Lin.ear th.inking

In my last post I talked about the request on the PostGIS list for a function to generate dot-density maps, and about a JTS class to imple...

Recently there was a thread on the PostGIS list about how to create " dot-density " maps. Essentially this involves creating a s...

Here's a few interesting links that occupied my late-night browsing... Facebook's Graph API: The Future Of Semantic Web? This is int...

At least, that's what it looks like from their presentation on Handling Real-Time Datastreams at the recent Where 2.0. They note that J...

... and a bunch of other OSS spatial tools and goodies , too, of course.

To continue my previous post on open-source geocoders , here's a few more geocoding projects we've reviewed here at Refractions : PA...

One of the more interesting projects we have going on here at Refractions is to build a geocoder for use in a crime-mapping application we ...

JTS Version 1.11 is now available for download from SourceForge . The version contains numerous enhancements, including Delaunay triangulati...

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...