http://crschmidt.net/blog Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When using the Python 'boto' library for accessing Amazon Web Services, to enable logging to a file at the 'debug' level, simply use the logging module's configuration: import logging logging.basicConfig(filename="boto.log", level=logging.DEBUG) Place this line near the top of your script, and logging will take place to a file in your current directory called ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/407/enabling-boto-logging/ KML is linked. It is self-descriptive, and can rely entirely on following of links to obtain more information, whether that is styles or additional data. However, the most common way of packaging KML is as KMZ -- which is sort of like packaging an HTML page inside a zip file with ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/405/how-kml-succeeds-and-fails-as-a-web-format/ One of the most difficult thigns to do in time of disaster is to quickly organize, marshal, and present resources. This applies across all aspects of disaster response -- whether it be managing and distributing food, organizing volunteers, or setting up technical resources to assist with the relief effort. The last ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/400/haiti-crisis-map-effort/ Anselm just posted what appears to be a random thought on twitter: Are you more generative than consumptive in your particular field? ... Create more than you consume? In open source, I often rephrase this question as "Are you a source, or a sink?" There are many people in the community who contribute ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/391/are-you-generative-than-consumptive-in-your-field/ I use the logged_in_or_basicauth snippet for a lot of my work, and had had some problems with it since I started using mod_wsgi in place of mod_python. Thanks to this post, I now know why my basic auth under mod_wsgi isn't working: lack of WSGIPassAuthorization On in my Apache config. Thanks ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/386/wsgi-basic-auth/ PowerPoint is a way to make gibberish look important.-- my 12 year old daughter, Alicia http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/384/powerpoint-in-a-sentence/ For a long time, I avoided MrSID like the plague. After trying to do *anything* useful with it, I finally gave up; the requirement for old versions of gcc, non-working on 64bit, etc. really gave me a negative impression of the SDK for MrSID reading. This was especially painful when ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/382/mrsid-sdk-improvements/ Yesterday, I got to sit down and do some real performance testing with the MapServer folks. After rebuilding a local copy of the Boston Freemap on my laptop, I was able to share it with Paul, who ran it through Shark to find out where the performance killers are. The ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/380/code-sprint-day-3/ Day 2 of the code sprint seemed to be much more productive. With much of the planning done yesterday, today groups were able to sit down and get to work.  Today, I accomplished two significant tasks: Setting up the new OSGeo Gallery, which is set to act as a repository for demos ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/376/toronto-code-sprint-day-2/ I'm here at the OSGeo Code Sprint in Toronto, where more than 20 OSGeo hackers have gathered to work on all things OSGeo -- or at least MapServer, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. For those who might not know, a code sprint is an event designed to gather a number of people working ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/374/toronto-code-sprint-day-1/