Daily Archives: May 23, 2010

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Is this the future for LA mapsites? I hope not!

GIS Professional landed on my desk recently. The cover image and lead article caught my attention “Is this the future for LA mapsites?” Barrow Borough Council have implemented an open source web GIS and the author explains the reasons why they went down this route in preference to a proprietary solution or using Google. Apparently the reasons for building a home grown solution on an open source stack were affordability and an improved web experience […]

New lamps for old

A couple of weeks ago PBBI announced their new cloud strategy at their Insights conference. There was much mention of cloud, SaaS and DaaS along with the launch of some new (newish) products and services and collaboration with WeoGeo and Microsoft. You can find more detail in the coverage by Joe Francica of Directions who was at the conference. PBBI are doing some sensible but not necessarily revolutionary things to adapt to a changing marketplace. […]