Our activities
Creation of geodata
In partnership with local mappers, LLg implements free, simple and robust geomatics solutions to create geodata in the field or via imagery, ensuring their quality and long-term preservation.
LLg promotes the creation and use of open data, in particular that from the OpenStreetMap project.
Enhancing geodata
LLg knows how to extract, process, transform and add value to geographic data to enable access or redistribution according to the interoperability standards specific to geodata, using open-source tools and respecting licenses and ISO standards. Whether it’s a partner’s business data or data from OpenStreetMap.
LLg can also distribute them through its Open Francophone Spatial Data Infrastructure (IFL).
Training in free geomatics and open data
LLg trains emerging players in geomatics 2.0 in French-speaking countries in the South, including those with no theoretical or practical knowledge of geomatics, in Open Source geomatics methodologies and tools, through training workshops adapted to each context, involving local skills and promoting replication.
LLg provides training in OpenStreetMap, QGIS, Open Data Kit, webmaps and the geOrchestra Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Mentoring and local empowerment programs
In addition to technical training in OpenStreetMap and open-source geomatics, LLg has always supported the emergence and growth of collectives within young open-source players, to enable them to publicize their activities, structure themselves or set up projects.
To achieve this, LLg has designed a range of original programs and materials covering the areas needed for local empowerment, inspired by feedback from other territories.
Documentation
LLg produces all kinds of open-licensed documentation on open geomatics, from step-by-step guides for beginners to state of the art or summaries of the issues at stake in the field, using different types of media.
Since 2014, LLg has also been developing a documentary common covering all the stakes and technical aspects of free geomatics and open data.
Our Commons
Free Francophone Spatial Data Infrastructure
A platform to support capacity building (training/self-training) and initiatives for sharing open geographic data in the Global South, in accordance with the practices and ethics of the OSM project, the free software and open data movement, and the principles of the community and/or the social economy.
OpenStreetMap ETL in English and French
To facilitate the reuse of OpenStreetMap data in French-speaking countries in the Global South, LLg has implemented an ETL (extract, transform, load) system within its IFL that allows users to download detailed OSM thematic layers for these countries, available both in their original English version and in a version automatically translated into French. These layers are continuously updated, with updates synchronized with the main OSM database every few minutes.
Guide to Open Geomatics and Open Data
A self-guided learning path that helps you connect with all stakeholders in the field of geomatics through the practices and resources of the OSM project and their reuse in cartography and geographic information systems (GIS).
Guide to Organizational Commons
An open-license organizational resource kit to support the launch and/or strengthening of associative and professional structures, particularly for individuals and groups active in the OSM project in French-speaking countries in the Global South.