I had the distinct pleasure of attending my first FOSS4G conference in Denver last week. Having not attended one previously, I can only rely on the opinions of others that this has been the best FOSS4G yet. For me, this was best geospatial conference I have attended. I’ll probably blog in more detail about some…
Category: postgis
Taking A Look At PgMap
When I blogged about the official end of zigGIS last week, I included a mention of PgMap, a free extension to ArcMap for direct read/edit of PostGIS data. Judging from outbound links, there seems to be a good bit of interest in it so I decided to take a look. To recap, Abe decided to…
zigGIS: The End of the Road
Abe Gillespie made it official today on the zigGIS Google Group: development on zigGIS will cease.
Triggered Notifications Using PostGIS
My project work the last few months has kept me away from a lot of my favorite open-source tools and I was starting to get hives. Specifically, it had been a while since I had worked with PostgreSQL and PostGIS and I was missing the experience, so I dreamed up something to do. I do…
“PostGIS In Action” Available In Print Today
According to Manning Publications, the print version of “PostGIS In Action” , by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu, will be available starting today. I reviewed it a while back and James tipped us to its impending availability last week. If you are working with PostGIS, whether on its own or through the use of PostGIS…
Where Has The Time Gone?
It’s been four years to the day since I started this blog. This was not my first attempt at blogging but I wasn’t happy with my first one so it’s been lost to the recycle bin of history. It was (and still is) intended to be an outlet for my observations and experiences arising from…
Me and zigGIS
If you’ve been to the Obtuse Software site recently, you may or may not have noticed a change to the “Who We Are” page. It now lists only Abe Gillespie and Paolo Corti. Prior to my trip to Colorado to talk about zigGIS at GIS in the Rockies, I informed Abe and Paolo that I…
Gearing up for GIS in the Rockies
I finally got around to finishing my travel plans for GIS in the Rockies (personal obligations prevent me from making it out for Ingite Spatial NoCo). I booked my flight a while ago but I had been procrastinating on the hotel and rental car. This will be my first time in that part of Colorado…
zigGIS 3.0 To Be Open-Source
Update: zigGIS has been discontinued. Abe officially announced today that the next major release of zigGIS, version 3.0, will return to open-source. This announcement was followed up with a message on the zigGIS Google Group. A snippet of that message is here: We have some exciting news. The next version of zigGIS will officially return…
A Look at “PostGIS In Action”
Over the past few weeks, I have been reading a copy of the upcoming book by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu titled “PostGIS In Action.” Through my work with zigGIS and some of my consulting work with Zekiah, I have been using PostGIS with good results for some time now. I have found that it…