AX_LIB_LIBKML macro

Recently, I was playing for a while with Brian‘s new OGR LIBKML driver and I integrated it with GDAL/OGR build system, so it’s more convenient to build, test and use it. The complete tree is available in GDAL sandbox in mloskot/winkey-libkml. (It is just a give it a try-like prototype and I don’t actively maintain this branch myself. Hopefully, Brian will take it over.)

By the way, I crafted AX_LIB_LIBKML macro for Autoconf. This macros checks for headers and libraries of specified version (or newer) of Google libkml library and defines compilation and linking flags.

I submitted the macro to GNU Autoconf Archive. It is the new incarnation of well-known autoconf-archive.cryp.to. Peter Simons announced not long time ago that

The archive has moved to Savannah: http://www.nongnu.org/autoconf-archive/. Version 2009-04-26 was the last to be released at autoconf-archive.cryp.to.

Happy detecting libkml!

Video lecture about CMake

Bill Hoffman from Kitware gives presentation about CMake and a pack of related tools to the happiest easygoing working nation on the Earth:

It’s worth to watch if interested in CMake.

French breakfast at Google

French company sues Google over its Maps service

Google is looking to establish a monopoly in the mapping market.

Dear French guys, it seems you have woken up in the middle of the night and with one of hand in a chamberpot. Or you’ve just came back from long journey to Mars what would explain the disorientation and the fact you’ve overlooked the growing monopoly, which many see as having acquired too much power, too fast, without the wisdom to use that power responsibly.

In case you haven’t caught it yet: searching, mapping, e-mailing, multimedia & broadcasting, blogging & micro-bloging, documents, chats and business talks (many companies use Google Talk for communication, so Google has, and crackers may have too, fairly easy access to their business secrets), science & research (probably the highest density of PhD owners is in Google offices, but not in any university on the planet), storage of personal and sensitive information (medical records, health profiles, personality profiles, …), be or not to be (what’s not in Google it has never ever existed), <your favourite stuff goes here> All these belong to the Giant.

Vampires give interviews only in the movie. In real life, they suck the blood of the living.

Guys, give it up. Take your golden parachute. Relax. Book a flight to one of the sunny islands. Buy new shorts and live good life running a surf shop :-)