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Peter Batty provided the introductory talk for a well attended Introduction to Geospatial Open Source workshop today at the FOSS4G event. Batty is the chair of this year’s conference, yet said that he feels he’s in the peaceful neutral zone where he uses both open and closed source software, where there are good and bad [...]
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It’s not likely that we’ll return to the degree of competition in the GIS software space that marked the late 1980s through the late 1990s, when geospatial software platform companies and service providers proliferated. There has been a good deal of maturity in the market with fewer opportunities for newcomers, and a lot of consolidation [...]
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This morning Bentley held a press briefing regarding the release of Bentley Map V8i product lineup with Richard Zambuni, global marketing director, and Bob Mankowski, vice president, software development. The new three-tiered offering of Bentley Map products simplifies the product offering and adds a number of new features and improved workflows from desktop to enterprise [...]
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The ability to make innovative map-based applications via mashups has created a number of interesting citizen-oriented applications that have been spurred on by application contests. The Apps for Democracy challenge that was started by Vivek Kundra, now the first federal CIO, has spawned a number of interesting opportunities for developers, and this initial successful contest [...]
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The folks behind the Code for America contest that promoted the development of applications that take city data and turn it into useful citizen-centric software have taken a next step by creating Civic Commons to share the technology for the public good. The concept is to morph city-centric development into a means to share government [...]
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Vector1 Media runs on a platform of open source technologies. We use WordPress for blogging and Joomla for our content management. The experience overall has been a positive one, but there are some limitations. In some sense, it’s “you get what you pay for” in terms of these limitations, but it’s also a factor of [...]
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The idea of long-term maintenance is an essential component of sustainability. Individually, thinking about every purchase is the way to combat our throw away culture, and to place fewer stresses on our planet. Wrapping your business plan around the concept of sustainable development means a long-term commitment to customers that delivers value and maximizes their [...]
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A new cartographic design tool called Ortelius was launched last week by Mapdiva. This tool addresses a lack of mapmaking software for the Mac OS X environment, and aims to make map design easier to learn and implement. The two principals of Mapdiva are the lead developer Graham Cox of Australia, and Jill Saligoe-Simmel, a [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI There are many considerations when contemplating whether to cultivate in-house capabilities or to rely on the expertise of others. A large part of this equation revolves around how often the toolset is used, and the level of benefit that it brings to your business. An infrequent user requiring spatial [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI We’re slowly entering a new era where large-scale investment in high-resolution 3D models will change how we interact with representations of our world. All disciplines that make a living planning, constructing and managing the built environment will increasingly work through shared models. Digital city models have the attention of [...]
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