Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn’t use the tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions. That limitation pushed me to ...

OpenGeo has introduced a significant update to its integrated geospatial platform with the release of OpenGeo Suite 3.0. The upgrade reflects sustained momentum in the open source GIS landscape, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global geographic information system (GIS) market is set to reach close to USD 16 billion by 2020, growing at a ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

Open-source software is non-proprietary software that can allow for collaboration and modification among developers. While developers are typically encouraged to view, modify, and improve open-source ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...