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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...
CAT to GIS: Tracking Cats via GPS on Google Earth

Tiana Warner
August 1, 2014 • 3 min

Where do cats go when they’re outside all day and night? What do they do? How do they entertain themselves? Is there a secret cat meeting place in every major city? When Safers f...
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...
11 Reasons You Should Have a Data Integration Plan

Tiana Warner
April 9, 2014 • 10 min

Data integration means combining information from various sources into something useful. A data integration plan efficiently manages data and makes it available to those who need i...
GIS Developers: Mobile is Here. Time to Build for It.

Stewart Harper
September 15, 2011 • 4 min

Recently I attended the Dreamforce conference in San-Francisco, a fantastic conference with over 40,000 people in attendance (it felt like I was back on the London Underground at t...
Looking Ahead to PostGIS 2.0

Paul Nalos
June 6, 2011 • 3 min

Last September, I talked about some of the major recent additions to PostGIS, focusing on support for curves and a round-earth model. Now, with PostGIS 2.0 perhaps only a few month...
National Broadband Map: The Data and Technology

Stewart Harper
April 20, 2011 • 3 min

The U.S. National Broadband Map must be one of the most ambitious web mapping projects ever undertaken. For those unaware of the project it allows users to search broadband availab...
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