For decades, proprietary technology has been the norm for geospatial tracking. Boundless is a company trying to change that by offering open source solutions for geospatial tracking that allow developers to build tools that rely on locational information. Since their software is open source, there are no additional license costs associaed with scaling projects which makes Boundless’ services ideal for public facing applications. The Portland transit authority, Federal Communications Commission, and New York City have all taken advantage of the open source solutions offered by Boundless. Open Source software allows organizations to use geospatial technologies in new and unique ways while relying on the professional services offered by companies like Boundless.
Boundless also makes contributions to upstream projects, and releases a community edition of their software that allows anyone to try it out without being locked in. Currently, the company is focusing on how to leverage the big data side of geospatial collections to make better use of the large amount of information that is collected with these systems.
