Every day there seem to be more opportunities for FOSS GIS to be deployed in some production context. However it is a real missed opportunity when people come looking for a solution and we never get to hear about it. Two came accross my desk in the last week: The first was a tender for… Read more »
Its easy to make ubuntu look beautiful. First add these PPA’s to your /etc/apt-sources.list: # nice themes deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Then updated your apt database: sudo apt-get update Now install the themes: sudo apt-get install balanzan-theme infinity-theme \ wild-shine-theme exotic-theme tropical-theme \ step-into-freedom-theme bamboo-zen-theme \ ubuntu-sunrise-theme aquadreams-theme Afterwards use the… Read more »
Last night we reached another milestone in the QGIS project, releasing a bug fix for our stable version and the next point release in our unstable series. The unstable release adds many new features including support for personal geospatial datastores in portable sqlite databases. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities since it… Read more »
Its quick (overlooking slow internet access) and easy to set up Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bit for use with the FOSSGIS stack. Here are the packages I install once the base system is set up (including a few non-fossgis ones that are nice to have). sudo apt-get install build-essential vim grass libqt4-core \ libqt4-debug libqt4-dev libqt4-gui… Read more »