FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] IGN France becomes OSGeo Sponsor

[Dirk Frigne]

> > I'm pleased to announce that IGN France is the latest OSGeo Associate
> > Sponsor!

Indeed very good news!

I will take this mail as an example and ask the Belgian IGN if they also can
sponsor OSGeo in one way or another. 

Sincerely,
Dirk Frigne

GeoMajas – today still to be found on the old website http://majas.dfc.be 

     www.gegis.org
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     majas.dfc.be


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Thierry Badard
> Verzonden: maandag 7 juli 2008 20:00
> Aan: OSGeo Discussions
> Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] IGN France becomes OSGeo Sponsor
> 
> 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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