Lin.ear th.inking

An issue that comes up all the time in the JTS world is how to visualize the topology of geometries which have very close vertices and seg...

In order to try and keep abreast of the most far-reaching change to IT and computing since the invention of the PC (or the Internet, or time...

It strikes me that JSON might be the CSV of the 21st century. Consider these similarities: They both use POT (plain old text) as their enc...

In a previous post I discussed how the DoubleDouble extended-precision API provides more robust computation for the Delaunay inCircle tes...

JTS 1.11 added the capability to compute Delaunay Triangulations of point sets. Although the triangulation code was extensively tested an...

In my last post I talked about the request on the PostGIS list for a function to generate dot-density maps, and about a JTS class to imple...

Recently there was a thread on the PostGIS list about how to create " dot-density " maps. Essentially this involves creating a s...

Here's a few interesting links that occupied my late-night browsing... Facebook's Graph API: The Future Of Semantic Web? This is int...

At least, that's what it looks like from their presentation on Handling Real-Time Datastreams at the recent Where 2.0. They note that J...

... and a bunch of other OSS spatial tools and goodies , too, of course.

To continue my previous post on open-source geocoders , here's a few more geocoding projects we've reviewed here at Refractions : PA...

One of the more interesting projects we have going on here at Refractions is to build a geocoder for use in a crime-mapping application we ...

JTS Version 1.11 is now available for download from SourceForge . The version contains numerous enhancements, including Delaunay triangulati...

Nice to see that JTS is officially certified as compatible with Google App Engine. JTS makes clouds easy! A few people have tinkered with r...

Sean's post suddenly made me realize that it might be really cool to have a nice set of Jython bindings for JTS (a la what Shapely ha...

This sounds like Fine Swiss shade-grown organic chocolate and rancid peanut butter from the big-box store discount aisle

I just saw the HatBox spatial extension to Derby and H2. (Cute name - Derby, Hat BOX - get it?) And of course HatBox uses JTS ! This is g...

Woohoo! I got SlashGeo'ed ! Tagged with cool icons as Software, Open Source, and - er - Geocoding?

It's been a while since I posted anything, because like a true programmer I've been too busy cutting code to write about it. Time t...

Unqualified Reservations has a great post dissecting the Wolfram Alpha hubristic User Interface. Warning: this guy seems to be able to writ...