[OSGeo-Discuss] IGN France becomes OSGeo Sponsor

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

I'm pleased to announce that IGN France is the latest OSGeo Associate  
Sponsor! The Institut Géographique National (IGN) is an  
administrative public institution under the authority of France’s  
Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development. They have a decades- 
long expertise especially in cartography, aerial imagery and  
geographic databases.

Their interest in open source comes first from improving tools such  
as Proj.4 and OSGeo-supported GDAL/OGR, in order to be able to  
reproject geographic data from the old French geodesic system (NTF)  
to the new one (RGF93). Hopefully these improved tools will help make  
the transition easier for the public.

Second, they have also been using OSGeo-supported OpenLayers as a  
foundation for Geoportail's new API. Given OpenLayers's widespread  
use, programmers should find it easy to use Geoportail's API.
IGN France looks forward to being involved in supporting OSGeo  
through the funding but also by continuing contributing code to the  
aforementioned projects.

Please join me in thanking them for their encouraging show of support  
for OSGeo.

You can learn more about IGN France at: http://www.ign.fr/

Sincerely,
Tyler


Tyler Mitchell
Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell at osgeo.org
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