http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog Warping your understanding of the gis world Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:53:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, as of July 8th I have made the transition out of Ecotrust and now am working on a contract basis full time.  I am very excited about the move and look forward to continuing on with some of my ongoing contract work as well as starting to hit the ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2008/07/22/moving-on/ I had the privilege of giving a talk at LinuxFest Northwest this year... and what a cool event this is. We had a great room full of people interested in Geospatial technology, some great questions and I think some genuine interest from participants that could lead to some folks ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2008/04/28/linuxfestnw-2008-another-great-event/ http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/104As I noted over on the QGIS blog I have started to organize my python plugins and will be adding more soon. http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2008/01/14/new-python-qgis-plugin-raster-file-path-info/ Had the need to install Mapserver/PostGIS/GDAL etc on a FC8 box.  While 99% of what I do now is on Ubuntu (here are some notes and vids on installing there)... I occasionally need to play on a Fedora box.  So, here are some recent install notes from a bare bones ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2008/01/14/updated-install-notes-for-mapserver-50-with-agg-on-fc8/ Well, I got Ubuntu 7.10 installed on an 8 gig SDHC card and away I go...4.5 gigs used for the base Ubuntu system as well as the base GIS software:1) Proj4 (4.6.0) 2) GDAL/OGR (1.5.0) 3) GEOS (3.0.0) 4) Postgresql (8.2.5) 5) PostGIS (1.3.2) 6) QT dev environment (4.3.2) 7) QGIS svn (0.9.2)What do you get? ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2008/01/06/qgis-on-the-eee/ Oh Yeh, this post is being written from my new asus eee pc... 7 inches of cool gadget. I dont think I have ever used a machine this small... so cool.$399 for the pc, $19 for 1 gig RAM upgrade, $21 for a 4 gig SDHC card and there ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2007/12/19/the-new-eee/ So here are the simple (kind of) steps as of today to get a windows install of QGIS working that supports PyQt and the python bindings to QGIS... all with out having to compile anything:1) Make sure you have Python 2.5 or newer installed on your machine... if you don't ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2007/10/11/getting-qgis-to-install-on-windows-and-support-python-apps/ Well, it was a great week in Victoria BC for this years FOSS4G conference! Besides the great chance to hang out with the OS GIS community, it was a great chance to take a look at what is hot in our field. Keep checking back to the FOSS4G ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2007/10/02/foss4g-2007-back-home/ Well, to my amazement I found this little nugget in my logs this afternoon (click to see full size)...Looks like someone from Redlands is drinking afternoon coffee while watching some vids! http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2007/06/18/look-whos-watching/ Well, you can now watch me fumble around installing a new Ubuntu system and getting it all ready for development using much of the Open Source GIS stack, including QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR and many others...Of particular interest:1) Demo of installing new 0.9 branch of QGIS on Ubuntu Linux2) Demo of ... http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/2007/05/15/new-video-demos/