I blogged previously about Project Butterfly, an Autodesk Labs Technology Preview that allowed AutoCAD users to edit AutoCAD drawings over the web just using a Web browser. Autodesk has announced the commercial availability of AutoCAD […]
The last time I attended a URISA Annual Conference was in 2007 in Washington DC when Dave McIlhagga and I gave what I think was the first talk at a URISA conference on open source […]
Autodesk has announced that it is extending the license term for free software available through its online Education Community from 13 to 36 months. The license term extension applies to over 25 products, including Inventor, […]
I blogged earlier about the Point Cloud Shape Extraction for AutoCAD Plug-in, which is an intelligent point cloud shape extraction solution which allows you to import, load, and extract shape and geometry information from point […]
An outstanding FOSS4G annual conference has wrapped up here in Barcelona. As part of the final session Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of OSGEO, reported the latest statistics on the OSGEO community. There are now 15,000 […]
There is a lot more interest in three dimensional surfaces these days and this is also reflected in the open source geospatial world. This afternoon at FOSS4G in Barcelona, Frank Warmerdam gave a talk on […]
Lorenzo Becchi, who opened the FOSS4G 2010 Conference today here in Barcelona, reported that as of Monday there were 822 registered attendees, which I believe represents a new record. ( If I remember there were […]
Haris Kurtagic of SL-King has just released a new FDO provider King.SpatiaLite for SpatiaLite. SpatiaLite is an extension to SQLite to support spatial geometry and conforms to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Haris is an […]