Autodesk - OSGeo Sustaining Sponsor

Autodesk’s Commitment to Open Source

Autodesk recognizes the benefits of a vibrant geospatial open source community, which fosters greater innovations that meet the specific needs of users. Community-sponsored developments include purpose-built applications that offer a lower cost of entry and ownership.

MapGuide Open Source is an advanced server-based platform for authoring and delivering maps and design information over the web; MapGuide Open Source helps organizations get the full value from existing data, while reducing the costs of disseminating spatial information to customers, internal teams, the public, and other enterprise applications.

FDO data access technology is a key part of Autodesk’s commitment to open systems. With FDO, Autodesk’s geospatial applications are interoperable with multiple spatial data formats, databases and standards. This technology is also included in Autodesk’s enterprise geospatial software.

Autodesk’s Geospatial Solutions

With Autodesk’s Geospatial Solutions, users can design, manage, publish and integrate spatial data more efficiently and effectively across their organization and beyond.

Autodesk Map® 3D is the leading Engineering GIS platform for creating and managing spatial data. Map 3D bridges CAD and GIS by providing direct access to data regardless of how it is stored, and supports AutoCAD tools for maintaining geospatial information.

Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise, leverages the innovation benefits of MapGuide Open Source as the base software product, but is backed by commercial-grade quality assurance and support services from Autodesk.

Autodesk MapGuide® Studio, the authoring environment designed for MapGuide Enterprise and MapGuide Open Source, helps manage all aspects of preparing maps and geospatial data for distribution on the web.

Autodesk® Topobase™ infrastructure design and management solution is built on Autodesk Map 3D, Autodesk MapGuide, and Oracle software. The industry-specific data models and workflows in Topobase allow users to manage infrastructure assets more efficiently and enhance data quality enterprise-wide.