Thinking in GIS
a blog about GIS from a urban geogeek living at the countryside
A day with TileCache: generating KML Super-Overlays
Posted: August 06, 2008Categories: TMS, GIS, SharpMap, WMS, Python, MetaCarta, kml, FeatureServer, devs, Apache, MapServer, TileCache, OpenLayers, GeoServer, Tutorials, GDAL, Uncategorized
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My friend Diego Guidi is the smartest GIS/.NET developer I personally know here in Italy. He is the developer of NetTopologySuite, the port in the .NET world of the popular Java's JTS Topology Suite from VIVID Solutions. I wanted, sooner or later, write some stuff here about WMS and TMS, and now I am very happy that Diego asked me to publish this brilliant article about this topic.First of all, let me thanks Paolo for hosting this post! I hope that this article can be interesting and useful like other stuff that you can find here...IntroductionThere are a lot of...
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Spatial Database for Postgres and ArcGis users: how to choose
Posted: June 06, 2008Categories: GeoServer, GIS, ArcIMS, QGIS, FeatureServer, uDig, ArcObjects, PostGIS, gvSIG, ArcGis Desktop, ZigGis, ArcSde
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As many of you can have already read, ArcSDE for Postgres is coming out at ArcGIS 9.3 (it is currently in the release candidate state). It will let you store geometries in two formats, Esri geometry and PostGIS geometry, in the same fashion ArcSde for Oracle is letting Esri or Oracle geometries be stored. I have seen some interest in the GIS community about this new, and i was reading interesting posts by Bill Dollins, Paul Ramsey, James Fee and Dave Bouwman, so I thought i would post here my opinion. Plus, as some of you may already know, zigGis...
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