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Making the MySQL FDO provider ... geospatially useful
For the longest time, the MySQL FDO provider was of limited utility, though not to the fault of the provider itself. The last time this provider saw serious development, the latest version of MySQL wa…
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QGIS Server is ready for the new OGC API for Features protocol.
The new OGC API for Features (OAPIF) (also formerly known as WFS3) is one of the first protocols of the new generation of OGC web services and we are happy to announce that QGIS Server is ready to ser…
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GeoTools 22.1 Released
The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 22.1: geotools-22.1-bin.zip geotools-22.1-doc.zip geotools-22.1-userguide.zip geotools-22.1-project.zip maven repository GeoTool…
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Variable-distance buffering in JTS
The operation of buffering a geometry is a core geospatial concept. Standard buffers are computed using a fixed distance around the input geometry. JTS has provided a buffer implementation since its …
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PostGIS Day 2020 from Amsterdam
This year I was happy to attend the PostGIS Unconference organized by the good folks from Geodan and Webmapper. The idea for the event was to cover the middle ground between typical introductory activ…
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Geospatial binning with hexagons on spark
Discrete global grid systems recently got quite some attention in the GIS community when Uber released H3 https://eng.uber.com/h3/. It is a hexagonal spatial index. Neighbours can be accessed easily. …
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GRASS GIS 7.8.1 released with PROJ 6 and GDAL 3 support
What’s new in a nutshell As a follow-up to the recent GRASS GIS 7.8.0 release we have pusblished the new stable release GRASS GIS 7.8.1. Besides improving the Python 3 compatibility efforts have conce…
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gvSIG Desktop 2.5 has arrived: Downloads are available now!
The new gvSIG Desktop version, gvSIG 2.5, is available to download with a lot of new features and improvements. Some of these developments imply, by themselves, improvements of great relevance. All of…
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GZip in PostgreSQL
I love PostgreSQL extensions. Extensions are the truest expression of the second principle of the original “design of Postgres” vision, to provide user extendibility for data types, operators and…
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Towards gvSIG 2.5: Forms configuration
The possibility to configure forms to visualize data takes big importance when the data has a hundred of fields with abbreviate field names. This data is hard to comprehend for the user. gvSIG has the…
