Pacific Spatial Solutions (PSS), founded in Tokyo in 2012, builds its business around open geospatial standards and open source software rather than in spite of them. As an OGC member, our team also contributes directly to the community — from OGC/CityGML data pipelines for Japan's Project PLATEAU to a widely used Japanese QGIS textbook co-authored by our CEO and a director.

That same philosophy shapes our product lineup. Fully open-source CesiumJS and TerriaJS power Japan's national 3D city model viewer and Tokyo's Digital Twin. Around that open core, we partner deliberately with tools that strengthen the ecosystem rather than compete with it: FME converts hundreds of municipal datasets into OGC standards; Felt — QGIS's flagship sponsor — maintains Tippecanoe and funds PMTiles/Protomaps; Fused builds its serverless spatial analysis on DuckDB and H3; CARTO, a core PostGIS contributor, open-sources its Analytics Toolbox.

In five minutes, we'll share what more than a decade of treating open standards and open source as a growth strategy, not a cost, has meant for our business — and what we've learned along the way.