The March 20th, 2008 brought us new patch release of GDAL library. It doesn’t include any new features but a very tidy set of 65 bug fixes. Great Job GDAL Team!
The source code packages with GDAL/OGR 1.5.1 are available from the OSGeo download server.
Today is a wonderful day! The Canadian minister of immigration and citizenship Diane Finley announced that citizens of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania can travel to Canada and remain there for 3 months without a visa.
I’m a Polish, so hurray! One of my dream has become truth.
Visiting the Vancouver Island in September 2007 with my fiancee Aneta stroke our fancies and we are going to come to back there, probably after the journey to Cape Town for the FOSS4G 2008.
It is not a secret that our long term plan is to stay and work in Canada for a couple of years or longer.
It may be surprising, but some people still believe it is. Here is an interesting debate the Al-Fayhaa TV aired in 2007, during which astronomy researcher is arguing with physicist on this subject:
It’s been nearly 500 years since Nicolaus Copernicus and afterward Galileo Galilei proved with their researches that we do not leave on a plate but on a potato. Not to mention what we’ve learned from a number of space missions and explorations made with satellites. By the way of digression, how would the Global Navigation Satellite Systems work if the Earth was flat? Hmm…