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Welcome to Geospatial Brainstorming, the official blog of Miller Mountain LLC

As a GIS consultant, I get asked a lot of questions. I am starting this blog as a way to provide answers to questions that I commonly get asked, as well as to develop a community to whom I can ask questions that I have.

I work mostly with developing web-based GIS interfaces using open source technologies and so I suspect that most of my posts will be related to those topics. I am open to other topics, however.  Please feel free to suggest a topic by emailing me at millermountainmex@gmail.com

Readers of this blog are eligible for 50% off my first course.  Introduction to Web Programming for GIS Applications

Welcome to Geospatial Brainstorming, the official blog of Miller Mountain LLC

As a GIS consultant, I get asked a lot of questions. I am starting this blog as a way to provide answers to questions that I commonly get asked, as well as to develop a community to whom I can ask questions that I have.

I work mostly with developing web-based GIS interfaces using open source technologies and so I suspect that most of my posts will be related to those topics. I am open to other topics, however.  Please feel free to suggest a topic by emailing me at millermountainmex@gmail.com

Readers of this blog are eligible for 50% off my first course.  Introduction to Web Programming for GIS Applications

Welcome to Geospatial Brainstorming, the official blog of Miller Mountain LLC

As a GIS consultant, I get asked a lot of questions. I am starting this blog as a way to provide answers to questions that I commonly get asked, as well as to develop a community to whom I can ask questions that I have.

I work mostly with developing web-based GIS interfaces using open source technologies and so I suspect that most of my posts will be related to those topics. I am open to other topics, however.  Please feel free to suggest a topic by emailing me at millermountainmex@gmail.com

Readers of this blog are eligible for 50% off my first course.  Introduction to Web Programming for GIS Applications

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Sad news and moving forward

This is Citlali Cortés, Mike’s wife, writing to inform all of the readers of this blog and students enrolled in Mike’s courses that he passed on February 12, 2022, from complications related to lymphoma. I am trying to find ways to continue Mike’s legacy, please stay tuned for changes. Thank you for your support!

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New Course: MySQL for geospatial applications

Good news folks!  MySQL has quietly become a very good spatial database that is widely available on almost all web-hosting platforms.  If you are looking for an affordable spatial database solution its worth giving MySQL a look. PostGIS has long been the gold standard for open source geospatial databases.  MySQL had some spatial capabilities but …

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f you’ve found this blog, you might also be interested in the Open Source Web GIS group that I manage on LinkedIn where I post articles that others have written that are relative to the topic.