Two years ago several members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) including MapInfo, Autodesk, Intergraph, and Laser-scan began an interoperability initiative that was designed to make it possible for a standards-compliant application to display a […]
One of the areas that people are uncertain about when they consider open source software is support. When you buy (or these days subscribe) to a closed source software product there is invariably some type […]
This is absolutely amazing because it really initiates a new level of interaction between engineering design tools and Google Earth. If you think Google Earth is neat, you really need to see Google Earth augmented with […]
From time to time I plan to invite people who have an interesting perspective (based on real world experience) that reinforces some of the themes that I have been focusing on to contribute to this […]