First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr, courtesy of IBM. Lucene is high performance text search engine, Solr is a search platform using Lucene, and they are both open
Via the Google Earth Blog, Google worked with GeoEye over the last 24 hours to get updated imagery of Haiti. The Google Earth KML file is here, and you can also see the imagery on Google Maps. Google has set up a crisis
TED Talks has a good presentation by Lalitesh Katragadda titled Making Maps to Fight Disaster, Build Economies. The focus is on Google Map Maker, and how during a 2008 cyclone event in Myanmar 40 volunteers from Google d
From Slashdot:
In the hell-hath-frozen-over department, Microsoft has joined the W3C’s SVG Working Group. As a little history, at one time there were two vector graphics formats competing for W3C standardization - PGML, which was suppo
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Goo
Through a lot of testing (and swearing), I’ve found the #1 thing users botch on a web application is text entry. Nothing else comes close. That seemingly innocent text box with the blinking cursor is the primary place yo
Have a happy and safe holiday season! –Fuzzy Tolerance
First up in Make Smarter this month is a good GeoDjango tutorial by the folks at Linfiniti.com. This tutorial doesn’t assume Django knowledge, so it’s a good introduction to Django as well, from installation (Ubuntu/Debi
If you haven’t played Left 4 Dead, let me sum it up for you: AAAARRRGGHHHHHHHHHH! Maximum PC has a great how-to on making Left 4 Dead maps using a combination of Valve’s Hammer World Editor and Google SketchUp. It’s a v