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...

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...

Its not every day someone takes the time to write me an open letter - I have to say its kind of fun Brian added some additional thoughts to our ongoing conversation about GML In...

Bryan Lawrence has an interesting response to my post about integration and GML In his view, GML is not meant for data exchange but instead provides a common language that...

Joel Spolsky wrote a classic post back in 2001 titled Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You, which warns that the more abstract a solution to a problem is the less useful...

With a headline like that, this better be good, right I'm excited to announce the speakers for the Mapping Applications on the Web seminar on March 4th at GITA's...

It was with great interest that I read that PostGIS 113 supports long transactions Except there is one problem - if you dig into the documentation you'll see it does no such...

GEOS is one of the more important open source projects in the GIS/geospatial industry It provides rich functionality for analyzing and manipulating geometries and...

This post is long overdue - a number of people have asked me how to convert between lat/long and mouse coordinates on an HTML page First, let's define some terms since otherwise...

Mike Williams provided some great feedback on my last post about Google Maps and coordinate systems Let's look into two of his comments in more depth First, he pointed out...

Its finally time to apply our new knowledge about coordinate systems to Google Maps Looking through the google maps newsgroups, you'll see lots of questions like: What...