Going on vacations

26.07.2010 15:01 ·  Notes  ·  vacations

I am leaving for Crimea tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. and will be back late in the afternoon on the 5th.

I will not have internet access there, but you can write to me :-). I promise to answer all emails, comments, bug reports and feature requests when I’m back.

Vacations and GIS

08.07.2009 15:32 ·  Notes  ·  vacations

It’s been a week since I went on “last year’s” holiday. Yes, I managed to get those unused 19 days. But that doesn’t stop my bosses from pestering me with phone calls and even dragging me into the office a few times. But all in all, it is very good.

I have more free time, which I spend not only on holidays but also on interesting and necessary things like plugins for QGIS. I’ve already received some feedback on Statist, and I’m improving it. Also, I have an idea for another plugin, but I don’t know if it will be implemented yet.

I am also involved in a GIS project, or rather, its continuation. While working on it, I came across a nasty bug in the SpatiaLite provider in QGIS. At least, it seems to me that it is a bug. This has caused some difficulties, and I have to look for workarounds…

By the way, a few days ago, Alessandro Furieri (SpatiaLite author) announced the release of SpatiaLite 2.3.1 and released two new projects:

• RasterLite — an API for working with rasters in SQLite, and supporting almost all functions needed by any GIS
• SpatiaLite-GIS — a simple GIS system built on top of SpatiaLite. This GIS is very similar to both spatialite-gui and a very stripped-down version of QGIS. Of course, he can do what he wants, but IMHO, it would be much better if more attention was paid to supporting SpatiaLite integration in QGIS

In my opinion, SQLite-based spatial databases are a real alternative to shapefiles. Although shapefiles are the de-facto standard in GIS today, they are already outdated and do not meet the ever-increasing requirements.