ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
This article provides an overview of Linux-based tools for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including a quick take on the ESRI's ArcReader. Future articles will explore this and other individual tools in greater depth.
a tool that can convert geographic coordinate data from one format to another. If you're not a map nut, that's the challenge one might encounter switching, for example, from latitude and longitude to Universal Transverse Mercator--or from geocentric latit
HostGIS Linux is a Linux/GNU distribution specifically made for handling GIS information. Being a Linux, HostGIS Linux is of course completely open source and may be downloaded, modified, and redistributed free of charge. HostGIS Linux includes these feat
After installing ArcGIS Server, there are a few things you need to do before you can start creating services and allowing client applications to access these services. The steps below provide a summary of the things you need to think about and do to get s
Open Source programs are applications of which you can access the source code. Listed here are available open source GIS-based applications you can download written for a variety of platforms and in various languages.