FOSS4G North America to Be Held In Washington, DC

Posted on 23 January 2012 by

I’m quite happy to see (HT, Glenn Letham) that OSGEO is inaugurating an annual FOSS4G North America conference this year in Washington, DC on April 10-12, 2012.

DC is an appropriate place for this event because of the presence or arguably the single largest user of geospatial technology, the US Federal Government. I’m happy to see that Michael Byrne is the keynote speaker as the FCC National Broadband Map has been a great success story in the use of open-source geospatial tools at the Federal level. I’ve been seeing more activity within the Federal Government recently but there’s still a long way to go.

I know a lot of people in this area that couldn’t make it out to Denver last year for FOSS4G. I hope many of them come to this edition to see the state of the art in open-source geospatial tools. I know this conference is targeted to North America as a whole but, if you are in the DC area and active with geospatial technology, FOSS4G North America should be on your calendar.

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Check Out the NREL Renewable Energy Applications

Posted on 16 January 2012 by

Among the items in the category of “what I care about” are renewable energy and open-source geospatial tools. So I was happy to rediscover the various online tools by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Many of the tools have been available for some time but the recent announcement of the RE Atlas application brought me back to them. Continue reading →

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Sharpening the Saw*

Posted on 3 January 2012 by

I have been laying low on my blog and in social media for a few weeks. I typically go into a little bit of a “hibernation” during December as the days get continually shorter heading for the solstice. Around the holidays, I am most interested in spending time with my family.

Around this time last year, I posted my goals for 2011. Goals don’t mean much unless you go back and assess how well you did in accomplishing them. From last year, with notes: Continue reading →

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland Announces GIS Data Downloads

Posted on 14 December 2011 by

A while back, I posted about county-level GIS data available in the State of Maryland. I was very happy to see an announcement on LinkedIn that Anne Arundel County, Maryland has rolled out a new data download page that makes their GIS data freely available.

Anne Arundel County is home to Annapolis, the capital of Maryland and my favorite place on earth.

Kudos to Eric Wilson and everyone else in the Anne Arundel County GIS group for making this happen. Here’s hoping more follow suit.

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Great News About Atanas!

Posted on 9 December 2011 by

Atanas tweeted this last night:

This is the best news possible. I, like many others, will await details on his blog. I couldn’t be happier for Atanas and his family.

It’s good to have you back, my friend.

UPDATE: Here’s a little more information from Atanas himself: http://www.tenthcave.com/2011/12/out-on-day-65.html

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