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One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes.

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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 [...]

Alessandro Pasotti has authored a utility to output mapserver layers as KML for display on Google Earth. This is written in PHP mapscript so will require mapscript to be installed with your standard Mapserver installation. Check it out here.
Although its a useful tool, it would be nice to have kml support in mapserver (C++) out [...]

Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]

Wetlands are regarded by nature conservationist as unique ecosystems. They often exhibit delicately balanced environmental conditions and support a wide range of exotic plant and animal species. Wetlands are also often protected by various environmental laws and conventions. Last year when I was visiting Pakistan I learned about the Pakistan Wetlands Project that is under [...]

Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be [...]

With a dearth of street data for Pakistan on the default mapping resource of the world (Googlemaps) I decided to try putting up some of the data I had lying around the house. Using Geoserver as a WMS layer on top of Google maps results were quite impressive. Here's Karachi and the tomb [...]

OSDC 2006 starts tomorrow in Melbourne with a keynote from Randal Schwarts. Today I attended the pre-conference tutes which included a most usefull session by Jonathan Oxer. The talk titled "Large Scale Webapps: DevTeam Infrastructure" gave a run down on how software development process at his company is automated and streamlined. The automation [...]

Ken Lord emailing to the annual “Who’s using PostGIS and for What?” inquiry wrote in detail about his experienes with Oracle and also a justification for decision to chose PostGIS over Oracle Spatial. I thought it was quite insightfull for anyone who are doing a cost/benefit analysis of choosing a spatial database for their next [...]

Richard Taylor has release an update to GeoType — a python library that implements OGC Simple Features Specification and PostGIS geometry in Python. It has integration with Psycopg & python-postgresql interface. This ones for you gus ;)
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