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Autodesk Donates to the Geospatial OS Community

Glenn Letham — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:40:13 +0000

More news on the open source front today as Autodesk has announced its intent to donate the source code for CS-Map to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

From the company… The donation of CS-Map, software from recently acquired company Mentor Software, will enable all open source geospatial projects to have access to powerful coordinate conversion technology, enabling them to support the projections and transformations necessary to support over 3,000 coordinate systems worldwide and giving them access to capabilities not previously available to the open source community.

Autodesk believes that this donation will help to accelerate innovation for the larger geospatial community through faster development cycles and lower costs.

This donation will free many customers and developers from the cost or need to re-engineer coordinate conversion technology and, thereby, “reinvent the wheel.” See more

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Autodesk University Bookmarks

Glenn Letham — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:29:55 +0000

Are you heading to AU this year (that’s Autodesk University in case I’ve lost you). To stay informed of AU happenings from the blogosphere the following are some great resources to bookmark.

Between the Lines from Shaan Hurley is a great generic AutoCAD blog… perhaps THE premier Autodesk blog – http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines
Beyond the Paper is all about DWF – http://blogs.autodesk.com/beyond_the_paper
Between the Poles is another fine resource (although the author has yet to link to my AnyGeo blog!) – see http://blogs.autodesk.com/between_the_poles
One of my favorite reads (although not strictly GIS focused) is Lynn Allen’s Blog – http://blogs.autodesk.com/between_the_poles
Heidi’s AutoCAD Insider blog is also very informative – see http://heidihewett.blogs.com/
finally, how about the official show blog – see http://auol.wordpress.com/ – great idea… every event needs their own official blog.
The only thing missing is an official show tag… how about AutodeskU06?
Fyi, yours truly will be at AU once again (I think this will be number – I’ll also be blogging from the event in Vegas so AnyGeo (gisuser.blogspot.com) is also a good AU blog to bookmark!

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Google trends on Maps and Canadians

Glenn Letham — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:59:39 +0000

Poking around Google Trends, I entered a few terms and found something interesting.. what is it about the term “maps” and Canadians?

Interesting to notice that many of the top 10 locations where searches for maps come from are in Canada. Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, and toronto are all in the top 10… Do Canadians get lost more often or are they simply more interested in geography?? hmmmm. See the results here – for fun, how about this trend of ESRI vs Autodesk – not very useful but kind of interesting! Finally, the trend in a search for GIS Data tells us that most searches for this term come from Fort Collins and Denver, CO

ODA slams Autodesk…

Glenn Letham — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:34:24 +0000

Wod of an interesting event taking place in Minnesota has come my way.. mark your calendar.. June 1. The speaker lineup is pretty impressive.

Mark Reichardt: President of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Mike Liebhold, Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Future

Clint Brown: Director of Software Products for ESRI

Ian Masser, Past President of EUROGI and GSDI

Each will provide a keynote presentation followed by significant question and answer sessions. More details in this announcement or see the brochure here.

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