Archive for April, 2009
Map Projections: A Working Manual Available Online
When I was on my quest to find Map Projections: A Working Manual I felt lucky to find a copy of it in my coworker’s office.  A month later I discovered another coworker also had a copy of it.  Now I have discovered it is available online from the USGS in PDF.  Unfortunately it appears to [...]
April 14, 2009
Posted in: GIS Programming, GIS Reference 
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Gecoding Fact or Fiction?
This week the L.A. Times reported a geocoding glitch that displayed crimes that could not be mapped defaulting close to city hall. To GIS industry folks something like this happening may not be a surprise. According to Wikipedia “Geocoding is the process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other [...]
April 7, 2009
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Events of the Past/Future
I’m making an effort to go to more events lately, below are MapLoser approved events I have attended or will attend.
This past week in addition to the OSM Baltimore Mapping party I also attended Social Matchbox DC, which is a start-up entrepreneur type of event.  When ever I’m around start-up types all I can think is “I [...]
April 5, 2009
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Baltimore OSM Party
 Today I attended an OpenStreetMap party organized by CloudMade. I had previously contributed to OSM some, but I had never attended a mapping party. It was great to meet other people who were interested as well as learn a little bit better how to use JOSM to edit. Previously I had primarily [...]
April 4, 2009
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