Here’s one way you could go about the drag and drop file upload and parsing for coordinates ala ArcGIS Online. Note: You must view the demo page from a web server - file:// won’t work. Other helpful links:http://www.theb
Don't feed the trolls. If you want to learn more about our busted patent system, patent trolls, and the sucking judicial vacuum located in East Texas, check out When Patents Attack by This American Life. It’s ~60 m
If you haven’t had time to mess around with Google Fusion Tables, you’re really missing out. Check out this video from Google IO 2011 for a good introduction. There’s a whole class of apps we do that could easily be ha
Adobe has finally coughed up a 64bit Flash 11 beta for Linux. Woo hoo! If you’re on 64bit Ubuntu, download and extract libflashplayer.so, put this script in the same location and run it. 123456789101112131415#!/bin&
I ran across a lot of design resources for this month’s make smarter, and I think that’s a good thing. GIS as a field has never hurt for good developers, and development is hard. Making an app people actually want to use
Metadata Navigator 2.1. Now with less suck. Quite a while back I made a tiny metadata viewer that had but a single purpose - show metadata in such a way that I can take ArcIMS Metadata Explorer out back and shoot it. I
Oh, thank you. It’s about time somebody did this. I remember thinking ten years ago that calendars like Outlook got it all wrong. They’re meeting-centric. If you’re not in a meeting, you’re not doing anything as far as
Apparently this bug doesn’t get everybody, but it smacked me right across the chops. [crayon lang=”default”] Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a
First up in this month’s make smarter is localStorage for Forms by Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks. It’s a good introduction to persisting data with localStorage and shows how to use these features in a way that degrade