Free Enterprise Search Engine
At Mecklenburg County, our Information Services & Technology department has a Creativity and Innovation team. Being that I'm neither of those things, and also being that I'm not a part of Information Services &
Google and USHMM Highlight Darfur Genocide
Most people are aware of the ongoing genocide taking place in the Darfur region of the Sudan.Google added high resolution imagery of Darfur to Google Earth, taken by DigitalGlobe in January-March 2006, and the United Sta
Customizing Google Maps - Part III - Customizing the Google Maps API
Now for the fun stuff. You can download the full tutorial HTML page and KML data here.Google Maps has a free API you can use to add Google Maps functionality directly to your site. You don’t get every single feature of
Tame Your Unruly CSS Files
I find people generally fall in to two categories: people that have been writing HTML since pre-CSS days and believe CSS is a pox upon humanity, and people that started writing HTML post-CSS and find it to be the most w
(Free) Free and Open Source Software Book
MIT press is offering the book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software for free download. From the synopsis:What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software
Customizing Google Maps - Part II - Converting Data to KML
KML isn’t a terribly difficult XML schema to create and edit by hand, but if you want to use some of your GIS data, there’s no need to go typing out coordinates until your carpel-tunnel flairs up. There are a couple of
KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
The Google Maps API blog had what I think was a big announcement this past Wednesday. The Google Maps API will now support both KML and GeoRSS.The long-standing problem with the Google Maps API was that you could only a
Customizing Google Maps - Part I - Adding Data to Google Maps
*Editor’s Note: I’ve updated this post a bit. In yet another show of how powerful I’ve become, after I made a comment about the Google Maps API not using KML, Google changed the API to incorporate both KML and GeoRSS f
New Ways to Search for Code
The way we get a few bits of code for a project we’re working on has changed a lot over the past 5-10 years.In ancient times (circa 1995), code was handed down from one generation to the next. If you were a Programmer a
French National Map Agency Chooses PostGIS
I picked up this tidbit on a PostgreSQL mailing list. The French IGN (Institut Géographique National - their national mapping agency) has chosen PostGIS/PostgreSQL as their spatial database repository for their national