(1/5) My employer, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (linz.govt.nz) is now sponsoring GDAL (gdal.org/en/latest/sp...). I believe we are the first government mapping agency to directly sponsor the project. Would be great to have some peers join us! #osgeo #foss4g #gdal #gischat - ThreadSky

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dwsilk.bsky.social • 84 days ago

(1/5) My employer, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (https://linz.govt.nz) is now sponsoring GDAL (https://gdal.org/en/latest/sponsors/).

I believe we are the first government mapping agency to directly sponsor the project. Would be great to have some peers join us!

#osgeo #foss4g #gdal #gischat

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rowanwinsemius.bsky.social•84 days ago

So good to see a government dept getting behind this - wild to think yours might be the first given the vast majority would rely on GDAL in a significant fashion either directly or indirectly.

rowanwinsemius.bsky.social•84 days ago

I previously arranged sponsorship through an ex-employer and it was easier than I thought it would be, so i'd encourage anyone who knows what value their org gets out of GDAL to give it a go and have that conversation or write that paper, the worst that can happen is they say no!

dwsilk.bsky.social•84 days ago

(2/5) We have been using GDAL since the mid 2000s, directly funding features since ~2015, and in 2018 we were the third largest funding contributor to the GDAL Barn Raising (https://gdalbarn.com/). Each year we run millions of GDAL commands to ensure our data holdings are standardised in open formats.

dwsilk.bsky.social•84 days ago

(3/5) In 2019, we funded the creation of the Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF driver. A lot of groundwork had been funded by other orgs, but the driver wrapped it all up in a bow, reducing the number of commands to run and flags to set to get a nice default COG output.

dwsilk.bsky.social•84 days ago

(4/5) Over this past decade or so, we have funded a number of improvements to the GeoTIFF, GeoPackage, SQLite, FileGDB, PostgreSQL and CSV drivers, recognising the critical role GDAL/OGR plays in ensuring interoperability in the geospatial software ecosystem.

dwsilk.bsky.social•84 days ago

(5/5) With this sponsorship, we hope to increase the sustainability of the GDAL project and ensure its continued success. Huge thanks to all of the code maintainers, contributors, sponsors and the team at @numfocus.bsky.social!

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