Kevin Pomfret announced this morning that the Center for Spatial Law and Policy will be hosting a workshop on geospatial data licensing. Centre for Spatial Law and Policy to host a Geospatial Data Licensing Workshop http://t.co/rYFXysrK — SpatialLaw&Policy (@kpomfret) December 27, 2012 Data licensing has always been an important issue but seems to be moving…
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geoMusings: Station Identification
This is the personal blog of Bill Dollins, titled “geoMusings,” and has been in operation in its current incarnation since December 2006. Earlier incarnations of this blog no longer exist and no backups were made. This blog is primarily centered on topics related to geospatial technologies, geographic information systems, databases, and programming but I reserve…
A GIS Day Map for World Diabetes Day
Today is World Diabetes Day. It also happens to be GIS Day so I thought a map (not mine) of new diagnoses would be in order: To learn more about Type 1 Diabetes, please visit the JDRF.
How long until the ads stop?
In celebration of this day when the non-stop political ads, robo-calls, junk mail, and social media posts *should* finally come to an end. I threw together a little map to show the latest time at which polls close in each state. This should represent, state-by-state, the time (EST) at which you can safely go back…
Still Jonesing for zigGIS? Try this OGR Plug-In for ArcGIS.
So I’ve actually noticed a surprising uptick in traffic related to zigGIS lately? We also had someone asking about ST-Links on the zigGIS mailing list last week. Clearly, there’s still a level of interest out there for the problem that zigGIS was designed for. ArcGIS reading SpatiaLite natively, thanks to OGR and Ragi Burhum Along…
Create a WeoGeo Tilepack from ArcGIS Tiles
A couple of months ago, Dan Dye at WeoGeo posted about work he had done to facilitate creating WeoGeo tile packs from MBTiles databases. Recently, I had the need to do the same with ArcGIS tiles. As Dan explained, WeoGeo uses a ZYX structure in their tile packs. This matched up nicely with the Level/Row/Column…
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Have Fun In San Diego
As everyone gears up for the exodus to San Diego, I wish everyone a good, enjoyable and fruitful time. There’s something to be said for the energy of 12,000+ geonerds in one place. As for me, I’ll be here, hanging with a couple hundred of the bravest, most inspiring young people you could ever meet….
Open Government, Open Data and Some Lessons from Arkansas
I was reading Brian Timoney’s excellent post “Open Government is a Slammed Door at the BLM,” when I encountered this line: Top-down, large scale spatial-data-integration-by-directive simply doesn’t have the track record of success to justify the costs… This resonates well with observations that I have made during the course of my recent work with the…
This Blog Has A New Address
I have updated the domain listing for my blog. The primary URL for it is now: https://blog.geomusings.com I have done this because I am planning to move my blog in the near future from wordpress.com to another WordPress hosting service. The address above will be the new address once the move is complete. So, please…