Why You Should Have a Wiki
I’ve mentioned Google Tech Talks before, and I recently watched “The Visual Wiki: a new metaphor for knowledge access and management“. The Tech Talk was about combining the text-based knowledge management aspects of a w
Building a VE Mashup With MSR MapCruncher
The MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth is a MS Windows desktop application that let's quickly build map tiles to use in a Virtual Earth mashup. By map tiles, we mean image slices of your map at various scales that overly
Google Hosts Popular JS Libraries on CDN
In the Google-loves-me department, Google is now hosting common Javascript libraries on its Content Distribution Network (CDN). A CDN is a system of distributed content on a large collection of Internet servers on which
Google Earth Goes Browser
Microsoft’s Virtual Earth did it. NASA’s World Wind Java did it first. Now Google Earth is doing it too. Google has released a browser plug-in for Google Earth along with a Javascript API. You can download it here, and O
GDAL to The Rescue
Recently I had an interesting project come up. A customer wanted to show data from his rain gauges, both current event values and past event values. No problem. Hit the database, drop points and values on a mashup, Bob’s
Web Services for Finding Stuff
Geolocation of “stuff” can be a pain. Once you get past geocoding addresses, you basically need a database of some kind, referencing a common key (business name, parcel ID, etc.) that can relate the search term to terra
A Quick Early Voting Mashup
Our county’s Board of Elections recently approached me with an idea for a map showing early voting sites. Early voting sites are different from regular polling locations in that they are unassigned - as a registered vote
Keys to DIY Graphic Design
Dumb Little Man has a great post titled 7 Keys to DIY Graphic Design on No Budget. Some highlights:Be minimalistic. In particular, don’t over-write. I find I do that a lot. For someone with the social skills of a turnip,
QGIS 0.10 Released
From Slashgeo:Quantum GIS (QGIS to you and me) 0.10 “Io” has been released. The release includes:140 bug and stability improvementsNew toolbar graphics (very nice)Improved digitizing, including better vertex editing and
PostgreSQL 8.3 Upgrade Notes
We recently upgraded our production PostgreSQL 8.2.x database to 8.3. One of the nice things about PostgreSQL is you can toss it on your laptop, restore your 8.2 database, and beat it senseless to figure out if anything