James Fee GIS Blog

Looks like the OSGeo Jobs email list is needing some help.
As of today, still only one job is being offered — surely there are
more out there that people should be made aware of?!
I already posted about my thoughts on the email list so I won’t go over them again, but even I’m amazed [...]

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I’ve been following the discussion on the OSGeo mailing list about setting up an “open source jobs list” and it looks like it is now live.
FOSS4G Related Jobs and Resumes
I’m not sure why they feel the need for such a list rather than work with existing job posting sites, but I guess this has to [...]

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Lets make this simple. If you have experience with:
Python
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
GDAL/OGR
OpenLayers
and at least some knowledge of:
GeoJSON
FeatureServer
GML
KML
dealing with the above on Windows (Linux may come down the line)
and live in either Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, or New Mexico; email me
james.fee at gmail.com
Position can be contract or full time work.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Developer Needed”, url: “http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2007/11/05/developer-needed/” });

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I get tons of emails from people asking where they can get free ArcView licenses for home use. People really want to work with GIS at home as well as at work which makes sense to me. I’ve always pointed folks to QGIS and other tools, but Matt Perry has a wonderful and [...]

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I’m “stuck” in Waikiki this week at our Honolulu office helping them get back on track with their GIS after our GIS coordinator resigned to join her husband in the peace corps on Tonga. The new GIS person is really excited about GIS and that is always nice to be around. Sometimes even [...]

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I’ve blogged about putting GIS applications on USB memory sticks in the past, but there seems to be some traction going on with this. Jo Cook presented at FOSS4G2007 a talk about Portable GIS. Jo has followed up with a blog post about the talk:
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at FOSS4G [...]

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Tyler Mitchell (Editor in Chief, OSGeo Journal) has announced in the OSGeo Discuss email list that the OSGeo Journal Volume 2 is now available for reading/download. I really enjoyed reading Volume 1 and while I don’t have time right now to read Volume 2, I see that there is an article on MapWindow which [...]

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I’m sure most of you got the news yesterday that MapServer 5.0.0 has been released. I love the look that folks are getting with the AGG graphics library which just makes the rendered maps look very impressive. The change log is available here for those who want to see what has been fixed/added [...]

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No sooner than I posted the screenshots of MetaCarta on a stick, did I get an email from an ArcGIS user asking how they heck do they get to “install” and play with such a tool. Well as luck would have it, ESRI took care of the hardest part of running MetaCarta Labs on [...]

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As was suggested in the ESRI Web Mapping Sites post, post your favorite open source web mapping sites. One of my favorite sites is the OpenStreetMap project. I’m a sucker for Open Layers, but the concept and implementation of OpenStreetMap as a whole is wonderful.
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Lost in all the big celebration of the One Year Anniversary of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation I noticed that there is an OSGeo Store. Now you too can look smart wearing all that wonderful OSGeo clothing and even magnets! And for that special person in your life:

Update - At the risk [...]

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From the AGIC-L email list:
The City of Scottsdale is seeking GIS users from the Arizona community who are developing Web applications in MapGuide and who may have begun to use the new MapGuide 2007 environment.
We at the City of Scottsdale have just begun this exciting endeavor and were wondering if there are users [...]

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I’ve been getting more and more .NET developers talking to me about my MapGuide Open Source move over the holiday. Seems like many ArcIMS developers are downloading and checking out MapGuide, trying to get away from the ArcGIS Server/Desktop conflict (they have to develop on 9.1, but their IT department wants to roll out [...]

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I got a trackback from a new blog from an ESRI user who is attempting to migrate over to open source. He/She doesn’t seem to be a Linux pro so this might be a good blog reference for those thinking of making the migration.
Datum Shift
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In the past month I’ve had 4 people tell me that they are probably not going to be using ESRI Server (ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, ArcSDE) on their projects unless their clients specifically demand it. I’m not talking about 4 people off the street here, but ESRI MVP types. When asked why they felt [...]

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Steve noticed a post by Asa Dotzler about Paul Ramsey assertion that open source GIS is about developers, not users.
You may have failed (or decided not to even try) to build a product for users and to attract users to that product, but that hardly qualifies you to hand down edicts about what open source [...]

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Thanks to Sean Gillies for pointing out this Open Source GIS San Diego Gathering planned during the ESRI UC. It will be Tuesday, August 8th 2006, 6:30pm to 9:00pm at the Visualization Lab, San Diego State University.
Open Source GIS San Diego Gathering (OSG-SD) -
Tuesday, August 8th, 6:30pm
You are cordially invited to an Open Source [...]

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Morten Nielsen read Refractions Research’s “The State of Open Source GIS” white paper and wondered why Paul Ramsey categorized open source GIS as either C or Java. I think Paul only wrote about the open source GIS clique that revolves around Refractions and OSGeo rather than the state of open source GIS as a [...]

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I had caught Howard Butler’s post on his take about OGC and GeoRSS and now I see Chris Tweedie and Allan Doyle responded. One comment by Allan that caught my eye:
“But when it comes down to which organization I support directly by my efforts, it matters a lot. Right now, the first compellingly neutral [...]

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Want to see what the new MapGuide Open Source AJAX and DWF viewers look like? The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has a webpage with a couple examples for you to check out. Maybe Digg or Slashdot have linked to them because at least on my end they are pretty slow. I was [...]

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