Mapzen, a mapping platform company lauded among developers and civic hackers for its open-source approach ... s open data portal. The extraction contains a wealth of GIS data to help civic ...

Therefore, commercial vendors are offering open-source GIS ... of cloud-based GIS software. However, the potential for cloud-based adoption is very high in the era of big data and Internet of ...

Boundless is betting that open source, non-proprietary ... sees so much possible data coming government’s way in the future that many GIS managers and users today are going to need to scale ...

a shapefile is a set of files with vector-based location and attribute data, which can be represented in a GIS application. QGIS also supports some other file formats, such as MapInfo and PostGIS.