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The Importance of the OGC & Open Standards

Dean Hintz
March 17, 2021 • 11 min

By utilizing open standards, users can choose best of breed tools for each application and move data between them with open methods. See where the OGC fits in to all of this, and l...
Free and Open Source: The Inside Scoop on FME and FOSS

Tiana Warner
September 9, 2014 • 7 min

As a software developer, coding something that’s already been designed, implemented, and optimized is a pretty gigantic waste of time. Open source libraries help developers avoid...
5 Ways to Do More with Mapnik

Tiana Warner
April 25, 2014 • 7 min

Mapnik is a free, open source toolkit that takes vector and raster spatial data and renders it into a beautiful image. As of FME 2014, FME and Mapnik have been brought together to...
My Top 6 Takeaways from SQL Server Spatial 2012

Paul Nalos
June 7, 2012 • 5 min

SQL Server’s spatial capabilities have evolved significantly since their introduction in the 2008 release. Given the well documented beta (CTP), the March RTM, and April release,...
Evolution of Interfaces to Spatial Data

Paul Nalos
October 27, 2011 • 3 min

While we like to talk about the unending creation of spatial formats (no one format fits every need), I find it interesting that software interfaces designed to hide differences be...
INSPIRE Directive: A Change of Focus for this SDI

Don Murray
July 20, 2011 • 4 min

I recently attended the INSPIRE Conference in historic Edinburgh. Like last year, it was again a great gathering of folks working to deliver a world leading Spatial Data Infrastruc...
The Future Looks Bright for SpatialLite

Michael Weisman
September 3, 2010 • 2 min

This blog has covered the wonderful SpatiaLite database several times. To quickly review, SpatiaLite is a full-blown spatial database, complete with not only with spatial data type...
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