Over the past decade, open source software has become widely accepted across governments, industries and academia. The geospatial domain is no exception and this trend is also reflected in geospatial research and practice. Nowadays, governments and stakeholders from the business sector both participate and promote open geospatial science including open geospatial data and open source geospatial software. As a result, open source geospatial science and software (i.e., open source GIS) is a growing area of research with numerous applications and great potential. The consistent prevalence of open source GIS studies motivated this thematic collection. The contributions are divided into two main categories. In the first, novel open source geospatial software and standards are presented, each of which has been implemented for and applied to a certain use case, and at the same time may be applied to other use cases due to the reproducibility of open source software. The second category presents and discusses the applicability and usability of open source GIS solutions for various interdisciplinary domains, mostly related to urban studies.

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重点介绍开源地理空间科学和软件的最新趋势

在过去的十年中，开源软件已被政府，行业和学术界广泛接受。地理空间领域也不例外，这一趋势也反映在地理空间研究和实践中。如今，商业领域的政府和利益相关者都参与并促进了开放式地理空间科学，包括开放式地理空间数据和开源地理空间软件。结果，开源地理空间科学和软件（即开源GIS）是一个具有众多应用程序和巨大潜力的不断发展的研究领域。开源GIS研究的持续流行促使了这一主题的收集。贡献分为两个主要类别。首先，介绍新颖的开源地理空间软件和标准，由于开源软件的可复制性，每个应用程序都已针对特定用例实现并应用于特定用例，同时也可应用于其他用例。第二类提出并讨论了开放源GIS解决方案在各个跨学科领域（主要与城市研究有关）的适用性和可用性。