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Feb 9, 2010
Feb 8, 2010
"Get up in the morning to the snap that says it's rice"
Andy Allan:
"But when I started work with ASTER in December, things spiralled rapidly downhill. First is the pointlessly irritating 'order a dataset' website, that sucked up hours of going round in circles. It's like a shopping website from 1999. You need to use a stupid interface to order which 1degx1deg tiles you want, and 'All' isn't an option, despite there being 22,600 of them. It seems geared up for people who want a couple of dozen at a time, and the whole thing has a feel of being run by men with beards and sandals who'd rather you didn't use their website in anything newer than Netscape 4 on HP-UX.
Feb 7, 2010
Tim Bray:
"I personally think the protocol's going to be a big deal; here's why. My track record as a prognosticator is good but not perfect. There's one thing of which I'm confident though: if Atompub takes off, it'll be in at least one area that makes no sense at all to me, seems completely crazy."
Originally from Entries for Sean Gillies Blog by reBlogged
"This package provides a general framework for developing spatial indices. Currently it defines generic interfaces, provides simple main memory and disk based storage managers and a robust implementation of an R*-tree, an MVR-tree and a TPR-tree. In addition the library includes a 3-dimensional R-tree visualization plug-in."
Originally from Entries for Sean Gillies Blog by reBlogged
"Furthermore, a resource-oriented approach scales better than an endpoint-based protocol like WCS. As the number of resources grows, you simply spread them over more servers like Google has done with its Earth and Maps tiles.
There may be geospatial problems that REST can't tackle, but access to arbitrary regions of a coverage is not one of them."
Originally from Entries for Sean Gillies Blog by reBlogged
Paul Ramsey's talk at BAAMA:
"... communities will self-police if given actionable intelligence ... give civil servants the freedom to join public fora in an official capacity ... on the internet vs. part of the internet."
Originally from Entries for Sean Gillies Blog by reBlogged
"My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: applique, reverse applique, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work.
My current work combines aerial photography, maps, and satellite imagery. I also find myself drawn to the more minute systems of the microbial world.
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It is the use of maps in organizing our ideas of land that interests me most of all."
Originally from MetaFilter posts tagged with maps by reBlogged to on Jan 1, 2009, 10:31AM
"They say you don't want to see either laws or sausages being made, but I think they are wrong. Imagine how much more transparency and accountability our government would have if it were possible to see what changes were made by whom, who inserted extraneous riders into various bills, and generally to track the influence of various interests by the new visibility into their actual control over the knobs and levers of government!"
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Paul Saffo: United States has 50 years left, California is a more significant political entity, look at Singapore, this is all good news.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Radar post about new work from Stamen-Tom and MySociety-Tom, with dynamic, visual display of London housing prices and commute times for choosing where to live.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Ethan Zuckerman:
"Sufficiently usable read/write platforms will attract porn and activists.
If there's no porn, the tool doesn't work.
If there are no activists, it doesn't work well."
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Christian Crumlish's excellent talk slides on patterns and anti-patterns in social software.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Brady sums it up.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged
Dense, useful post from IMVU on process feedback loops that help you learn from mistakes and avoid problems.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged to
Brooklyn Museum:
"Today we are introducing a new game called Freeze Tag! which puts control of the tags back into the hands of our most valued community members. If you are a member of our Posse, you can delete tags from object pages - this is new, previously we were not allowing tag deletion except by system admins. For any tag that is deleted, it takes another two pairs of Posse eyes to 'agree' within Freeze Tag! before that tag's fate is sealed."
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged to
"PyMT is a python module for developing multi-touch enabled media rich applications. Currently the aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototype development. PyMT is written in Python, based on pyglet toolkit."
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. by reBlogged to
"How can this now-instantaneous access to data add clarity to ingrained patterns, and perhaps allow us to change those patterns according to evolving needs and requirements?
Nicholas de Monchaux, an assistant professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, has been thinking about all this a lot. Last year, he and his students developed a project called Local Code, which takes as its focus unused pavement space in major urban areas. Though most of us barely notice or give any thought to this seemingly useless space, finding pragmatic ways to use it can have a beneficial impact on the social, economic and environmental health of a region."
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Feb 4, 2010, 5:15AM
MapQuest is a liability, not an asset:
"Among the possible buyer suggested for the mapping biz: Microsoft and Apple. Some suggest dumping MapQuest may not be such a great idea if as CEO Tim Anderson suggested, local will be a focus. On the other hand, AOL did buy hyperlocal media company Patch and quickly swapped out Google Maps for OSM."
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Nov 20, 2009, 6:12AM
NAVTEQ just launched this 2.5D browser for their road and traffic data. It's clunky, but interesting. The rendering of the roads is unsatisfying, they're sort of ruffled. It's slow to load, slow to do much at all. They're sending vector data around. You can rotate the whole thing. I think it looks better than Google Earth.
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged on May 13, 2009, 5:07AM
"Based in Westbrook Maine, Historic Map Works, LLC is an Internet company formed to create a historic digital map database of North America and the world. Drawing on the largest physical collection of American property atlases of its type, it is our aim to be the single best online destination for map enthusiasts and researchers alike."
The Oakland Sanborn scans are total ass, sadly.
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Feb 27, 2009, 4:08AM
Enterprise-enabled timeloaf.
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Feb 3, 2009, 4:00AM
"Long frustrated by the paucity of local maps, I was intrigued when reader Jim Morgan told me about what he says is the most complete online map of Manila.
'I've been contributing to a project called OpenStreetMap. Over the past year, we've pretty much nailed Manila, and it's without doubt the most complete online map of Manila,' writes Jim, who founded the Hong Kong-based information security company Datalude."
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Jan 20, 2009, 4:40AM
"As a new generation of 'The Big Lebowski' fans emerges, Dude Studies may linger for a while.
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When putting the book together, Mr. Comentale said, he and his co-editor 'immediately cut out all the papers celebrating the Dude as a hippie hero in a postmodern landscape.' That's a sober choice.
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Umberto Eco: 'What are the requirements for transforming a book or movie into a cult object? The work must be loved, obviously, but this is not enough. It must provide a completely furnished world so that its fans can quote characters and episodes as if they were aspects of the fan's private sectarian world, a world about which one can make up quizzes and play trivia games so that the adepts of the sect recognize through each other a shared expertise.'"
Originally from NYT > Most E-Mailed by reBlogged to on Dec 29, 2009, 5:27PM
New York Times argues that we're seeing a swing in innovation from small inventors to big systems, which isn't too different from something I've been sensing as well. New New Deal is at heart a massive, all-fronts realignment - where's the role for the small and the nimble in this universe?
Originally from NYT > Most E-Mailed by reBlogged to on May 23, 2009, 9:01PM