Fresno, California: The owner of Redefined Horizons, Landon Blake, is scheduled to give two (2) talks at the 51st CSUF Geomatics Conference, in Fresno, California. The first talk will be entitled "What does the geospatial professional of the future look like?". The second talk will be entitled "Using GIS to Solve Three (3) Problems Faced By California Central Valley Communities". Both talks will be given on Friday morning of the conference.
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Redefined Horizons Owner to Give Two (2) Talks at CSUF Geomatics Conference
by , Redefined Horizons, Friday, January 13 2012 15:17 Pacific Standard TimeRedefined Horizons News Content by Redefined Horizons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Bruce Joffe Scheduled for Spring CCVGPG Meeting
by , Redefined Horizons, Friday, January 13 2012 15:30 Pacific Standard TimeRipon, California: Bruce Joffe has been scheduled as the speaker for the Spring 2011 Meeting of the California Central Valley Geospatial Professionals Group. Mr. Joffe will speak about strategies for the licensing of geospatial data, with a focus on licensing by government agencies.
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Redefined Horizons Owner to Give Talk at 2012 CALGIS Conference
by , Redefined Horizons, Friday, January 16 2012 17:30 Pacific Standard TimeSacramento, California: The owner of Redefined Horizons, Landon Blake, is scheduled to give a talk at the 2012 CALGIS Conference, in Sacramento, California. The first talk will be entitled "Low Cost GIS With Open Source Software and Mobile Data Collection". The 30 minute talk will be part of the Web and Open Source Resources for GIS Session of the conference on Thursday morning.
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Redefined Horizons Submits 3 Preliminary Articles for Footsteps Column in The American Surveyor Magazine
by , Redefined Horizons, Friday, January 16 2012 17:35 Pacific Standard TimeStockton, California: Redefined Horizons, has submitted three (3) preliminary drafts of articles for the Footsteps column of the American Surveyor Magazine. The first of these looks at best practices for very large boundary surveys. The second discusses the court case Fripps versus Walters. The third discusses a process for determining property corner history.
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The Death of Apache Harmony
- Link:
- http://redefinedhorizonsblog.com/2011/11/13/the-death-of-apache-harmony/
- Description:
- Discussion of Apache's decision to kill Project Harmony.
- Categories:
- Java, Programming
- Publication Date:
- Sunday November 13 2011
Installing Javascript Tools for Eclipse
- Link:
- http://redefinedhorizonsblog.com/2011/11/06/installing-javascript-tools-for-eclipse/
- Description:
- Describes how to install the Javascript plug-in for Eclipse.
- Categories:
- Javascript, Programming
- Publication Date:
- Sunday November 06 2011
Guide to Surveys: Aerial Photogrammetry Article Complete
- Link:
- http://redefinedhorizonsblog.com/2011/11/06/guide-to-surveys-aerial-photogrammetry-article-complete/
- Description:
- Announcement of completion of article on aerial photogrammetry for the next edition of the Guide to Surveys book.
- Categories:
- Land Surveying
- Publication Date:
- Sunday November 06 2011
Prevent Text Mirroring In AutoCAD
- Link:
- http://redefinedhorizonsblog.com/2011/11/06/prevent-text-mirroring-in-autocad/
- Description:
- Explains environment variable that prevents mirroring of text when using the mirror command in AutoCAD.
- Categories:
- Computer Aided Drafting
- Publication Date:
- Sunday November 06 2011
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About Redefined Horizons
Redefined Horizons is a geospatial programming and media company. Redefined Horizons has two (2) primary business activities. The first activity is the development of open source software to assist in the creation, editing, management, and presentation of geospatial data. The second activity is the production of learning resources for geospatial professionals (land surveyors, cartographers, geographers, civil engineers, land planners, and others), with an emphasis on teaching these professionals to customize and create their own software. All of the software developed at Redefined Horizons is open source, and all of our learning media is made available under one of the Creative Commons licenses.
Landon Blake: Owner of Redefined Horizons
Redefined Horizons is owned and operated by Landon Blake from a small home office in Stockton, California. Landon Blake has been actively creating and customizing geospatial software for the past 8 years. He is also a regular user of geospatial software as part of his work as a professional land surveyor. He is the volunteer editor of the OSGeo Journal, the OSGeo California Chapter Representative to the OSGeo Board, a member of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter, and the coordinator for the California Central Valley Geospatial Professionals Group. He is a strong advocate of open source software and open file formats. You can learn more about Landon Blake at his short bio.Media Channels
Redefined Horizons distributes the media it produces through five (5) primary channels.
CAD Programmer Managazine contains easy-to-understand articles on CAD customization and programming, with a focus on efficient handling of geospatial data. CAD Programmer Magazine teaches AutoLISP, DCL, Visual Basic .Net, Clojure, and Ruby programming languages.It deals specifically with the customization of AutoCAD, IntelliCAD, BricsCAD, and Google SketchUp.
The Geospatial Programmer Magazine offers instruction in the programming of geospatial software with a focus on the <Java and Python programming languages. It deals specifically with the customization of OpenJUMP, the JTS Topology Suite, the Open Source Python Point Cloud Processing Software Library, OpenLayers, and the Python GeoPipes Software Library.
The Detla Land Surveying Journal publishes articles on land surveying and GIS. Boundary surveying is discussed in the Footsteps column Redefined Horizons writes for The American Surveyor Magazine. Articles on geospatial software, open source programming, and technology are written by Redefined Horizons for the OSGeo Journal.
You will find a variety of information and resources made available by Redefined Horizons on this web site. Learn more about the services we provide to our clients on the Services web page of the Redefined Horizons web site. You can access our media through the Learn web page of our web site. Obtain maps, GIS data from our volunteer projects, and source code from our programming projects by visiting our Get web page. Learn how to participate in our volunteer projects or contribute to our open source software projects at our Participate web page. If you are interested in supporting the work of Redefined Horizons, or in advertising in our media, visit the Support web page. If you want regular updates on our work, or subscription to one (1) of our three (3) magazines, visit the Subscribe web page.
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