As a bit of background I’ve been working on a project which delivers a set location translation web services – basically the organisation collect data using a number of methods some of which have a linear aspect. They want to be able to translate between these methods as well as validate that the locations to [...]
At FOSS4G 2009 this year I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Arnulf Christl (ac), Paul Ramsey (pr) and my friend Pete Fraser (pf) about Open Source GeoSpatial software and of course the ‘old enemy’. It was my intention to post this interview to geogeek tv however I proved to myself that I’m not the [...]
Recently I’ve been doing some ‘gardening’. You can see this clearly from these images on NearMap…. What’s really special about NearMap apart from the fact they are updating imagery more often than I am at home is that they have integrated OSM into their viewer and you can use their data to update OSM: “We [...]
One thing I’m really looking forward to when I’m in Sydney this year for FOSS4G is Ignite Spatial. The presenters are now confirmed and I’m pleased to see Cisco representing ESRI Australia. I’m also really looking forward to catching up with Rob and hearing more about how Koordinates is going and of course ‘The North [...]
I’ve been working on a WCF solution for a while now and I’ve been putting off answering the inevitable question: How interoperable is my service? Up until now we’ve used WCFStorm as a test harness which has been a really great integration test harness, however it’s essentially a .Net client onto my .Net services. So [...]