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Educating 21st Century Geospatial Technology Industryworkers With Open Source Software, Phillip Davis
Educating 21st Century Geospatial Technology Industryworkers With Open Source Software, Phillip Davis
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The global geospatial technology industry, in a study by UK-based Oxera commissioned by Google in January 2013, has been estimated at $150 USD billion to $270 USD billion per year ($110 billion euro to $199 billion euro). In a similar US-focused study, also commissioned by Google in 2013, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found the geospatial services industry employs approximately 500,000 people and generates around $75 (USD) billion in annual revenue ($55 billion euro). By any measure, the geospatial industry is large one, in both the US and globally. With this explosive growth, combined with the current generation of geospatial …