One of the highlights of our annual calendar, FOSS4G is THE conference for geospatial professionals. As usual, we’ll be sharing our expertise and experiences as well as learning from others. On the 29th September, our metadata guru, Jo Cook, will be delivering a session in conjunction with Paul van Genuchten from ISRIC. If you’re interested…
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Whatever you hope to achieve this Autumn, we can help you turbocharge your performance… Running effective databases Our PostGIS DBA Essentials course will give you an understanding of the admin tasks required for a PostGIS database. Split over two afternoons on the 7th and 8th of September, it costs just £400. Transitioning to open source…
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A Walsall Council case study Walsall Council are utilising a cloud hosted enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) to reduce the running costs of hosting and serving geospatial data to Council Officers and members of the public We have been working with the GIS team in Walsall Council for over 6 years and they have recently…
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A Ramblers Case Study – we’ve helped discover 50,000 lost rights of way, maybe they will help Santa reach you safely on the 25th.
Background At the end of November I was asked by Francois Prunayre at Titellus to help organise and manage a 3-day code-sprint with the aim of improving GeoNetwork documentation. Documentation can be problematic for projects, even open source, where the majority of the work is done by volunteers. Updating documentation is rarely a priority for…
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I joined Astun two and a half years ago and being a bit of a data geek (having led MapAction’s Data Circle for a number of years pre-children), one of the things that attracted me to the position was Astun’s track record in metadata and their solutions with the Environment Agency / Defra and the…
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