Selected Papers from FOSS4G 2013: OSGeo's Global Conference for Open Source Geospatial Software

Over the past decades geospatial information technology has reached a significant level of maturity and is widely implement in industry as well as public agencies. Lately, we have witnessed the rise of free and open source software in this area, flanked by open standards and the the open data movement. This special [issue/section] of Transactions in GIS comprises five research papers selected from the submissions to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2013, the global conference for Open Source Geospatial Software, which took place in Nottingham (UK), from 17 to 21 September 2013. The FOSS4G conferences, billed as “the annual gathering of Open Source