Yesterday was the 21st anniversary of 9/11. I tend to let that day go by without comment. My recollections of the day itself add nothing as I was 50 miles outside of DC at the time. Even that far away, the roads were filled with panicked people and the phone networks were crashing, but I…
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Thoughts on HERE
When was the last time you bought a CD? Come to think of it, when was the last time you plugged an iPod into your computer and synced music from iTunes? That’s what I thought. The fact that HERE may be for sale (publicly, which is somewhat unusual in the world of acquisitions) and that…
Give a Little Bit for OpenStreetMap
Kate Chapman of HOT OSM has started a project over on Kickstarter to fund the development of a Haitian Creole OpenStreetMap book. She sums it up much better than I can over on the project page: In 2011 the first free OpenStreetMap book was written with support from the Google Open-Source Office using the Floss…
Ten-Second Tidy
Things have been a bit hectic the last few weeks and that’s left little time for blogging. Quite a bit has happened so I thought I’d do a little round-up (if for no other reason than to clear my own head). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJa7P6dfmco] In no particular order: Steve Coast to Microsoft (I told you it had…
Be the Crowd
I have generally been very happy with GIS in the Rockies (more on that in another post) as it’s good to get a look at different uses, concerns and perspectives. This afternoon, I sat through the “Collaboration Panel” discussion. The panel was made of of a few people representing state, regional and local governments and…
QGIS 1.4.0 Released
QGIS 1.4.0 has been released. As Terry mentioned on Twitter, that news seemed to get lost amongst the discussion of the GeoDesign Summit and the rebranding of ArcGIS 9.4 to 10.0. I have made use of QGIS in the past and have been perusing 1.4.0 lately. I must state that I am not an analyst…