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Check out this nice writeup by Kevin Flanders. I think Kevin points out some of the numerous contributions by Canadians in geospatial open source. I also think it’s fitting seeing that we’re around the corner from Canada Day 🙂 Furthermore, this article represents how partnerships between industry and government can lead to development of Canadian expertise, as well as business opportunities as a result.

I remember, in 1998, an old boss of mine sending us a presentation on XML, and how it was going to become the next big thing in information exchange. Well, things have certainly moved along since then, and XML is all over the place. Read the rest of this entry »

GDAL 1.3.2 has been released. I especially like the MySQL and Idrisi support. Kudos to the development team!

I made a website for my friend Paul. Pretty neat in that it’s pure web standards based, and a few cool tricks under the hood. He likes it too 🙂 Check it out!

Check out Howard’s wicked article on the Katrina GIS project on Directions Magazine

I started helping out this cause to help provide access to Hurricane Katrina geospatial information. Howard Butler has provided a nice description of the project

I’m going here for a conference on Open Source Geospatial and MapServer Users Meeting.

I’ll be in Ottawa for a couple of days for work with NRCan, as well as the GeoConnections event.

Finally! I successfully defended my masters thesis on 07 February 2005 at Carleton U. Let the party begin!