Spatially Adjusted

Category: Thoughts

  • QGIS Version 0.7 Released

    Link – Quantum GIS Current Release

    I just noticed that Quantum GIS (QGIS) is now up to version 0.7. For those who don’t know much about QGIS, it is an Open Source GIS (licensed under the GNU Public License) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and many database formats. I am quite impressed at how far this project has come and it continues to grow. If you have a Macintosh or prefer Linux, this is definitely your best way to go. I’ve used it at home for quite some time now on personal projects.

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  • New Geography Podcasts Posted

    Link – An Interview with Frank Warmerdam

    Howard interviews Frank Warmerdam who is probably best known for GDAL but is involved with many open source GIS projects. If you are interested in a kind of behind the scenes look of open source projects you’ll want to listen.

    Link – Very Spatial Podcast Episode 08

    The latest Very Spatial Podcast looks at space and place, Microsoft supporting spatial developers, new MapInfo deemed OGC compliant, and GSDI Small Grants.

  • Email Subscription to Spatially Adjusted Now Available

    While I can’t believe it, many people aren’t totally on the RSS bandwagon. I’ve gotten a couple emails from people wondering if there would ever be a weekly email summarizing the weeks news from me. I kind of thought about it (it wouldn’t be hard to do with Movable Type), but then I realized that the news wouldn’t be too timely as much can change in the course of a week. A couple weeks ago I started giving people the option to subscribe to individual entries so I wondered how hard it would be to allow people to subscribe to the whole site. It turns out it was much easier than I thought. Now right below the RSS feed button on the right sidebar, you’ll now see a place to subscribe to the site via email. Whenever I post a new entry, you’ll get an email right in your inbox right away with all the details. If you ever decide you don’t want the emails anymore, just click the unsubscribe button and you’ll be free.

  • Create a Virtual Earth app, win $1,000

    Link – Virtual Earth Competition

    Show off your creativity, sharpen your coding skills and you could win $1000! Enter the Virtual Earth contest by developing your own “map app” using the Virtual Earth JScript map control and API. Then submit your entry before October 14, 2005. The prizes are: Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS for the first 25 entries received, $1000 cash for the best entry, in the opinion of our judges

    I wonder if I should send in my Virtual Earth “app”? Hmm, might lose out on some of that “sexy” required component.

  • Suggestions Roll in For ArcScripts Replacement

    Link – Talking about ArcScripts

    There are some good suggestions in the comments on Brian’s blog. I think the consensus is that we need a place to collaborate. I like Richie’s idea to require source code for all projects uploaded, there are tons of other places to advertise your extensions rather than ArcScripts. Make any suggestions in Brian’s blog.

  • RSS Feed Issues

    I posted back a couple weeks ago that I changed the RSS feed from FeedBurner to hosting my own. This was supposed to be seamless, but it seems like some readers are not grabbing the new feed url. I know Thunderbird is having trouble with it so if you use it, make sure you update your feed url to the following. Sorry about all this, but FeedBurner wasn’t updating all the time even though I was pinging it. I promise it won’t change again.

    http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/rss

  • Grassroots Katrina GIS Support

    Link – Katrina GIS support

    I am participating in a fantastic, grass roots GIS project. We are working to serve as much Katrina imagery as we can, reprocessing it to make fit and look better, and providing access in as many formats as possible.

    Howard is part of a wonderful effort to provide imagery of the Katrina Hurricane disaster in as many formats as possible. If you think you can help out go ahead and email him at and let him know what your skills or ideas are. You can see the effort at the Katrina Image Warehouse.

  • Walt Posts Part 4 of his ArcWeb PHP Tutorial

    Link – ArcWeb and PHP Mini-HOWTO, Part 4

    So far we have a map with points, and we can zoom in and out. The next step will be adding a pan function.

    Walt finishes up his tutorial on ArcWeb Services using PHP today with to pan. Hopefully everyone will let Walk know what they thought of the tutorial, I know I enjoyed it. Maybe if ESRI ever gets a SourceForge/GotDotNet type site up and running, Walt can contribute his code.

  • Walt Posts Part 3 of his ArcWeb PHP Tutorial

    Link – ArcWeb and PHP Mini-HOWTO, Part 3

    “If you’ve been following along, you should now be able to display a map showing points that you defined and stored in a database. Now we’ll look at how to zoom the map using a small control on the web page.”

    This could be the first zoom example in PHP I’ve seen on the internet.

  • Virtual Earth API Available for Commercial Use Free

    Link – Virtual Earth APIs available for commercial use (and they are FREE!)

    “Here is the good news folks: We are now offering the MSN Virtual Earth API for commercial applications free of charge to developers. This APIs include the JavaScript map control and local search service (exposed via the What/Where search boxes on Virtual Earth site today).”

    There are some limitations, but this is the first free web map API I’ve seen available. I can only assume Google will follow suit.

    Also of note, Microsoft will introduce MapPoint Web Service 4.0 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next week. It will be interesting to see how this will affect Google and ESRI’s plans for web mapping.