Aims and Services
The FreeGIS Project aims to promote the freedom in the scope of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A GIS can be defined as an information system that is designed to work with data referenced by spatial or geographic coordinates.
It seeks to reach its aim through
- promoting the use, development and support of Free GIS Software,
- promoting the use and release of publicly available geographic data in the same sense of freedom as for Free Software,
- promoting the use, writing, translation and extending of free documents in the GIS field.
The FreeGIS projects concentrates mainly on two services:
- the website, which summarizes the said software, data and documents with additional infos and search opportunities,
- a community discussion list, where the news and releases are announced and synergy is sought among the interested community members and projects,