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| <h1 style="font-size:27px; color:#ffffff">LocationTech: for Place and Purpose</h1> |
| <p style="font-size:16px;line-height:1.4;">LocationTech is a working group hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. It focuses on location aware technologies. These technologies are often used for mapping or navigation, however they are also a crucial part of data analysis. |
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| <p>To begin, Andrew Ross shares a reflection from working group participants in a LocationTech Manifesto article. Robert Cheetham and Paul Ramsey tell us more about the GeoTrellis and GeoGig projects, respectively. These projects were featured in the March 2014 issue and continue to grow quickly. Finally, Geoff Zeiss explores interest for open source technologies by utilities. </p> |
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