Author: James

Paul Ramsey responded to some of the comments about his paper on open source GIS.

Looks like a new survey has been posted on EDN. ESRI lives for these surveys, but I do know they read them so if you want to talk back about EDN, this is your chance.

I see that ESRI has posted a “virtual tour” of their Redlands campus. I’m left wondering why ESRI didn’t use their own ArcWeb Explorer and some of those cool demos that they showed at the Dev Summit (you know with the videos playing right inside the flash viewer). I swear if ESRI would just use some of the amazing stuff they do themselves, people would be blown away. This campus tour looks more suitable for a bank than the largest GIS company in the world.

via ESRI UC Blog

Tim Martin let me know that he’s blogging GeoWeb 2006 also.

Morten Nielsen read Refractions Research’s “The State of Open Source GIS” white paper and wondered why Paul Ramsey categorized open source GIS as either C or Java. I think Paul only wrote about the open source GIS clique that revolves around Refractions and OSGeo rather than the state of open source GIS as a whole.

Says my wife as we are sitting reading the paper tonight. (I was reading the Fry’s Electronics ad so I thought she was talking about that). She throws the local section to me and points to the lead story, “Mapmaker’s work outdated by time it’s printed”. I said I’m a Geographer, I work with maps because I love them. I started to explain to her about how time is a big factor in mapping, but she drifted back to reading how Mike Piazza did last night. She said he didn’t play again. “He’s getting old for a catcher”, she says. I reply, “Why does he bother?” and a pillow flies toward me.

I might as well spend the rest of the night on the couch. I wonder if Martin Waldseemüller ever slept on his couch.

GeoMullah is working through getting the blogger meetup organized.

Right now this is the status:

Time: 9 August, 8pm (I’ll be there earlier)
Where: I don’t know?

He’s working on getting some more details out so when I learn more I’ll post back here. Hope many of you can come so I can put some faces with names.

No not me, but Stefan Lorimer came through with a great detailed post from GeoWeb 2006. Stefan details some Google Earth and Google Maps sessions and has some thoughts at the end of his post about what we should be paying attention to (or at least what makes sense from a Google perspective). Thanks for the writeup Stefan.

The pause that refreshes, I guess….

For those who haven’t seen, Zillow has outlined their upcoming open API. They will be distribute Zestimates, Zindex info, charts, comparable sales , beds/baths and other data via their open API for you to integrate into your own applications. They are interesting in what people might use this API for and you can email them and maybe get access before the API goes public.

Consume, consume, consume!