cameronshorter.blogspot.com
Cameron Shorter: Esri's claim at being good "Standards" citizens is questionable
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2015/04/esris-claim-at-being-good-standards.html
Thoughts on the Geospatial industry, Open Standards and Open Source, sometimes with an Australian flavour. Tuesday, 21 April 2015. Esri's claim at being good "Standards" citizens is questionable. I'm calling Esri out on their claim to be good "Open Standards" citizens. Esri is again. Abusing their market position to compromise established Open Spatial Standards, as described in an Open Letter. From the OSGeo community. It starts:. Optimiszed LAS" has been developed internally to Esri. It is neither p...
postgis.net
PostGIS — Support
http://www.postgis.net/support
Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL. PostGIS is an open-source project, and support is available from a number of sources. Bugs are reported and managed in a ticket tracker. Please follow these steps:. Search the tickets to see if your problem has already been reported. If so, add any extra context you might have found, or at least indicate that you too are having the problem. This will help us prioritize common issues. If your problem is unreported, create a new ticket. To create a ticket.).
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OSGeo-Live: the best open source GIS ready to use package | GIS-Blog.com
http://www.gis-blog.com/osgeo-live-the-best-open-source-gis-ready-to-use-package
Remote Sensing, Web Mapping, GeoData Management, Environmental Statistics. OSGeo-Live: the best open source GIS ready to use package. We often talk about QGis, GRASS, gvSIG and sometimes about GPSprune to edit GPX paths or JOSM to manage data from OpenStreetMap. But the software available under this type of license (open source and free software) is much wider. The live project OSGeo. OSGeo is a Live DVD ( osgeo-live-8.5.iso. Here is a video in Italian where we explain the installation on a virtual machi...
wiki.osgeo.org
LIDAR Format Letter - OSGeo Wiki
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter
Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board of Directors. Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR. Optimized LAS' A Proprietary. OGC's Efforts For An Open. History: LAS and ESRI's 'Optimized LAS'. Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board of Directors. The Board of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President), Michael Smith (OSGeo Treasurer), Jáchym Čepický (OSGeo Secretary), Massimiliano Cannata, Vasile Craciunescu, Bart van den Eijnden, Gérald Fenoy, Anne Ghisla, Jorge Sanz. Request ...
udig-news.blogspot.com
User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS: November 2012
http://udig-news.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
Sunday, November 25, 2012. LocationTech uDig Talk November 27th. The Eclipse Foundation is in the process of setting up the LocationTech. The uDig project has (in a small way) taken part in the initial organisation of LocationTech, and has gone so far as to change license. And submit an application. The industry working group is expected to officially launch "real soon now," and is already hosting a series of talks and demos from a range interesting projects:. UDig GIS tech talk. LocationTech uDig Talk N...
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User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS: February 2015
http://udig-news.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
Wednesday, February 11, 2015. UDig 1.5.0.RC1 Released. The uDig community is pleased to release uDig 1.5.0.RC1. Mac, Linux, and Windows). Issue Tracker Change Log. This release supports a couple new features:. The web view down points to a GitHub page. Rather than a wiki page). Thanks to Frank for this work. The style editor now supports arrows (as shown in the above map). Thanks to Emily and Refractions for this work. To org.locationtech.udig. Target Platform and Environment. 1 Download the SDK. As a st...
how2map.com
How 2 Map: November 2012
http://www.how2map.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
Design, Discussion and Documentation from around the Java GIS world. Tuesday, 27 November 2012. The best thing I will write this week. I am having a great time being productive, with great progress on uDig, GeoServer and a local FOSS4G-AU un-conference. However I missed something! Has been very good about running bi-monthly meeting to collect status updates, discuss current applications, and double check projects that are ready to graduate. And I neglected to call a meeting this month! The next task is h...
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How 2 Map: October 2012
http://www.how2map.com/2012_10_01_archive.html
Design, Discussion and Documentation from around the Java GIS world. Monday, 29 October 2012. OSGeo Incubation the Start of Something Spatial. This is my last Latinoware 2012 post (indeed the talk closed out the conference) and arguably the one I am most passionate about. While I am comfortable talking about GeoTools. And the ambitious OSGeo Live. Project they are all concrete projects, you can sing your teeth into and see an obvious benefit. But what about the Open Source Geospatial Foundation itself?
cameronshorter.blogspot.com
Cameron Shorter: Starting build cycle for OSGeo-Live 7.0
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2013/05/starting-build-cycle-for-osgeo-live-70.html
Thoughts on the Geospatial industry, Open Standards and Open Source, sometimes with an Australian flavour. Thursday, 16 May 2013. Starting build cycle for OSGeo-Live 7.0. We are starting the build cycle for the 7.0 OSGeo-Live. DVD/USB/VM which will be released in September 2013, ready for the global FOSS4G conference in Nottingham, UK. Also, could all projects please reply to us with which stable version of their software should be included in this release. 15 Jul 2013 Feature Freeze (all apps updated).
