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.
Governance, licensing

Code license types for public entities

Now that GitHub allows for simple attribution of license types (yay!), for my 200th post I’d like to solicit sources for best practices on licensing of code written by and for municipal entities. There are so many OSS licenses, where is it appropriate to assert rights/control, such as with Copyleft, vs. MIT, vs. public domain, and are State Attorney General’s offices generally equipped to address … Continue reading Code license types for public entities

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3D, Analysis, github, Optics, POV-Ray

shape-pov on GitHub

I am working on a project, well, I guess just read the README from the repo (a project which will require a creative rename in the future): https://github.com/smathermather/shape-pov shape-pov ATM, this is a script to write shapefiles to PovRay docs for rendering. Long-term, will be a map tile renderer with 3D support and more. Whats more? Well, while compositing in TileMill and all the Mapnik … Continue reading shape-pov on GitHub

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3D, Analysis, Optics, POV-Ray

Tree Interpolator on GitHub

I’ve shared bits and pieces of tree interpolation code (3D tree canopies from LiDAR) on this blog for a few years. I finally got things together enough to post some of this code on GitHub. Currently it has a LasTools dependency, so you’ll have to watch for that license gotcha, but I’ll be phasing out that dependency in future versions. In the future, I’ll do … Continue reading Tree Interpolator on GitHub

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