
Georepublic at FOSS4G in Notthingham
In September the annual FOSS4G will take place in Nottingham, and beside being a sponsor Georepublic will attend the event with three of us travelling from Tokyo and Osaka. We are also planning to attend State of the Map in Birmingham, UK and the Quantum GIS Developer Meeting in Brighton before heading to FOSS4G.

The Cuisines of the world
Tags or tagging are quite underrated in mapping where colourful lines/dots make up for most of the look and feel. OpenStreetMap as the name says is an open map but also is a open geographic database licensed under ODBL .

Leaflet example with WFS-T
This article is supposed to be No. 15 in the Japanese FOSS4G Advent Calendar 2012 and it’s probably the first and last one in English for this year. First I wanted to build pgRouting Ubuntu packages and write about it, but then I saw the other great blog posts and decided to change the topic.

How to contribute to an existing Octopress blog
You managed to setup your own Octopress blog? Great! After a while you switch to another PC or your colleague wants to contribute an article and nothing worked as easy

The Georepublic Times is using Octopress
Let’s start with a first post about how to publish articles on Georepublic’s brand-new blog. Since the writing of blog articles has almost stalled in this year, even if Georepublic’s population nearly doubled since 2011, there was probably something wrong the old blog system.

PostGIS and pgRouting template
When creating a new database in PostgreSQL using the standard template, PostGIS and pgRouting functions and tables are missing of course. You can add these functions and tables one by one, but doing this every time for every single database is annoying work.

pgRouting Project News
It has been a long way but finally we made it: I’m glad to be able to announce the new pgRouting website, that also comes with a lot of other changes and news!

Georepublic at FOSS4G 2010 Japan in Tokyo and Osaka
2010 is also Georepublic’s first year at the local FOSS4G conference in Japan. The 2-days conference + 1 day workshop will take place October 31st to November 2nd in Tokyo and November 5th, 6th and 8th (workshops) in Osaka.

gvSIG Association and Georepublic signed agreement of collaboration
gvSIG Association and Georepublic (Germany & Japan ) signed agreement of collaboration, which goals are to spread the use of gvSIG and other geomatic software and to boost the software industry, specially for the small and the medium-sized enterprises, under the premises of collaboration and the shared knowledge.

Georepublic is member of SilverStripe Developer Network
Georepublic uses the SilverStripe CMS for its own company website as well as for several projects. We can say that SilverStripe is our favorite content management system, because it gives us the freedom to efficiently build custom websites with enough flexibility for various needs.

Intergeo 2010 Review
Until this year I didn’t have the opportunity to attend an Intergeo 2010 fair, but I had heard about it since my university days. Staying in Germany at the time of the exhibition I got involved with OSGeo Park, organized by FOSSGIS e.

FOSS4G 2010 Review
FOSS4G 2010 was a great event and the people of Georepublic spent a pleasant time in Barcelona. We stayed in an apartment in downtown Barcelona close to Plaça Catalunya and enjoyed the conference as well as the evening program.