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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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Mapserver output as KML

By shoaib | Published: 2007/09/23
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 [...]
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