Gfoss.it, a conference on Open Source Geographic Information Systems, is taking place in the city of Pontedera, Italy on November 28.

Governments are increasingly turning to Open Source solutions when building IT systems to deal with geographic information, write the organisers of Gfoss.it 2008. "Open Source GIS tools can compete very well with proprietary applications."

Organised together with the city council's IT department, the conference in Pontedera is meant especially for public administrators.