So ESRI buys the cloud-ish start-up GeoIQ: why should anyone but the twittering class care? Because it’s the latest sign there are exactly two pathways to profitability in traditional GIS: be niche, or be ESRI. You’ve known for the last couple of years that State & Local budgets are decimated, now that same terrible swift […]
It was a post of narrow import: QGIS now has more native SQL Server 2008 support. While I was happy to note the participation and support of folks I both know and like, I was nonetheless slightly irritated by a nagging thought. “Why didn’t Microsoft do this itself already?” A few years back I remember […]
During the late 15th century heyday of Portuguese exploration, King John II forbade the open distribution of any map or navigational chart pertaining to New World discoveries under pain of death. Locked in a global land-grab race with neighbor Spain, cartographic intelligence was critical to expanding political power and exploiting the riches of the spice […]