Incubation for the United Nations Vector Tile Toolkit
AuthorsFUJIMURA Hidenori
DOIAbstract The United Nations Vector Tile Toolkit (UNVT) is an open source software project established under Working Group 4 (WG-4) of the United Nations Open GIS Initiative in 2018 with an objective to enable the use of open source vector tile technologies within the United Nations operations and also within the United Nations member states among other applications. To incubate UNVT, the project is being developed in the following three directions. (1) In order to establish a sustainable software development community, the project has a good momentum to apply for the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) incubation process guided by the principle to leave no one behind. (2) Through its Running Code, UNVT makes unique contribution to the global agendas under the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). (3) In order to minimize the work duplication and maximize the shared experience, the UNVT team demonstrates the implementation of vector tiles and then the project participants apply the service in practice. Following the resolution in the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations, UNVT is trying to combine the efforts of the peoples of the United Nations to address global issues using the latest vector tile technology that enables the dissemination of any vector geospatial information efficiently and independently.
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