Wednesday at FOSS4G Jackie Ng gave a presentation on the FDO Toolbox. It was presented so well that I was flabbergasted to discover subsequently from one of Jackie’s blog that this was his first public […]
I’ve been at FOSS4G 2009 here in Sydney for the last few days. This has been an exceptionally interesting conference and given that Sydney is a long way for many people, there has been a […]
As part of its announcement of its new search engine Bing, Microsoft has rebranded Virtual Earth (which MS calls a mapping platform), now called “Bing Maps for Enterprise” Live Search Maps ( which is MS’s […]
At GITA last week I ran into Steve Serra from Oracle who updated me on open source support for Oracle Spatial/Locator. He provided a site where open source products supporting Oracle Spatial are listed. The […]
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 […]
I have just returned to Ottawa after attending a GITA Board of Directors meeting in California. I chanced to chat with Daniel Shannon of Telus about some interesting macroeconomic reports that I had come across. […]
Last week I was in Australia and had a chance to touch base with Zac Spitzer , who is the Solution Architect with Ennoble Consultancy and who was responsible for implementing the architectural design pattern […]
Safe Software has announced today that FME supports full read and write capability for AutoCAD Map 3D object data. Object data is used to associate properties with graphical entities in an AutoCAD DWG file. Safe’s […]