Talk:TorchGeo Code Provenance

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 8:08 AM Brian M Hamlin via Incubator <incubator@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

    Hello All -

      With this email, I am pleased to present to the OSGeo Incubation Committee an OSGeo Project Candidate :  TorchGeo [0].  As Project Mentor I have worked closely with the TorchGeo PSC and code base.  In my best judgement, I find that TorchGeo is not only a suitable candidate, but in fact a substantial addition to a large set of consequential and significant geospatial software projects of our current era, represented by OSGeo. 

    The Program Steering Committee (PSC) of TorchGeo is composed of a small but diverse group of committers; the PSC has defined clear standards for code contributions, bugs, features and additions. Due to the unique character of this training and benchmarking environment, many complete teams from more than a hundred institutions worldwide are contributing and active in the project.  As a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence environment itself, new data LICENSE challenges are present as well.

    You will find abundant links and details in the project Application [1] and Code Review [2].  The TorchGeo project release cycle is integrated with OSGeo Planet and news -- special thanks to JSanz.

    Please review and cast your vote at your earliest convenience. Questions and other inquiries will be handled on an OSGeo TRAC instance ticket [3].   The voting period shall begin with the date of this email, and scheduled to conclude in 14 days hence.

    Special gratitude on this important day goes out to the OSGeo Systems Administration Team for TRAC, MediaWiki, email and support infrastructure

      signed --Brian M Hamlin    /  MAPLABS  /  TorchGeo Project Mentor on behalf of #osgeo

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    [0] https://www.osgeo.org/projects/torchgeo/

    [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/TorchGeo

    [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/TorchGeo_Code_Provenance

    [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3519



Congrats to team, and thanks for mentoring. I will review this weekend. 

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Jody Garnett



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Board Meeting 2026-02-24

Recognize TorchGeo as OSGeo Project via recent Incubation Committee vote

• Brian Hamlin reporting as mentor of the TorchGeo project
• MOTION: Motion to recognize TorchGeo as OSGeo Project
• Motion passed during the meeting: +1 by: Mike, Jeroen, Vicky, Tim, Codrina, Angelos, Joana, Tom

OSGeo Board Members and Guests
On behalf of the TorchGeo Project technical-steering-committee , authors, testers, academics and users of all kinds, I want to emphasize implementation of the newest additions to computer science and remote sensing theory and practice, in a community setting, evolving quickly and with results.

With #torchgeo, the OSGeo ecosystem will grow, strengthen and extend into rapidly evolving new discoveries and applications.  It will be a wild ride. 

Note: AI LLM assistance was employed in the production of this document.

LLM Engine contributions by operator

Operator	Tool	Model 1	Model 2
omniverdi	opencode	claude-opus	devstral2-2512
darkblueb	ollama local-only	gemma3:12b	qwen3-coder