Tag Archives: open source

Meandering Meetings and Open Data

Posted on March 1, 2019 by John Reiser

I love meetings. When the right people are in the room, with a clear agenda and desire to work together towards a common goal, magic can happen. Ideas are put out there and refined as a group, and an action … Continue reading →

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Presentation on OS GIS at MAC URISA

Posted on May 13, 2009 by John Reiser

Yesterday, I gave an introduction to open source GIS at MAC URISA. As the meeting was about Internet-enabled GIS, I focused on server-side software. I’ve made the presentation available on SlideShare and available as a download from my website. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Wired on Open-Source Planning

Posted on January 30, 2009 by John Reiser

Atanas sent me a link to this article on Wired about the Open Planning Project. I think the Open Planning Project is a great group and GeoServer is a cool application, however I think Wired missed the point. They quote … Continue reading →

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LibLAS 1.0 Beta Released

Posted on June 23, 2008 by John Reiser

LibLAS, an open-source (BSD) licensed software library for reading and writing ASPRS‘s LAS format. From their website: libLAS provides excellent coverage of the ASPRS LAS 1.0 and 1.1 specifications, and it provides support for copying variable length records from one … Continue reading →

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