Flaxen Consulting

Tools I Like

mpg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:30:57 +0000

Some stuff that I wouldn’t want to live without: Trello – I’ve recently switched my life over to Trello — only time will tell if the tool will fit my personal workflows, but so far so good. Small, light, doesn’t get in my way. Using both the web and iPhone versions. CloudBerry S3 Explorer – …

FOSS4G-NA

mpg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:21:59 +0000

I will be at FOSS4G-NA in Washington DC in April (in part because I won’t be able to the big event in Beijing…).

Flaxen Consulting

mpg — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:05:15 +0000

Flaxen Consulting is the independent geospatial consulting business started by Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) in 2010. We offer technology advice, software development, and customized training in several technically complex areas including processing and compression of imagery and point cloud (lidar) data sets. Flaxen is a strong proponent of open source software and regularly collaborates on …

IslandWood Codesprint!

mpg — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:12:41 +0000

Every winter, the North American OSGeo developers get together somewhere for several days of codesprinting. Together with the rest of the CUGOS gang, I am pleased as punch to be organizing the event for 2012: it will be right here on Bainbridge Island at the fabulous IslandWood facility. More details here. [Update: the event was …

Flaxen goes corporate

mpg — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:09:36 +0000

As of January 1st, “Flaxen Geo Consulting (sole proprietorship)” is becoming “Flaxen Consulting LLC”. This move gives us a little more legal and financial backing, and the name change reflects our recent work in some areas that aren’t strictly geo-related.

FOSS4G Conference

mpg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:57:29 +0000

Howard Butler and I will be presenting a talk titled “LiDAR Point Cloud Processing with libPC [sic!] and libLAS” at the FOSS4G conference in September. I’d like to have some sort of lidar / point cloud BOF during the week, be sure and watch for it.

New Column for Lidar News

mpg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:45:03 +0000

I’m now a Contributing Author for Lidar News, doing a column on open source issues in the lidar / point cloud world. I’ll be covering the usual open source stuff like the cool libraries and apps (liblas, lastools), but also maybe some bits on open standards (las, e57) and the ever-popular “how to do I …

DARPA GRID Workshop

mpg — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:04:04 +0000

I will be presenting a short overview of the status of open source support for points clouds at the DARPA GRID workshop on June 30th.

MapWindow / DotSpatial Conference

mpg — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:05:43 +0000

I will be at the MapWindow/DotSpatial confernece the week of July 13th. I will be doing two presentations: an invited keynote titled “Working with, and in, the Open Source Community” and I will also be doing a presentation on the state of open source support for lidar and point clouds.

Mt. Saint Helens

mgerleck — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:06 +0000