,ICA,
IGU, ISPRS, OGC, GLTN, LH Corporation, TIB)
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Members active in LocationTech

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Recent Initiatives

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Raising the Barn
“built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community”
PROJ
GDAL
libgeotiff
PostGIS
Spatialite

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Raising the Barn
“built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community”

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ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs Network
• Goal 1 - Establishing research and training opportunities
in open source GIS
• Goal 2 - Provide worldwide learning platform
• Goal 3 - Build teaching and research infrastructure
worldwide
http://www.geoforall.org/

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ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs Network
125 labs!
http://www.geoforall.org/

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OSGeo is mentor organization
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13 students were accepted for 2018 summer
From Canada, China, Czech Republic, India,
Italy, Sénégal

44. How does GSoC work?
Students work on a coding project for 3 months for an open source organization, earning a
stipend for successfully completing it. Be aware that it corresponds to a full time job
commitment!
Admins
OAs
Mentors
Students

45. OSGeo-GSoC Admin team (OAs)
★ Margherita Di Leo
★ Jeff McKenna
★ Helmut Kudrnovsky
★ Florin-Daniel Cioloboc
★ Werner Macho
★ Anne Ghisla
<gsoc-admin@osgeo.org>
2011: GSoC Student
2014: GSoC Mentor
2015-Present: GSoC OA

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Projects involved: PostGIS, MapMint, pyWPS,
pgRouting, GRASS GIS,
istSOS, NASA WorldWind, qisquick

48. Google Code-in
Pre-university students aged 13 - 17, no particular skills required.
Orgs create a large list of bite-sized tasks (3-5 hour) categorized as:

49. How does it work?
1. Students search for a task that interests them and claim it. They have at least three days to complete it.
2. The student works on the task, getting guidance from mentors, if needed.
3. Once the student is ready, they submit their work for review through the contest website.
4. Mentors from the organization evaluate the work, provide feedback, and if it's complete, accept it! Otherwise,
specific feedback is provided, and the student goes back to step #2!
5. Go to step #1 and repeat!

50. Win
● Participants who complete at least 1 task get a digital certificate
● Participants who complete 3 or more tasks receive a t-shirt too
● At the end of the contest, each organization will choose five finalists to receive limited edition Google Code-
in hoodies! Two finalists from each organization will be grand prize winners and go on a trip to Google
Headquarters in California!

51. But Why?
Reach pre-university students
Engage beginners to jump in and get started
no matter what skills they have
Cultivate young developers and foster their
involvement in Open Source
Fun!

52. Results
3,555 students participated from 78
countries, and completed 16,468 tasks
25 mentoring organizations
279 students completed 649 OSGeo tasks
Wow!

53. Results

54. Results

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Sol Katz Award
Awarded annually by OSGeo to those
that have demonstrated leadership
in the community
Andrea Aime, 2017

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Community Events

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Community Events

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And FOSS4G was born
Bangkok, 2004
Paris, 2017

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OSGIS 2004
OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada

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FOSS4G 2008

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FOSS4G-Sydney 2009

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FOSS4G 2011 Denver Code Sprint

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FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013

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http://foss4gindia.in/

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1161 attendees

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Upcoming Events...

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Wait for the big news...

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Open Source GIS Today
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Founding projects are very mature (MapServer,
GRASS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GDAL, PROJ)
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Continue to lead the way in adopting standards
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Virtually all proprietary products are leveraging
FOSS (Free and Open Source) GIS “under the
hood”

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QGIS – Stable & Supported
1st
User Conference, May 2015 @Nødebo, DK

87. MapServer: Super Fast Engine+
Standards Support

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www.ms4w.com

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MS4W (MapServer for Windows)
Packaged with MS4W:
– GeoMOOSE
– Mapbender
– MapServer CGI Viewer
– MapServer Itasca Demo
– MapServer OGC Workshop
– OpenLayers (OL4 WMS demo with MS4W
service)
– p.mapper

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MS4W development: 4.0 release
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All libraries (over 200) compiled from source,
including Spatialite, Apache+modules,
PHP7+extensions, MapCache, TinyOWS,
CSharp/Java/Python bindings
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With pycsw (& Python3), LASTools, PDAL, ...?
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Will be full SDI installation for organizations
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Contact Gateway Geomatics to help fund

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Case Studies

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Oklahoma Asset Management

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Oklahoma Asset Management

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www.coinatlantic.tools

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www.coinatlantic.tools
COINAtlantic Catalogue Service

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AAFC Water Quality Sample Tracker

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AAFC Water Quality Sample Tracker

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AAFC Water Quality Sample Tracker

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AAFC Water Quality Sample Tracker

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AAFC Water Quality Sample Tracker
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Big data: millions+ of records optimized through
PostGIS/PostgreSQL
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Open services leveraged to discover, publish,
and query data: WMS, WFS, CSW (future)
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MapServer engine
• File upload

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Controlled Tile Drainage (CTD)Tool
● Dynamic query of EC’s weather stations (API)
● Search for nearest weather station through
PostGIS
● MapServer engine, producing WMS service
• File upload

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Controlled Tile Drainage (CTD)Tool

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Controlled Tile Drainage (CTD)Tool

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Join a community

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Contact your local service provider
hint ;)

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Finally, you heard it here first...

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Let’s bring the world of geospatial
innovators to Atlantic Canada!

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Let’s bring the world of geospatial
innovators to Atlantic Canada!
follow @foss4ghfx

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Let’s bring the world of geospatial
innovators to Atlantic Canada!
follow @foss4ghfx
foss4g.ca

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Thank you!
Jeff McKenna
President, Gateway Geomatics
President Emeritus, OSGeo
www.gatewaygeomatics.com
@mapserving