Wishing you all good health and good fortune for the year ahead. As you might have noticed over the festive period we got into the Christmas spirit here at Astun with a series of festive tweets. We have some big product releases in the year ahead and there are some hints to what’s in store…
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A Ramblers Case Study – we’ve helped discover 50,000 lost rights of way, maybe they will help Santa reach you safely on the 25th.
So we’re all locked down, to some degree or another, and our favourite FOSS4G conferences (due to be held this year in Calgary and Valmiera inter alia) are cancelled…. what to do? The OSGeo:UK committee, seeing a chance to organise a conference without having to worry about catering/ venues/ accommodation/ swag/ entertainment, decided to do what…
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Background At the end of November I was asked by Francois Prunayre at Titellus to help organise and manage a 3-day code-sprint with the aim of improving GeoNetwork documentation. Documentation can be problematic for projects, even open source, where the majority of the work is done by volunteers. Updating documentation is rarely a priority for…
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I joined Astun two and a half years ago and being a bit of a data geek (having led MapAction’s Data Circle for a number of years pre-children), one of the things that attracted me to the position was Astun’s track record in metadata and their solutions with the Environment Agency / Defra and the…
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Six members of the Astun team recently headed en mass to the Free and Open Source Software for Geo (FOSS4G) UK conference in Edinburgh – and we came back with a 7th! FOSS4G is a great forum to find out all the latest on what is going on in the OSGeo community and to spread…
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