Its time to put together everything we've discussed in the last few posts The following picture nicely summarizes the constituent parts of a geodetic coordinate system: Image...

We've talked about ways of describing locations, using local, geocentric and geodetic coordinate systems In the case of geocentric and geodetic coordinate systems we've been...

Time for the next installment about coordinate systems In my last post I talked about what a coordinate system is and gave some examples of local coordinate systems Although...

If you feel like ending a conversation with a developer then simply bringup the topic of character encodings Or, if you're talking to a GIS wonk, then simply mention coordinate...

I seem to have officially inherited the job of maintaining the GEOS language bindings from [Sean](http://zcologiacom/news/165) :) For those who don't know,...

One of the things I do is help maintain the SWIG bindings for the GEOS project GEOS, which stands for the Geometry Engine Open Source, is a library for working with 2D geometries...