Yesterday I and about 25 other people representing the membership of the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) spent the day talking to civil servants, Members of Parliament, and Deputy Ministers and Ministers about a […]
OSGEO has announced that the MapGuide Open Source project team has released MapGuide Open Source 2.1.0. Besides bug fixes, improvements in performance, scalability and stability and improved error reporting the major enhancements are raster re-projection […]
I have blogged previously about the importance of data quality in the context of the smart grid and that the electric power regulator ANEEL in Brazil is getting serious about data quality. In Argentina the […]
The FOSSLC folks have released video recordings of most of the presentations at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney. Paul Ramsey’s Keynote The FDO Toolbox GeoREST
Google has announced that the source code for Chrome OS is fully open. Yesterday Google hosted an event about Chrome OS including demonstrations of Chrome OS. The presentations ran on machines running Chrome OS. According […]
Thanks to Peter Rieks who pointed me to a Pitney Bowes site where you can download an “FDO Data Provider for MXT 2008 v7 to access ArcSDE, MySQL and other sources“. Look under the MapXtreme […]
Jackie Ng has announced the release of a new version 0.9.0 of the FDO Toolbox. You can also see Jackie Ng’s presentation on the FDO Toolbox at FOSS4G here.
I have been in Chile most of last week in Santiago, where I gave a presentation at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009). This is my first time in Chile, and I am extremely impressed […]