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Here you can find informations about our activities and Open Source software development.


Products and services

Open Source support

Our open source services range from feasibility studies and analysis to software development, assistance and training or education.

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Joomla! development

We are working on Joomla! since its birth (to tell you the truth, even before its birth, since at the time Joomla! was called “Mambo”). Our services range from custom components, moduels and plugin development to assistance contracts and education. Additionally, we developed and sell online two GPL’d components.

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Web Mapping

WEB GIS of VCO mountain itineraries

Competence and professionality in GIS services We have several years of working experience in this area and we actively participate with code and ideas to many open source projects we widely use (e.g. p.mapper and MapStorer) or just develop our own solutions for our customers. Among the projects publicly available that we have recently realized [...]

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Professional technical translations

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With an over ten years lasting experience in professional English to Italian technical translation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), user manuals and technical data sheets, we can offer you a high quality service at affordable prices.

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Accessible CMS

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L’accessibilità dei siti web e la legge italiana L’accesibilità dei siti web è diventata obbligatoria per i siti delle pubbliche amministrazioni in seguito alla pubblicazione della Legge 9 gennaio 2004, n. 4 intitolata “Disposizioni per favorire l’accesso dei soggetti disabili agli strumenti informatici”. Cos’è l’accessibilità Per “accessibilità” di una applicazione informatica si intende (fonte: wikipedia): [...]

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Latest posts

Serving your map tiles 30 times faster

Recently I’ve been experimenting with TileStache tiles caching system, which is similar to TileCache and other tile caching systems in scope. TileStache revealed itself as a powerful and flexible product and was very good to cache tiles generated with my Django-backed mapscript-powered WMS server. Caching and serving tiles with TileStache was by far faster then [...]

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TileStache Vector simplify provider

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This is the third part of the story that I started with part 1: Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues part 2: TileStache Django tiny wrapper during my experiments I wanted to reach the goal of minimize both the bandwith consuption and the number of vector coordinates that the browser needs to handle, this means that [...]

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TileStache Django tiny wrapper

This is the second part of the story about my experiments with the wonderful TileStache that I started with TileStache and Polymaps SVG experiments. First, I would like to thank Michal for the quick patch inclusion, the Polymaps patch is still waiting for the pull and the Django admin patch is awating for somebody to [...]

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Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues

A few days ago I started playing with Polymaps and TileStache, two very promising WebGIS building tools. The final goal of this experiments was the integration with Django. Polymaps Polymaps is a Javascript library aimed to display svg maps in a web page, recently I’ve watched to an interesting talk about a Django-powered app built [...]

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QGIS Zuerich hackmeeting

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Last november I participated to the international QGIS programmer’s meeting in Zuerich. It was a great opportunity to meet the QGIS developers I already knew from the previous meeting in Lisbon, and to know new interesting people. QGIS is quickly becoming one of the most important free software packages for GIS processing, I participate to [...]

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