James Fee GIS Blog

Paul Bissett of WeoGeo has some thoughts about web services and the changes in our industry.
The future of GIS, geo-content, geo-entertainment, etc. will belong to those who can think outside of the traditional methods of production and product delivery.
I couldn’t say that better myself.

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I spent most of the afternoon talking with folks about web mapping systems and how to choose a direction to go. What is painfully obvious when you start laying out the different frameworks, APIs and servers is that there is just no clear answer as to what system to pick. When it comes [...]

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Amazon SimpleDB is on its way and it may just change how you use databases with your web applications (or even desktop apps). SimpleDB is a web service that leverages Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 to store, process and query datasets. Currently most if not all of us use a RDBMS such as [...]

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Time for all us geospatial folks to get together and vote for one of our own. Take a look at the videos for all the Amazon Start-Up Challenge and vote for your favorite (which I assume for most of us will be WeoGeo). Vote early and vote often. It would be great [...]

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That was an email I got last night from a reader. They like all of us were amazed at what she was seeing. The solution is not that hard to imagine though. Most of the problem we run into is processing power and bandwidth. None of us can afford the server [...]

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