Programming/Dev

• December 16, 2014Data, GIS_Software, Programming/Dev, Social Networking, Software, WebMapping

  How Google Changed the 20 Most Popular Websites Since 1996

  Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump from The Intersect created infographics to show how websites have changed, “From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites […]

• June 15, 2013Programming/Dev, Reviews

  Book Corner: Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

  My fairly constant position now-a-days is “late to the game” and in this case that means that there are plenty of folks who have already shared their thoughts on Programming […]

• February 18, 2013GIS_Software, Programming/Dev, Reviews

  Book Review – Python Scripting for ArcGIS

  Python Scripting for ArcGIS is a new text from Esri Press by Paul A. Zandbergen (2013). It isn’t the first Python book for the geospatial community or even focused on […]

• August 6, 2011AugmentedReality, Programming/Dev, Software

  Layar Vision – Is mobile AR finally knocking on the door of relevance?

  In the mad scramble to finish editing my PhD dissertation and graduate, I haven’t been following the latest and greatest tech in the geospatial realm as much as I should […]

• January 27, 2011Cool Stuff, general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

  3D Street-style Mapping with Kinect

  Almost daily, I see a new cool and amazing hack that someone has accomplished with Microsoft’s Kinect that tops the last one. I’m hoping to try my hand at some […]

• July 29, 2010general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Microsoft Research’s Street Slide

  If you haven’t seen the demo of Microsoft Research’s Street Slide, it’s a pretty cool addition to Bing Streetside that is not available yet, but will be presented at SIGGRAPH […]

• February 17, 2010AugmentedReality, general, Programming/Dev

  Microsoft Live Labs’ Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos AR features for Bing Maps

  As you all know by now, I am a fan of Photosynth. Just a few days ago, the creator of Seadragon and co-creator of Photosynth, Blaise Aguera y Arcas gave […]

• January 15, 2010Events, general, Programming/Dev

  CrisisCamp Haiti – Saturday crisis mapping event

  Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out about CrisisCamp Haiti, a crisis mapping volunteer event being held in multiple locations tomorrow, Saturday January 16th, which is going […]

• December 21, 2009Events, general, Programming/Dev

  GeoVation Challenge and NYC’s BigApps Competition

  A couple of great competitions for innovative ideas and applications are going on right now, the GeoVation Ideas Challenge and GeoVation Awards Programme in the UK and New York City’s […]

• September 17, 2009Events, general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

  UK GIS developers – Only 1 more day to enter the ESRI-Bing Maps Mashup Challenge!

  That right – if you’re in the UK and you’re a GIS developer utilizing ESRI products, ESRI UK is sponsoring the http://www.esriuk.com/micro_sites/mashup_challenge/. All you have to do is build a […]