Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Conclusions

OSGeo supports free and open-source software in the spatial domain and is a 

 stabilizing factor in today’s highly dynamic software and business environment. 

You can participate and profit from this community of spatial expertise by using 

the software; secure in the knowledge that it is free of potentially disruptive pro-

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prietary interests. OSGeo is the common roof for projects and communities, a 

 platform to create and share software, information and know-how. This also 

 ensures highest quality software and longevity of investment. Getting involved in 

OSGeo and OSGeo software projects means to benefit from a highly motivated 

pool of  expert.

OSGeo’s future foresees a continued and steady growth aiming for longevity 

and stability instead of a fastest possible expansion. With growing revenues from 

sponsorship, OSGeo hopes to be able to contribute more to the production and 

maintenance of a geospatial core curriculum that does not depend on one type or 

even brand of software but aims at educating geospatial experts. This will help 

businesses to continue building up a qualified workforce and organizations to 

 focus on solving real world problems with geospatial software instead of solving 

software problems.

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3.  Tools and Initiatives

3.1  Existing Open-Source Tools – Possibilities for Cadastral 

 Systems

 Gertrude 

Pieper