Wednesday, July 29. 2009

Update: Wind Atlas of Spain - Which Open Source Platform?

Those who know more than I have commented and confirm:
(1) It's an ESRI Web ADF implementation and (2) there was a mis-translation in the article.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, Open Source at 15:25 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, July 22. 2009

Open Source for America Launches

The group of some 70 organizations (Sun, Oracle, O'Reilly, EFF, Pentaho...) have banded together to form Open Source for America. The goal: to "serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source software in the U.S. Federal Government arena.

Dennis Byron at Seeking Alpha describes it at a front group for enterprise software vendors.

- press release

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 13:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, July 21. 2009

Podcast: First Half of 2009: State of the Industry

We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI's huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they've identified.


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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, PBBI [MapInfo], Autodesk, Standards, GIS Jobs, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, ESRI UC 09 at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, July 20. 2009

Jack Dangermond Wants You to Know about this Company (#ESRIUC)

I can say that because he personally invited 34 North to attend this year's User Conference. The company is a successful Web development shop. Their solutions include collaborative portals for natural resource projects. Take for example, Bay-Delta Live, used to monitor the Sacremento-San Joaquim Bay Delta area, a fragile ecosystem. The site lets all the stakeholders share data, maps and comment on key issues. Feeding the sites maps are ArcGIS Server and MapServer.

34 North is working on something else. An open source platform for just about anyone to use to do the same sorts of things. Called OpenNRM it uses OpenLayers to access back end data and has its own homegrown content management, widget management and other tools (list of components). It will be available in late 2009 (website currently says Aug 31) under GPL 2, an open source license.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, July 17. 2009

Recovery.gov Updated: OpenLayers, OSM...

Recovery.gov's maps got an update on Thursday. There are still glitches (like overposting noted by the Philadelphia Business Journal) but it's a step. Per recovery.gov:

The Recovery Board is introducing a new mapping capacity that will give the American people a road map on stimulus spending. For users' convenience, we have placed our maps on a single landing page.

In the coming months, you will see state-of-the art mapping technologies allowing for even better tracking of spending. For now, use our enhanced State Map to track how much your state is receiving in stimulus funds. And take a look at our new Recipient Map detailing major awards to companies in your communities.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Stimulus at 09:19 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, July 16. 2009

World Wind Goes to Programming Camp

internalDrive runs programming camps across the country. A recent one held at Stanford was aimed at teens who already know a bit of programming. Their projects involved World Wind, the open source geodata visualization tool from NASA. Among the tasks to the campers:

- code the game of Risk onto World Wind
- code an interface so users could add data and labels to the program
- code in interface so the Wii could control the program

- The Modesto Bee

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Education at 12:03 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |