I tend to think that one of the more important distinguishing features of Web2.0 applications is the collaborative nature of the technology, which has opened up previously arcane vocational amd professional specialties to amateurs. This is what Clay Shirky refers to as “mass amateurization”. The really interesting thing about mass amateurization is that it has [...]
Crowd-sourced seismological data? Quake-Catcher Network Home Page
April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geographic, OpenSource
Tags:data·earthquake·open source·seismology·Shirky·Stanford·Web2.0
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 [...]
Tags:geospatial·GIS·GRASS·open source·software
Interview with Tyler Mitchell in LinuxJournal
March 1st, 2008 · No Comments · FOSS4G, Geographic, OpenSource
I’m just coming round to nice general interest interview with Tyler Mitchell in Linux Journal. Tyler is the Executive Director (and chief evangelist) of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). For those of you who have been attending FOSS4G for the last few years, you won’t find much (besides a concise summary) that you weren’t already [...]
