[OSGeo-Discuss] IGN France becomes OSGeo Sponsor

[Guillaume Sueur]

The news of the Year actually. I clap my hands loudly !

Guillaume

Thierry Badard a écrit :
> 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.
> 

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