The Premier of Ontario has announced that the Province has committed to protect 50% of the Province’s intact northern boreal forest, amounting to 225,000 square kilometers, or 43% of the land mass of Ontario. This […]
I have received a number of queries asking when and where the CS-Map source code will be available. It is available now and you can find it at CS-MAP source tree. To download the source […]
Microsoft has announced the Release to Manufacturing of SQL Server 2008. From a geospatial perspective the most important aspect of SQL Server 2008 is spatial data types and spatial indexing. At this point, all the […]
Software Donations Autodesk has announced another major software donation to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) . The source code for the CS-Map coordinate system technology acquired from Mentor Software has been donated to the […]
Last week at OSCON, David Recordon gave a presentation in which he announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The Open Web Foundation appears to be modeled on the Apache Software Foundation, with the […]
According to a Vancouver Sun article , British Columbia Agriculture and Lands Minister Stan Hagen announced that GeoBC will provide access to the province’s geographic database on Google so that you can access this database […]
The world really is changing. According to a report in InformationWeek Microsoft has become a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation . Microsoft is also planning to make more of its own code available to […]
Directions Magazine has just released a Podcast on the FDO API which includes commentary from David Kingsbury, Pete Southwood, and myself on how FDO, which is open source and available on the FDO OSGEO Web […]