Make a Web 2.0 Logo with GIMP

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

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PostGIS REST Web Services

Editor’s Note: I moved this project to the Projects page at the top. Last month I talked about Geospatial Portal, a site I recently rolled out, that is entirely, 100%, based on REST web services - OGC WMS services for t

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ESRI Offers ArcGIS Server Developers Serious Cabbage

I first spotted this on the James Fee GIS Blog.ESRI is offering ArcGIS Server developers some serious cabbage in the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. It works like this: write some cool ArcGIS Server code, post it to A

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Building a .com in 24 Hours

Be ye forewarned: the articles I’m linking to here contain a small amount of profanity. I figure one or two of you might be put off by that, and the rest of you will be put off because it isn’t a large amount of profanit

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Spatial Meta Tags

If you’re not a web geek, you might want to skip this one. I’m going to delve into some meta tags for a moment, and the audience interested in that sort of thing is probably very, very tiny. There are a ton of HTML meta

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Geospatial Portal Beta

I recently deployed a new web mapping site as a beta (ala Google): Geospatial Portal Beta. I bring it up here because it uses a bunch of bits I haven't used before, and I'd like to post my happy thoughts about the whole

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Mapping Extensions for Firefox

Linux.com has a great post on mapping extensions for Firefox. Here are a few highlights: Mini Map Sidebar: The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Create and sav

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Using the Google Chart API

Making good charts on the web is tricky. You can’t really make anything but a bar chart in HTML, and getting that bit of coding right isn’t trivial. The most reliable method for charting is creating static images, but co

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Grab Some Icons for Web Maps

I was recently stalking some decent icons to use with one of my web mapping projects, and I ran across a resource I thought I’d share. Mapki is a wiki that “is meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, implementations, and

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A Quick and Dirty Reverse Proxy with PHP

I’m polishing off a new mapping site that uses Geoserver/Tilecache as a WMS back end. Tilecache is a Python WMS/TMS server that caches images to speed up your WMS client. It’s the bees knees. Unless, like your intrepid s

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