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Inspiring techies to become great writers
How to inspire and empower Open Source software developers to write great documentation, and improve the world while you're at it.Reading time: 8 minutesPresented at Write The Docs - Sydney [sli…
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Better/Faster Interior Point for Polygons - now in GEOS
As a gentle introduction to GEOS development I took on the task of porting the recent improvements to the JTS InteriorPointArea algorithm. This is a fairly small chunk o'code, but it touches mo…
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Towards gvSIG 2.5: Improvements at geoprocessing framework
The gvSIG Desktop 2.5 version, that you can test with the new distribution candidate to final version, includes a series of improvements in the geoprocess framework that we explain below. Visual imp…
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gvSIG 2.5 RC1 available, first release candidate to final version
The first release candidate (RC1) of the new gvSIG 2.5 version is now available to download. This version can be downloaded from the development versions section of the project website. The novelties …
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Free course about Geographic Information Systems applied to archaeology: Certification and links to the complete course
The certification of the course about Geographic Information Systems applied to archaeology is now available. This certification starts after publishing the seven modules that form the course, but it …
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Towards gvSIG 2.5: Saving and loading labelling
We continue with more novelties. In this case it is a simple functionality, but very useful. This new tool allows to save a labelling configuration, being able to recover it later to apply it. Any GIS…
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Better and Faster Interior Point for Polygons in JTS/GEOS
A humble workhorse of geospatial processing is the ability to compute a point which is guaranteed to lie in the interior of a polygon. In the OGC Simple Features for SQL specification (and hence in P…
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Towards gvSIG 2.5: Virtual fields
We advance one of the (many) novelties that the next gvSIG Desktop version includes and we think that it will be very useful. This new feature is the virtual fields support (also known as calculated o…
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Never Lost Again
Thanks to Ed Freyfogle, I have just finished reading Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday. If you enjoy books about the history of tech and the rollercoaster of a startup in the early part of this century,…
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Towards gvSIG 2.5. New improved image viewer
Among the many novelties that the next gvSIG Desktop version brings, there are some of them that, without having the functional impact of others such as the report designer or the topology framework, …
