links for 2007-10-16
October 16, 2007
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Is anyone asking whether free data is always a good idea ? If you’re like a lot of GIS professionals, a big part of your job is adding value to geodata. Free data seems like a good thing at first, but without incentive for data to be collected, opportun
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Review of FOSS4G presentation: World Digital Library: Designing a Multi-lingual Geographic Search Interface…given by an Human-Computer Interaction specialist who offered a snarky commentary on search interfaces designed by programmers for geographers.
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PyWPS (Python Web Processing Service) is implementation of Web Processing Service standard from Open Geospatial Consortium.
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WebProcessingServer is a RESTful Geodata Processing Server, designed to allow hooking into any geographic data processing tool that has access from Python. WPServer includes sample actions for reprojection using ogr, buffering using Shapely, pure Python D
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The best time to set up ‘Pretty Permalinks’ is the moment you install your blog because if you already have a bunch of existing posts, changing the permalink structure will make it so that your old links to those posts will result in page not found er
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./sysutils/file Add this package to your package tracker file / Tool for determining file type
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Introducing WeoGeo by Susan Smith
In a discussion this week with WeoGeo CEO Paul Bissett, GISWeekly learned about this unique e-commerce platform which may revolutionize the way mapping products are discovered, customized and delivered. -
WordPress has the nasty habit, thanks to numerous filters, of converting two consecutive – to different ascii characters. This causes big problem for code fragments where people often tend to cut and paste the displayed code from browsers.
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Unicode Character ‘EM DASH’ (U+2014)
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Unicode Characters in the ‘Punctuation, Dash’ Category
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The idea here is to return a GeoAtom Feed that could follow a similar structure as GData with a namespace specific to that WFS and an additional extension for the geospatial component.
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We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high aggregate perf
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Howard’s research interests are focused on large scale distributed systems, operating systems, and security.
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