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The PerryGeo blog ask an interesting question about comparing FDO, GDAL/OGR and FME. From the blog: " FDO, GDAL and FME all seem to operate in roughly the same domain - Providing a data model, API and tools to translate between spatial data formats. Does anyone know of any good write-ups comparing/contrasting the features of these three libraries?" Read the very informative answers on the blog. See also related stories below.

Safe Software writes "FME 2007 introduces support for raster data, making it the industry's first complete spatial ETL tool. It also includes more than 2100 enhancements. For a free trial, white paper and FME 2007 highlights document, visit www.safe.com/2007."

I'm mostly done catching up older stories from Planet Geospatial, here's the ones from Directions Mag which may interests you. Important to notice: I added most DM articles directly to Slashgeo's stories when the subject was recently discussed, such as Leica's TITAN, MS SQL Server, FME's Curvefitter, etc. The other articles: one on the status of MapInfo, one on energy exploration (oil and gas) and GIS, a product review of DeLorme XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise, a short one on short range communications for vehicules and finally, a product overview of LizardTech Express Server 6.