Africangeogeek, spatial geekery in Africa

African Spatialist and geek to the core

Mimi hapa,

These are the thoughts of an African spatialist and geo geek..thoughts on maps, mapping api's, open source gis tools and development frameworks

GeoJson will save many developers

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

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If you have not yet heard, GeoJson is out. GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures. A GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a collection of features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and GeometryCollection. Features in [...]

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Google Map Maker and Licensing Issues

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Well, Google did take us through google map maker, and i though wow, the tool is very nice. I were to work for google as a geo-officer, i would be happier since work has been made easier. I recently say a facebook status update by a geo friend of mine, (Jubal , this is you), [...]

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Geoserver 2.0 Released

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

This passed me by a couple of days, but the great question most cartographers should be asking is what the heck is new here? For those with no clue on geoserver, it is an opensouce(yea thank God it is) software server. It is written in Java and allows users to share and edit geospatial data. [...]

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