When I started off this internship, I had little practical experience of Open Source software. I had heard about it, and knew that it was an interesting, expanding field for a collective good, but hadn’t an opportunity to delve in deeper through my education career. This internship has given me that opportunity and exposed me… Read more »
Interns Its been a busy month. A few months ago I set things in motion by advertising for interns to come and work and learn about FOSS GIS at linfiniti.com. In tandem with that I invited Anne Ghisla to come out to South Africa from Italy to act as mentor for the interns. When Anne… Read more »
Hi my name is Robert. I am an intern at Linfiniti Consulting. I am having a great time at the company, exploring different Open Source GIS technologies. I would like to take a moment to discuss one of the projects i have been working on. I created a simple mapserver project using a mapfile that… Read more »
Are you looking for giving your OpenLayers map controls a cool appearance, smoothly integrated with the site’s theme, without writing a papyrus and scatter code among lot of files? Then have a look at jQuery UI CSS framework, a system of classes developed for jQuery UI widgets. This is the map toolbar of the webGIS… Read more »
When Internet connection is a limited resource, a well-designed website doesn’t perform multiple times the same request. This little adjustment can significantly reduce the time required to load and refresh a page. First-world programmers should keep this in mind, or better come to South Africa and experience it in person… This reminds me how life… Read more »
Hi, I’m Sam. I’ve been learning a lot here at Linfiniti (thanks to the brilliant team!) Just like to add a quick note on one of the tasks I learnt this week. I was working on a shapefile of the suburbs in Cape Town. A client required the suburbs to be grouped by region. After… Read more »
Over the last few months I have been working hard to get an internship programme going here at Linfiniti Consulting. Part of our mission is to build up local skills in FOSS GIS. The internship programme is an adjunct to other initiatives like providing free training courses, open days and so on. We have hired… Read more »