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The Pragmatic Geographer: August 2011

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Politics, Geography, Conservation. Whatever I feel like talking about, but mostly those things. Wednesday, August 10, 2011. HTML5 File System API - Basic Tips. Recently went to an HTML5 Hackathon at Google Kirkland. My group's project was an in-browser IDE Chrome extension that zipped up a user-provided series of HTML/CSS/JS files into a package that could be uploaded to the Chrome Store. Issac Lewis. The FileSystem API is not LocalStorage. There's no limit to the storage, currently. Hell yeah, cache all...

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The Pragmatic Geographer: September 2010

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Politics, Geography, Conservation. Whatever I feel like talking about, but mostly those things. Thursday, September 30, 2010. Location based services are going to compete on trust, except Facebook. Two articles recently came to my attention - one describing how location based services like FourSquare are used by some vanishingly small percentage of young people. The other article described how some mobile applications are secretly sending GPS coordinates to advertisers. People will still use Facebook eve...

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The Pragmatic Geographer: July 2010

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Politics, Geography, Conservation. Whatever I feel like talking about, but mostly those things. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. I've been hammering away at a GIS migration project that has been going on far. Longer than anyone expected it might take, but I've gotten the opportunity to hack away at some Python to more or less fix a problem I found on TheGISForum. Is there a way to use the network analyst tools on a geometric network? Along these exact lines. From The Pragmatic Geographer. Posted by Ben Reilly.

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The Pragmatic Geographer: TileMill - what it does and some reasons to try it

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Politics, Geography, Conservation. Whatever I feel like talking about, but mostly those things. Friday, January 27, 2012. TileMill - what it does and some reasons to try it. We were promised jetpacks, but I'll take Tilemill as a temporary replacement: http:/ mapbox.com/tilemill/. The MapBox/DevelopmentSeed team has created one of the the last pieces really needed for mainstream open source GIS to gain really massive appeal. TileMill does one thing and it does it well. It also has sane, plaintext css-like...

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The Pragmatic Geographer: A Programmer By Any Other Name

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Politics, Geography, Conservation. Whatever I feel like talking about, but mostly those things. Wednesday, May 8, 2013. A Programmer By Any Other Name. If you follow economics at all, the news has been awash in a sizable scandal involving a pair of economists and their bold claim - a specific level of government debt causes economic slowdowns - being found to have several serious problems. One of these problems was a critical error made in their Excel spreadsheet. That's right. They were using. Given thi...

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The Fiducial Mark: Thoughts on Google Building Maker and 3D Building Extraction

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Friday, October 16, 2009. Thoughts on Google Building Maker and 3D Building Extraction. Earlier this week Google introduced the Google Building Maker. Which it bills as a simple tool for creating buildings for Google Earth. I gave it a whirl earlier today and while it is a relatively simple toolset, the direction is impressive and has some broad-reaching implications for the future. 1) The first step is to launch the Google Building Maker. Legend: Blue = Buildings Already Exist, White: No Buildings.

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The Fiducial Mark: June 2009

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Thursday, June 11, 2009. 2009 NAIP Status Update. As mentioned on the NSGIC News Blog. The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) for 2009 will cover roughly two-thirds of the USA. This is quite an achievement for the program and will result in an excellent resource for geospatial practitioners as well as the broader public. A status update from yesterday indicates that flight operations are already well underway. The North West Group. Here is a map of the contractor areas:. Posted by Ryan Strynatka.

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The Fiducial Mark: OGC Standards Working Group: IGS-IGM

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Monday, February 23, 2009. OGC Standards Working Group: IGS-IGM. A major challenge in the world of photogrammetry is data interoperability. I touched on this last week when discussing stereo imagery as a data product. In the context that a practical standard for photogrammetric metadata is inhibiting the adoption of stereo imagery as a data product. Fortunately efforts are underway at the OGC. Or Dr Stewart Walker. Posted by Ryan Strynatka. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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The Fiducial Mark: July 2009

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Monday, July 13, 2009. EATE: Automatic Terrain Extraction Webinar. If you're interested in automatic 3D terrain generation technology, please consider participating in our "Terrain from Imagery" webinar tomorrow (11am ET). Details are on the ERDAS homepage. And the registration info is here. GeoEye-1 Color Terrain: Hobart, Australia. Posted by Ryan Strynatka. Thursday, July 9, 2009. I haven't thought about 3D video much before, but a newsletter sent out from Planar. Posted by Ryan Strynatka. It seems lik...