Author: smathermather

My primary interest is in understanding ecological processes in a synoptic fashion. This has led me down a long study with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing as they relate to ecology and biological processes.
Geocode

Pirating APIs

Took me a while to post this, but Pete Warden DM’d me on twitter after this post:  https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/geocoding-in-qgis-the-easy-way/ about geocoding with the following link: http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-pirating-googles-geo-apis/ It’s funny, I hadn’t given serious thought to whether this use of Google geocoding was a violation of the terms of service, but he makes some great points about why not only does it violate those terms, but why as advocates … Continue reading Pirating APIs

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PostGIS, PostgreSQL

New PostGIS book, on its way…

I have posted about this previously, but just a reminder that I am working (with dedicated and brilliant co-authors) on a PostGIS book! Publication date TBD, but we are not far off now. It will be via Packt, and likely a title like “PostGIS Cookbook” or similar. Like many great projects, reviewing it at editing time is revealing that it is better than it felt … Continue reading New PostGIS book, on its way…

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Formats, GeoJSON, github, Governance

More geojson.io work– i.e. a little node and on a little ubuntu

Continuing a previous post https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/a-public-sector-use-for-geojson-io/, I have been exploring the use of geojson.io for an easy to deploy way for folks to edit geojson.  For my purposes this led to a dive into node. Getting node to run well on ubuntu is not as easy as: Nope, tried that. Better to use/get a newer version of node. For this we turn to PPAs (Personal Package Archives). … Continue reading More geojson.io work– i.e. a little node and on a little ubuntu

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github, Governance

A public sector use for geojson.io

Sitting in a meeting Friday, I was struck with a problem that needed solved quickly: we have a land cover classification being done by a third party for which we will have a team of more than a dozen entities doing some validation of the data.  We could print out paper maps for them, but that seems labor intensive and expensive.  So, I proposed we … Continue reading A public sector use for geojson.io

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github

GitHub Art

I’m thinking about drawing things in GitHub’s contribution section– maybe only uploading on certain days in order to draw or write in big green pixels. Anyone done this? The slate’s almost blank for me– seems a good opportunity to start. —–Update—– Been done, thanks Craig Williams: @smathermather see https://t.co/VgzQE8ktsg cc @jasonscheirer — Craig Williams (@williamscraigm) July 27, 2013 Continue reading GitHub Art

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