Mapping Hacks

Last October, Christopher Schmidt mentioned that he was working on a REST-ful Web Processing Server in Python. I don’t recall how push came to shove, but I wound up volunteering to provide vector generalization code for the project.  After failing to find any usable Python implementations of the Douglas-Peucker line simplification algorithm on the Internets, […]

Another one from the “old data made new” file: Bjørn Sandvik of thematicmapping.org has been good enough to make some improvements to our freely available world borders shapefile. (He’s also doing some kick-ass choropleth maps in OpenLayers.) The new and improved world borders shapefile is hosted on his website; we have mirrored it in our […]