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Some notes and links for early summer

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geographic, climate/weather

Welcome back. Sure, it’s been a while since I’ve had the time to post, so I thought I’d mark it with a few recent items of note.
The first item I want to call attention to is the GeoNetwork OpenSource project, which recently graduated from OSGeo incubation. I’ve felt for some time that GeoNetwork is an [...]

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PerryGeo » Ubuntu as a GIS workstation updated for Hardy Heron

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · FOSS4G, Geographic

For the last 18 months, more and more of my work is getting done on the Ubuntu platform. And as a self-described geospatial propeller head, I’m always quite interested in using the Ubuntu platform for GIS and other geospatial applications. Just in the nick of time, Matt Perry has updated his Ubuntu GIS how-to for [...]

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GRASS 6.3.0RC6 now available

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geographic, OpenSource

The source code for the latest release candidate of GRASS is now available at the OSGEO site. I’ve always thought the analytical capabilities of GRASS were quite robust, but could never quite get used to the old interface written in TCL/TK and so I never had the patience to ascend the learning curve. This new [...]

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