A while back, I blogged the availability of a GDAL/OGR plug-in for ArcGIS desktop by Ragi Burhum at AmigoCloud. At the time, I was hoping to dig into it fairly quickly but that didn’t happen and I’m finally getting to it. Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that I have had…
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MSDN Article on Mapping with WPF
I found this article today about using VB9 and WPF to draw thematic maps. It’s a good walk-through of how to do it. The article admits that the coordinate transformation used is not terribly accurate but that can be rectified. This article is a good example of how to build a mapping application without any…
Stealing GPS…
The following was reported on the local news in Washington, DC: WRC-TV updated 7:37 p.m. ET, Mon., Nov. 26, 2007 BETHESDA, Md. – On two nights earlier this month, several cars were broken into in Bethesda, police said. The break-ins occurred overnight Nov. 7 to Nov. 8 and overnight Nov. 11 to Nov. 12, police…
DDJ on “The Return of the Desktop”
Okay, I swear I’m not on the DDJ payroll, but this article caught my eye immediately. Michael Swaine has been on a roll lately but I think this one just drips with significance for the GIS community. Over the past 10 years, as everyone has run screaming from the desktop, I’ve been a little mystified…
Interesting Washington Post Article…
For those of you familiar with what Northern Virginia is like now, the following article may be of interest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080102407.html It’s about how archaeologists are using some recently discovered aerial photos of Fairfax County from 1937 to analyze change over the decades.
New DDJ Column on Concurrency
Anyone who has browsed this blog enough has probably figured out that I am a fan of Doctor Dobb’s Journal. This month’s issue inaugurates a new column by Herb Sutter dealing with concurrency. In my opinion, the confluence of mult-processor/multi-core systems with a greater emphasis on server-based GIS makes concurrency a huge issue for the…
DDJ Article on MyMap Javascript API
An article in the latest Dr. Dobb’s caught my eye. It’s about MyMap; a javascript api that standardizes the calls between Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Virtual Earth. I’m always drawn when mapping tools get press outside of the GIS world. MyMap is predicated on the idea that each mapping engine provides similar capabilities. There…
Good Article on Optimizing Open-Source Software
There’s been a lot of recent buzz about open-source GIS software. Good discussions can be found at James Fee’s site, plus Datum Shift as well as on Dave Bouwman’s blog. Given all of this discussion, I found this article in Dr. Dobb’s Journal to be rather timely. It’s not about GIS software per se but…