Mapping Hacks

Each time i read another sensationalising “food crisis” article, I grumble. What else is the blogosphere for, but to get things like this off one’s chest;
So, prices of all kinds of food staples are rising globally, rapidly. Some - like rice - are specifically singled out, and specific warnings actually serve to worsen price inflation […]

I enjoyed this talk at FOSS4G, World Digital Library: Designing a Multi-lingual Geographic Search Interface. It was given by an Human-Computer Interaction specialist who offered a snarky commentary on search interfaces designed by programmers for geographers.
Considering the insurmountable opportunities, we come up with some “pretty darn flighty ideas” about how spatial/temporal data search interfaces might […]

We have some experiments and demos for Google Maps hacks here. This is a ‘not really’ ready for prime time directory. You are welcome to check it out-but I make no claim that any of it actually works.

And if using this code gives your camel spots, well, I don’t want to hear it…

The following is an except of an email exchange between me, Jo, Rich, and
Tyler. Rich’s response to Tyler’s question was so good that I just had to post
it here.

> You know we are different breeds though, right? You guys
talk ‘location’, I talk ‘GIS’ - is that fair to say?
At one level, thinking ‘locative’ means […]

Mapping Hacks tech reviewer and all-around GIS hacker Tyler
Mitchell (aka spatialguru) has been working on his own book for O’Reilly,
entitled Web Mapping Illustrated, which will provide a more
traditional O’Reilly-style intro to basic Open Source GIS tools like GDAL and
MapServer. You can peruse some of Tyler’s topical musings on the subject of
GIS and mapping on his […]

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