Archive for the ‘standards’ Category

The Shapefile 2.0 manifesto

Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Alex Willmer

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are by their nature data driven. The data comes in a wide variety of raster and vector formats. Rasters hold raw, continuous data recorded striaght from the real world. An example is Satellite/aerial imagery, this is a commonly held in an open format with broad support, such as GeoTIFF [...]

Free/Open Source Government: part 1

Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Alex Willmer

Several events for meĀ  in the last fortnight converged almost perfectly on a common theme

On Thursday 28 March The Register reported from an anonymous source, that the British Standards Institute (BSI) would reverse their vote on the proposed DIS 29500 standard from ‘No – with comments’ to Yes. In response John Pugh MP, Liberal Democrat [...]