FOSS4G is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference. The conference “gathers developers and users of open source geo-spatial software fromaround the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementat
Several years in the making, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.4 has been released. The list of new features and updates is a mile long, with some of the highlights here, but the first thing you’ll notice when
I recently had a situation where a customer had a table with XY coordinates and I needed to make it spatially aware in PostgreSQL/PostGIS. The moving the data around bit is rather droll so I’ll skip it, but the spatially
I was able to get out to the 2007 North Carolina ArcGIS (when did it change from ArcInfo?) User’s Group meeting at Carolina Beach this year. First, for those who didn’t attend, here’s the view from my hotel room balcony:
I picked up this tidbit on Free Geography Tools.GE-Census Explorer is a small Windows application that streams Census data to Google Earth. It shows base Census 2000 data, from the state level all the way down to the blo
Florida State University is offering some free (as in beer) FOSS GIS courses. Courses include uDig, Quantum GIS, MapWindow, and others, with more courses available in the spring. It requires registration, but it’s free.
From slashgeo: MapServer 5.0.0 has been released.MapServer is “an open source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications.” We’ve released a number of sites with MapServer, and it’s a fan
Nianwei Liu of the City of Charlotte and I gave a Mashup/Open Source Workshop at the beginning of September for the 2007 Carolina URISA/GITA Conference here in Charlotte, NC. From the conference summary: Mashup/Open Sou
I saw this one quite a while back, sent it to some friends at Mecklenburg County’s Board of Elections, and then promptly forgot about it. I just ran across it again, however, and I thought some of you might find it fun a
You might have noticed a little flash map on the right hand side of the page. Maps.amung.us has a neat little flash gadget that not only shows you a map of visitor locations, but it also records some basic web stats for