Saturday, November 28, 2009

Managing Terrain in WorldWind Java - Trees in Denmark

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Recently I talked to Thomas Knudsen from KMS , apart from discussing matlab vs octave and kriging vs other interpolation techniques. Finally...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

When Licences hit the roof - Fuzzy Licencing policies

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Being an Open Source guy software licencing always sounds iffy. There are though all these software licencing giants - they must be doing so...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Staying in production - heartbeats and jump starts

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At FOSS4G I saw a very nice presentation by Andrea on maintaining Geoserver in production and optimizing performance. It is all nice and goo...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

The importance of the generalist

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In the fast moving technology industry things evolve fast and fast evolution entails fast extinction. Unfortunately humans have some 50+ yea...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Building the Orfeo Stack

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Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) is a great symphony written in C++, or is it Opera ? I believe C++ in spite of its ceveats is one of the most portable...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Cyber cafes and Upload Cafes

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I blew a massive hole in my budget by using my Vodafone datacard in India to download 70MB at 1c a Kb. That's a huge load of waste for ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Nearmap - Dense observation of space-time

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Nearmap has finally had its public data release. Nice slippy maps view and you would expect in any web 2.0 mapping site. The biggest differ...