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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
To give you an example of what can happen with aging infrastructure, on September 30, 2006 an overpass in Laval, Quebec, Canada collapsed killing 5 people. As you might expect this caused near panic in […]
The OSGEO has announced that MapGuide Open Source 1.2 has been released. You can check the OSGEO Announcement for what’s new in MapGuide Open Source 1.2.