Testing and Reality
3D Planet Viewer via HTML5 Canvas
Via canvasdemos, check out this cool 3D planet viewer. Planets include Earth, Mars, and the moon, with data coming from the NASA WorldWind dataset. The images are rendered on a sphere that allows for rotation, panning a
Link Google Earth Plugin to OpenLayers
I just pushed out GeoPortal v1.3 with some new features - moved to jQuery Templates for reporting, put a lot of config code in one file (contributed by Mike Wilson - thanks!), added search help, and some general bolt tig
Interesting Stats From Developer Technographics Survey
After parsing through a couple of Information Week articles (here and here) covering select results from the Forrester-Dr. Dobb’s Developer Technographics Survey, some interesting stats stood out to me. The #1 moti
Some Halloween Fun
Boo! Here are a few links for some Halloween fun. Ghost Logs lets you report all of your supernatural happenings and displays the location of all the recorded events in Google Maps. Alas, Charlotte is so dull even t
PostGIS Raster FTW
I’m not a raster guy. I’ve never been a raster guy. I’m not talking about rasters that are really, you know…photos. I mean the serious raster business with bands and pixel values and grid sizes and map algebra. I don’t d
Show - Great Geo Infographic
Via Downloadsquad, Show - A New Way To Look At The World is a fantastic map based data visualization tool. It has a wealth of data from top sources, and it represents the data by exploding the countries map and changing
Ode to My New Hardware
It’s amazing how much computing power you can bring to bear on the cheap these days. On my home workstation I tossed out an older AMD AM2 dual core and dropped in an Intel Core i5 750 (which also entailed dropping in a n
Find Any Unusual Black Boxes Under Your Car Lately?
A couple of articles posted on Slashdot recently (here and here) have me reaching for my tin-foil hat. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in their infinite wisdom, ruled that it’s legal for law enforcement to put GPS trac
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