Tuesday President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R.1) , which includes funding for Tax relief $288 B – includes $15 B for Infrastructure and Science, $61 B for Protecting the Vulnerable, $25 […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together to encourage open geospatial standards and open source geospatial software and data. The way […]
Public access to county GIS data in California is gathering legal precedents. The California Court of Appeal in a unanimous decision affirmed the Santa Clara County Superior Court’s decision requiring Santa Clara County to comply […]
Directions Magazine has just published an article about three proposals recommending that the development of a national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) be part of a US economic stimulus package . I’ve mentioned two of them […]
Over the past two years I have attended Military Open Source Conferences in Washington DC to talk about geospatial open source software. I was impressed by the degree to which open source software has penetrated […]
Scott McNealy, Chairman and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has told the BBC that he has been asked by President Obama to prepare a paper on open source for the new administration. McNealy told the […]
The 2009 federal budget tabled yesterday by the Government which will be voted on this evening allocates C$12 billion in federal funds to infrastructure over the next two years. The federal contribution, however, requires matching […]
A number of folks from diverse backgrounds have prepared an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that is designed to not only create jobs and foster economic growth and competitiveness, but with a long term focus […]