http://blog.webmapper.com.au Not another GIS blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its been a long time between posts lately but there is a lot of things I'd like to report. Thanks to everyone who has reminded me how lazy i have become at every industry event i seem to attend :) First up, I have resigned from my position at Landgate starting ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/11/21/movements-afoot/ Jeff Harrison's mass email caught my eye today with the free trial of CarbonArc. I had the pleasure of taking an early release of CarbonArc for a spin last year and while it was a good start there were a few key things missing from my point of view. Having ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/08/25/carbonarc-revisited/ So i've been a bit late taking a look at the new Mapinfo Professional v9.5. With the consistent dissapointment towards the consumption of OGC standards in commercial apps I wasn't holding my breath ... but wait a sec, it did work and it worked damn well. I mean, it worked ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/06/18/wfs-t-adventures-with-mapinfo-95/ Finally a consumer personal navigational device with internet connectivity, meet Dash Express. See also Engadget review. The opportunities this opens up to both the Geo community and also Joe Public is quite huge. Enter GeoRSS. Your time to shine has arrived :) Many websites have geo-relevant content - including, but not ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/03/27/lbs-has-arrived/ Seems as though a lot of people missed this release last week. It gives us great pleasure to announce that the pilot application awarded the development contract for the gvSIG Mobile application by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is available. gvSIG Mobile is a smaller version of gvSIG which ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/03/20/gvsig-mobile-release-other-thoughts/ How can I push a proposal for provisioning elevation data via Web Coverage Services when there are no freakin' clients? After a couple of hours I seriously only found, http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/projects/wcsClientLite/ on Globalmapper's todo list Cadcorp SIS gvSIG Vague references to ArcGIS 9x support ... vapourware? A classic Dimitri Manifold post and no hits on the long list of ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2007/12/30/where-art-thou-wcs-clients/ In my quest for increased adoption of geospatial web services, I would constantly bash my head against the wall trying to debug GIS applications. So if you have suffered from "what the" behaviour such as ... weird uri encoding apps pretending to talk SSL but only on some requests not supporting BASIC authentication ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2007/11/30/generic-web-proxies/ ..to Sebastian's spatialreference.org post. You made me chuckle and i don't really know why :) I had actually not seen the projection render call, that is damn nice work Chris and Howard. Sebastian lists a few suggested improvements to the "service" which i whole heartedly agree. Geodesy/datums/projections/geoids/coordinate systems need not ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2007/08/09/bravo/ For those that know me you should know that i like to think i am impartial to geospatial solutions. I'm not a "fanboi" of opensource or commercial solutions ... i really do tend to use the best available product. I have been getting the distinct impression lately that the quality ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2007/07/28/exciting-times-for-fossg/ Like all good arguments, there are other sides. In what seems to be a two part OGC mini-series on Charlie Savage's blog RE: problems with the OGC, I noticed a comment by Shane asking ... I’m surprised at the lack of outburst by the pro-standards community. This makes me ... http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2007/07/05/from-the-other-side-of-the-fence/