With the arrival of autumn my Saturday afternoon meditative trinity of couch, college football, and napping is occasionally interrupted by one of those IBM Smarter Cities commercials. Though I’m generally irritated by anyone cheerfully telling me they’re building a “smarter planet”, I find the case studies interesting enough for 30 seconds of my attention. Their […]
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 […]