Category Archives: open source

Speaking of the 84%…

Posted on 8 February 2012 by

HT to Sophia Parafina for the 84%. UPDATE: The NSIS script at utility batch file discussed here is now on github at https://github.com/geobabbler/pgstandalone. I’ll post a readme in the next day or so. A few months ago, I asked the … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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FCC Broadband Map Featured by CBS

Posted on 28 October 2011 by

Michael Byrne of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave a really good talk at FOSS4G, telling the story of the FCC National Broadband Map application, which is built on open-source geospatial tools. In addition to being open-source, it’s a modern … Continue reading →

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PgMap Is Now SpatialKit

Posted on 25 October 2011 by

I blogged a while back on PgMap, a freeware ArcGIS extension for directly connecting to PostGIS. ST-Links, the makers of PgMap, sent out an e-mail this morning announcing that PgMap and QMap (the equivalent technology for interacting with SQL Server … Continue reading →

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