Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
MapGuide Open Source 1.2 Released
The OSGEO has announced that MapGuide Open Source 1.2 has been released. You can check the OSGEO Announcement for what’s new in MapGuide Open Source 1.2.
Year: 2007
Aging infrastructure
Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry
There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges […]
Access to Spatial Data
Project Freewheel
There are some pretty interesting things on the Autodesk Labs site that are worth checking out. One thing you may find pretty interesting is Freewheel , which allows you to look at 2D and 3D […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
Open Source Geospatial Conference – FOSS4G
FOSS4G , which is the annual world-wide free and open source geospatial conference, will be occurring Sep 24 to 27 in Victoria BC Canada. Preliminary indications Geotips report that 450 have already registered, and based […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
GeoWeb 2007 – Creating Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Platform
Niel Niemiec, Paul Spencer, Dave McIlhagga and I delivered a workshop at Geoweb 2007 in Vancouver that introduced participants to developing Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform including MapGuide Open Source, FDO, and […]
Access to Spatial Data
The Value of Data
Recently I had the opportunity to visit a very interesting company, iMapData, which is now part of ChoicePoint. These folks started out in the late 90’s doing market studies for blue chip commercial organizations. After […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
NXTcomm – Telecom is back
I had the opportunity to drop by the NXTcomm conference in Chicago on my way to Washington from San Francisco and it was worth it. I have not seen so much energy around telecom since […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
ISDE5 International Symposium on Digital Earth – Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart gave one of the keynotes at ISDE5. Doug is originally from Oregon but has been in the Bay area most of his working life. In 2000 he was awarded the National Medal of […]