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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Hello,

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

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 – Fire Incident Mapping Tools i anticipate using these (again, for the 3rd fire season) this summer.

• 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)

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

ldid -S Program

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

chmod +x

on it. And does it really matter if run

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 .

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…

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.

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.

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