I’m working on a project where I’ve applied the following simple design principle: “Don’t use ArcObjects unless you have to” Most of the spatial functionality is delivered via a set of web services and is implemented directly between a custom WCF application server and Oracle (ESRI’s flavour of ST_Geometry). I took this decision for the [...]
Melbourne is a great city. One of my favourite weekend jobs is to take my son to Little Saigon. He calls it the Mango Market – for the past few weeks we’ve been stuffing our faces with mango each time we go there – I never realised there were so many varieties of mango! It’s [...]
DANGER DANGER DANGER – THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GEOPROFANITY FOSS4G 2009. Done. I’m just starting to reflect on where things are since the last time I was at a FOSS4G. Representing Government, Warwick Watkins, Richard Marles and Kate Lundy were asking for help in their quest to modernise and become 2.0 certified – all good governments need [...]
I’m a very basic human being – I still experience a little inner glow of warmth when I discover that the 694 lines of ArcObjects (693 of which were casts) have been replaced by some basic SQL. However just when i thought it was safe to come out…and declare my love for ST_* I’ve hit [...]
This post begins with a tale, which should go some way towards explaining the title. A couple of years ago when I was working in New Zealand I heard a story, the authenticity of which is unknown although it is still worth recounting. Warning this story contains a public toilet and mild profanity, if either [...]