Safe FME with Open Source and ESRI’s new developer blog

April 9, 2009 4 Comments

Michael Weisman wrote up an informative blog post on how you can use FME with open source software and tools.  The killer example here for most folks is the ability to get open source data formats and servers into ArcGIS Desktop.

The wide range of formats FME can write to can also allow you to send data into open source platforms from popular non-open source back-ends like SDE or Oracle. FDO can be used to pull data from any format into MapGuide Open Source, and with FME Server you can stream live data out of any source we support into a format which is compatible with your open source client.

Even the Easter Bunny wants to consume open standards

In addition ESRI is re-branding their ArcObjects Blog to ArcGIS Developer Blog.  Personally I think it was a good decision, ArcObjects is such a small part of the ESRI Developer community and they need to continue their progress of reaching out to the masses that deal with RESTful APIs, Flex and Silverlight, Python and the JSAPIs.

Time to put that baby to REST...

Time to put that baby to REST...

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Portable GIS Version 1.2 Posted

June 16, 2008 1 Comment

I am excited to read on Jo Cook’s blog that version 1.2 of Portable GIS has been released. The concept of being able to either try out or even use software without having to install it, is how we’ll get GIS applications in the hands of everyone. Plus who doesn’t want to carry GIS on your key chain? That isn’t geeky, it is being prepared!

Note: there have been some problems with the download server, but all seems well as of this moment.


Putting Open Source GIS software in your pocket

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