I blogged previously about a court case involving Santa Clara County in California that was decided in favour of free and open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA). May 31 […]
Apparently the US Administration has asked the Supreme Court to determine if the police need a warrant before installing a GPS to track a vehicle. A criminal conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court […]
The Japanese OSGEO Chapter web site provides geospatial and other resources to assist people after the earthquakes and tsunami that hit Japan’s northeast starting Friday including 目次 Table of Contents[非表示] * 1 被災後空中写真 A […]
I’ve blogged in the past about cities making their raw geospatial available to citizens, beginning with Vancouver. Adam R. Jonasson GIS Coordinator City of Grand Forks, ND has released an Open Data Warehouse (ODW). This […]
I’ve blogged about an Autodesk Labs project called Galileo. Galileo is a technology preview for 3D city modeling for planners, architects, and designers, who need to view future designs of structures in the context of […]
One of the talks I attended at the URISA conference last week in Orlando was presented by Raj Singh of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) on the subject of “geosynchronization”. This has nothing to do […]
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 […]
One of the areas that researchers involved in the INSPIRE initiative are putting a lot of effort these days is quantifying the business benefits of an open spatial data infrastructure. At the recent INSPIRE conference […]