08-24, 17:15–17:20 (Europe/Rome), Room 9
"Géocommun" [ʒeokɔmɛ̃] : is it the latest buzzword in France or a large movement towards more openness in the geospatial realm ?
The French National Geographical Institute (IGNF) recently started communicating its vision towards the development of Geo-commons. This sounds like a strategical change in the way the institute apprehends geo-data and geo-software production.
In this presentation, we first try to give a definition of what a "geocommon" is. Then we review the initiatives currently being deployed by various actors in France to transform this word into a reality.
We study the roots of these actions and their links to opendata, opensource and opengov movements.
We also try to provide a mindmap of involved actors, and how they interact together : administrations, data-oriented communities or software-oriented communities.
Then we anticipate the impact on free and opensource software for geomatics, and how it could affect technologies and communities in this area.
Vincent Picavet is an engineer in applied mathematics. After a few years working on satellite imagery, he dedicates himself to GIS, designing and implementing spatial data infrastructures with PostGIS and PostgreSQL as main components. Vincent is a PostGIS contributor and has given a lot of training sessions at the university or for private companies. He regularly talks at international conferences, PGConf.eu, FOSS4G or other events related to GIS and spatial data. He founded Oslandia in 2009, providing services in opensource GIS.