OSM - Hardware Upgrade Appeal: Thank you!

OSM - Hardware Upgrade Appeal: Thank you!

It took 2 days 15 hours and 20 minutes to reach the £10,000 target.


Faster Servers on the way for Open Street Map - Picture of a Cray X-MP/48 Supercomputer

"This all happened so quickly we were astonished and totally humbled by the generosity and goodwill towards the project. It happened so quickly in fact that we felt that a lot of people wouldn’t even have had an opportunity to donate, so we decided to keep the appeal open a bit longer.

So after exactly a week we are formally closing the appeal having raised £16,222. The donate site will still stay up but we’ll change the wording so that it’s for general fund raising and not focused on any particular need.

We have some very big thank yous to make. Firstly, we are enormously grateful to Google. The guys from the Google Open Source Programs Office really appreciate what we are doing and donated £5,000. Awesome."

"We’ve raised enough for a new database server. It will probably be a better spec than we had planned or hoped for, so it should see us good for some time."

Source:
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=391

Mapperz helped out too, and thank you and a big well done to all that have helped.

SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth (WebGIS)

SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth - Looks to become a powerful online GIS (WebGIS)

Most Mapping Applications take data from a database, here users input (Points,Polylines & Polygons) and gets stored in a spatial database, After data is stored, the data can be used in simple analysis, buffering, interesecting, clipping etc. No need to have a desktop GIS anymore (?)




"In the previous parts we have first been looking on the database side and how we can use various mechanisms to load and extract data and we even implemented a geocoder in the database. Then we moved on and investigated various ways to retrieve data from SQL Server 2008 and visualize them in Virtual Earth. In this final part we will now focus on using Virtual Earth as a simple data editor which allows us to write data back to SQL Server 2008."


14 tutorials using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Vitrual Earth


http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2008/03/22/virtual-earth-drawing-on-the-map-and-storing-the-result-in-sql-server-2008.aspx




A polygon created and inserted into sql server 2008 on the fly.