LISAsoft and CSIRO recently concluded validation of an Aeronautical profile for Geographic Markup Language (GML), called AIXM (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model), as part of the OGC testbed OWS-7.
A 15 minute lightening overview of GeoSpatial Open Source tools, relevant for surveyors.Conference: http://www.fig.net/fig2010/Presented 14 April 2010 at the international Federation of Surveyors conference.Paper at: http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/ts05b%5Cts05b_shorter_4207.pdf .More details at http://arramagong.org
At the recent Open Source Asia/Pacific conference, I presented on the tricky subject of "How to sell Open Source Software to Government", which can equally be read as "What logic can I use to convince my boss that installing Open Source is a good idea?."
LISAsoft, in conjunction with Landgate, Landcare Research and CSIRO, recently deployed and extended a Web Processing Service client as part of the OGC's OWS-7 standards development testbed.