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Video Recordings of FOSS4G Presentations
The FOSSLC folks have released video recordings of most of the presentations at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney. Paul Ramsey’s Keynote The FDO Toolbox GeoREST
Month: November 2009
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Chrome OS Source Code Fully Open
Google has announced that the source code for Chrome OS is fully open. Yesterday Google hosted an event about Chrome OS including demonstrations of Chrome OS. The presentations ran on machines running Chrome OS. According […]
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MapInfo MapXtreme Supports FDO
Thanks to Peter Rieks who pointed me to a Pitney Bowes site where you can download an “FDO Data Provider for MXT 2008 v7 to access ArcSDE, MySQL and other sources“. Look under the MapXtreme […]
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FDO Toolbox 0.9.0 Released
Jackie Ng has announced the release of a new version 0.9.0 of the FDO Toolbox. You can also see Jackie Ng’s presentation on the FDO Toolbox at FOSS4G here.
Access to Spatial Data
Chile: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Data
I have been in Chile most of last week in Santiago, where I gave a presentation at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009). This is my first time in Chile, and I am extremely impressed […]
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The Go Programming Language
Ken Thompson (Multics, B, Ed, regular expressions, Unix, Plan 9), Rob Pike (sam, Plan 9, Limbo, Inferno), and Robert Griesemer (Java Hotspot compiler) have been working on a new programming language since 2007, which has […]
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GITA Ontario Fall Forum 2009: Smart Grid, Asset Data Quality, Data Volume, and Mobile
At this year’s GITA Ontario Chapter Fall Forum there were a number of fascinating presentations on topics such as smart grid, mobile work force, managing electric distribution systems with enterprise GIS, and asset management in […]
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GITA Ontario: Mobile Solutions for Road Asset Management
I was at GITA Ontario Fall Forum yesterday near Toronto, which is an event I look forward to every year. This year was no exception, there was some exceptionally good content especially in the electric […]