Category Archives: geodata

one GPS and fourty-something bikes

By shoaib | Published: 2008/09/06
Kashif Rasul last year decided to buy himself one of those GeoChron GPS from SparkFun (they are really cool: field hardended and can take SD cards check it here) … after doing some mapping around Europe and Malaysia he decided to use it to initiate the first openstreetmap mapping party in Multan (which incidentally is [...]
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Can Government learn interoperability from Web2.0?

By editor | Published: 2007/11/13
One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes. embed | view on slideshare
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There’s still hope for Australia’s spatial industry

By shoaib | Published: 2007/11/12
The ASIBA last week release a set of recommendations for the Australian government. These recommendations were based on a economic study evaluating what the spatial industry in Australia is worth. A staggering 6-12 billion dollars is the figure mentioned. But lets look at the recommendations: I quite like the aims of some of these: government [...]
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