In a twist, Panoramio says their logo has been around since at least October 2005. That would imply that OSGeo’s logo might be based on Panoramio’s?
As I said in the other thread, I’m sure there is no link between the two (no matter how many people wish to draw conclusions to the contrary).
OK before I get into the podcast, will someone over at ESRI put the podcast directory out of its misery? You’d think ESRI would prefer one to permalink to the podcast page, but they use some wacky javascript front end that makes it impossible. Anyway, here is the direct link to the podcast. The timing of this podcast is about 2 weeks late, but if you’ve wanted to know what is new in EDN 9.2, there aren’t two better people than Euan Cameron and Rob Elkins to explain it.
I blogged about defining projections of your ArcIMS services and it looks like ESRI has posted an Instructional Series Podcast called “Best Practices: Defining Projection Information for ArcIMS Map Services”. Anyone who manages an ArcIMS implementation and hasn’t set their projections should listen to that podcast as your services will have trouble being consumed by ArcGIS Explorer and ArcMap clients without the projection being set. Direct link to podcast here.
Adena wrote an article on all the great Geoblogs out there. I’m honored that she called out Planet Geospatial and my own blog. Of course no good deed can go unpunished as some felt the organization was flawed. I can understand the concern there for all. In my RSS aggregator I just break out the ESRI and Autodesk blogs and then throw everyone into a Geoblog category. Its getting messy so I might have to split some them out into special interests to get better organized. I think though she hit most of the best blogs out there. Heck if yours didn’t make it just start liking to Adena and I’ll bet ya she’ll notice. 😉
Visnu, a Swivel engineer, wrote the following in the comments of my Swivel post:
actually, for data input and output, we started with an api amazingly. it got to be too unwieldy, especially in the beginning when we were trying all sorts of different ideas. it’ll be back, i promise.
Great news!
I’m heading out first thing tomorrow to visit the in-laws in Prue, OK. We’ll be visiting my wife’s Grandmother’s farm (yes that is a dirt road in front of it). Its been pretty cold there so I’m a little nervous as I don’t have the proper clothing (I had a jacket on today here in Tempe and the high is about 75F) as it will be 36F there tomorrow. Anyway I won’t be around for the rest of the week/weekend as I’m not even bothering to bring my laptop (their phone line dates from the Truman Administration and last time I was there I could not get a signal on my Verizon Wireless PC Card (Analog only in the area). At least there will be good eating (not too healthy, but bacon is part of every meal). Try and not go too nuts in that Manifold comments ok? 😉
I’ve been checking out Swivel this morning and I have to say I’m excited. A friend described it best when he said it looks like a YouTube for data. Its so easy to add data and start using it.
Step 1: I loaded the career stats for Orlando Cepeda. I used the web query tool in MS Excel to import the data into a Excel workbook and then saved the data out as a CSV to import into Swivel.
Step 2: You then can preview the data to make sure it imported in correctly.
Step 3: You then can set the field types and unit of measure.
Step 4: Describe the data you have uploaded, where you got it, give it a picture (from Flickr, but you can choose anyplace later)
Step 5: Explore your data that you’ve uploaded
The graphs are not too bad and you can even embed them on your webpage like this:
Of course not everyone enjoys baseball as much as I do, but you can compare any other uploaded data via graph such as Per Capita Income vs. Unleaded Regular Gas Price
I’m as excited about Swivel as I was about Zillow. I can only imagine where this will lead as uploading and working with your data and data of others is just so simple. YouTube for data is right.
Who says you can’t compare apples to apples. Sean takes a look at the new MapGuide Demo page and is impressed.
I spent a few minutes trying out the three generic tasks and must say, this is more like it. Autodesk is employing some UI and graphic designers. They haven’t found the sweet spots yet, but are closer than the ADF team.
Steve IM’d me yesterday saying he was impressed with the MapGuide demos. I’ve been playing around with MapGuide and the ArcGIS Web ADF and I feel they are comparable (I wouldn’t call the demo on the AGS blog a true demo in the sense that that the MapGuide site is a demo, but since ESRI does not have a true demo site, this is all we can use). I get more power with AGS and the Web ADF, but at a bigger cost. One just needs to decide what level of functionality you need and go from there. Personally I can’t want until the Dev Summit to see what people are doing with the Web ADF and the tasks you can create.
OK, it was as simple as ESRI.com overloading my hosted server:
The XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX IP address was firewalled on the server. Most likely there were a high number of connections coming in from this IP and causing load issues on the server. ESRI.com should no longer have any issues reaching the site, I have removed the entry from the firewall.
Ed Parsons posts that he has decided to leave the Ordnance Survey. No word yet from where he is headed, but I wish him all the luck. His blog has always been a great read and taught me much about how technology has changed the Ordnance Survey (I could never get Charles Babbage out of my mind).
