As a public agency, IGN has an obligation to publish in open format the data it produces and some of the code it develops. But our commitment to Open Source goes beyond giving access to the code produced and for more than ten years, IGN (the French map agency) has been engaged in creating Digital Commons, both in terms of data and in terms of code. In addition to contributing to well-known open-source libraries (pdal, gdal, etc.), our developers push a large part of their code on public repository on github. And, for some, we are working to build and animate a community of contributors and users.

In this conference, we will explain why a national mapping agency has chosen to adopt such an approach and why we believe Digital Commons are strategic to build a sustainable and collaborative future. We will give a quick overview of the code we are making open source and the organization that this involves (in particular, the creation of an Open Source Program Office - OSPO).

Finally, we will present our recent activities, organizational (internal drafting of guides, FAQs, etc.) and technical (new project and ongoing developments) and also contributions we can make with other organizations and companies involved in open source initiatives (notably participation in Tosit, a gathering of French companies focused on open source).