The folks in OpenGeo frequently get asked about who uses open source software and the OpenGeo Suite. Well, lots of people do and to demonstrate we’ve been compiling the OpenGeo Gallery. It’s is a collection of the real-world applications that power the software behind the OpenGeo Suite, including PostGIS, GeoServer,GeoWebCache, OpenLayers, and GeoExt. Projects developed either Read more…
“There may be others more beautiful, but as none as beautiful as she” Tel Aviv from the Seashell Lottery in 1909 to its designation as a World Heritage city in 2003, is a city of neighborhoods, of people and of public interaction. Naama Lissar, a native Tel Avivian, urban planner, and OpenPlans’ Community Tools Planner, gave a presentation about Read more…
We’re a bike enthusiast office. Our building’s bike room is dominated by our rides, most people jump in the shower after getting to work and inquiring about the morning commute is the surefire way to strike up a conversation in the mornings. Though Fall is holding strong against Winter’s invading cold bursts, the season for biking to Read more…
OpenPlans loves to share. You can read about us in the press, google stalk us, actually stalk us, find us where we eat lunch everyday, download and play with our code, hell, come and work for us. But… are you following our twitter feeds? We present to you the definitve collection of OpenPlans’ twitter Read more…
OpenBlock 1.1 has been released today! Highlights of this release: Big shareable maps, for examplehttp://bit.ly/njmZT6. Comments on NewsItems. User-contributed “Neighbor Messages” and “Neighbor Events” news types. Better support for running in a multi-city area. Import Places from a CSV file via the admin UI. Date and time picker widgets on forms, where relevant. Support for Read more…
The sight Edward saw, a shimmering endless New York, shaped of lipsticks, artillerary shells, wedding cakes and folded shirt cardboards: a city built of iron, papier-mache and playing cards: an ugly/beautiful world surfaced with carbon and icicles and bougainvilleau vines. Its boulevards were patternless, helter skelter and cuckoo. Everywhere there were booby-traps, Triffeds and blackholes. Read more…
The focus of our spirited threads have been on NYC’s transit and planning front. There was a lot of action as NYC agencies launched new technologies and mapping solutions to better service us, its citizenry. From below ground to the sky looking down, movements on the tech front in NYC have been looking up and Read more…