Geo-Thinking Joins the OpenGeo Partner Network
Geo-Thinking to Provide OpenGeo Suite Support for Colombia, Ecuador and Panama
Bogota, Colombia & New York, NY, 10-28-2011 — Geo-Thinking S A S, an influential South American geospatial service company, and OpenGeo, the technology innovator behind the OpenGeo Suite, have announced a partnership that will bring the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
Geo-Thinking will assume the first line of support for the OpenGeo Suite within the region. Of the announcement, Rocío Vega of Geo-Thinking said, "Latin America needs to use their resources more efficiently. Open source applications - and specifically the OpenGeo Suite - offer a compelling way to reduce traditional software licensing costs while expanding functionality. This partnership will provide users with more options, a full suite of supported geospatial tools, and the ability to create fully interoperable and standardized products."
OpenGeo is well known for its contributions and leadership in the development of powerful open source geospatial technologies. The OpenGeo Suite offers an open source geospatial platform for serving maps and data through web applications, mobile devices, and desktop clients. The OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition is comprised of tested, integrated and supported geospatial components GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoWebCache, PostGIS, and GeoExt. These components are being widely adopted for a range of web mapping applications.
Eddie Pickle, OpenGeo Senior Vice President, added: "Bringing Latin American partners into our Partner program is very important to OpenGeo. The region is growing rapidly by many measures, and adoption of open source solutions has been following suit. We’re looking forward to working with Geo-Thinking and know that together we offer the most compelling product and support model for Latin American customers."
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.
About Geo-Thinking
Geo-Thinking is a geographic information management company. Their expertise covers topics from data capture to the design and deployment of customized applications with geographic component. in Desktop, Web and Mobile environment. they have a young dynamic team with extensive geospatial experience.