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OA Blogs Home | General | Saturday April 28, 2007 | By putt1ck

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Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Thursday May 16, 2013 |

DORCHESTER EXCAVATION SEASON 2013 This upcoming season the project will continue in the Village Allotments, led by Paul Booth. We will be pursuing the story of Late Roman life within the town walls and unravelling the complex of ditches and pits...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Wednesday May 01, 2013 |

In all the years that I’ve been involved with open source, I’ve been a committed advocate for the idea that you don’t need to be a coder to get involved. I’m definitely not a coder- I can write a script or two, and have been known to...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Sunday March 03, 2013 |

Last week I attended the AGI (Association for Geographic Information) Scotland Showcase - the first in a series of events designed to jump-start the AGI’s regional and special interest groups. It was extremely well-attended, with approximately 140...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Monday December 24, 2012 |

The third in an occasional series of posts dabbling in PgRouting Once you’ve got your PgRouting database configured in PostgreSQL (see here and here for more information) you might want to use the routing data in an online map. There are a number...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Monday December 24, 2012 |

One of the things I’ve wanted to fix with Portable GIS is the method of installing new python packages. Since the version of Python included in Portable GIS is not in the windows registry, many python installers don’t work because they can’t...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Monday December 03, 2012 |

I’ve done a quick update to Portable GIS version 3, based on some user feedback (keep it coming). The new version (3.1) now contains QGIS Server, fully configured, and also the GDAL 1.9 libraries for Portable Python. Head over to here to download...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Friday September 28, 2012 |

Last week was the AGI GeoCommunity 2012 event at Nottingham, and as usual, a great time was had by all. In the weeks leading up to the event I’d been a little worried that attendance would be down as many of “the usual suspects” said they...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Wednesday September 12, 2012 |

Finally, after quite a hiatus, I’m proud to announce the release of Portable GIS v3. In brief, this contains updated versions of the various packages BUT it’s rather stripped down in comparison to the old version. It no longer contains a full...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Friday September 07, 2012 |

This week was the fourth annual Open Source GIS Conference, otherwise known as OSGIS 2012 , at Nottingham, and a great time was had by all. It might have been the lovely weather and the super venue on the University’s Jubilee Campus, but I very much...

The Biting Wires Wednesday August 22, 2012 |

The 2012 Gurob Harem Palace Project Conference, which was organised jointly with the University of Liverpool Ancient Worlds Summer School , took place at the University of Liverpool on Sunday 29 July 2012.  The programme was as follows: The...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Friday August 17, 2012 |

A work in progress I threw together some notes on installing PgRouting on Ubuntu last year sometime but I haven’t really had chance to come back to it and do anything meaningful, until a chance conversation with a client got me thinking about...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Monday August 13, 2012 |

UPDATE: Shortly after submitting this post, up popped another from Paul Ramsey that does a really good job of explaining why things are done they way they are. I recommend you read it! Via Paul Ramsey , this post popped onto my radar the other day and...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Friday July 06, 2012 |

On Wednesday I presented at a great conference in Manchester, organised by the AGI Northern Group , entitled “Innovation and Value in Geographic Information”. The presentations covered a wide range of subjects, and to be honest a few were barely...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Thursday June 28, 2012 |

The Mapserver 6.0 release comes with a really useful feature, which they snuck in really quietly but deserves more praise in my opinion: a built-in openlayers viewer. It’s very simple, and only for testing purposes, but it’s so much easier for...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Tuesday June 19, 2012 |

Attentive readers (or maybe just me) will recall a post I did a few months ago that outlined how to set up streaming replication with postgresql 9.0. Even more attentive readers will recall a big caveat in the post, around the need for additional software to...

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Wednesday June 06, 2012 |

Just a quick post to rave about something new I’ve just discovered in my continuing adventures in Octopress and other geeky environs: a live previewer for markdown text that works as a plugin in Vim! I didn’t really want to jump on the Vim...