Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

The “Open-Source Geospatial Foundation”

In February 2006 the “Open-Source Geospatial Foundation” 

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 – in short 

 OSGeo  – was founded by leading individuals from geospatial open-source soft-

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 http://www.osgeo.org/

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ware projects. OSGeo has developed into the leading voice for Open-Source in the 

 geospatial  domain. It is broadly inclusive because it is not driven by a single busi-

ness with exclusive commercial interests but by a broad and diverse community of 

users, businesses, scientists and universities. OSGeo is home for projects imple-

mented in different programing languages, for different user audiences and a 

 variety of interests as such it is a community of communities.