http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress Matt Perry's random adventures with geospatial technology and other tangentially related topics Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When the MarineMap team started delving into the Google Earth plugin, it was apparent that it supported the display and rendering of KML files almost as well as the Google Earth desktop application. The missing piece of functionality was the nice tree-style legend that is provided with the desktop app. ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=149 For the last year or so, I've had the pleasure of working with the MarineMap Consortium. We just learned yesterday that the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution awarded MarineMap the “Innovation in Technology and Environmental Conflict Resolution”. I joined the team after the launch of the South Coast of California ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=148 I don't know how I let this gem slip past my radar for so long. It was only via a post by Dr. JTS himself (aka Martin Davis) that I saw a screenshot of JTS TestBuilder and decided to check it out. I was actually just talking with someone about ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=143 I've been playing around with some distributed version control systems (DVCS) to replace svn. First, the why: I'll leave the details up to Joel in his excellent HgInit tutorial. Its mercurial-specific but the general concepts apply to any DVCS. The takeaway message for any project with > 1 developer is ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=142 No, not lazy as in REST :-) ... Lazy as in "Lazy evaluation": In computer programming, lazy evaluation is the technique of delaying a computation until the result is required. Take an example raster processing workflow to go from a bunch of tiled, latlong, GeoTiff digital elevation models to a single shaded ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=141 I had previously bitched and moaned about the licensing restrictions on the TrainingPeaks WKO+ software. Truth be told, the reason I was so put off by their crappy licensing scheme was that my cycling training relied so heavily on their software. It was not perfect but it was the best ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=140 Just thought I'd point out a great presentation about the "new" 9.3 geoprocessing (gp) python module from ESRI. Ghislain Prince and Elizabeth Flanary do a great job of introduction by examples. The latest gp module is much more pythonic and these examples show how to leverage that to its full ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=139 I've been using Peaksware's WKO+, a cycling and running training tool to manage data from heart rate monitors, GPS units, power meters, etc. Its a powerful tool with a clunky UI but I've gotten used to it. You pay $100 for a "personal" license. Not a big deal to me ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=138 When I was setting up my linux system a few years ago, I did some research into filesystems and determined that the XFS file system, being particularly proficient in dealing with large files, would be ideal for my home directory. And it was. But the one factor I didn't consider ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=137 Not sure why this didn't occur to me before I wrote that last post but I tried the "pythonic" version of the code under the IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 release and it works! lyr = Carto.LayerFileClass() lyr.Open('C:\\test.lyr') print lyr.Filename Works perfectly now. So IronPython 2.6 promises to be a viable option for extending ArcGIS. ... http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=136