I have recently learned about an upcoming OGC standard that looks interesting: The Table Joining Service (formerly known as the Geographic Linkage Service or GLS). It standardizes a solution to the very common problem of mapping statistical data that is geographically related but maintained outside a GIS. To do that, the service uses a key (for example, a country or zip code) common to the statistical dataset and a geographic dataset providing the geometries.

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Some music for the occasion :

First Snow - Stephan Micus (from Desert Poems)

Taken on my way to Collex-Bossy. The Mont-Blanc can be seen in the background.

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Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. The Big Picture has some fantastic photographs taken during the mission.

From Sweden, DJ Trexx : A Union of Peace, Love and Bass. Glorious!

I had been trying to get into iPhone / iPod Touch application development for some time, but I was just too lazy until I bought a few weeks ago an iPod Touch (which I really like - I am playing the Sudoku game from Mighty Mighty Good Games all the time).

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