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Mapping Hacksby Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo WalshArchive for May, 2008Coordinate Conversion with Google MapsSaturday, May 31st, 2008I just got an email from someone wanting to know how to convert from degrees-minutes-seconds to decimal degrees. There are calculators online to do that, and we wrote about how to do it in Mapping Hacks, but you can also use Google Maps: Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » Gigapans of WhereCampThursday, May 29th, 2008WhereCamp2008 rocked my world. Here is a gigapan from the event, and links to more. (this is implemented in an iframe, because I don’t know how to get wordpress to allow an embedded object in a post - email me if you have advice)</p> Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » Gigapans and QuadtreesThursday, May 29th, 2008I’ve been taking lots of Gigapan images. One of the neat things about Gigapans is that they are using image tiling to let you pan and zoom around in image-space. They are using a modified version of the Flash Earth browser which Paul Neave wrote to access Google Maps tiles. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » Geohash implemented in PythonThursday, May 29th, 2008Schuyler wrote a python module to support the Geohash latitude/longitude encoding system created by Gustavo Niemeyer. (wikipedia link). Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » Douglas-Peucker Line Simplification in PythonMonday, May 5th, 2008The code is here Posted in services, software | No Comments »
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