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NLPG improves electoral registers in Great Britain
02 July 2008, 4:38pm
The NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) is facilitating improvements in the quality of British electoral registers as part of the wider electoral modern… More…
2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards Announced
30 June 2008, 11:51am
The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) and Intelligent Addressing have announced the 2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards. The awards recognise the outstan… More…
Chinese Shortlist StreetMapper for 3D City Mapping
30 June 2008, 10:56am
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shenzen Institute of Advanced Technology has short-listed the world’s most accurate mobile mapping system, StreetMapper, t… More…
Bluesky Maps Rutland’s Historic Highways
27 June 2008, 10:33am
Aerial mapping company Bluesky has completed a project to create a digital map of Rutland County Council’s highway network. More than 400 individual paper maps,… More…
Masternaut Three X demonstrate greener driving
24 June 2008, 5:15pm
Autodesk Collaborative Project Management Software
24 June 2008, 5:11pm
CENTREMAPS offer mapping data for Northern Ireland
23 June 2008, 5:48pm
Compass Informatics and Cadcorp in Ireland
20 June 2008, 10:37pm
1Spatial propose spatial data consistency options
20 June 2008, 11:03am
AGI GeoCommunity ’08 Conference Programme
20 June 2008, 9:32am
UK SatNav Challenge (International Competition)
20 June 2008, 8:54am
1Spatial acquires ComSine
19 June 2008, 4:56pm
Importance of metocean awareness - 16 October UK
19 June 2008, 10:49am
Northgate secures energy performance...
19 June 2008, 9:24am
Air Traffic Control Approves 4cm Resolution ...
19 June 2008, 9:17am
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Data Volume & Geo-Processing
I generally like to try to keep ‘Eye on the web’ inline with the topics of the magazine and this month the seemed a great pair to combine with things such as the Open Source Spatial Databases and Web services and how we can best utilize the vast amount of information available via the Web.
Although the most popular Open Source database on the web is MySQL (23 million sites can’t be wrong!) it isn’t the best Open Source SPATIAL database – for this the trophy goes to PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extension. I do a lot of linking to back office systems and… More…
Mike Saunt
Managing Director, Astun Technology Ltd