Category: Thoughts

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.

You can now register for the OSM Plus Conference which will happen in San Francisco on June 10th, 2013. Steve Coast has been talking about getting a professional OSM conference going and it’s great to see that it is finally going to happen. Professional OSM you say?

OSM PLUS is new and focused on professional users of OSM data and toolchains commercially, academically, in government and elsewhere. It is a paid-for event and we expect it to be more of a conversation than a traditional presentation. Many professional users have similar concerns and expectations for OSM. We want to explore these in an environment focused on coming up with solutions.

If your business uses OSM or you consult on it, you totally should be registering for this conference. Where else are you going to interact with people who are not only using OSM data, but building companies around it. So right after SOTM US, stick around for OSM Plus. I’ve already registered.

Thanks to Tony Quartararo of Spatial Networks for joining the hangout. We talked about Fulcrum App developed by Spatial Networks for field collection, GIS user fees, why maps suck, GIS conferences, and hot dogs.

The IRC log for the hangout is located here.