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Review on the history of JTS and GEOS

Tuesday, 26. June 2007

JTS and GEOS are the backbone of most Open Source GIS applications. JTS is a java-based API implementing the Simple Features Specification and providing a lot of feature analysis tools. GEOS is the geometry engine for the PostGIS database. So a review of the history of such prominent pieces of GI-libraries is really worthy to […]

Getting rid of reputation in science?

Friday, 26. January 2007

This post is an interesting read. The writer argues that reputation in science is taken far too important nowadays. Grants, for example, depend not only on the quality of the submission, but also on the reputation of the submitting scientists. Her proposal is to get rid of names in the papers and applications and let […]

New geoserver blog

Saturday, 16. December 2006

Brent Owens of openplans.org announced on the geoserver mailing list the new geoserver blog. The blog will cover all geoserver related stuff as announcements, tutorials, tips and developer notes. This blog is meant for people, who cannot follow all mailing list discussions.