Author: James

Dave Bouwman joined me to talk about GIS developers or developers who know GIS or some combination of that. We hit on the idea of hiring GIS Analysts to become programmers and how Dave approaches that task. We talked about APIs and ended with a weird discussion about Pinterest and Samsung refrigerators. The IRC chat is archived here.

This week’s hangout got switched around. Steve Coast will be next week because he’s apparently shipping a million GPS maps out tomorrow. So stepping up is the big man himself, Dave Bouwman. We’ll be talking about GIS development, technology trends and how they impact location and anything else people come up with on IRC. Generally you need to pay Dave big bucks to pick his brain, but tomorrow all you need is your fingers (hmm, not sure where I’m going with this).

Anyway, we go live an hour earlier than normal (10am PDT) but do you really want to wait all that time to hear Dave talk about his love of Canadian baseball?

Today is the live broadcast of the FME World Tour 2013 from Vancouver. We go live at 9 am PDT/MST. Join the conversation below the video or on the chat page. Ulf Månsson, Jeff Konnen, Hans Van Der Maarel, Brett Madsen and many more will join for a roundtable while the event is being streamed. If you are an FME user or just want to see what the fuss is about, watch below!

http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=hwjf&uio=d4

So this happened:

Make sure you click on that link to read something quite interesting. Howard Butler’s response is well thought out that I’ll just let him frame the situation. I myself am curious if there is really any need to fork GeoJSON into “OGCJSON” to solve something I’m not sure really is any issue. As others have said on Twitter, GML was designed to handle just these issues. I don’t want to get down the rabbit hole of being critical of OGC, but what’s the point of creating these standards (KML, GML, etc) and then not use them?

Why does this come to mind every time I heard the OGC thinking about creating a new “standard”?

Bill Dollins of Zekiah joined me to talk about geospatial developer topics. We hit cutting edge technology and the realities of working within a stack of technology you may not enjoy. The IRC log is located here.

There has been lots of talk about new technology in the geospatial world. From SVG and JavaScript to open and GitHub, it’s easy to forget most of us have a job to do. Well I’ve got Bill Dollins joining me to help try and fight through the hype and figure out how to utilize some of these great projects in your every day workflows. Not everyone can abandon Oracle or .NET for PostGIS or Ruby but that doesn’t mean you can’t bring things into those workflows to get work done. You can watch live right here on this blog Wednesday at 11am MST/PDT.

Thanks to Michael Byrne, GIO of the FCC for joining me today. We talked about open government, the roll a government agency should play with developers (APIs, web services, etc), changing the culture of government data sharing, and the awesome San Francisco Giants. The IRC log is here.

Another great guest joins us this week! Michael Byrne, GIO at the FCC and I will be talking about open government, what Government can do to help citizens stay informed and the roll a government agency should play with developers (APIs, web services, etc). You can watch live right here on this blog *Wednesday at 11am MST/PDT.

Thanks to Marc Prioleau for joining me today. We hit on WiFiSLAM, persistent location, mobile car technology, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google, and many other buzzwords. Alas, we didn’t get to bring out the Gartner hype cycle, but rest assure we both talked about it on the backchannel. The IRC chat is here.

We’ve got a great one this week, Marc Prioleau joins me to talk about the mobile location space and how quickly it continues to evolve. Just last week Apple bought WiFiSLAM which aims to improve indoor location for mobile devices. The mobile space is full of hype and failed products but Marc has a knack of pushing through all that for great insight. You can watch live right here on this blog tomorrow at 11am MST/PDT.