Some of my recent posts could be interpreted as veiled critisism of the Open Geopspatial Consortium (OGC) But in truth, I've been very impressed how OGC has reinvented itself...

Let's face facts - the stable of GIS Web standards is suboptimal To show you what I mean, let's think about the common things you'd want to do with web mapping and see if...

Last week Landon Blake vented his frustration at the Open Geospatial Consurtium by claiming that poorly designed standards create obstacles to innovation and collaboration This...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged that Safari 3 beta's SVG support was buggy Here's a concrete example (if you are using Internet Explorer unfortunately you won't see anything...

Silly me - I thought gaudy, in-your-face advertising went out with the Dotcom boom Apparently not As I was reading the Denver Post the other day, I watched in horror, and...

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the first FRUGOS unconference - which was a meeting of 20 or so open source GIS enthusiasts who live along Colorado's Front Range...

Update - Armin has an alternate implementation based on some fancy regular expressions combined with String's split method Its supports most of ERB and avoids all the string...

Opera 9 is a great browser - it small, standards compliant and fast And not just slightly faster - really fast (I don't believe Apple's browser speed comparision they've put up...

As we add custom styles for MapBuzz, an obvious question is how to style GeoRss points In particular, I would like to specify two images/icons for each Atom entry that has a...