Autodesk University is occurring Dec 2-5 in Las Vegas, and I would encourage you to attend if you can especially if you like the technical side of things. Last year we had over 9 000 […]
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGEO is hosting FOSS4G in Capetown, South Africa, Sep 29 – Oct 3. In February of this year South Africa adopted a national policy on open source, National Open Source […]
Under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act announced yesterday, large emitters will face caps on their emissions. In what may become a continental carbon market, large emitters will be able to buy and […]
There are many misconceptions about open source that many of us encounter, one of which is that open source developers are hobbyists working in the garage in the evenings and weekends. A recent report Linux […]
The relationship between the open source community and Microsoft continues to evolve. Last Tuesday Brad Smith, Senor VP at Microsoft, gave a presentation at this year’s Open Source Business Conference that struck quite a different […]
If you need high resolution geospatial data from the world’s leading commercial sources including high resolution imagery from Digital Globe, vector data from Navteq, DEMs from Intermap, and weather data from Weatherbug, take a look […]
At GITA in Seattle this year I attended two sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important government initiatives in the area of geospatial data, national data models (my term). In […]
I just saw this article US Navy to Require Open Standards on James Fee’s Blog . It means that increasingly the Navy will acquire systems based on open technologies and standards. This was announced March […]