Open Source

NEURISA Day was Monday October 15 in Sturbridge, MA. The agenda included LiDAR in the morning, exhibitor speed networking before lunch, followed by tech trends and mobile tech in the afternoon. The attendees numbered just about 100 (it was a sell out) and fell into roughly equal thirds: local...

And, the winner is a dual EPL/BSD license: The Project Steering Committee has accepted an RFC making uDig available under a dual BSD and EPL license. This is an excellent compromise between using BSD to share code with projects such as GeoTools, while retaining the protection afforded by the...

The Covington City Council [Georgia, USA] agreed Monday night to pay $35,240 to Omega Mapping Services of Woodbury to create the online database [of cemeteries]. The company will use survey grade equipment to map markers put in with ground penetrating radar. I wonder if anyone knows what...

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...