http://www.galdosinc.com Powering the GeoWeb Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:53:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vancouver, BC, CANADA, 23 December 2009 — Galdos Systems Inc. announced today that an exclusive distribution partnership agreement has been signed with Blue Marble Geographics.  The agreement gives Blue Marble Geographics exclusive rights to distribute the Galdos CRS Registry, based on the INdicioTM Web Registry catalogue product, to the oil and ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/781 One of the interesting events of GeoWeb 2009 - Cityscapes was a very entertaining debate on the "ideal" architecture for the GeoWeb.  This was an interesting debate... not simply for the insights provided by the debaters about the relative merits of REST, or SOA, or P2P... nor for the entertainment ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/776 Issue Date: December - 2009, Posted On: 1/4/2010 Industry Outlook 2010: Finding the Silver Lining Ron Lake and others respond to the questions: "Do you see any "silver linings" in the geotechnology industry’s economics that make you feel optimistic about the near future?" Read Ron's more detailed response to this and other questions. http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/769 GeoWorld Issue Date: October - 2009, Posted On: 11/24/2009 In this edition of his ongoing column on Building the GeoWeb, Ron Lake talks about living in a period of constant, and accelerating, change. Ron proposes the use of "model-based thinking" as a tool for Grappling with Change and a way to better plan and forecast the ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/766 As technocrats, many of us are either uncomfortable (or at least unfamiliar) with dealing with issues of politics, and in particular with concepts of the public good.  The role of government, especially for those of us educated in the 1970's, was more often seen as an impediment to progress, and ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/756 Monday, 09 November 2009 Read Ron Lake's column in V1 Magazine - Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb discussing the implications of moving towards Digital Cities.  Ron explores what a Digital City might be, the role of SDIs and the GeoWeb, and the impact of information technology on urban planning and environments. http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/762 In a recent trip to China, I discovered something of the direction of the national policy of that country towards the development of the Internet.  In a speech in Wuxi, the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao spoke of the drive to build the "internet of things" and provided the interesting ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/746 There has been much discussion within OGC, OASIS, and ISO of late, on the issue of backwards compatibility - but much less action.  Some initiatives, such as the attempt to harmonize UML models across the various ISO specifications, are laudable.  Others, however, such as the introduction of ebRIM 4.0 (which ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/738 When geographic information technology was new, old time “paper map makers” (today we would call them paleo-geographers) complained that the new computer-generated maps could not draw proper symbols, area fills, or line weights. They railed against the inability of these new technologies to clearly communicate the message to the reader. ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/730 Don Murray looks back on this year's GeoWeb conference, shares his thoughts about the event and the different talks that he attended, and makes the slides from his presentation available. http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/724