Open Geospatial Software and Data: A Review of the Current State and A Perspective into the Future

Flashcards for reviewing key concepts about open geospatial software and data.

What are the two main components of knowledge?

Science and Education

What does Open Hardware refer to?

Physical products, machines and systems designed and offered by means of publicly shared information.

What does Open Science refer to?

Making scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of the society.

What is the focus of the review paper?

Open source software and open data in the geospatial domain

What is the main mission of OSGeo?

To support the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies, data, and education, and to promote their widespread use.

What does the OSGeo incubation process examine?

The licenses of the project components, but also the software development process and management.

What principles are summarized as the “OSGeo Way”?

Consensus/inclusiveness, Fostering, Openness, and Responsibility

What are the five different types of OSGeo projects?

Geospatial Libraries, Web Mapping GIS, Spatial Database, Desktop GIS, Metadata Catalogs, Content Management System

What is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference?

An international conference that reaches beyond the OSGeo community, and represents a larger array of collaboratively developed open source geospatial projects.

What is GeoForAll?

A global network of open source geospatial laboratories (GeoForAll), where participants contribute to the vision of enabling geospatial education, data, and capabilities accessible to everybody.

What is OSGeo Live?

A self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu operating system that allows users to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.

What policy was decreed in the United States in 2016?

At least 20% of the custom-developed code by or for any agency of the federal government must be released as open source software and that all source code has to be shared between agencies

What does the European Amended Public Sector Information (PSI) Reuse Directive aim to do?

Make all suitable public government data available for reuse with as few legal restrictions as possible, through open and machine-readable formats together with their metadata.

What are the Sentinel Hub, Sentinel Toolboxes, and Sentinel Application Platform?

European initiatives that use open source software to allow users to work with open satellite data, such as GDAL, GeoTools, and Orfeo Toolbox.

What is Digital Earth Australia?

The Australian government’s implementation of the open-source analysis platform developed as part of the Open Data Cube (ODC) initiative.

What is a mapathon?

A collaborative effort, usually performed by groups of people who aim to collect specific map data through remote mapping (typically for humanitarian purposes) in places where OSM data are scarce or non-existent.

What is the European Data Portal?

The gateway to public government data following the PSI Directive

What does the Open Data Barometer track?

The state of openness and support governments with publication of open data

What does FAIR stand for in relation to open scientific data?

Findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable

What are the three key international standards development organizations that develop open standards for geographic information?

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).