GeoIQ includes a number of open standards, open-source software and open data. The sections below outline the various components, their software licenses and links to the packages or more information.

Open Standards

GeoIQ utilizes open and commonly used web standards that enable easy sharing of data within and across organizations. In addition, GeoIQ actively works in developing new standards that meet emerging needs. Users of GeoIQ immediately gain use of these new standards to stay on the leading edge with new technology and partners.

A few relevant data standards that GeoIQ utilizes and provides to users include:

Open Source Components

GeoIQ and GeoIQ utilizes numerous open source components and actively contributes back to the projects. By using open-source technology, GeoIQ is able to actively work with and contribute to a global community of developers and organizations that are working together to build the best open technology. GeoIQ has also built new open-source projects such as the GeoCommons Geocoder, developed in partnership with the United States Federal Geospatial Data Committee.

The GeoCommons Geocoder is available online for developers and integrators at http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

A few of the open-source tools that we use include:

And numerous other packages available through the Red Hat and CentOS repositories.

Ruby Gems and Libraries

OpenStreetMap

A powerful wiki map of the entire world, OpenStreetMap is a free and open collaborative map of the world. The FortiusOne team includes leading members of the OSM community. GeoIQ uses OpenStreetMap as a basemap for overlaying of custom data.

Extracts of data from OSM are also available on GeoCommons.

Infrastructure Components

GeoIQ deploys the platform with a number of open-source components. These are not strictly dependencies of the platform but software used to host and serve the application to users. They are listed here in order to provide additional information for users on third-party tools that comprise GeoIQ.

All licenses

Here is a generalized list and links to all applicable licenses as noted next to the packages above.