Background Tomorrow I am doing a presentation on some of the more advanced features of QGIS. In the last presentation I gave, one of the things that interested people was the ability to ship Spatialite databases that contain multiple vector datasets. So I though I would build spatialite tools on my ubuntu karmic 64 bit… Read more »
I’m off to the 2nd QGIS hackfest event in Vienna in a week’s time. I decided to skip the expensive trip to FOSS4G2009 in Sydney this year and go to the QGIS hackfest rather. Many thanks to the sponsors and donors who have made my travel and accommodation for the QGIS hackfest expenses possible. There… Read more »
I recently replaced my aging MacBook (the white plasticky one) with a new Sony Vaio VGN-NW15G (yes that is quite a catchy name). I immediately split up the partition and installed Ubuntu Karmic in the bigger section, leaving a small Vista (which it came pre-installed with) partition which I will use occasionally for building QGIS… Read more »
Another busy week…and not much time for blogging, so I will just put this presentation online that I gave to a Global Change thinktank meeting I attended in Pretoria. Also a few weeks back someone I met from INPE, Brasil mentioned Spring as a potential point of collaboration with QGIS. Tonight I finally got a… Read more »
I usually upgrade to the next-gen ubuntu release a month or two before it comes out so I can test QGIS and other software on the new platform. Today I was looking for a visual query designer for PostgreSQL because I wanted to make some complex queries with multiple joins. I’m ok for dealing with… Read more »
Yesterday I gave a short presentation on QGIS (available here) to an international group of CEOS delegates that were on a visit to South Africa. As well as QGIS I tried to promote GRASS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and MapServer/Geoserver as a viable alternative stack to the typical Oracle / ArcSDE / ArcServer / ArcGIS that organisations tend… Read more »