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Upcoming GITA 2007 Panel

9 February 2007 Geoff Zeiss

There is going to be a very interesting seminar and panel discussion on Mapping Applications on the Web: Evolution or Revolution on Sunday March 4th at the annual GITA conference in San Antonio. The speakers […]

Map World Forum

30 January 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I just spent a few days at the Map World Forum conference in Hyderabad. This conference was quite different from its MapIndia predecessors for several reasons. More of the participants were international, where in the […]

Leveraging the value of CAD data

21 January 2007 Geoff Zeiss

One of the dimensions of the point of inflection which has been occurring in the geospatial world over the last year or two is that spatial is becoming increasing less special. What this means in […]

OSGEO Japan Seminar

13 December 2006 Geoff Zeiss

The Japan Chapter of the OSGEO held its first seminar at the Tokyo Convention Center. I have heard that more than 170 people attended, which is a tremendous turnout. Kazunori Noda, well-known in the geospatial […]

INSPIRE and Free Data

30 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Last week, the European parliament and council of ministers worked out a compromise to the INSPIRE directive whose purpose is to harmonise spatial information in Europe. The directive had become the focus of an intense […]

MapGuide Open Source and Community Participation

28 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Most of this week I am at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. I don’t know the numbers, but last year there were about 5,000 participants, if I remember correctly, and this year there appears to […]

Map Africa and Open Source Geospatial

23 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I’ve just spent a few days at Map Africa and this has been a very interesting conference. First of all it has not been a traditional GIS conference. There has been a strong focus on […]

Improving the Information Flow at the St Johns River Water Management District

19 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

At Oracle Open World I had a chance to chat with Peggy White, CIO of the St Johns River Water Management District, and Jim Ren, who I’ve known for many years and who also is […]

Engineering GIS and APWA

18 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Last week I attended a fascinating conference in Los Angeles, the annual APWA (American Public Works Association) Southern California Conference. Most of the people attending were water and waste water management professionals, primarily from Los […]

Open Source and GIS

13 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

In the last month or so there has been some interesting developments with respect to open source and GIS. I’m including a link to James Fee’s blog James Fee on GIS and Open Source where […]

Spatial Data and Earth Observation Satellites

6 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I’ve been at the Space Technology and Geo-Informatics 2006 conference and there have been a number of presentations about new earth observation satellites. I’ve seen presentations from Japan, Thailand, Canada and MDA, and Digital Earth. […]

Open Source and Microsoft

6 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

A headline on CNET this AM begins “When hell freezes over…“. What the headline was referring to was the agreement announced by Novell and Microsoft to collaborate to help Microsoft’s Windows to work with Novell’s […]

Future of Database

5 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

One of the most interesting talks I went to at Oracle Open World last week was a talk by Noel Yuhanna of Forrester on The Future of Database Technology: An Analyst’s View. Features and Technologies […]

Oracle Open World – Larry Ellison

29 October 2006 Geoff Zeiss

For folks who are interested, here’s the link to Larry Ellison’s keynote OOW Larry Ellison Keynote.

Linux, Red Hat, and Oracle

27 October 2006 Geoff Zeiss

As I mentioned in my last blog I have been at Oracle Open World the last few days. The highlight of OOW is usually Larry Ellison’s keynote and this year did not disappoint, although this […]

Oracle and Open Source

24 October 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I’ve been at the first day of Oracle Open World in San Francisco. This conference is huge, I have heard estimates of 47,000 visitors. A major street in the middle of San Francisco has been […]

OSGEO Announces Executive Director

23 October 2006 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has chosen Tyler Mitchell as Executive Director. Tyler will be responsible for the OSGEO’s day-to-day operations in support of both development and promotion. Tyler was one of the first in […]

Open Source Geospatial Data Access API

29 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

One of the most successful areas of the open source geospatial movement is providing data access APIs and data providers for a wide range of file formats. For example MapServer users are familiar with OGR […]

UMPC Pro Battery Life

12 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I’ve been carrying an OQO Model 01+ with a USB GPS around with me on airplanes, hiking, and cross-country skiing for over a year and if there is one thing that has been the single […]

OGC WMS Certification

8 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has just announced the certification by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) of Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2007 for its WMS 1.1.1 implementation. “This product complies with the OpenGIS® Web Map Service, Revision 1.1.1, (WMS 1.1.1). […]