After the completion of the ‘Gentle Introduction to GIS’ resource (available here) work that we did in 2009, Nwabisa Kakaza and I wrote an article on the training resource which now appears in PositionIT (a local GIS industry publication). For your reading pleasure, the article is downloadable here.
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 »
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 »
Introduction PyWPS is a great project by Jachym Cepicky and Intevation to provide an open (Open Source and Open Standards) implementation of the OGC Web Processing Service spec. In this article, I will give a quick run through of getting up and running enough to have the obligatory “Hello World” service running. Check out and… Read more »
Some time ago on the QGIS IRC channel, Dane Springmeyer (thanks Dane!) walked me through the basic concepts of GeoDjango, an Open Source web application development framework with a geospatial twist. I often remark to people that I think Desktop Applications are the way to go in the 3rd world where lack of Internet connectivity… Read more »
We (my wife and I) have been teaching our neighbour, Sibongile (‘Bongi’) to use a computer over the last few months. We recently employed Bongi for a few evenings for the Gentle Introduction to GIS project we were contracted to do. The project involved creation of educational GIS materials for teachers and scholars and was… Read more »