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SMASH 1.6.3 is out - experimental Postgis
We just released SMASH 1.6.3 on the stores. It should be available within the day.This is basically a bugfix release, but we decided to also release one feature that will be very important in the futu…
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PostGIS 3.0.0beta1
The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.0beta1. This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-12RC1 and GEOS >= 3.6 Best served with PostgreSQL 12RC1 and GEOS 3.8.0beta1 both of…
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PostGIS Talks @ FOSS4G North America
I presented my “PostGIS for Managers” talk for the last time (at least in this form) today at FOSS4G North America. The reason it’s for the last time is that the central conceipt it’s built around, th…
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Verslag: NLExtract Hacking Day
Afgelopen donderdag (26 april) was de eerste NLExtract Hacking Day, ruim zes jaar nadat de huidige Github repo is aangemaakt en bijna zeven jaar nadat BAGExtract+ door Matthijs van der Deijl online is…
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Swiss PGDay 2016
Dear OSGeo Community The Swiss PGDay 2016 is a conference on PostgreSQL and PostGIS. It takes place at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (Switzerland) on Fri. June 24, 2016. The con…
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MapScaping Podcast: Pg_EventServ
Last month I got to record a couple podcast episodes with the MapScaping Podcast’s Daniel O’Donohue. One of them was on the benefits and many pitfalls of putting rasters into a relational database, an…
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That Was 2020
Overview of my professional life in 2020. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl|.org)-world in 2020. Organized by “Theme”. Yes, 2020 was a “special year” in pand…
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Cheers to 2018
Never too late to look back. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018, my personal highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl|org)-…
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Celebrating community, innovation, and open-source GIS in Sweden – AKA the QGIS user conference 2025
It was such a pleasure to be part of the QGIS User Conference 2025 in Norrköping! The event was extremely well organised — a big thank you to the amazing local team for pulling it all together so smoo…
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The bus factor problem
One of the biggest problems open source projects face today is the bus factor problem. I've been thinking a lot about this lately as how it applies to my PostGIS, pgRouting, and OSGeo System Admi…
