Best Day of the Year – 2011 Edition
March 31, 2011 Leave a Comment
Put me in coach, I’m ready to play!
Catching up
November 3, 2008 4 Comments
I was out last week in New Orleans and of course had no time to block so I’m going to try and catch up this week.
Alexander Karnstedt shares his thoughts on Dave Bouwman’s presentation at the Texas GIS Forum.
“I strongly agree with Dave Bouwman’s assumption that this is the result of a long lasting strategy of trying to cram desktop GIS into the browser with GIS manufacturers concentrating on developing utterly generic “out-of-the-box†WebGIS products. So this wants us GIS developers make to believe that we are able to produce WebGIS applications in a jif. But the simple fact is that 99% of so called WebGIS apps have a quite narrow purpose, thus need pretty focused functions and user interfaces instead of bloated generic UI’s.”
It is clear GIS developers understand what hasn’t worked in the past and what needs to be done in the future. The trick is to enable complex GIS analysis in a way end users can take advantage of it. If it was easy, everyone would already be doing it.
More baseball geography; Five Migrations in Baseball History. Lets see, statistics, geography, beer, despair. Is there nothing baseball can’t teach us?
Yes, ArcGIS Server Flex API 1.0 was released last week. Cue the “Where is Silverlight?” questions. Might be a great topic to discuss at the 2009 Developer Summit.
Google Earth for the iPhone has been released. After playing with it for a week a couple things come to the surface.
- First it is very well done and visually impressive. Fingers can navigate 3D globes.
- The Edge network is too slow.
- I almost got run over by a streetcar navigating the globe. Could that be worse than texting with your head down?
- The tilt function is confusing when you are walking. I want to hold the unit in front of my face, not look strait down (see #3).
I can’t wait to see the next version and start using the iPhone to interact with network KML.
whit has more iPhone/OpenLayers goodness on his blog.
Revising the United Countries of Baseball Map
September 12, 2008 1 Comment
You might remember The United Countries of Baseball Map from last year.
The original map - click for larger view
Any time you attempt to make a map such as this, you know people are going to find faults with it. Well Drew Silva took comments people made about the map on sites such as Deadspin and revised some of the boundaries of the map. I think the refinement really tightens up one of my favorite maps that I’ve ever seen. Check out the result below and compare with the CommonCensus Sports Map of MLB Team Fan Areas.
The revised map - click for larger view
Thanks to Dan for pointing this out to me. He also offered up the Major League Baseball blackout map. Also, no need to bring up the collapse of the Diamondbacks. I’m a fair-weather fan of them so it doesn’t really hurt me too much, especially since my team is surging in the standings (but unfortunately has nothing to play for).
Connor’s First T-Ball Game
October 20, 2007 5 Comments
I played baseball at every level (well except pro) growing up so it is great to see my son want to play baseball as well. This morning was his first T-Ball game. and we both had a blast.
