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Movement data in GIS #23: trajectories in context
Today’s post continues where “Why you should be using PostGIS trajectories” leaves off. It’s the result of a collaboration with Eva Westermeier. I had the pleasure to supervise her internship at AIT …
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Dr. JTS comes to Crunchy
Today’s an exciting day in the Victoria office of Crunchy Data: our local staff count goes from one to two, as Martin Davis joins the company! This is kind of a big deal, because this year Martin and…
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Report back on the 20th QGIS Hackfest in Zanzibar
This post summarizes personal reports of community members who attended the 20th Hackfest in Stone Town, Zanzibar the week before the FOSS4G in Dar Es Salaam. Report from Matteo Ghetta QGIS develo…
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FOSS4G Travel Grant recipients share their experiences of FOSS4G 2018
Over 100 people were helped to attend FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam by the FOSS4G Travel Grant Programme (TGP). We asked them to share their experiences with us and here are a selection. This was th…
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Playing with Ordnance Survey's ZoomStack and a new Project
Over the weekend I was playing around with the Ordnance Survey’s new Zoomstack and it is very nice. But I really wanted to see what it looked like in GeoServer with Charley Glynn’s nice SLDs, but then…
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The tale of a vector tile benchmark
At the beginning there was a chat with @ortelius outside the Namenlos bar at FOSS4G in Bonn. Jef insisted in doing a benchmark of MVT server implementations at the next FOSS4G. With my experience from…
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Movement data in GIS #14: updates from GI_Forum 2018
Last week, I traveled to Salzburg to attend the 30th AGIT conference and co-located English-speaking GI_Forum. Like in previous year, there were a lot of mobility and transportation research related p…
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Scalable spatial vector data processing
Working with movement data analysis, I’ve banged my head against performance issues every once in a while. For example, PostgreSQL – and therefore PostGIS – run queries in a single thread of execution…
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One click away from GeoNode with Rancher and Docker
Anyone who has had the chance to install GeoNode knows that setting it up means having to deal with a whole stack of software components. PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Geoserver, Celery, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch…
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FOSS4G UK, a personal view
Last week James Milner and his organising committee staged a brilliant FOSS4G UK at the Geovation Hub. For the first time in ages I wasn’t organising a FOSS4G (well I did help with some financial bits…
