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Where 2.0

15 May 2008 GoGeomatics Canada

The Where 2.0 Conference , which is organized by Brady Forrest, is unique, primarily because the focus is on innovation in the geospatial sector. This year we had speakers explaining how to build a DIY […]

Where 2.0

8 May 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Where 2.0 will be taking place May 12-14 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. This is a major geospatial event of the year. There are sessions by many of the important folks in the geospatial […]

Intermap Seminar on Geospatial Data in Engineering

7 May 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Intermap Technologies will host a free webinar on Geospatial Data in Engineering Thurs and Fri of this week. When engineers and architects design buildings and infrastructure, they can no longer do this in isolation. They […]

OSBOOTCamp 6 June 2-3 in Ottawa, Canada

6 May 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The OSBOOTCamp 6 will be a two day event focusing on open source geospatial software, hosted at Careton University, in Ottawa, Canada. Come and hear industry experts present talks on web mapping, GIS analysis, OSGeo […]

GIS Development: Interview with Lisa Campbell

6 May 2008 Geoff Zeiss

In GIS Development April 2008 there is an interview with Lisa Campbell, who is responsible for Geospatial Solutions at Autodesk. It is worthwhile taking a close look at this interview because Lisa gives her perspective […]

Autodesk University 2008

30 April 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk University is occurring Dec 2-5 in Las Vegas, and I would encourage you to attend if you can especially if you like the technical side of things. Last year we had over 9 000 […]

Open Source Geospatial Event of the Year: FOSS4G in Capetown

4 April 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGEO is hosting FOSS4G in Capetown, South Africa, Sep 29 – Oct 3. In February of this year South Africa adopted a national policy on open source, National Open Source […]

North American Pioneer: British Columbia Introduces Cap and Trade for Large Emitters

4 April 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act announced yesterday, large emitters will face caps on their emissions. In what may become a continental carbon market, large emitters will be able to buy and […]

Open Source Developers: Hobbyists or Paid Professionals

2 April 2008 Geoff Zeiss

There are many misconceptions about open source that many of us encounter, one of which is that open source developers are hobbyists working in the garage in the evenings and weekends. A recent report Linux […]

Microsoft and the Open Source Community

31 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The relationship between the open source community and Microsoft continues to evolve. Last Tuesday Brad Smith, Senor VP at Microsoft, gave a presentation at this year’s Open Source Business Conference that struck quite a different […]

High Resolution Geospatial Data

27 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

If you need high resolution geospatial data from the world’s leading commercial sources including high resolution imagery from Digital Globe, vector data from Navteq, DEMs from Intermap, and weather data from Weatherbug, take a look […]

National Geospatial Data Models: DHS-GDM, SDSFIE, NIDM

26 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

At GITA in Seattle this year I attended two sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important government initiatives in the area of geospatial data, national data models (my term). In […]

US Navy To Require Open Standards

26 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

I just saw this article US Navy to Require Open Standards on James Fee’s Blog . It means that increasingly the Navy will acquire systems based on open technologies and standards. This was announced March […]

GITA Keynote Address: Aging Infrastructure

10 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

GITA 31 just kicked off this afternoon with a fascinating keynote by Tom Murphy, former Mayor of Pittsburgh. He made a number of interesting points but there are three that really hit the mark with […]

MapGuide Open Source 2.0 Released

1 March 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The MapGuide Open Source project team has released MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0. The primary new feature of this release is Fusion, a template-based system that abstracts presentation from model and controller. You’ll find significant performance […]

Gartner on Microsoft Promises Greater Transparency

28 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

According to InformationWeek , Gartner in a new research report warns open source software makers that Microsoft’s pledge to open up its documentation library to third parties carries legal risks for developers.

FDO Support for Native Spatial Data Types in SQL Server 2008

27 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has developed and donated to the OSGEO an open source Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server 2008 Data Provider allows access to the native spatial data types […]

Web Processing Service (WPS) Approved by OGC

26 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have approved the first version of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard, which defines a standard for publishing, discovery and binding to geospatial processes. This means that there […]

Booting up in 10 seconds

25 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Having gotten a bit frustrated with waiting minutes or worst case hours for my Windows machine to complete security checks, for Outlook to finish having two or three coffees, and for an administrator scan, I […]

Consortech Hosts Geospatial Conference: Standards, Single Point of Truth and 3D

24 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Last Monday and Tuesday Consortech , one of the most creative providers of geospatial solutions I have been fortunate to know in North America, hosted conferences in Quebec City and Montreal. Pierre Genest, President of […]