En España la Ley 7/1986, de 24 enero, de ordenación de la Cartografía (BOE 29 enero 1986, núm. 25/1986 [pág. 4005], establece el marco normativo estatal básico que regula la producción cartográfica oficial.La cartografía tiene carácter oficia...

HTTP REST is not about light weight (RFC 2616 is just as heavy as a WxS spec), it's about working with the grain of the Web. [more ...]

XLink is part of GML, but I've never seen a WFS return GML that links to other resources. Does anybody use GML like this, and what client would they use?

The growing consensus is that map image and feature services can be (and should be) done RESTfully. Is there any aspect of web GIS that cannot? Geo-processing, perhaps? [more ...]

Threshold bug: Fixed. 1.9-rc1,2 released, and a user even confirmed that it fixed his threshold problem (yay)! This will probably be the last 1.9 release, and includes significantly improved error reporting. Refactor for drop in Layers: done, in the ‘refactor’ branch. I think I’ve maintained backwards compatibility at the ‘using a config file’ level, even, [...]

I'm throwing a party this weekend featuring my most ambitious ever grill-roasting enterprise: whole leg of pig with citrus marinade and sauce. [more ...]

Interesting. [more ...]

I hope you'll agree that this is considerably simpler than the code I used at the 2005 Open Source Geospatial workshop. An even more direct solution for ogr.py fans would be to provide the Numpy array interface directly from OGR geometries. [more ...]

So if there is a future where collaboratively mapping could be economically competitive, how do we go about actually getting there?  I actually think we’re further than many might think, though I believe there is still a lot of work to be done, innovating with the tools, communities and workflows to make this happen.  But [...]

The deadline for JSR0275 is coming up on July 8th, as one of the top users of the JSR108 (which was withdrawn) you would think GeoTools would care about what is going on ... here is why we don't: Java 1.4 2007-07-05T20:40:49Z jive

The long awaited first beta release of the 1.6.x series has just been uploaded to SourceForge, go to the download page to grab your copy. The main thrust of this release is full support for WFS 1.1, completed as part of the CITE thread in OGC’s OWS-4 testbed. A number of other cutting [...]

El lunes día 23 Jyri Engestrom, creador de Jaiku, estará en Donostia en el curso de verano La Sociedad Creativa que tendrá lugar en el palacio de Miramar. Como va a estar unos días más de vacaciones, se ha organizado (mérito de Miguel Garcia) un encuentro o laboratorio de Cadius Donostia donde nos juntaremos unos cuantos colegas el día 25. A ver si preparo una charla relámpago sobre Geografía...

Una carrellata di 4 prodotti gratuiti per il recupero dei dati persi a causa di una cancellazione accidentale o a causa di crash del disco fisso.

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Mike Frumin, who has been actively working with GeoServer and OpenLayers the past few months, has just released the culmination of his work for the Regional Planning Association. In his write up on his blog he includes a number of pictures that were generated by GeoServer, and links to a really nice OpenLayers application, [...]

I dropped the blogroll from my blog's home page since it wasn't accurately reflecting what I read. Go ahead and unlink me if you're keeping score.

Over 200 proposals were made for presentations at FOSS4G 2007. Narrowing these down to the required 120 would be an impossible task for one committee, so we’ve taken the community-based approach of allowing you to choose your favourites. I completed my selection this morning, after visiting the website and getting an email telling me how [...] 2007-06-30T19:07:23Z Jason Birch

2 more REST-related presentation abstracts submitted to the FOSS4G conference: [more ...]