52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH is an international research and development company whose mission is to promote the conception, development and application of free open source geo-software for research, education, training and practical use. 52°North backs an open initiative, which is driven by leading research organizations and individuals in the international GIS field. Cooperation partners participate in research and development with focii on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Web Security and Geo-Rights Management , as well as Geo-Processing. 

The work of our partners results in a collection of Java based web services implementations. Our software is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL) , but is also available via a dual licensing model for those who would like to tightly integrate our software into their own commercial software products.

52°North's current core communities:

>SOS >SPS >WNS >SAS >OX-Framework	>WAS 1.2 >WSS 1.2 >WSC-Web 1.2
>WPS >WPS Client	More...