Tag Archives: gis

Contact Management getting more exciting

I started writing this post some (six?) months ago, and then forgot about it. I got the email that etacts was shutting down and then saw that it was being purchased by Salesforce so figured I might as well just … Continue reading

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MapDotNet : Blog : Google voice recognition software used in street data collection process?

Last week Google replaced thier base maps in the US, no longer using data from TeleAtlas. The new data isn’t from OpenStreetMap either. I think we are finally starting to figure out where it all came from: MapDotNet : Blog … Continue reading

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Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet

Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet – since I emailed Mikel asking for a list like this about a year and a half ago, I can take credit for … Continue reading

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Waterloo, Part 3: Geo Stuff

Okay, so I am cheating a bit here. Rather than writing a new post, I’m linking to a page on my wiki where I have been collecting links for several years already: mfagan wiki / waterloo geo stuff. Back when … Continue reading

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dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » Not Your Mamma’s Maps

dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » Not Your Mamma’s Maps – a very slick app for browsing geospatial data. Their screencast shows input through a geoRSS feed, but I am guessing that will not be freely available. Via Mikel.

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Map sources/GeoHack

Map sources/GeoHack – very cool, provides links to mapping sites at specified coordinates; this is a much more comprehensive version of my similar service.

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randomness

work seems to be keeping me rather busy Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. The query I was sending … Continue reading

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Globe4D

Globe4D – this is fantastic. For a while I’ve envisioned something quite similar, although mine involved projection from the centre of the sphere, rather than from outside it. Clearly their method makes more sense 🙂 Every school in the world … Continue reading

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