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QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018
Dear QGIS Community We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as c…
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Correction of shapefiles with errors in gvSIG Desktop
Since gvSIG 2.3, when a shapefile has corrupt geometries it is loaded in the Table of Contents (ToC) but not in the View, but we can have the option to correct that layer. One of the reasons is that i…
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An address is …
This week a headline in the Telegraph caught my eye: Postcodes ‘no longer fit for purpose’ as study shows most people have one which does not go directly to their door The article goes on: Postcodes …
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Helena Mitasova awarded Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize
Congratulations to Professor Helena Mitasova on her winning the 2018 Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize given by the Austrian Academy of Sciences through its Commission for GIScience Prof. Mitasova h…
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PostGIS Patch Releases 2.2.7, 2.3.7, and 2.4.4
The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix release 2.2.7, 2.3.7 and 2.4.4 for the 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 stable branches. Please note that PostGIS 2.2 is reaching end-of-life and there wil…
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Emit #4 – Push or Pull?
This is Emit #4, in a series of blog-posts around the Smart Emission Platform, an Open Source software component framework that facilitates the acquisition, processing and (OGC web-API) unlocking of s…
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Maps and GDPR: privacy for your visitors
As of 25th May 2018, new EU regulation harmonizing data protection across the member states will come into force. The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly abbreviated as GDPR, will enhance the…
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GeoAmbassador – Dr. Claus Rinner
On behalf of the GeoForAll community, we are delighted to honour Dr. Claus Rinner as our GeoAmbassador. Dr. Claus Rinner is a Professor and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Geography and…
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OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge
The OSGeo UN Committee promotes the development and use of open source software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. In the last few years, the Committee has mainly worked on the UN Op…
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What could Open Government learn from us Open Technology folks?
Despite open government’s best intentions to prioritise collaboration, government bodies consistently duplicate each other’s effort. Collaborating as effectively as open communities is much harder tha…
