These offerings were some of the earliest open source GIS solutions supporting both raster and vector data. These more robust, cross-platform solutions were streamlined to occupy less storage space ...

Cesium ion, the company’s SaaS platform, brings 3D geospatial experiences to more than 1 million active devices every month, while Cesium's open-source offerings have more than 10 million downloads.

This article introduces a sample project with Quantum GIS (QGIS), one of the most advanced and powerful open-source GIS packages for the desktop. Although QGIS has some excellent documentation, new ...

Boundless is betting that open source, non-proprietary and license-free is the future of the geographic information systems (GIS) market. It’s a bet wagered in the form of dual product launches ...

Therefore, commercial vendors are offering open-source GIS software to overcome this challenge, which is becoming a fast-moving trend in the market. Despite the huge revenue share of the software ...

Increasingly the agency is selecting the open source option, said Bibiana McHugh, TriMet’s IT manager of GIS and location-based services. Open source software is providing functions for the ...