OSGeo China Center, Geospatial Data Sharing, Open Geospatial Laboratory
Tag： open source
Chinese Websites： https://www.osgeo.cn/ Enter The Website
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a global non-profit organization that aims to support global collaboration and build and promote high-quality open source software for spatial information.
The OSGeo China Center is a non-profit organization sponsored by the National Remote Sensing Center, assisted by Autodesk China Ltd., and officially authorized by OSGeo. The Center relies on the National Remote Sensing Center and works closely with the OSGeo Council. The mission of OSGeo China Center is to support the development of open source geographic information software and remote sensing software and to promote its wider application, especially to help users and developers in China to better use the source code, products and services provided by the OSGeo Foundation.
The OSGeo China Center portal will provide information of interest to local users, such as conferences, events, affiliates, paper submissions, e-learning, coaching, reporting, and free open source spatial datasets.
Since 2014, the OSGeo China Center has been maintained by the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The main role is to introduce open source GIS software and GIS principles.
In 2016, OSGeo China Center integrated the "data sharing", "map map", "online computing" and other sections on the basis of the original "open source GIS software". It hopes to make a portal for open geographic information, mainly to maintain OSGeo. The China Center website, as well as the relevant content of the Marsh Wetland Thematic Data Node.
