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Care of Durians

5 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

For those of you who are durian fans, my colleague Keshav Sahoo has provided some advice in the care and handling of durians. Regarding the odor, the trick is to throw away the outer, spiky […]

PEGIS – A Model for eGovernment

5 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Last Friday I was fortunate to attend several very interesting presentations at MapAsia 2006 in Bangkok. Among them was a presentation by Abdul Ghapar Othman and Kausar Hj Ali from the School of Housing, Building […]

Durians

1 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I promised some of my friends back in Ottawa to return from Bangkok with a “no durians” sign. Here it is. For those of you not familiar with durians, they’re a large, spikey fruit that […]

Cost of Data

1 September 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Mike McGill from Digital Globe gave a very interesting and germane presentation at MapAsia 2006. If you are not familiar with Digital Globe, they are the folks who are responsible for the Quickbird digital imaging […]

MapAsia 2006

29 August 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I am at MapAsia 2006 in Bangkok this week and it looks like there is a good turnout. I must admit that the opening of the exhibition was one of the most unique openings I […]

MapGuide Open Source 1.0.1

3 August 2006 Geoff Zeiss

MapGuide Open Source 1.0.1 was released last week. I would suggest that the most interesting thing about this release is that it is the first release to be bundled with Web Studio, the web-based open […]

GeoWeb 2006

3 August 2006 Geoff Zeiss

GeoWeb 2006 is the outgrowth of an annual conference that used to be called GML Days, but GeoWeb is now much broader than strictly GML. It is also now supported by GITA, which opens the […]

Managing DWG spatial data using Oracle Locator

2 August 2006 Geoff Zeiss

While I was in Brazil I had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Diniz and Fabio Gomes from DigiCADD. DigiCADD has been working with a large telephone company in Brazil, who have been using AutoCAD […]

Open Source Geospatial in Brazil

1 August 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I recently attended GeoBrasil 2006 in Sao Paulo, where there is and has been for some time a very active open source geospatial community. For example, the 2nd Brazilian MapServer meeting was held last November […]

Microsoft and Open Source

23 July 2006 Geoff Zeiss

If you are interested in how the winds of change are progressing at Microsoft, there is an interesting article MS Converter Project by Andy Updegrove that gives an overview of the 200 or so items […]

Open Source Geospatial in Malaysia

23 July 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Recently I attended the 2nd National GIS Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur sponsored by MaCGDI (Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure), where I gave a presentation on open source geospatial software. I think it […]

Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Workflow

22 July 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Last week I was in Kuala Lumpur attending the 2nd National GIS Conference and Exhibition and I had an opportunity to chat with several utility and telecommunications companies. It brought home how ubiquitous the infrastructure […]

Autodesk Labs

7 July 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has launched a new web site (Autodesk Labs ) that provides early access to new prototypes, experiments, applications and technologies. These technologies are created by development folks at Autodesk, and will include everything from […]

OGC Cartographic Text

30 June 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Two years ago several members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) including MapInfo, Autodesk, Intergraph, and Laser-scan began an interoperability initiative that was designed to make it possible for a standards-compliant application to display a […]