Mapping Hacks

I 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:
Example, enter this as your location:
38 54′ 4.35″ N, 76 42′ 45.22″ W
The […]

WhereCamp2008 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>

I’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.
I wrote up a […]

Schuyler wrote a python module to support the Geohash latitude/longitude encoding system created by Gustavo Niemeyer. (wikipedia link).
Schuyler’s python implementation of geohashing code is here.
Geohashing is not to be confused with the more amusing but arguably less useful xkcd geohashing, an implementation of that code lives here .
There is of course also an […]

The code is here