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books | Steve Coast
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September 16, 2015. Airline encyclopedia from yesteryear. Airliner article on an iPhone 6. If you go and play with Microsoft Encarta from 20 years ago you’ll discover a ton of fun functionality that doesn’t exist in it’s successor Wikipedia. Games, quizzes, tours and more. Today’s encyclopedia experience is pretty poor compared to the books I’d immerse myself in as a kid. I used to love trawling through books full of detailed content and serendipity. Android and Windows coming if iOS works out). The ency...
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Measuring continental drift with your phone! | Steve Coast
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Measuring continental drift with your phone! February 24, 2015. Most of the work mapping people do is concerned with moving GPS units. Walking, driving, biking with a GPS and doing things with that movement data. But, there is a big use case for static GPS units too! Guy planting a GPS in a glacier. So the question to me is, instead of having one GPS collecting for a year, could I have 365 GPS units for a day? Or, 4,380 GPS units for an hour…. And get the same result? In the same place. That would be fun!
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A Modern Mapping Party | Steve Coast
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A Modern Mapping Party. February 25, 2015. Last month I ran a mapping party in Castle Rock, Colorado at the new Philip S. Miller Park. Philip S Miller Park. The park was challenging for a few reasons:. Nothing on the map before we did the party. No up-to-date aerial imagery. Lots of footpaths in winter mud conditions. Drones to the rescue! Luckily I own a Phantom Vision 2 drone. Which looks like this:. So I sent it up to 500 feet or so and took some pictures with the HD camera which looked like this:.
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10 Ideas for Southwest Airlines | Steve Coast
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10 Ideas for Southwest Airlines. February 22, 2015. I love James Altuchers “send someone 10 ideas a day” thing and have been doing it for a while. I figure, since the response rate is pretty low why not just make them public too? Fix the WiFi. It’s only ever barely worked. I took a Lufthansa 747 over the Atlantic a few months ago and used their WiFi. Whatever those guys are doing works. Stop sending me drinks coupons if I don’t drink. Figure out some other reward, since people just sell them on eBay.
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Videos and Talks | Steve Coast
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Sign up for Steve Coast's Updates. Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap. And has also done other things. Check out my book. How Alex Mahrou from CH2M got MapClub shut down. July 27, 2016. OpenGeoCodes – Download address data for the USA! July 7, 2016. July 25, 2016. How Alex Mahrou from CH2M got MapClub shut down. July 27, 2016. July 25, 2016. OpenGeoCodes – Download address data for the USA! July 7, 2016.
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How Alex Mahrou from CH2M got MapClub shut down. July 27, 2016. MapClub’s funding curve. Kickstarter notified us yesterday that they were shutting MapClub. Down, and of course wouldn’t share why. This is despite the funding being successful and 15 people signing up. Fair enough, it’s their baby and their rules. Well now we know why – Alex Mahrou’s long, angry and sarcastic investigative piece. On why people shouldn’t do things that he disagrees with. Anyhow, problem number two was missing the dry humor i...
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The world will only get weirder | Steve Coast
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The world will only get weirder. March 27, 2015. Another month, another terrible and bizarre aircraft incident. As far as the media are reporting, Andreas Lubitz decided it would be a great idea to fly a fully functional A320 in to the side of a mountain. And kill 150 people a few days ago. Six months ago a fully functioning 777 was flown in to the sea wall. A year ago a fully functioning 777 made some interesting maneuvers and disappeared in the South Indian Ocean. With 239 people on board. We invented ...
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openstreetmap | Steve Coast
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Connecting WordPress to OpenStreetMap with Auth0. May 12, 2016. If you log in to this blog. You can now do so using your OSM account. If I say so myself, that’s pretty awesome. Here’s how I did it:. First we need to install the Auth0 WordPress Plugin. Which you can find by opening up WP, going to plugins and searching for “Auth0.”. Just use Auth0 and avoid all that pain. Auth0 is going to be more secure than anything you do, and immediately extensible. But it still works! Next you need to log in to OSM.
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A Frustrating Mystery | Steve Coast
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February 21, 2015. My friend Adam Fisher. Said it so well I had to capture it:. I’ll be on Science Friday today. 10 Ideas for Southwest Airlines. Sign up for Steve Coast's Updates. Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap. And has also done other things. Check out my book. How Alex Mahrou from CH2M got MapClub shut down. July 27, 2016. OpenGeoCodes – Download address data for the USA! July 7, 2016. July 25, 2016. How Alex Mahrou from CH2M got MapClub shut down. July 27, 2016. July 25, 2016. July 7, 2016.