Some news clips from projects that I find fascinating: The anticipated 2.3.0 cleanup release of SpatialLite is now out. Building on the highly efficient, blazing fast, feature-rich and highly-embeddable SQLLite , this geodb data store and engine might be a good option to address the call in the Shapefile 2.0 manifesto. I agree with the thoughts in the manifesto (I'm sick of managing many little files) and I'm all about keeping things simple, focused and efficient. So I'm going to watch this project with interest especially since spatial support in MySQL is going no where fast.
Also, after a long wait, Open JUMP is out with a new version. We dabbled with this years ago but got sick of Java-based desktop apps. In fact, recently we are finally getting on the .Net bandwagon and are working with MapWindows. Though I guess we are using Java a little on the desktop through our CUPSS [1][2] [3] project (it uses Trolltech/Nokia Jambi that wraps Qt with Java). We generally have had to get away from supporting systems other than Windows for a variety of reasons :-( Hopefully we'll be able to get back into the platform-agnostic game soon.
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