Monthly Archives: May 2008

Starting in February we have been working with the Wildlife Conservation Society to create a map viewer for their Global Avian Influenza site (www.gains.org). This updated viewer launched a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share a little bit … Continue reading →

In this go round, we’ll look at the questions related to Design Patterns… Design Patterns The question was “When you hear the term ‘Design Patterns’ what comes to mind?”.   A majority of people did get that GOF = Gang … Continue reading →

So we needed to do some testing of sites on Safari on a Mac, and I asked around the company, and low it turns out that there was an orphan MacBook Pro floating about. After a quick trip via FedEx, … Continue reading →

Newly refreshed after a week of vacation, I thought I’d start things up with the results of the informal “2008 Geospatial Developer Survey”. I’ll start by thanking the 320 people who took the time to complete it. Admittedly it was … Continue reading →

My thoughts after Where 2008… In my view, the “Where 2.0″ movement/phenomena is about the democratization of mapping – remix this, mash in that, geocode it and get it on a map. My Map. With My Stuff and My Friends. … Continue reading →

Since there many other people are blogging the details of Where, I’m just going to take notes about the ideas that resonate with me… Make your maps permalink friendly: Everyblock.com has a Uri hierarchy (RESTy?) that makes sense, and allows deep-linking … Continue reading →

So the session was hampered by some corrupted data on the USB sticks, and was more a loosely guided tour of the stack than anything else. I had PostGIS up and running, but could not get my data (loaded into … Continue reading →

Grass roots re-mapping efforts, focused on Europe. Crowd-sourcing. Pretty nice cartography. See the maps here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/   Note the pubs shown on the map via the Pint glass on the map. Nice. Has features not in other maps – foot … Continue reading →

Ok, hopes for a Bruce Lee javascript smack down were thwarted when Andrew started off with “this is Where 2.0 101″. Started out with a quick run over the common formats – GeoRSS, KML and Microformats. Microformats – additional HTML … Continue reading →

Thanks to Ron Bruder who left a comment on the previous post with the link directly to the documentation for using the PostGIS geometries in the geodatabase. I did have some weirdness trying to access the link – of course … Continue reading →