Several years ago, I took my family with me to the ESRI International User Conference and we spent a lot of time checking things out around San Diego. My son also participated in “GIS Kids Camp” at the UC, where ESRI staff took kids through a few scenarios...
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Vancouver Open Data Hackathon on behalf of Safe Software. For those of you from outside Vancouver, the city recently passed an initiative requiring the city to “…freely share with citizens, businesses and other...
I got a surprise e-mail from Felix today letting me know that the SpatiaLite provider I posted some time ago, along with Kev’s great spatial index work, has been included in the SharpMap repository. If you’re looking for one place to pick...
My inbox has been busy this week with announcements from gvSIG. New builds of the network extension and the 3D extension have been released.
New features of the network extension are described as: “- Create and define network topology (using velocities...
I have a confession. Until very recently, I had never added anything to OpenStreetMap, despite having an account for over 2 years. The free map of the world is a great source of roadmaps, as well as raw data that can be used for pretty much anything....
I work at a technology consulting company that does a lot of software development. A while back, we started using Redmine to manage our software development projects. Redmine is an open-source, web-based project management tool. It provides a lot of capability...
Just ahead of the gvSIG conference in Valencia, version 1.9 has been released. gvSIG is an open-source desktop GIS developed in Java. The new features in 1.9 are summarized here.
Some of the new features, including SLD import/export, are pretty interesting...
It is important to keep things simple, to make choices that are easy for implementers and that make it easy for the standard to be used and adopted. Read More...