[OSGeo-Discuss] IGN France becomes OSGeo Sponsor

[Thierry Badard]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) a écrit :
> 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
> 

Wow ! As a former member of IGN France and one of the 
pionneers/advocates ( or activists ;-)) who have encouraged the use and 
development of open source tools in the Institute (especially with the 
release in 2005 of the GeOxygene project 
http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net stemming from the research 
activities undertaken at IGN and the first open source effort of the 
Institute), I want to clap my hands and thank my former colleagues 
(Didier and others) for this sponsoring. This is really a great news!

Th.

-- 
Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D.
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Professeur au Département des sciences géomatiques
(http://www.scg.ulaval.ca)
Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique
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Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE
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Chercheur collaborateur de la chaire de recherche
industrielle en base de données géospatiales décisionnelles
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internationales en géomatique
(http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca)
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(http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net)

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