Open Source

Intergraph just announced [Oct 10] that it has donated free educational software licenses of both ERDAS IMAGINE and GeoMedia to all 25 recipients of the 2012 United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) scholarship awards. - Trajectory Magazine, press release via...

Did you miss day #1 of GEOINT's "pre-conference" sessions? Perhaps you were just arriving, missed your flight or out on the golf course. Here's a recap of the day's activities (and even more pithy accounts on Twitter): The sessions focused on several key themes: Open source...

I just learned of: A Dynamic Web Map Design Competition sponsored by AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group. Hosted by San Diego State University and the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG). It's open to students with two $200 prizes and travel funding ($100) to top five to...

A webinar from GeoConnections: The webinar will be structured in two parts. The first part will focus on organizational use of common open source software licensing models, while the second part will explain how organizations can license the software that they have developed for use by...

In the Free Software world, Marble is the name of “a small interactive globe and geographical atlas” for all platforms (including mobile ones) where the Qt libraries can run. At first sight, Marble may seem one of those pretty, but all-in-all unnecessary software applications we all meet from...

First off, what is Firsthand? With 36 days until the presidential election, I'm delighted to introduce Firsthand, a project that uses all the tools at our disposal to expand the conversation and put the spotlight on what really matters most in people's lives. Firsthand will be all about...

Apprently funding for projects in a region of The Phillippines has not resulted in expected changes on the ground. Officials hope to keep better track of funding in the future by putting geotagged photos of the projects on a QGIS map. By using Quantum GIS, local authorities will be able to...

Three positions in the Anderson County Zoning and Public Works Department [TN] have been eliminated, a restructuring expected to save more than $102,000 annually, Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank announced Monday. The position of planner has been phased out, she said. That work will be...

APB has covered the crowdsourcing project to map cell signal quality in the past. Now news it's turning into something more. Crowdsourced mobile network measurement startup OpenSignal has raised a $1.3 million seed round from Qualcomm Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Passion...

Fill out this short survey by September 13th, 5pm. Let us know what you want to map, where and why. We will select the best projects and set them up on September 20th, aka “Shareabouts Day”. Shareabouts is the organization's crowdsourcing solution. This is the first I'd heard of the app...