I took this week off, and decided to simply lay low and relax at home (relaxing in Toronto is a bit of an oxymoron, but I digress). So I’m enjoying my week by finishing up some small projects around the house, cooking, working out, and catching up in general.
So far, it’s been quite nice — I could get used to this! The only bummer comes in the form of my television, which konked out on me last night, sound and tube. Combine that with my stereo system (which is shot as well), and now I’m shopping for home entertainment — disaster!
Phew! I’ve finally been approved to attend this FOSS4G2006. Thank goodness. It will be fun to see the open source geo gang for a week of catching up, discussions, and setting the path forward.
I’ll be presenting use of foss4g in ResEau, co-presenting “How good does open source talk OpenGIS?” with Bart van den Eijnden (Netherlands) and Yewondwossen Assefa (Canada), as well as giving the MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop, again with Assefa.
Check back here when the conference is on, as I’ll be blogging updates, thoughts, and maybe the odd story 🙂
As seen on the georss.orgblog, ESRI has implemented GeoRSS within their ArcWeb Services JavaScript API. Wow, between this and their support of OpenLS, I think ESRI is starting to acknowledge both client requirements in this arena, as well as interoperability. Way to go!
There has been so much discussion on the idea of geospatial catalogs/registries/repositories/searching/[insert_buzzword_here] in the last little while that it’s impossible not to see the sore thumb that it has become within the community.
