Lin.ear th.inking

Nice to see that JTS is officially certified as compatible with Google App Engine. JTS makes clouds easy! A few people have tinkered with r...

Sean's post suddenly made me realize that it might be really cool to have a nice set of Jython bindings for JTS (a la what Shapely ha...

This sounds like Fine Swiss shade-grown organic chocolate and rancid peanut butter from the big-box store discount aisle

I just saw the HatBox spatial extension to Derby and H2. (Cute name - Derby, Hat BOX - get it?) And of course HatBox uses JTS ! This is g...

Woohoo! I got SlashGeo'ed ! Tagged with cool icons as Software, Open Source, and - er - Geocoding?

It's been a while since I posted anything, because like a true programmer I've been too busy cutting code to write about it. Time t...

Unqualified Reservations has a great post dissecting the Wolfram Alpha hubristic User Interface. Warning: this guy seems to be able to writ...

Translation: Ordnance Survey and Google Maps side-by-side for planning the Land's End-John O'Groats walk in the United Kingdom. My f...

(No doubt by choosing that title I've exposed by my blog to death by spam filter. Although if the ones with titles like "Increase...

Motivated by a thread on the GEOS list about the Boost.Polygon library, I've added some new resources to the JTS web site , including: ...

The web mapping site 192.com has a very nice map zoom control which dynamically displays a representative image of the map at the prospecti...

Here's a nifty web page which shows a way of visualizing the operation of various common sorting algorithms. Sample output for Heapsort...

Well, it's obvious, innit? You can be the first to write the Wikipedia article !

I find the sequence diagram to be one of the most useful UML diagrams - but it's also one of the most fiddly & annoying to generate...

As is well-known, the Voronoi diagram (or tesselation) is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation . So the new Delaunay Triangulation code ...

The next version of JTS (1.11) will include an API for creating Delaunay triangulations and Conforming Delaunay triangulations . For a tho...

...As they explain in this blog post about using JTS to simplify a polygonal coverage. The really sweet thing is that not only do the Web M...

Here's a nifty page which shows GM and VE side-by-side, with slaved navigation. It's quite handy for seeing differences in map ren...

I just saw this blog post in rebuttal to Martin Fowler's DatabaseThaw article. It's a typically well-thought out response from Ty...

Martin Fowler has a great bliki TM post on DatabaseThaw . The soundbite is something like "What happens after relational DBs?". ...