Google Earth has had a flight simulator built in for quite a while (hit CTRL-A), but as the Google Earth Blog points out, with the new data available in Google Earth 5, you can also fly under water or on Mars. Just get t
As a programmer, you spend a lot of time thinking about how your users will interact with your system in unexpected ways. After the Apollo 1 disaster that claimed the lives of three astronauts during a test of the commu
There has never been a time when I’ve attended a North Carolina GIS Conference and not felt extremely fortunate to be in such an innovative and forward-thinking community, and this year was no exception. We found out a f
Unless you are a holy crusader in the Vim vs Emacs war, you are probably less than 100% satisfied with your code editor/IDE. You may like yours a whole lot, but there are always some little things here and there than mak
Ars has a really good post on location aware software for Linux. The framework is called Geoclue and it builds on a number of other software packages and services, sharing an API through D-Bus, which is a common way for
In the ohboyohboyohboy department, Google Earth 5.0 has been released. You can read a good summary and watch a video on the Google blog, but here’s a quick summary of the new features: The thing people have been tal
In the it’s-almost-here department, Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s ubiquitous crashware slug of a browser, is getting read to push out a new release. And despite my uncharitable description, I’m pretty hyped about it. It
I’ve got a collection of things I’ve bookmarked that I thought were interesting, but none of them together were interesting enough for a blog post. Going under the belief that a great many mediocre stories = one good sto
This has been analyzed so much in the blogosphere I feel a bit late to the party. But in a nutshell, Jack Dangermond (ESRI) and Anne Miglarese (Booz Allen Hamilton) have proposed getting $1.2 billion in bailout funds for
I spotted this on the Google Earth Blog. It needs no further explanation: The developer is planning on releasing the source code sometime soon.