nifty corners

Alessandro Fulciniti created a Nifty Corners solution based on CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images. Look at it at http://pro.html.it/niftycube/

OSGEO update

On March 6, the open source geospatial community announced the formation of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO), a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The board of directors that will be responsible for the drafting and execution of the foundation's charter and bylaws represent various open source projects and technologies. They are:

• Arnulf Christl, Mapbender
• Chris Holmes, GeoServer/GeoTools
• Gary Lang, MapGuide
• Markus Neteler, GRASS
• Frank Warmerdam, GDAL/OGR

Ajax tutorials

Looking for an introduction to Ajax (client-server dhtml).
There are quite a few AJAX demos and examples on the web right now. While these are invaluable to learning AJAX, some people need a bit more information than just a raw piece of code. Surf to http://www.maxkiesler.com/

http://local.live.com/

Well, another mapping service popped up. Microsoft inproved its msn virtual earth to create http://local.live.com. Some gui-improvements are implemented, but the most interesting thing are the bird-eye views of some mayor downtown areas in the US. Pictures have been taken by Pictometry International Corp. with low flying airplanes. From each point you can look into four directions.

MapServer + Autodesk = ... Enterprize?

This week autodesk and mapserver announced a cooperation in a new project MapServer Enterprize. A GPL project in which both organisations combine their technologies, to generate a new open source gis internet tool in which developers can use php, .net or java. New for the mapserver users are autodesks vector-viewing possibilities (where is SVG/GML?) and a desktop tool to configure the gis-data (at last!).

Well good news i guess. Though autodesc, not specifically being a GIS company, might not be my first choise to cooperate with. However they have a zilion of users. If they all are using MapServer soon, the comunity will be bigger than the mozilla team...

Download an early release here: http://www.mapserverfoundation.org/mapserver_enterprise