OpenGIS

This wiki page documents open GIS organisations, technologies, database sources and open source software available.

Definitions

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomatics_engineering
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

Organisations

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_GIS_Consortium
• http://geonetwork-opensource.org
• http://www.gissa.org.za/special-interest-groups/open-source
• http://www.osgeo.org
• http://www.foss4g.org

Terminology

• http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/7077/what-are-raster-and-vector-data-in-gis-and-when-to-use

Standards

• http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_Archive_and_Interchange_Format
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:GIS_file_formats

Geo-location Co-ordinate Systems

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georeference
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system

Geo-location Satellite Technology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Navigation_Satellite_System
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_applications
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDOP

Software

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_GIS
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcExplorer
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoTools
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoServer
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapServer

Databases

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_data_sources
• http://www.agis.agric.za

Conferences

• http://2013.foss4g.org
• http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee

Mailing Lists

• http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo