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		<title>5th gvSIG Conference Announced</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/5th-gvsig-conference-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this announcement in my inbox today regarding gvSIG, an open-source GIS desktop currently in the OSGEO incubator. If you are a gvSIG user, the 5th gvSIG Conference will be held this year in Valencia, Spain. See below for the full text:

The 5th Edition of the gvSIG Conference [1], organized by the Regional Ministry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=612&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Times &#8211; Coming Up For Air</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/crazy-times-coming-up-for-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an extremely busy few months, as evidenced by the pace (or lack thereof) of blogging. I have been hopping between customer sites, mainly helping with ArcGIS Server implementations. We&#8217;re also re-hosting an ArcIMS site for someone. I expect that to eventually transition as well but we have to get it moved first. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=607&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OpenGeo Suite – A Milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 28th OpenGeo announced the release of the OpenGeo Suite. They also describe their open pricing structure for support of the suite.
This announcement represents a milestone for open-source geospatial software. If you are of a technical nature and are expecting a detailed discussion of the technical advantages of the OpenGeo Suite, you should probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=594&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ArcWeb Services Phase-Out</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/arcweb-services-phase-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got my ArcWeb Services phase-out reminder. Apparently, I am viewed as a user. I think I may have signed up for some of the free services a few years ago but haven&#8217;t used them. Anyway, here&#8217;s partial text of the message:
ESRI ArcWeb Services (AWS) Product Status Notification &#8211; ArcWeb Services Phase-Out Reminder
With the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=591&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>zigGIS Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paolo was kind enough to post photos of the zigGIS team from our time in New York. You can find them here. This was the first time the three of us had met up and we had a great time.
We had some discussions about the way ahead for zigGIS and there are some big things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=584&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on ArcGIS Schematics</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/more-on-arcgis-schematics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I posted about ArcGIS Schematics. That post came at the end of a frustrating day and was more negative in tone than I typically prefer. Since that post, I have had periodic exchanges with Rick Anderson, product manager at ESRI.
Our exchanges culminated today with a LiveMeeting session where Rick showed me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=576&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>zigGIS Tweet and Greet</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/ziggis-tweet-and-greet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being involved with zigGIS for a couple of years now, I&#8217;m excited that Paolo Corti is going to be visiting the States next week and that Abe and I will finally get to meet him (and vice versa). The three of us will be meeting at the Lolita Bar in New York City at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=565&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SpatiaLite Provider Code for SharpMap 0.9</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/spatialite-provider-code-for-sharpmap-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in an earlier post that I was working on building a SpatiaLite data provider for SharpMap 0.9. That effort was mainly a learning exercise for me as work has already begun on one for SharpMap 2.0. I am making the source code available below. I have unit tested it (thanks mbUnit3 and Gallio) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=548&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SpatiaLite 2.3.0 Released</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/spatialite-230-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alessandro has been very busy lately. He announced, via the SpatiaLite Google Group, the release of version 2.3.0. The new features include (from the announcement):

- supporting Routing [VirtualNetwork]
- supporting EXIF GPS pictures
- compatibility support for FDO/OGR RFC16 [VirtualFDO]
- intensive and generalize debugging
- AMALGAMATION: all the stuff put in a single source, as SQLite already does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=540&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fool: Ancient GIS Discovered</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/ancient-gis-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[where did that come from?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers working at the base of Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey have discovered the remnants of what appears to an ancient map-based navigation system that is being called the &#8220;world&#8217;s first GIS.&#8221; The presence of the artifact, which has been dubbed &#8220;ArkMap&#8221;, at the base of mountain is seen as further evidence that Ararat was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=527&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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