Mapping Hacks

The eagle-eyed crschmidt and drumm spotted, while looking at NYC maps both via mfrumin’s flash overlay tool for plotting vectors over GMaps and via the main Google Maps site… the base maps look quite different. Specifically, there are many features and enhancements missing in the maps that come out of the API.
They reasoned out that […]

A couple of readers pointed out that i seemed to have upset Ed Parsons, the CTO of the Ordnance Survey, not a little bit with my reference to the display in his presentation of viably unnecessary, easily outsourceable techno-toys, at the recent Society of Cartographers conference session on Public Access to Maps/Data
Ed’s slides showed a […]

At the recent World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures i organised a series of Open Geodata activities. We held some small workshops on practical implementations and standards. I’d hoped to do something on a bigger scale with more EU attendees, but i was very happy with what we ended up with. There was also a […]

Frank Warmerdam’s latest release of the GDAL/OGR geodata abstraction libraries looks interesting in the stable support it advertises for different languages:

Source:
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.3.1.tar.gz
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal131.zip

Docs / Web site:
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal131doc.zip

Test Suite:
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdalautotest-1.3.1.tar.gz

The major news with this release is that the “Next Generation” Perl, Python
and Ruby bindings are now considered ready to use, though I’m […]