A note from Sam in the Linfiniti team: The last two weeks of FOSS GIS training courses (posted about here and here) have been impressive. High-five to the trainers, Tim and Gavin, for their hard work! Having only being at Linfiniti for a short time, I was assisting with the courses but also learning some… Read more »
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FOSS GIS presentation at Cape Tech
Things have been busy – I just back from training course in Tanzania, and last week I was giving a lecture and practical at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Lecturer Kevin Musungu from the Civil Engineering and Surveying Department at Cape Technikon asked us to give a presentation on open source GIS after meeting… Read more »
Addition to the Linfiniti team
Just an update to let you know that I have recently joined Linfiniti. I was lucky enough to be an intern earlier in the year, and am happy to be part of the team again, and helping in bringing Open Source GIS to Africa and other parts of the world A quick introduction – my… Read more »
Learning about Free Open Source Software (FOSS) through my Linfiniti internship
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 »
Dissolving features by an attribute
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 »