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Jorge Sanz | 2023-07-11 | 287 words | geo, cross-post
This is a cross-posted article[1] from my (now officially retired) geospatial blog at geomaticblog.net. I plan to migrate the content from that site here. I may also do the same from other scattered blogs I've contributed in the past, so I can keep a more stable archive of my writings.
1: https://geomaticblog.net/2023/07/06/retiring-geomaticblog.net/
Vicente[2], Pedro-Juan[3], and me started this blog in 2006[4]. Back then blogs were the best way to create content and share knowledge. It was the times of RSS, Google Reader, social bookmarking through `del.icio.us`, and pictures on `Flickr`. Very different from these days of micro-blogging, quick videos, influencers moving from one platform to another chasing their viewers' attention and money, newsletters under paywalls, etc.
2: https://geomaticblog.net/authors/vicente-bayarri/
3: https://geomaticblog.net/authors/pedro-juan-ferrer/
4: https://web.archive.org/web/20090207135426/http://geomaticblog.net/node/7
We stayed for a few months in a self-hosted Drupal CMS[5] but maintaining it was a pain, so we moved to a managed Wordpress[6] where we lived most of the time. Wordpress offered an excellent balance to get us[7] writing without much hassle, keeping our domain, and very infrequent ads. Finally, last year I migrated the content to Hugo[8], a static generator, to save some costs, but the decline in writing started in 2018, so it is OK to close this project formally.
7: https://geomaticblog.net/authors/
I will keep the blog code and content on a GitHub repository at https://github.com/jsanz/geomaticblog/[9] where we have posts in Markdown since 2007, and everything is hopefully for ever available in the web archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20130801000000*/http://geomaticblog.net/[10]. I will probably copy my posts to my website[11].
9: https://github.com/jsanz/geomaticblog/
10: https://web.archive.org/web/20130801000000*/http://geomaticblog.net/
Needless to say that we are forever grateful to those that encouraged us to write here. I had a lot of fun maintaining the website and writing content for everyone else. We are easy to find on the Internet, so please contact us anytime!
Have fun!
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