Iván Sánchez Ortega

A default web map takes data in latitude-longitude and displays it in spherical Mercator, which makes two different coordinate systems. But the internal workings of a mapping library require handling even more coordinate systems internally.

In 2025, the Spanish Supreme Court ruled that source code for a piece of software developed for a Ministry (the BOSCO tool) needed to have its source code released.

Wow it has been a busy time for security vulnerabilities. FOSS4G software is getting caught up in the general push to regulate IT and impose “security” on the technology that powers society.

Wow it has been a busy year for security vulnerabilities. While FOSS4G software is unlikely to result in global “blue screen of death” outages - we are getting caught up in the general push to regulate IT and impose “security” on the technology that powers society.

Gleo is a nascent javascript WebGL mapping library. It aims to find a niche alongside Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre and Deck.gl. This library was presented at FOSS4G 2022.

Gleo is a nascent javascript WebGL mapping library. It aims to find a niche alongside Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre and Deck.gl. It was first introduced at FOSS4G 2022.

Gleo is a nascent javascript WebGL mapping library. It aims to find a niche alongside Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre and Deck.gl. This library was presented at FOSS4G 2022.

WebGL has enabled fast rendering of maps on the web (including MapLibreGL and OpenLayers renderers), but from the software development point of view, is a notoriously cumbersome technology to work with.