Editor’s Note: I’ve made a few updates since this was first posted. The zip file is now current as of 3.17.2008, and I’ve also changed the text here a bit. The update includes a custom OpenLayers.js build to reduce the f
In the they-just-don’t-get-it category, a West Virginia county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit to keep their tax maps off the web. I ran across this in Slashdot and did a double-take. I then read the linked article on A
Well, sort of. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting this story in the news somewhere (here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I thought I’d bring it up. On February 21st, 2008, Microsoft announced it has seen t
This is a bit off-topic, but it’s hard to go a month these days without hearing of a laptop walking away with sensitive information, like social security and credit card numbers. The privacy of your digital data is also
I ran across this on Free Geography Tools. Google has announced it’s Google Geo Developer Series of workshops/lectures at the Googleplex. Here’s a synopsis of the first two workshops: Feb. 20 @6pm: Quick & Dirty KML
Like the “Fuzzy Tolerance” image at the top of the page with the reflection bit? How about something like this:*Or event this:It’s a snap to make with GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Just follow this great tuto
From Linux.com: OpenStreetMap (OSM) has completed the bulk import of comprehensive street and highway data for the United States, months ahead of the project's original estimates. The massive data set originated with the
In the gosh-I-didn’t-see-that-coming department, Sun Microsystems has entered an agreement to acquire the world’s most popular open source database, MySQL. The total price for the acquisition is ~$1,000,000,000.00 US,
From the-little-browser-that-couldn’t department, there have been a few bits of Internet Explorer information in the news lately that I thought might interest the web developers among you. First, on February 12th, Micros
Check out this post on the James Fee GIS Blog: ESRI’s Web ADF is One Horrific Development Platform After you read the post, read some of the comments. YEEOOOOWCH! Harsh. Fair, but harsh. One of our devs did a project wit