The Planet OSGeo is growing. Today, on behalf of the OSGeo Community, I’m happy to announce Tamas has joined with his blog Sharpening GIS at Your Will.
Tamas has been a contributor to GDAL and MapServer projects for years. He develops and maintains .NET/C# interfaces for both of the projects. He also is a member of the Project Steering Committee for GDAL project.
Welcome Tamas!
Frank has just posted announcement about freshly released GDAL/OGR 1.7.0:
This is the first major new release since the 1.6.0 release approximately one year ago
This new version brings quite a nice collection of new drivers for raster and vector data formats:
Recently, I’ve got a bit sucked in by the StackOverflow and related communities. Even if I don’t completely understand how it is supposed to be different to my favourite old-school-but-still-the-best communication channels to share knowledge, meaning Usenet and mailing lists. Web X.Y generally sucks! I never liked the idea of Web discussion boards – doesn’t feel user-friendly for me at all and it’s way more time consuming to participate in discussions on such boards than in mailing lists. The idea of StackOverflow works for me, somehow. A couple of times I got sucked quite deeply and stole two or three ours of my sleep to take the challenge, to benchmark my brain a bit.
After lurking and kicking my own axons, it’s time to nudge stackoverflowers with my first question. Here we go:
Activity of the OSGeo Community quite heavily relies on the Freenode IRC network, so this may be an interesting news:
hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat.
Here is the whole story Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users posted to The Register
Mr Dan Goodin, I would wish you don’t cultivate the mainstream media alignment regarding the use of word hacker. Don’t call a hacker someone who has unlawful intentions, please.
A few minutes ago, Bill Hoffman from Kitware posted short message to the CMake project mailing list with an interesting announce:
Kitware launched its first developer blog today with contributions from Company technical and business leaders.
The CMake build system is one of the main category of topics on the Kitware blog, so I presume it may be of interest of OSGeo Community as the CMake build system is slowly winning over more and more folks here :-)
First CMake-related post is about Deploying on Windows with DLL Manifest Issue
Another interesting post on the blog is Will Schroeder‘s answer to the question Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing? It’s really worth reading.
One of possible and reasonable answers given at gitvsmercurial.com
I’m delighted to announce Daniel Morissette has joined the Planet OSGeo with his very own blog launched recently: Geo Gears, Nuts & Bolts!
In this blog, I talk about open source geospatial software, cool mapping applications and toys… and anything I might find of interest –Daniel
Welcome Daniel!