Lin.ear th.inking

The Twittersphere is buzzing with my latest (well, only) interview with Directions Magazine on the State of the JTS Topology Suite . Pr...

Nowadays GPS is ubiquitous in electronic gadgets (no electric toothbrush is complete without it!) GPS is a classic example of iceberg tech...

JTS 1.12 has been released, and is now available for download at SourceForge . Some highlights of this release include: Single-Sided Buffer...

ZDNet has an interesting long view on the Apple iCloud announcement. Money quote: The mobile world is moving away from the chock-full-o’-c...

It's good to see that O'Reilly is adding a Java flavour to the OSCON conference. They have a good blog post highlighting why they ...

As I predicted back in 2008 , JTS has now colonized the JavaScript ecosystem, thanks to the work of Bjorn Hartell on JSTS . At least, the p...

FOSS4G 2011 is happening in Denver this September. I've submitted two abstracts for presentations: Spatial Processing using JEQL JEQL i...

After this thread on the JTS list Michael Bedward was inspired to create a polygon triangulation algorithm using the Ear-Clipping approac...

Check out the cool new Dynamic Views feature for Google Blogs. I'm not sure how useful this is actually going to be for readers (especi...

David Skea is a longtime colleague, JTS contributor, and all-around geospatial guru. He's developing a Slope/Aspect/Elevation service...

Paul Ramsey has been doing his usual excellent work of promoting geo-geekery by setting up a Victoria GeoGeeks Meetup . Tonight I gave a pr...

SQL has an elegant syntax for grouping and aggregating data. Java has powerful libraries for charting and graphing (like JFreeChart ). JEQ...

Good news for those who wanted to try out the geodetic air routes JEQL script . The script requires JEQL version 0.9 to run. This version...

A great article on the emerging SMAQ stack for big data. I wonder if PIG does spatial?

For a deep dive into the bracing waters of cutting-edge computational geometry, check out the online proceedings of the Canadian Conference...

The geo-blogosphere has been buzzing about the global Facebook friends visualization . This was done by Paul Butler using an R script and ...

Due to popular demand I have added the capability to generate Single-Sided Buffers to JTS . A single-sided buffer is the polygon formed by ...

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...