Since returning from FOSS4G, I've been nagged by a question in the back of my mind - can open source succeed in the geospatial world Now you might think I've lost my mind...

Back when I started MapBuzz, there was so little work being done in the open source geospatial world with Ruby and/or Rails that Sean even commented on it Geospatial was the...

Its been over a year since I blogged about GEOS, an open source project that provides rich functionality for analyzing and manipulating geometries and is a key part of...

As I've mentioned a number of times, I'm a big fan of Atom and the Atom publishing protocol and believe they will become the lingua franca of Web Services, including spatial web...

Sean's been writing about why the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards aren't RESTful Since the OGC seems to be my favorite punching bag these days, I thought I'd jump...

Today's WTF is provided courtesy of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): At last week's OGC Technical Committee meetings, there was considerable discussion related to...

Chris Tweedie posted an interesting reply to my rant about GIS standards and took me to task for "WMS bashing" and why WMS is a useful Enterprise standard Perhaps - except I...

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 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...