Location data is everywhere. From huge government databases of geographic features to your pictures in Facebook, it seems like almost every piece of information around nowadays is tagged with its location. However, it still seems that no one is effectively sharing information, or building the smart, next-generation systems that will surely rely on data...
Wow. Mikel is mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it anymore, saying, “We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities“. An important perspective from someone who has been at ground zero of open (geo)data efforts for a long time.
Very interesting. Another signal that geo must integrate seamlessly with mainstream IT to avoid marginalization. White House moves Recovery.gov to Amazon’s cloud
At FOSS4G 2009 I finally went to a code sprint, partly as a form of meditation, and partly to see if I had any developer chops left. Well the jury is still out on that, but it was relaxing, and what came out of it was the first release of SimpleWFS. SimpleWFS is a...
I was going to write a long blog entry about this event, but Adena does the job nicely here: OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward