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Openstreetmap Multan Progress

By shoaib | Published: 2009/10/29

Last few years have been difficult for Pakistani citizens. However the ordinary citizen is so removed from the geopolitical forces driving the conflict in Pakistan that it is hard to imagine how an ordinary citizen may be able to contribute to resolving the conflict. In these circumstanses I was delighted to see the progress that [...]

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Pakistan at the State of the Map, Amsterdam

By shoaib | Published: 2009/07/10

OSM in Pakistan hasn’t been very active in the past. However the future is looking bright. This year during the state of the map in Amsterdam you will run into a university professor – but don’t let the absent minded-professor-look fool you. This is a man on a mission – as a professor at [...]

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California Visit

By shoaib | Published: 2008/06/09

Where2008 This is a post that’s long over due … I really should have been blogging on a more regular basis while in the US but I was having so much fun experiencing the culture, cuisine, nature and the sheer creative energy of the Bay Area that it left me too exhausted at the end of [...]

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Barcamp Canberra & Australia 2020 Summit

By shoaib | Published: 2008/04/23

I had a most insightful weekend. On Saturday while Australia’s 2020 summit was on, a few kilometers away Canberra’s first barcamp was also in progress. When the initial outcomes of the summit were released it didn’t come as a surprise that some of the discussion streams in the 2020 summit overlapped with what the [...]

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top 10 ideas from 2020 summit

By shoaib | Published: 2008/04/23

Last weekend the 2020 Summit was held in Canberra where government and leading Australian minds got together to come up with ideas to address future issues that Australia faces. Here’s my biased top 10 ideas: “national financial literacy program in schools” “environmental considerations will be fully integrated into economic decision making in Australia” “robust emissions trading system and [...]

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Bremerhaven

By shoaib | Published: 2007/09/24

In case you are wondering why I’m not at foss4g2007 I’m in Bremerhaven, Germany visiting AWI.

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@foss4g 2006 Lausanne

By shoaib | Published: 2006/09/12

Finnaly after 24 hours hopping continents (Melbourne – Hong Kong – London – Frankfurt – Laussane) we have made it. Currently attending the GeoNetwork workshop. Some of the upcoming features in GeoNetwork Remote Metadata Harvesting Service Open Access Interfaces for Metadata Harvesting OGC Catalogue services client Thumb names are harvested as well (but not data) Export harvested data More from the conference [...]

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Postgis wish-list

By shoaib | Published: 2006/07/19

The Postgis wiki now has a wishlist — ideal for budding open source developers who may want to start off with something easy.

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PostGIS 1.1.3 released

By shoaib | Published: 2006/07/04

With the release of PostGIS 1.1.3 we now have long transaction support. nomad labs GeoHosting have updated the servers to run the most recent PostGIS as well.

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