Jackie Ng has setup a project site that he intends to be the home for community-contributed scripts, tools and extensions for MapGuide Open Source.
There is a very interesting blog by Michael Schlosser outlining the challenge of capital asset reporting when a municipality has a significant as-built backlog. In Canada PSAB 3150 and in the US GASB 34 requires […]
There are articles in serious publications like the Wall Street Journal that IBM is in negotiations to acquire Sun. That will really change the landscape of IT and would involve merging two companies with dissimilar […]
As I blogged about last February, I often carry a second computer, an ASUS EEE PC 701 , so I can work while I wait for my Windows laptop to boot up. Some enterprising […]
March 16th the 100 000th user registered on OpenStreetMap. Apparently, August 9th 2004 was the day that the first user registered the domain and started the project. As you can see from the accompanying graph, […]
There is a very interesting article in Geo:Geoconnexions International by Carl Reed, CTO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) , about the collaboration between the OGC and the open source community. If your background is […]
Autodesk has announced that Vancouver has been chosen as a pilot for its digital cities initiative, which focuses on applying digital 3D urban modeling technology to helping cities plan future development, increase the sustainability of […]
There are several coordinate system related projects at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO)), including Proj4 A cartographic projections library originally written by Gerald Evenden then of the USGS. Proj4js A JavaScript library to transform […]