Open Street Map with Free Flash Player

nospam@example.com (Sandro Santilli) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:56:44 -0400

Gnash (the GNU SWF Player) supports Potlatch (the online OSM editor) since release 0.8.4. This means you can start now contributing to The Map no matter what system you have (incuding handhelds).

The only annoyance is that if you enable background images, the gui become unresponsive as bitmap are loaded.
The good new is that YOU CAN HELP removing this limitation. Not only by hacking on Gnash (which is fun on itself and I'd highly reccommend) but also by donating money to this project through Linux Fund.

PostGIS Rasters

nospam@example.com (Sandro Santilli) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:07:50 -0500

The WKTRaster project has finally started, thanks to fundings raised by Steve Cumming (Université Laval), Martin Daly (CadCorp) and Tyler Erickson (Michigan Tech Research Institute).

The current code defines a RASTER type for PostgreSQL and bounding-box based spatial operators on it. Relying on implicit casts you can already use all functions defined for the BOX2D PostGIS type.

There's a lot more to be done to make it really usable, but the foundations are there now and we can then build on them (see specs).

If you ever asked "does PostGIS support rasters?" then this is the best time to help answering YES by contributing time or money to the project!

Ominiverdi's blog - strk

Open Street Map with Free Flash Player

PostGIS Rasters