GEOVISE - Open Source GIS Solutions

Today we released a new version of Hibernate Spatial: release 1.0-M2. This will probably be the last milestone release for the definitive release 1.0. More information is on the download page.

This is the second installment of a series of posts on the subject of geospatial open source based on my talk at the CASCADOSS symposium. The topic for this post is vendor lock-in, or rather the widespread thought in the GIS world that open standards such as those promoted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will break vendor lock-in. In theory it should work: open standards should make GIS products interchangeable and interchangeability precludes vendor lock-in.

Recently I was invited to the CASCADOSS symposium to give my views on open source business models, specifically in the GIS market. For the presentation I developed some themes that might be of interest to others working on open source and/or GIS. I therefore decided to (finally) start putting this blog to some good use by publishing a series of posts that elaborate these themes. This is the first installment.

The Hibernate Spatial project has its own home: hibernatespatial.org.

The documentation site and code repositories have been moved from the CaDriE/MAJAS site, and the packages have been renamed from "com.cadrie.hibernate.spatial" to the somewhat more elegant "org.hibernatespatial".