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. [...]
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 [...]
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. FIMT – Fire Incident Mapping Tools i anticipate using these [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
he’s growing fast..
For cool word clouds, from any text you provide – check out Wordle. This is from my del.icio.us account.
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.