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 ...

SAGA understands several data file formats. The typical ones used in GIS, like SHP files or point clouds ... a small taste of everything you can do with SAGA, and as with many open-source projects, ...

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.