Autodesk Contributes Mentor Software CS-Map Coordinate System Software to the Open Source Community

6 August 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Software Donations

Autodesk has announced another major software donation to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO)Osgeo_wtag_2

. The source code for the CS-Map coordinate system technology acquired from Mentor Software has been donated to the open source community and Autodesk is working to make it part of an official OSGeo Foundation project for coordinate reference systems. This is Autodesk’s third major contribution to the open source community, after the Feature Data Object (FDO) Data Access Technology and MapGuide Open Source donations.

CS-Map Coordinate System Technology

CS-Map is a coordinate system and map projection library for geographic coordinate conversion.  More than 3,000 map projections and coordinate systems are currently supported. Because it’s now open source, contributors from the the open source community will now be able to customize and add to the existing projections.

Autodesk acquired CS-Map through its acquisition of Mentor Software technology in September 2007. CS-Map is currently embedded in most of Autodesk’s geospatial products.

OSGEO

The OSGeo hosts 15 open source geospatial projects. Since OSGEO’s founding in 2006, more than 200 developers have contributed to OSGEO projects, and it includes a base of more than 6 million lines of code, representing more than 1 000 person years of effort.

MapGuide Maestro

The MapGuide Open Source project also announced the addition of
MapGuide Maestro, which is a free map authoring tool for
MapGuide Open Source.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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