Today, SharedGeo announced it has commenced the first of what it hopes will be many “Shared Funding Projects”. In concept, these projects use SharedGeo as the donation and management hub for projects that one entity alone does not have the funds or resources to back. A rewrite of the U.S. National Grid Mashup for the Google Maps […]
SharedGeo learned today it has been accepted as an approved vendor in the State of Minnesota IT Professional Technical Services Master Contract Program (MCP) – 902TS. As such, local and state units of government throughout Minnesota can purchase products from SharedGeo with minimal paperwork. The areas where SharedGeo qualified to deliver services are as follows: Data […]
Recently, the SharedGeo Board of Directors voted unanimously to become a sponsor of the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) of Auroa, Colorado. As such, it became GITA’s first “Bronze sponsor”, a sponsorship level tailored for small businesses and nonprofits such as SharedGeo. In light of this development, SharedGeo Executive Director Steve Swazee offered the following: “Although GITA […]
Jim Klassen, one of the SharedGeo’s programmers, is presenting at FOSS4G North America 2012. Check out his talk on Wednesday April 11 at 2pm. He’ll be explaining how he set up a system to store and serve 50 TB of imagery on a limited budget. Read more about his presentation, Build your own Cloud – […]
SharedGeo’s Technical Director, Bob Basques, has been selected to present at the Wisconsin Land Information Association’s (WLIA) Annual Convention being held in Stevens Point, WI on February 15-17, 2012. The subject of Bob’s talk will be GeoMoose, an open source software project that Bob helped develop while working in the Public Works Department of the City […]
What’s a “GECCo”? In this case it is a 2-day invitational session to promote Geospatial support for Emegency Managers, “Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration”, October 27-28, 2011. Part of a nationwide series of events inaugurated by GITA, the Twin Cities GECCo is supported by a number of sponsors including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), […]
What do you get when you put together 900 people – software developers, users, sponsors, from legendary coders to newbies – and let them talk about their latest Open Source projects? Lots of excitement, lots of sharing, lots of opportunities for collaboration – and a lot of great solutions for problems ranging from national infrastructure […]
Mon. 9/12, 1-5 pm, Tower Ct. B – Workshop on GeoMoose, an extensible client framework for MapServer that provides a robust web mapping interface but with data maintenance and management distributed to the data owners. Bob Basques & Jim Klassen, with Dan Little http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/moose-loose-mapping-geomoose Weds. 9/14, 5:30 or 7 pm, (Room TBA) Birds-of-a-Feather session on […]
Steve Swazee returned from the GITA national meeting impressed by the widespread interest in using Open Source solutions to enable critical response in major industries. Check out his talk, recently accepted for presentation at the international Open Source Geospatial conference, Foss4G, in Denver. http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/opensource-and-common-operating-picture-cop
At the end of June it appeared that the MnGeo image service that so many depend on would be shut down with other MN State services. SharedGeo offered to provide a backup site, since we had the capacity and expertise needed, and the state GIO accepted our offer. About 4 hours before the cutoff deadline […]
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