Archive for February, 2009
Mapping of the Recovery
While visiting Recovery.gov I noticed there was a thematic map displaying Estimated Job Creation. The Estimated Job Effect map looks like a fairly innocuous map. Until I point out that the U.S. Government has outsourced this map to India. I find it somewhat ironic that the U.S. government has outsourced the display of estimated job [...]
February 17, 2009
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Additions to WKTweet.com
Today I added the ever so important ability to show the points you plot on WKTweet. I ran into some simple XML issues that meant it took some time.  This first was that “<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>” was required in order for the KML to display in Google Maps or Google Earth. I’m pretty sure I [...]
February 15, 2009
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New Project WKTweet.com
Today I created a web client to add Well-Known Text to Twitter. It involved a lot of javascript and can be seen here. Originally I had just planned to look for “POINT(” in a search to map everything but it quickly became apparent that wouldn’t work. I’ve added a hashtag #WKT to each of the [...]
February 8, 2009
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