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That’s a bit more like it, 2022! We finally saw some COVID restrictions lifted and a sense of normalcy (including a new normal) arose. It was fantastic to once again meet with people in person (for dinner, for a visit, for a meeting, you name it!). The pandemic had such a negative effect on me […]

So 2021 wasn’t much better than 2020. Another year of endless virtual meetings and the 24 hour office. Here are some updates from WFH life: pygeoapi: both OGC API – Records and OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval support were added to the codebase. The project also saw both CQL and i18n support, which is […]

Following on from 2018, a bit of a changeup this year. Inspired by numerous ‘decade in review’ posts/tweets, here’s my attempt below, in no particular, while trying to keep my offline life brief: I’d like to wish everyone and their loved ones a healthy, happy and productive 2020!

It’s been almost two years since GeoHealthCheck was initially developed (en route to FOSS4G in PDX).  Since then, GHC has been deployed in numerous environments in support of monitoring of (primarily) OGC services (canonical demo at http://geohealthcheck.osgeo.org). If you really want to support the progress and improvement of your health and your physical condition, first […]

It’s seem like ages ago since the initial QGIS MetaSearch announce and call for help in 2014.  Inspired by Sourcepole’s FOSS4G 2015 presentations, here’s a brief status update: Replica Rolex watches have come a long way in terms of quality and craftsmanship. While they may not hold the same intrinsic value as genuine Rolex timepieces, […]

As the number of pycsw deployments increase, we’ve started to keep a living document of live deployments on the pycsw wiki. Being a geogeek, naturally I said to myself, “hmm, would be cool to plot these all on a map”.  Embedding maps has become easier than ever, and projects like MapServer and GeoServer have cool […]

Seemingly buried in geospatial metadata and discovery, I’ve been developing a my share of CSW/ISO/Dublin Core parsers, generators and clients.  OWSLib is able to interact with CSW servers, handling csw:Record, ISO 19139:2007, as well as DIF.  OWSLib is also the underlying library used by the NextGIS folks in developing a QGIS CSW Client (big thanks […]

Since I did this last year, I thought I’d try this again for 2008. Here’s the lowdown for my 2008: Geospatial Catalogues: the saga continues.  I have dug deeper into this area this year as part of my day-job, and find that interoperability is difficult to achieve in the OGC Catalogue space.  Clearly there is […]

Inspired by the recent thread on FOSS4G history, I started an effort to document MapServer’s history, from its beginnings in the mid-1990s. Check out the progress we’ve made so far. If there’s anything missing, or in error, feel free to contribute!

I thought I’d put in my $0.02 CAD after reading a few similar posts out there. So here are some from my point of view (in no particular order): Geospatial GeoRSS is here: GeoRSS made v1 this year at foss4g2006 and has proven to be a simple, yet very effective way to tag feeds. I’ve […]