GeoNotes

EPA appears to be using ESRI’s ArcIMS 9.2 OGC connectors to publish OGC WMS/WFS services of their WATERS data.

See below for threads
that mention the limitations and issues with working with these semi-standard
services from ESRI.
http://mailman-viper.python-hosting.com/pipermail/users/2006-July/000103.html
http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2007-May/001571.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@openlayers.org/msg04240.html
- Little thread that I started a while ago to check on support for pure ESRI
services.

If you’ve ever needed to make nice looking relief maps like I do now, have a look at these sites.http://www.reliefshading.com/ and http://www.shadedrelief.com/
I want to make something along the lines of Google’s terrain map, but with a client’s higher-resolution DEM data. I don’t if ESRI’s Spatial Analyst is going to get me quite where I want [...]

In my opinion you can’t beat UMN Mapserver or Mapnik for making gorgeous online maps. Mapserver has installed and run for me flawlessly every time I’ve tried it — without days of arguing with it. Mapnik has taken me nearly a week to get running sometimes. But, just like you wouldn’t want to shovel snow [...]

I love this post thread so much I’m going to stick it into my blog. First because if you read into it and follow the links you can see the history of raster support in PostGIS (or reasons for lack thereof) for the PostGIS newbie readers. You can also see Paul’s encouragement and explanation of [...]

So I’m doing a little research tonight on some requirements for a client:
1. Embed a map in the client’s home page (non-database driven ASP.Net which is essentially HTML) that depicts the county’s watersheds and some number of additional layers2. Let users click each watershed polygon to trigger an event that leads to them learning more about [...]

http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name =sqlserver2008_postgis_mysql_compare
From the PostGIS Listserv comes a very useful comparison table that has been partially vetted by the members of the list. I just wish they included Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator.
Paragon wrote: /> As part of our due diligence work, we are formulating a comparison of the /> spatial functionality offered by SQL Server [...]

“TITAN takes spatial data sharing, viewing, and publishing to a new level. It seems to magically ingest almost any spatial data format, read it, use it, and publish it back out in any format — and do so quickly. It does for spatial data what the Babel fish did for language and speech. A universal [...]

I love it when the big boys actually play nice together and support standards. Autodesk and Bentley team up on AEC Interoperability.
The GIS industry demonstrates this harmony so much better than main stream IT businesses. But even they are learning.

Run this script in a directory of shp files to create STDOUT that will load them all into postgis
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#!/bin/sh
# jcz aug 24, 2005
# clip off the “.shp” file extensions before use
# drops existing shapes if they are the same name
for z in `ls *.shp
do
echo “shp2pgsql $z $z > $z.sql”
echo “psql -d -f $z.sql”
done [...]