So, as we’re are in the final edits of the PostGIS Cookbook, there are some recipes that have ended up on the cutting room floor. Several of these will end up on this blog: Amongst those that will end up in the alternate pipeline, and thus ultimately in GitHub, will be a project called pgOrthogonalize, similar to the functionality in Potlatch2 and iD to square … Continue reading PostGIS Cookbook Promises
If you are feeling truly geeky, check out Ubuntu Touch, now that you can install it on your Nexus 4: Ubuntu Touch http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install I installed it last weekend as a ramp up to a writing/editing week. It was a nice semi-brainless and obsessive thing to do in advance of a heavy tech week– it required no documentation to be written, no expectation of success, no … Continue reading Ubuntu Touch
All goes well, the PostGIS Cookbook will be out in January here’s some of the official info: If you are a web developer or a software architect, … and want to expand the range of techniques you are using with PostGIS, then this book is for you… . An easy-to-use guide, full of hands-on recipes for manipulating spatial data in a PostGIS database. Each topic … Continue reading (a tagged repost) Happy #postgis day, everybody! A big and fun day
All goes well, the PostGIS Cookbook will be out in January here’s some of the official info: If you are a web developer or a software architect, … and want to expand the range of techniques you are using with PostGIS, then this book is for you… . An easy-to-use guide, full of hands-on recipes for manipulating spatial data in a PostGIS database. Each topic … Continue reading Happy #postgis day, everybody! A big and fun day
It’s starting to feel real around here: Continue reading Book is coming…
Two of the sets of conversations I really enjoyed at the CfA Summit in the 3rd day unconference were on the topic of Chief level technology positions, from Chief Innovation Officers to Chief Technology Officers to Chief Information Officers. It was interesting to hear others’ interests, frustrations with both ends of recruitment, and the realization that there wasn’t a central repository for such position descriptions … Continue reading And on that farm he had a cat… #cfasummit
So, if I had to choose one iconic slide from the CfASummit (and I do as I really need to catch up on sleep, so long posts will wait until the end of the week) this would be it presented by our illustrious MC (David Eaves) for the event: The gist of the slide is that CfA has gone from the simple website/front end design … Continue reading Favorite Slide, #cfasummit
I just came back from the CfASummit, 2013 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I met a whole bunch of really dedicated, intelligent, and idealistic people who have been blessed with a position to change the world, the presentations made me laugh and cry (really). CfA represents many the changes I have been hoping for in the public sector since I entered it 5 years ago, and … Continue reading Building something really useful #CfASummit
In a short blog post, I won’t be able to do the NACIS conference justice, but if you haven’t gone and you are a map geek, then I recommend you attend next year’s conference in Pittsburg. First: The People: What a collegial and warm group of people. NACIS was a very welcoming community, an interesting mix of private industry geniuses (ahem, Mapbox, Stamen, Vizzuality etc.), academics, … Continue reading North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference (yay #NACIS!)
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