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8+ Ways to Visualize Geospatial Data in a Web Browser

Tiana Warner
December 3, 2018 • 10 min

By creating a web map or 3D scene using a web visualization library, you can share your geospatial data with anyone using a URL. Here are a few available tools and a step-by-step g...

FOSS4G: the Geo Open Source Dev Summit?

Dale Lutz
September 7, 2011 • 4 min

Next week is the first FOSS4G held in North America since 2007, and it promises to be exciting, important, and action packed. Regardless of primary geo-brand preference, there are ...

FME 2011 Sneak Peek: PostGIS

Mark Ireland
September 2, 2010 • 11 min

With the FOSS4G “conference” (for Open Source Geospatial Software) about to start in Barcelona, Spain, it seemed a good time to open my FME2011 coverage with an item about what...

Simplicity with Geospatial Standards

Dale Lutz
November 6, 2009 • 2 min

It is important to keep things simple, to make choices that are easy for implementers and that make it easy for the standard to be used and adopted.