Last Monday and Tuesday Consortech , one of the most creative providers of geospatial solutions I have been fortunate to know in North America, hosted conferences in Quebec City and Montreal. Pierre Genest, President of […]
Thursday Microsoft promised “greater transparency” in its development and business practices. At least partially motivated by an antitrust case against Microsoft in the EU, it seems to suggest that the company is finally recognizing the […]
Yesterday the Government of British Columbia passed a bill that will phase in a carbon tax on all fossil fuels including gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane, and home heating fuel. Beginning this summer […]
I just spent two days in Delhi at Map India 2008. I always enjoy attending and presenting at Map India because India is very advanced in geospatial technologies and I always come across different and […]
Frank Warmerdam, president of the OSGEO, has announced that the FDO project has graduated from the OSGEO incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGEO project. The FDO open geospatial data API provides an […]
Jonathan Pickus from Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) gave one of the most insightful presentations I have seen on the typical challenges facing utilities and what the LVVWD has achieved in streamlining the flow […]
The MapGuide Open Source project team has made MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0 Beta 2 available for testing. DocumentationDownloads The main feature in this release is integration of the Fusion framework. See 2.0 Milestone Page for […]
Recently I attended and presented at the Kansei Open Source Conference in Osaka. This conference is dedicated to all forms of open source, but thanks to Professor Venkatesh Raghavan of Osaka City University there was […]