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Folien QGIS User Meeting Bern

Das erste deutschsprachige QGIS User Meeting in Bern war mit rund 80 Teilnehmern ein grosser Erfolg. Die Folien der Präsentation des OpenLayers-Plugin sind hier erhältlich. Die gesammelten Präsentation werden auf der QGIS-Homepage veröffentlicht.
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Sherman's Law

In any sufficiently aged bureaucracy, process overshadows product.
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Git Merge - No Problem

Using Git with Subversion makes adding new features easy. Here are the metrics for my latest QGIS hack: SVN revisions by others while working on my branch: 177 Time to complete merge with latest SVN revision: 1 second Conflicts: None Coincidence? Maybe not.
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Google Summer of Code 2010 - Quantum GIS

The application deadline for the Google Summer of Code is nearing (April 9). If you are interested in working on QGIS as part of GSOC and need ideas, please see Quantum GIS Wiki. We are waiting for your proposal!
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Vim and CMake Out-of-Source Builds

If you use Vim you probably know you can use the make command to build your project. The make command looks for a Makefile in your current directory. If you are editing a file that is not in the current directory (meaning you use some Vim magic to change to the directory containing your edit buffer), make will start below the top-level of your build directory. This is often the case when doing an out-of-source build with CMake.
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Speculations on the File Geodatabase API

At the ESRI Developer Summit there was news of the File Geodatabase (FGDB) API. Based on the tweets from the summit it appears: The API will be C++ only API works on Windows and Unix/Linux (specifically RedHat, Solaris, SuSE) operating systems Rudimentary support only—features such as annotation, relationships, topologies, etc. are lacking Since ESRI is releasing a targeted API and a not a specification, support for Mac OS X is out of the question.
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Everything You Have Done is Wrong

It’s true—everything you have ever done is wrong. If you are a developer, look at the code you wrote five years ago—it’s wrong. If you collect and store data—it’s wrong. This is the nature of human endeavor. The world used to be flat. The earth used to be the center of the universe. Discovery and development is an iterative process. What we do today will likely be replaced tomorrow. Just because we can’t be perfect at the outset doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
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QGIS User Meeting Bern 21.4.10

Am 21. April 2010 findet das erste deutschsprachige QGIS User-Meeting in Bern statt. Das Programm und die detaillierten Angaben können auf der QGIS-Homepage nachgelesen werden. Sourcepole stellt bei dieser Gelegenheit ihr OpenLayers-Plugin vor, das Google Maps und Konsorten als QGIS-Layer ins Desktop-GIS integriert. Alle QGIS-Anwender und Interessierte sind herzlich zu diesem Anlass eingeladen!
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GIS for the UN*X World

In a recent post on VerySpatial.com, Jesse was discussing the apparent dominance of U*nix and observed: ‘…the geospatial industry almost completely left behind support for UNIX-like OSes’ It is true that the proprietary GIS vendors have largely abandoned Unix and Unix-like operating systems and continue to do so. However the open source GIS community has embraced all major operating systems with software that runs on Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, and yes, Windows.
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The Shapefile - Reports of My Deprecation have been Greatly Exaggerated

The death of the shapefile has again been predicted—this time for 2010. The technical description of the format has been around for going on 12 years. In that time it has become a sort of lowest common denominator for data exchange. They’re everywhere. Making them go away is going to require a revolution of sorts. ESRI has been sounding the death knell for the shapefile for a while now. I agree that it isn’t a perfect format but it is nearly perfectly supported.
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