Open geospatial software and data : a review of the current state and a perspective into the future
| dc.contributor.author | Coetzee, Serena Martha | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ivanova, Ivana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitasova, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brovelli, Maria Antonia | |
| dc.contributor.email | serena.coetzee@up.ac.za | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-29T13:01:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-29T13:01:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-02-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | All over the world, organizations are increasingly considering the adoption of open source software and open data. In the geospatial domain, this is no di erent, and the last few decades have seen significant advances in this regard. We review the current state of open source geospatial software, focusing on the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) software ecosystem and its communities, as well as three kinds of open geospatial data (collaboratively contributed, authoritative and scientific). The current state confirms that openness has changed the way in which geospatial data are collected, processed, analyzed, and visualized. A perspective on future developments, informed by responses from professionals in key organizations in the global geospatial community, suggests that open source geospatial software and open geospatial data are likely to have an even more profound impact in the future. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | am2020 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Coetzee, S., Ivánová, I., Mitasova, H. et al. 2020, 'Open geospatial software and data : a review of the current state and a perspective into the future', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 9, no. 90, pp. 1-30. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2220-9964 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/ijgi9020090 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74789 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2020 by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Geospatial data | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Geospatial software | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Open data | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Open source software (OSS) | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Open geospatial software and data : a review of the current state and a perspective into the future | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |