Mapping Hacks

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of attending las 3es Jornadas gvSIG, the third annual gvSIG conference, in Valencia, Spain. gvSIG, as you may know, is a (primarily) desktop GIS system written in Java. The project was initiated in 2003 by the Conselleria d’Infraestructures i Transport for the Generalitat Valenciana, the provincial government of […]

Ed Parsons offers an upbeat description of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s “mass market” / interoperability process. As a member of the geolumpenproletariat, I spent some time over the last month or so attempting to engage with the WFS Simple public development process marshalled by our friend Raj Singh. I backed away from it a couple […]

A month or two ago I was dropped into the middle of a rather intense discussion about the development of simple catalog interfaces and models for geospatial metadata exchange. The conversation heated up on the OSGeo geodata committee mailing list, and most of it flew right over my head . o O (”CSW ebRIM”? - […]

I set off for Where 2.0 with some trepidation, but it was largely unjustified; and it was chance to see many old friends, make a few new friends, and to see many of them doing well out of the conference. I left with my head spinning, and these notes are what came out the top […]

Last summer at the Open Source Geospatial conference in Minneapolis, Dirk Willem van Gulik gave a closing keynote talk in which he talked about his experience of establishing the Apache Software Foundation, a pioneering example of open source governance and meta-organisation. Dirk Willem’s message partially was: “don’t do what we did.”
At the time Sean Gillies […]

Today, representatives of various Free and Open Source geospatial software
projects, including MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, GRASS, GeoServer, GeoTools,
Mapbender, Ka-Map and several others met in Chicago today to found the Open
Source Geospatial Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to
supporting and promoting the development of F/OSS GIS. Following on the heels
of the controversial “MapServer Foundation” announcement prompted by
Autodesk’s release […]