Archive for June, 2007

Jun 11 2007

Desktop vs Web UI

Published by perrygeo under Uncategorized

This might be a dup story for some but I thought it was interesting enough to post nonetheless:

Jeff Atwood wrote an interesting piece about Desktop vs Web UI that is directly relevant to mapping : Who Killed the Desktop Application?. He compares the usability of Microsoft Streets and Trips with Google Maps and concludes

All the innovation in user interface seems to be taking place on the web, and desktop applications just aren’t keeping up.

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Jun 10 2007

OGR and matplotlib examples

Published by perrygeo under Python, postgis

Jose Gomez-Dans posted a great example of using OGR, Postgis and Matplotlib with Python - OGR, Python y Matplotlib (Spanish only).

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