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6 Google Maps Engine Alternatives

Tiana Warner
January 20, 2015 • 7 min

Google has announced that they’re ending support for Google Maps Engine. If you’ve used Google Maps Engine to store your vector and raster data, you should be aware that your G...
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...
FME 2014 Special: Top 10 Reader and Writer Updates

Mark Ireland
February 5, 2014 • 15 min

By now you'll have (I hope) upgraded to 2014 and taken advantage of some of the new features and functionality. From my point of view updates can classified in one of three areas a...
PostGIS on Amazon RDS: A Spatial Database in the Cloud

Don Murray
December 9, 2013 • 2 min

An announcement at the AWS:Invent 2013 conference that got me excited was the new support for PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS). I c...
FME 2014 Sneak Peek: More Ado About Nothing

Mark Ireland
November 19, 2013 • 13 min

A big highlight for FME 2014 will be... nothing! Or, to be precise, the updates we've made to handling null attribute values. In this article I'll cover the background to nulls ...
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