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OpenStreetMap – Haiti

25-Jan-10
This is a great post on the truly amazing power of OpenStreetMap and how it helped the effort in Haiti http://surveying-mapping-gis.blogspot.com/2010/01/mapping-for-haiti-earthquake-response.html. Thanks @druidsmith

In other OSM news – David Yun, GIS Manager of San Luis Obispo City recently shared building footprints for upload. Here’s a look at SLO http://osm.org/go/TYwOXIJ8– which myself and Corey Farwell batch-uploaded.

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MotionX GPS Track: BruceWalk005

30-Apr-09

Hello,

Lar50’s_iPwn uses MotionX-GPS on the iPhone 3G and is sharing with you the following track:

Name: BruceWalk005
Date: Apr 30, 2009 9:57 am
Distance: 2.11 miles
Elapsed Time: 35:16.9
Avg Speed: 3.6 mph
Max Speed: 5.3 mph
Avg Pace: 16′ 44″ per mile
Min Altitude: 164 ft
Max Altitude: 266 ft
Start Time: 2009-04-30T16:57:21Z
Start Location:
Latitude: 34.696455º N
Longitude: 120.468564º W
End Time: 2009-04-30T17:32:38Z
End Location:
Latitude: 34.694169º N
Longitude: 120.466961º W

Click on this link to display the track in Google Maps. This link will be valid until May 30, 2009 10:41 AM PDT.

There are two files attached to this email:

“BruceWalk005.kmz” is a Google KML track that can be displayed in Google Earth or Google Maps.

“BruceWalk005.gpx” is an Open Standard track that can be displayed by select mapping software.

Click here to download:

BruceWalk005.gpx (52 KB)

Click here to download:

BruceWalk005.kmz (38 KB)

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FIMT, GeoDjango, SpatiaLite, GeoServer and wineGIS

12-Apr-09

some things that have been on my mind: brainstorms, projects, things i’d like to grok and even an appeal to others interested in sharing, geeking or collaborating on … FIMT, GeoDjango, SpatiaLite, GeoServer and wineGIS. especially anyone on the Central Coast, San Luis Obispo County.

  • wineGIS – just a name. i’m an aspiring wine connoisseur living on the Central Coast of California thinking a good GIS applicaiton to this area could could be fun.

(i will elaborate, just tossing this out there before hittin the hay ~ 12SApr2009)

MobileStudio woes

08-Apr-09

posted this on the hackint0sh forum http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/f126/70078.htm#post403421 but thought i’d give it a try via bloglandia:

In my attemps to open files from MobileFinder i stumbled upon MobileStudio mobilestudio – Google Code . yes, i acknowledge that it’s been out awhile, but can i install this on my jailbroken 3G FW 2.2?

In the MobileFinder I have working via Cydia I noticed there are File Associations which I assume allow you to open files directly from Finder. I basically just want to be able to open a file in a text editor from Finder – instead of typing the path in gTextEdit.

I downloaded the zip from mobilestudio – Google Code placed it in /Applications, extracted. The icons appeared on the springboard but the apps crashed when I tried to load them.

Learn via IRC that the binaries must be signed. Stumbled upon this Bypassing iPhone Code Signatures – Jay Freeman (saurik) and between those two sources tried

Code:
ldid -S Program

..but to no avail. Before signing I also made sure to run

Code:
chmod +x

on it. And does it really matter if run

Code:
chown -R root:wheel

on my app folder (or is root:admin acceptable)?

Have spent about 12-15 hours dorking around on this now – hope someone can help. Also since I deleted Installer.app from the system via MobileFinder I attempted the reinstall with the same method above w/ the file from here iPhone Jailbreak & Install only to get the same crash pressing icon on springboard. I guess when I upgrade to FW 2.2.1 I will have Installer again, but still I’d like to have MobileStudio – it seems cool!

UPDATE:

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/f126/70078.htm#post403681

I don’t know what’s the matter there (maybe MobileFinder was the only one of those programs to be updated for the 2.x firmware). But I would like to suggest the excellent iFile (from Cydia), a file browser & viewer and text editor. It does most of what MobileFinder/MobileStudio should do but better. It also includes options to create or unpack zip files, download files to/from your computer over wifi, attach one or more files to an email, and do things to multiple files at once.

iFile did the trick! an awesome little app!! will have to throw a few bones at the developer .

Homegrown cabbage; slaughtered + German cabbage recipe

30-Mar-09

So my Mom passed on some red cabbage starters to me sometime in Oct/Nov I guess. Cabbage does pretty well in colder weather in general, but since my locale is on the Central Coast of California – things are quite mild and easy on gardeners in general.

The cabbage was easy, super easy to grow. Only had some aphids (i guess they were aphids – grey little pests) on one of the heads – the rest were clean. And finally harvested them a couple days ago!

My Mom also passed on a recipe which I’ve raved about to her when she’s made it: I’m going to transpose it from the paper print-out she gave…it’s titled – German Cabbage, but I guess it’s like a Borscht or a slaw. Regardless, I dig it. It’s pretty damn easy to cook and cabbage is damn easy to grow – so here it is, at least here’s the one I just cooked:

GERMAN CABBAGE

1/4 # bacon (i used applewood smoked)
1 lg head red cabbage (i used three small heads)
1 onion (i used red)
1 apple
salt and pepper to taste (didn’t end up using any)
garlic powder (i used minced, cooked it w/ the bacon & onion)

Brown bacon with chopped onion. Shred 1/2 the red cabbage and put in pot. Add browned bacon and onion (grease and all) to cabbage, chop up apple and add to pot. Salt and pepper to taste with 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder. Cook about 15 min. with pot covered (as cabbage cooks down add the rest of cabbage).

Add 1/2 cup vinager
3/4 cup brown sugar (i used 1/2)
1/4 cup white sugar

Simmer for 15 min. and turn off.

Reheat and serve
You can add more vinager or sugar.

Can be frozen…

the ultimate Windows Open Source GIS package – OSGeo4W

07-Feb-09

I have been very impressed with the release of the OSGeo4W package available at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/, this is a must for any GIS junkie with a Windows install.

OSGeo has packaged a “broad set of open source geospatial software for Win32 environments”. Take the OSGeo4W package for a test drive! It’s quite a progressive step, in what amounts to a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) stack..available in one small installer. If you’re not familiar with OSGeo supported projects and software – I encourage you to visit the site and get involved in the community.

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GeoServer – some tips for for fellow newbies – Windows XP and Ubuntu

07-Feb-09

so i’ve been meaning to make this post for a while now … both for my own documentation and hopefully someone else’s. I’ve been experimenting with GeoServer and throughout my trials jotted down a couple things:

Running GeoServer in Windows XP (and from a usb / flash drive)

the other day, a relatively easy install of GeoServer wasn’t working out for some reason. it wasn’t working on my Windows XP workstation install OR from my usb / flash install with Jo Cook’s Portable GIS. i hopped on the #geoserver IRC channel and posted … a kind user pointed out that “It’s [GeoServers startup log] complaining that the EPSG database cannot be created or is incomplete,, it’s written to a temp directory on startup”. so i went to track that down – cleaned out some of the files – and viola! GeoServer loaded ~ so my tip #1:

  • IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE WITH ‘503′ (i think they were 503) ERRORS WHEN LOADING GEOSERVER – try cleaning out some of your:
  • C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temp folder

Running GeoServer in Ubuntu

tip #2 this involves environmental variables in Ubuntu. i consider myself a *nix, Ubuntu newbie – so this involved a little research and testing..but not too much thankfully.

  • AFTER INSTALLING JAVA AND EXTRACTING GEOSERVER TO YOUR CHOSEN DESTINATION (i picked /usr/local) – run these commands to set environmental variables and paths for GeoServer:
  • to run commands as root, enter

    $ sudo su

    you can paste all of this into the Terminal now

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
    export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
    export GEOSERVER_HOME=/usr/local/geoserver-1.7.2
    export GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/geoserver-1.7.2/data_dir

    to check your JAVA_HOME setting or your PATH setting for example, enter

    echo $PATH

    you can also permanently add this to the PATH by editing /etc/environment. to do this, enter

    sudo gedit /etc/environment

that’s all i have for now … i know this is pretty basic, but like i said – this was documentation for me too ;) i think GeoServer may have similar instructions lined out here, i know there are instructions which load GeoServer at boot time here…i’ll be doing that soon. and yes, if you didn’t catch that – setting the path and env variables like i did above is temporary from what i’ve deduced.

Sleepy boy

04-Jan-09

he’s growing fast..

Catching the Wordle Train

12-Dec-08

For cool word clouds, from any text you provide – check out Wordle. This is from my del.icio.us account.

Sunday Walk: Me, Bruce and iPhone

23-Nov-08

I unfortunately could not get the embeddable map working here … a link for now
http://www.instamapper.com/trk?key=869398563963181897 to Instamapper – an iPhone app.