http://crschmidt.net/blog Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:34:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chad writes: I know their "motto" is "Don't Be Evil" .. but I think it should be "Don't Be Smart" instead.. this is some dumb thinking from Google. Trust me.. I know better than Google on how I want to download and install my software. This is just the latest in ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/321/technocentric-thinking/ So, I'm going camping this week. While camping, I plan to be hiking the White Mountains relatively extensively, from my home base at Lafayette Campground in Franconia Notch. One of the best part of planning hiking trips is maps. I love maps. I love looking at them, finding things, exploring things. ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/320/printing-maps-twin-mountain-drg/ Earlier today, a coworker was trying to work out a diagram for the models in the Django app that I've been working on internally, to visualize the relationships between them. I did a quick Google, and found a reference to DjangoGraphviz, a super-handy little chunk of code. DjangoGraphviz did exactly ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/319/djangographviz-visualizing-django-models/ From the GeoJSON mailing list: The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With support in more than ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/318/geojson-10-release/ I made a post over on the MetaCarta Labs blog about doing geographic queries on App Engine: ???????? ????? ????????In this way, I was able to put together a geographic bounding box query, on top of Google App Engine, using a Geohash-like algorithm as a storage format, and use that query ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/317/geographic-queries-on-google-app-engine/ Wherecamp is the closest thing to a perfect conference going experience I have had in my history of going to conferences. The organizers -- Ryan and Anselm -- did a great job of pulling everything together, but I think that the single entity most responsible for making this happen was ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/316/wherecamp2008-ideal-conference-going-experience/ Notes about Processing, from processing.org, and other related things. "Drawing images is not about telling which pixels to turn on or off, it's about telling to draw lines." In addition to processing being pretty, you can draw the entire map into any unit you want. Drew a bunch of lines out in ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/315/cool-processing-stuff/ Tonight, starting around 7:30, there is a plan to descend on The Dubliner, in Noe Valley, San Francisco, for beer and hackery. If the plan changes, I'll update twitter. If you want to join us, please: Comment here Email me (crschmidt@crschmidt.net) or Text or call me (603.264.2294) http://crschmidt.net/blog/314/geohacking-this-evening/ I'm off to Wherecamp tomorrow. I'll be in town and have no plans yet as of Friday, and I'll be at wherecamp all weekend, planning to spend the night hacking at the Googleplex. Who's going to be there? Anyone interested in meeting up on Friday, or doing any hacking ahead of ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/313/wherecamp-here-i-come/ So, a couple people have asked me why Google thinks that my site may harm your computer. On Wednesday, I received an email from "Google Search Quality": We recently discovered that some of your pages can cause users to be infected with malicious software. We have begun showing a warning page ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/312/why-my-blog-is-dangerous/