You obviously don't come to this blog for the bleeding edge technology updates of say TechCrunch of Endgadget, so you'll forgive me for posting "old" news.
I thought this was an interesting post about mixed reality and social net...
December 09, 2009
April 25, 2009
I have had some frustrations trying to get a label to rotate 90 degrees in Flex, both as an mxml component and in Actionscript. The key to this problem has to do with embedding fonts. The easiest way to embed a font in flex is to use a s...
February 10, 2010
A recent Cartotalk post caught my attention about a new Infographic at the NYTimes. If you don't want to follow the link, the basic gist of it is they have set up a series of interactive 3D maps of the Vancouver Olympic area. As per ...
August 16, 2008
Ok, like I've said before - I don't see the Geoweb as GIS, but I do see it as part of the same spectrum. Here is more evidence that the Geoweb is not GIS. Just learned about the Google Visualizations API. Sounds pretty cool, and looks like...
May 23, 2010
I was lucky enough to be able to play with the original Google phone running Android 1.6 the month I was in the US. I have to say it was a real joy to use. Although, ironically, the part I found most clumsy was the phone part. Parti...
March 31, 2009
Back from Las Vegas. The conference was really enjoyable - intellectually stimulating and intimidating at the same time. My presentation went well, even though no one really attended. So I pretty much gave the presentation to the o...
September 23, 2009
I've been thinking a lot about the latest Mixed Reality news to come out from Mobilizy about their open standard for Augmented Reality browsers. This is discussed here and the standard is available here. The standard is based on Goog...
April 01, 2009
I was thinking about this "digital divide"* between the geoweb community and the geography academic community, and remembered the video I watched about the Rocky Mountain News Closing. The journalists being interviewed made the comme...
September 23, 2009
I have a tendency to jump around from topic to topic in an inconsistant way, and I guess this week/month I'm on a visualizations kick. I look at a blog called Urban Cartography from time to time as they have interesting infographics and da...
February 01, 2010
I never really thought of myself as a Fanboy of anything...I'm too cynical perhaps. But with the unfortunately named IPad arriving, the Flash haters have come out of the woodworks saying that Apple's continued lack of support of Flash w...
April 29, 2009
I'm working an Adobe AIR application and I wanted to be able to have the user select a shapefile, and then parse it to create a KML file. I didn't want to have the user be responsible for creating a KML file. I thought I mi...
July 11, 2009
Ok, so displaying data from your database in a table is rather boring don't you think? I'm working with time series data in this project, and so I'm really interested in being able to quickly display a trend. This will be par...
June 22, 2010
I saw this very very cool mashup from a post at cartotalk. It shows all the trains movement in the London tube/subway/metro system on a google map. It's based on data that comes direct from a government API. It does beg the ques...
March 10, 2009
As part of a project, I've looked into technology that allow a person with a portable device to somehow connect with where they are. What I mean by this is say a person is walking down the street, and is curious about some building with a ...
February 23, 2010
While, I don't have anything against FortiusOne or the "neogeography" work that they create. I do have something against shoddy examples. Here is a shining example from a recent feature they have added to their GeoCommo...
July 08, 2009
I've mentioned that I was curious about using AIR in conjunction with Spatialite in a previous post. Unfortunately this isn't possible, but you can use the overarching SQLite database in AIR to create a compact database for your applic...
November 18, 2009
Junaio was recently released on the IPhone. It is another AR Browser like application, but allows you to place objects in the scene. In the video on the link the women places a dinosaur in the scene next to the Golden Gate Bridge. ...
November 17, 2009
I've been self-teching how to work with the Android SDK, and am having a pleasant mix of frustration and pleasure. I do agree with Wired's post about Android's rapid growth and multiple versions/hardwar causing problems with their ...
January 27, 2009
or Neogeography...or Web 2.0...or whatever you want to call it...
Basically to keep up with the ever changing world of the GIS Analyst/Geographer, I've set upon myself the tiny minor little task of learning how to create Rich Internet Applicatio...
April 07, 2009
Made a simple QRCode reader in .Net the other day. I used the Open Source ZXing barcode processing library. You need to build the C# code, which was easy enough with C# express 2008, then add the dll as a reference to your project. ...
August 29, 2010
I've complemented the NFL website on their play-by-play interactive graphic before. Well, it's football season again, and until One HD starts broadcasting the games in Australia, I've been catching up on the NFL website. I not...
November 04, 2009
First off, I hate the term Augmented Reality. Augment whose reality? I much prefer to term Mixed Realities. It speaks more to a blending of virtual and physical objects. With this last sentence, I give away my generation.&nbs...
September 20, 2009
This article came to my attention via the always interesting Cartotalk. It is a discussion of Bis2's new software and new information visualisation technique. While, I wouldn't really want to be on the receiving end of Few's ...