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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 […]

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 […]