If you need high resolution geospatial data from the world’s leading commercial sources including high resolution imagery from Digital Globe, vector data from Navteq, DEMs from Intermap, and weather data from Weatherbug, take a look […]
At GITA in Seattle this year I attended two sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important government initiatives in the area of geospatial data, national data models (my term). In […]
I just saw this article US Navy to Require Open Standards on James Fee’s Blog . It means that increasingly the Navy will acquire systems based on open technologies and standards. This was announced March […]
GITA 31 just kicked off this afternoon with a fascinating keynote by Tom Murphy, former Mayor of Pittsburgh. He made a number of interesting points but there are three that really hit the mark with […]
The MapGuide Open Source project team has released MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0. The primary new feature of this release is Fusion, a template-based system that abstracts presentation from model and controller. You’ll find significant performance […]
According to InformationWeek , Gartner in a new research report warns open source software makers that Microsoft’s pledge to open up its documentation library to third parties carries legal risks for developers.
Autodesk has developed and donated to the OSGEO an open source Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server 2008 Data Provider allows access to the native spatial data types […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have approved the first version of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard, which defines a standard for publishing, discovery and binding to geospatial processes. This means that there […]