Hello, Burt by Flavio To The Moon Following our first album togheter, and after moving to Siena for taking formal music studies , me and Elisabetta have started a new project with a local g...
Frammenti by Blue Leafs The first album of our jazz trio is finally completed. It took a few months to find the time to sit together in the wonderful tiny studio of Danilo , the pianist and ...
Dedicated to those who do not want to surrender to proprietary services for code and tickets management: integrating Cartman with Mutt . The scenario is Trac instances that send email notific...
Keeping GIS data in full-resolution and simplifying it on demand is a known challenge: simplification has to be FAST and its output has to be TOPOLOGICALLY CONSISTENT. We saw how to get a topol...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2013/03/08/on-the-fly-simplification-of-topologically-defined-geometries/
New bug fix and improvement release for the 3.3 series of GEOS is out . CHANGES since 3.3.3: Do not abort on NaN overlay input (#530) Reduce CommonBitsRemover harmful effects during overlay op...
Following a recent research about how to simplify a multipolygon layer while keeping topological relationships intact, here’s my take on that, using the PostGIS topological support . THE DA...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2012/04/13/simplifying-a-map-layer-using-postgis-topology/
The long-awaited full featured POSTGIS 2.0.0 is finally out . Coupled with GEOS 3.3.3 (released a few days before) and GDAL-1.9.0 , it brings you the best spatial database system in town, comp...
After one year of gestation, Gnash 0.8.10 is finally out . It fixes many compatibility issues (fixing from Google Dict to Camtasia and Captivate outputs, to a while category of interactive gam...
I’ve been spending the last few days profiling and optimizing the new simple-to-topological converter you will find in PostGIS 2.0.0 thanks to a community effort . The most expensive operat...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2012/01/28/a-walk-on-the-wild-side/
The second bugfix release in the 3.3 branch of GEOS was released today. This is the version required by the topology support shipped with the upcoming PostGIS 2.0 release. Everyone is recom...
An early tester of the new PostGIS Topology submitted an interesting dataset which kept me busy for a couple of weeks fixing a bunch of bugs related to numerical stability/robustness. Finally...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/11/21/topology-cleaning-with-postgis/
I’m happy to announce that release 0.4.4 of the Ming library is out. Ming is an SWF output library with binding for C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python and more. It’s stable, alive and waiting f...
PostGIS implementation of the ISO SQL/MM Topology-Geometry model is finally complete . The SQL/MM model is just a portion of the whole topology support , but an important one, including schem...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/10/14/postgis-topology-iso-sqlmm-complete/
The first bugfix release in the 3.3 branch of GEOS was released today. Anyone running 3.3.0 is recommended to upgrade. Changes can be read here , package can be downloaded here . By the wa...
I was supposed to leave for holidays on August 1st, but a summer fever held me back. As it became traditional , I took the chance to do some Gnash hacking, approaching a bug that made playing...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/09/07/hack-fever-2-super-mario-sound/
As projects move their code under git control, people get frustrated about being unable to do most basic operations they are used to perform with SVN or CVS. That’s a fact, so let’s see if I...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/06/07/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-remote-git-branch/
GEOS 3.3.0 is out: http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2 This release introduces a fair amount of new C-API interfaces and a brand new PHP BINDING. Full details in the NEWS file: ...
Lunedi’ 6 GIUGNO 2011 alle 20:30 presso la sede dell’ associazione Cubibi’ di Ispra si terra’ un’ incontro aperto sul software libero e le TECNOLOGIE PARTECIPATIVE. L’ incon...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/05/30/software-libero-tecnologie-partecipative/
I’ve setup git mirrors of PostGIS, GEOS and MapServer SVN repositories updated hourly. You can clone the git repositories and re-attach to the SVN ones with this simple script (untested): for...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2011/04/27/postgis-geos-mapserver-with-git/
I’ve spent a few days adding Italian subtitles to a video recording of the speech given by Eben Moglen at FOSDEM 2011 about privacy, freedom and net neutrality. I would have liked to embed ...
Got seasonal flu this week, forcing me home… Nothing better for some Gnash hacking ! I had this itch to scratch for degradation of experience in playing the wonderful Winterbells game. ...
My bats are gone with the spring, leaving behind what looks like delicious food! These insects came out from who knows where and filled up the walls of our house. They do look like Clothing ...
There is NO PROBLEM importing OSM data into PostgresSQL / PostGIS . In part one of the article we’ve seen Geofabrik’s shapefiles having a text data truncation problem, but using osm2pgs...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2010/04/05/unicode-from-osm-to-pgsql-part-2/
This week I’ve been presented with a problem importing OpenStreetMap data of Africa from GeoFabrik’s shapefile export into a PostgreSQL / PostGIS database. The problem consisted in a ...
https://strk.kbt.io/blog/2010/04/04/unicode-from-osm-to-pgsql/
Since I moved in a NEW HOUSE I got to know BATS. Could be due to the fact the house was inhabitated for some time. Thing is, every now and then a bat or two come out from who-knows-where an...
This is my personal blog, converted from Wordpress to Hugo around in May 2020, following a flood of spam and scarcity of RAM on my server. Comments might be harder to make now, but you can alwa...