Organizations & Publications

OGC: An international non-profit developing open standards for geospatial data. 

OSGeo: A non-profit supporting and promoting open-source geospatial software and community. 

IEEE GRSS: A society of IEEE focused on geospatial and remote sensing research. 

ACM SIGSPATIAL: ACM’s SIG on spatial information, organizing GIScience conferences and publications. 

ASPRS: Professional organization for photogrammetry and remote sensing. 

ICA: A global organization promoting cartography and geospatial science. 

AGU: A scientific society for Earth and space sciences, including geoinformatics. 

Directions Magazine: An online publication covering GIS industry news and trends.