Over at Alex Willmer’s Misspelled nemesis club there has been a (now-closed) discussion on the successor to the ubiquitous shapefile. Alex points out a lot of the benefits of the shapefile (and there certainly have been many). Before we discuss its “successor”, we should reflect on our business needs and the problems we had withRead More
I thought I would try and create a table comparing all the native spatial types of the main database products around today. Because this is a “work in progress”, I will be contantly updating it. Where I have something wrong or have missed a product, please email me and I will correct the table. ReginaRead More
I came across the Maps Of War website today – isn’t it amazing that you can Google all you like but completely missing interesting websites. On the site is a cool shock wave flash (SWF) “movie” showing the various empires that have conquered part or all of the middle east since recorded history. It isRead More
Yesterday, Tuesday 20th January 2009, I gave a flawed, imperfect, rather long talk called Free And Open GeoData – From Shadows to Reality at the March South Together, linux.conf.au 2009 Conference at the University of Tasmania. If one wants to get a message across, and perhaps be entertaining, one has to sprinkle one’s talk withRead More
On Tuesday November 11th 2008 I gave a 1 hour presentation on spatial databases entitled An Introduction to Spatial Databases to the Boader and District Spatial Information Group (BADSIG) at Albury NSW. The presentation was rather long as, generally, GIS practitioners are usually unfamiliar with database technology (no fault of their own) and so IRead More
I gave two presentations at the Australian Oracle Spatial Forum held at the Novotel Hotel, Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday 28th August 2008. My two papers were: Automated Layer Management – Experiences At Mid Coast Water Gridding vs Simplification in Extracting Performance from High Density Data The first was co-authored with Mr Brendan Soustal thoughRead More