Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives Archives - Page 121 of 126

Impact of Open Standards and Open Source: Microsoft Promises “Greater Transparency”

22 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Thursday Microsoft promised “greater transparency” in its development and business practices. At least partially motivated by an antitrust case against Microsoft in the EU, it seems to suggest that the company is finally recognizing the […]

British Columbia Introduces North America’s First Full-fledged Carbon Tax

20 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Yesterday the Government of British Columbia passed a bill that will phase in a carbon tax on all fossil fuels including gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane, and home heating fuel. Beginning this summer […]

Map India 2008

14 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

I just spent two days in Delhi at Map India 2008. I always enjoy attending and presenting at Map India because India is very advanced in geospatial technologies and I always come across different and […]

FDO Open Geospatial Data API Graduates from OSGEO Incubation

13 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Frank Warmerdam, president of the OSGEO, has announced that the FDO project has graduated from the OSGEO incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGEO project. The FDO open geospatial data API provides an […]

Streamlining Workflows in Utilities: Technology is No Longer the Excuse

13 February 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Jonathan Pickus from Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) gave one of the most insightful presentations I have seen on the typical challenges facing utilities and what the LVVWD has achieved in streamlining the flow […]

MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0 Beta 2 Available

14 December 2007 Geoff Zeiss

The MapGuide Open Source project team has made MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0 Beta 2 available for testing. DocumentationDownloads The main feature in this release is integration of the Fusion framework. See 2.0 Milestone Page for […]

Kansei Open Source Conference – Osaka, Japan

20 November 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Recently I attended and presented at the Kansei Open Source Conference in Osaka. This conference is dedicated to all forms of open source, but thanks to Professor Venkatesh Raghavan of Osaka City University there was […]

Jason Birch and the City of Nanaimo

30 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Jason Birch’s work at the City of Nanaimo was featured on CTV in Canada this morning. If you want to see what an innovative person can do on an open source web platform, you can […]

Rocket City Geospatial

18 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

This has been really one of the most interesting conferences I have been to. This morning we listened to Jack Pellicci, late of Oracle, and more recently with Intergraph reiterate his slightly modified message “Don’t […]

Rocket City Geospatial Conference – Lead Author of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

15 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I’m in Huntsville, Alabama for the Rocket City Geospatial Conference where Neal Niemiec and I will be running a lab today on Creating Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform, I’ll be talking later […]

Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

Are Paper Maps a Thing of the Past ?

15 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

There was an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday by Michael Cabanatuan entitled Paper maps crumpling in face of electronic onslaught (Paper Maps) which contains some interesting statistics. AAA hands out a […]

Nobel Peace Prize – Al Gore and UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

12 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize it was announced today in Oslo because of their role in raising the awareness about global climate change. This […]

Data Quality and Google Maps

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I just saw this Sinking Ferry on Jason Birch’s blog. It just shows you the artifacts that can be created if you’re not too concerned with the quality of your data.

Ontario’s Aging Water Systems

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

An interesting report A Study of the Status of Full Cost Recovery and Sustainability of Ontario Municipal Water and Wastewater Systems was released last week by the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, an industry […]

INPE Becomes OSGeo Sponsor – Submits TerraLib to OSGeo Incubator Program

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

At FOSS4G last week I discovered that the Brazilian Space Agency INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) has become a sponsor of OSGeo. Also INPE has submitted TerraLib as an OSGeo incubator project. I have […]

Autodesk Acquires Mentor Software Technology – Plans to Donate to OSGeo

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Adena Schutzberg of Directions Magazine offers interesting background (Adena on Mentor Software ) on Mentor Software and Norm Olsen. I recommend you look at the comments to Adena’s article. They illustrate the benefits of the […]

IT Integrating Location: Nokia Aquires Navteq

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Following quickly after the proposed acquisition of Tele Atlas N.V. by TomTom N.V. (TomTom Offer), it was probably only a matter of time before someone acquired Navteq. Today Nokia announced that it has agreed to […]

Global Environmental Change: Role of Technology in Sustainable Design

1 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk is hosting an executive forum on the role of technology in sustainable design in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme and the Natural World Museum at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in […]

FOSS4G: Autodesk To Donate Map Projection Technology to Open Source Geospatial Community

26 September 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has announced that it plans to donate map projection technology to the geospatial open source community. Autodesk has acquired the technology from from Mentor Software which was founded by Norm Olsen. Mentor Software’s map […]

FOSS4G – Some Things to Look Out For

18 September 2007 Geoff Zeiss

FOSS4G is coming up next week in Victoria BC. FOSS4G has always been a good place to see some exciting innovations by the open source community, and this year is no exception. There will be […]