While I was in Brazil I had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Diniz and Fabio Gomes from DigiCADD. DigiCADD has been working with a large telephone company in Brazil, who have been using AutoCAD […]
I recently attended GeoBrasil 2006 in Sao Paulo, where there is and has been for some time a very active open source geospatial community. For example, the 2nd Brazilian MapServer meeting was held last November […]
If you are interested in how the winds of change are progressing at Microsoft, there is an interesting article MS Converter Project by Andy Updegrove that gives an overview of the 200 or so items […]
Recently I attended the 2nd National GIS Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur sponsored by MaCGDI (Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure), where I gave a presentation on open source geospatial software. I think it […]
Last week I was in Kuala Lumpur attending the 2nd National GIS Conference and Exhibition and I had an opportunity to chat with several utility and telecommunications companies. It brought home how ubiquitous the infrastructure […]
Autodesk has launched a new web site (Autodesk Labs ) that provides early access to new prototypes, experiments, applications and technologies. These technologies are created by development folks at Autodesk, and will include everything from […]
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 […]