geospatial team at nomad labs
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Goodbye National Mapping, G’day Google!
By: shoaib on: Jun 25,2008 In: industryGoogle MapMaker is out. There are several geowiki projects, but when someone like google decides to have a go at the problem you have to take notice. First thing to note is that the MapMaker is open for a limited set of countries, one of which I have blogged about earlier. So lets see what [...]
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- Tags: crowdsourcing, data, geowiki, google, mapmaker, openstreetmap
There’s still hope for Australia’s spatial industry
By: shoaib on: Nov 12,2007 In: Australia, OGC, geodata, industry, interoperability, opensourceThe 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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- Tags: Australia, geodata, industry, interoperability, OGC, opensource
About GeoLabs
GeoLabs is the Spatial team at Nomad Labs. We love all things spatial and particularly like the idea of spatial analysis on the geoweb. We also tend to use a lot of open source GIS in our work. Yey! to the open source. Other than that we love dynamic languages, open RESTful API's and beautiful code and thoughtfully designed software. All things that we try to adhere to in our work.
