As I am contemplating FOSS4G 2015 (save the date! Seoul, South Korea | SEPTEMBER 14TH – 19TH, 2015) I contemplate what it means to be functionally illiterate for the first time in 30 years. You see, when, if you are an American born, English and Spanish (kinda) speaking guy and you get dropped into East Asia, there is no alphabet for you to rely on … Continue reading Korean and Hangul
Contemplating FOSS4G 2015, Seoul, South Korea | SEPTEMBER 14TH – 19TH, 2015. It’s only 18 cents a mile to get there from Cleveland, but only 0.11 dollars a kilometer, because the metric system is more economical. If you need inspiration for your own travels to Korea, Mr. Sanghee Shin has that for you. He starts with technology, food, arts, culture, economic potential, but also solicits … Continue reading And I will fly ten thousand miles…
I know what you’re thinking. I spoke with you at FOSS4G 2014. You are a vendor who makes his or her money customizing free and open source software for geospatial, or maybe you also do core FOSS4G software development, and you are not sure of the benefits of sacrificing time and energy to go to FOSS4G 2015 in Seoul. Korea? I’m sure it’s really nice, … Continue reading FOSS4G 2015 — reasons you should go
Apparently travelling for 20 days straight back and forth through 3 time zones across 13 hours of time difference makes me calmer, more rational, and a better presenter than normal. All 27 minutes and 35 seconds. And then don’t forget to check out the rest: http://vimeo.com/foss4g Continue reading OpenDroneMap — The MOVIE
Current scene in the smathermather household — OpenDroneMap sneakernet packets being produced for training 53 people in OpenDroneMap on Monday. (Yes, I’m using rsync, not tar. Old dog. New tricks.) edit: let’s throw some code up there, ugly though it may be: Continue reading OpenDroneMap and the art of sneakernet packet making
I consider myself an artist and scientist. I’ll confess I have let the art go fallow some in recent years, but these are two sides of one coin. If you like either, and especially if you like both, you should check out Tobias Research. I met Michele at FOSS4G, where from the moment she saw my presentation on OpenDroneMap to using it to create a … Continue reading OpenDroneMap — Art and Science
Ok, I misunderstood… . The Null Island Archipelago is actually meant to be just datum based, i.e. not the 0,0 of every projection, but the 0,0 of every null lat/lon. @mizmay Someone suggested & @schuyler tweeted (who? please remind me!) a few weeks ago that each coordinate reference system (CRS) has it’s own Null Island, and therefore there must be a Null Archipelago. … Continue reading Null Archipelago — Null Islands for All Coordinate Reference Systems — revision
@mizmay Someone suggested & @schuyler tweeted (who? please remind me!) a few weeks ago that each coordinate reference system (CRS) has it’s own Null Island, and therefore there must be a Null Archipelago. This got me thinking — what does that look like? Enter PostGIS. We’ll create a function, that given an EPSG code will return the 0,0 location for that reference system in the … Continue reading Null Archipelago — Null Islands for All Coordinate Reference Systems
A classic and age old problem in GPS is collecting potentially wonderful data in the field, getting back the office, and realizing a lot of manual scrubbing, data massaging, and other such careful work will need to be done to make the GPS data useful and meaningful. This assumes we can even meaningfully correct it at all. This is true too (maybe especially) for GPS … Continue reading FOSS4G Korea 2014, poor GPS photos, and mapillary (part 2 of n)
I spent a few hours winnowing down my list of desired talks at FOSS4G and came up with the following list. Path dependence (i.e. technologies related to the ones I’m already deploying) were at the top of this list, but I do hope to expand my knowledge of all the options as well. For almost every slot, there were anywhere from 2 to 4 presentations … Continue reading FOSS4G 2011 Denver– Ideal schedule
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