James Fee GIS Blog

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.

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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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Gary Sherman has posted a couple documents on his blog that may be of interest to those trying to learn more about QGIS. First off he’s got his slides from his FOSS4G presentation as well as the workbook from the “Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source Software Stack” workshop. Both are a [...]

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Tim Sutton just announced on the QGIS blog that 0.8.1 has been released.
It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.8.1. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and [...]

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Since I know most of the people reading this site are on windows, you’ll be happy to know that Quantum GIS 0.8 now has the Windows package built and ready to be downloaded. Make sure you use the torrent if possible. The Mac OS X Universal build is also available (torrent).

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Gary Sherman announces on the QGIS developer blog that the open source desktop GIS QGIS 0.8 has been released. The average QGIS user will have to wait a couple days though:
At present this is primarily a source release for those that want to build QGIS. Packages for most Linux distributions, Windows, and Mac OS [...]

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Want more proof that Python and GIS just seem to go together like peanut butter and chocolate?
The new era: QGIS and Python

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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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For those who haven’t seen, the QGIS team has a blog called QGIS Ramblings.

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Peter’s blogging about desktop GIS choices on the Macintosh. He’s taking QGIS, uDig and Thuban for a spin. Many associate only the old ArcView 3.0 on Classic MacOS as the only desktop GIS choice, but as you can see there are even better choices than ArcView on the Macintosh. I’m interesting in [...]

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Atanas Entchev is but I don’t understand why. I too remember ArcView 1 and at least what I remember wasn’t very positive. That said, he’s got a good point, but doesn’t come to the same conclusion that I would have (I’m skipping ArcCAD because I don’t want to even touch that can of [...]

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I went ahead and updated QGIS on my USB flash drive to 0.8 without any hassle. Of course you wouldn’t want to run your production QGIS off of any flash drive, but I can tell you that having a GIS system in your pocket comes in handy. If I could only get FWTools [...]

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I was going through my RSS feeds today and noticed that QGIS 0.8 Preview 1 was released and is available for download. At least for me QGIS 0.8 is exciting because of the increased GRASS support as well as many other great new features.
Oh and it looks like they updated their webpage too.

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Dave Bouwman has just announced that he’s converting the ArcDeveloper blog into a community for ESRI developers. He’s got a couple things outlined in the post and is looking for suggestions and feedback (comments are closed here so respond on Dave’s post).
This is something we’ll definitely have to talk about at the Developer Summit [...]

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Robert Wood liked the sound of the idea of running GIS from a flash USB drive for those emergencies so he went out and tried to get the great FWTools running.
After playing around a bit with 1.0.0a7 (windows release)
I found I could get it to work by doing the following:
- Edit the setfw and openev [...]

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Now that USB flash memory drives are so large and so cheap, we can start running programs off of them. We’ve seen that you can run Firefox and Thunderbird (among many others) on these drives, but many don’t know you can also run desktop GIS software on it. Head over to QGIS, download [...]

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Mike’s looking at some open source GIS solutions to move from ArcGIS. He’s been trying to do everything for “free” using Fedora Linux and he’s been blogging about it. Some really interesting thoughts come to mind about how to get support from an open source community vs. a corporate support model such as [...]

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