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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...
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...
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...
Round Earth Data in Oracle, PostGIS, and SQL Server

Paul Nalos
August 20, 2012 • 5 min

Today, most spatial databases know how to deal with a round earth. For example, they can tell you the distance between New York and London, or find the area within 1000 km of a poi...
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,...
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