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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]