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This post shows off a very cool image of global earthquakes since 1898.   No link to the source dataset, though.  That's unfortu...

The Japanese have figured out a way to let me avoid taking the garbage out on rainy winter evenings - a Rock-Paper-Scissors robot that alway...

Stefan Steineger of the OpenJUMP project  pointed out this great paper in Nature on The case for open compute programs .  The paper raises ...

I love this picture. Nowadays this functionality weighs only a few ounces, and we carry it in a pocket.

A peerless pastiche by SWWTMTOTH...  Try it, it works!  Go ahead, make it your homepage! Hands up all those who remember modem whistle...

Last week I was at FOSS4G-NA in Washington DC.  It was my first time in DC, and my first FOSS4G as a member of the OpenGeo team. Both were v...

In a comment to Battle of the Spatial Scripting Languages , Sean suggested that a slightly more in-depth test of language expressiveness mig...

Mobile computing is nothing new!  My first programmable device was a  TI-58  calculator: I spend many happy hours punching in the code f...

With the mobile meteorite looming ever larger over the landscape of Planet PC, it seems like a good time to recall some memories of the las...

Just noticed this slideshow from QCon 2012 on the vision for Java's evolution over the next few versions. Some highlights of JDK 8: ...

The gloves are down in this exchange on gis.stackexchange, over LOC counts for Fiona , JEQL , and GeoScript-JS . Fiona takes one on th...

I just noticed this series of posts by Stephen Mather on generating medial axes of polygons by creating Voronoi diagrams on the densified...

Recently I've been working on generating surfaces from irregular sets of data observations, for thematic rendering purposes.  The data I...

FOSS4G 2011 in Denver last September was such a good time, we're going to do it all over again at FOSS4G North America 2012 !  It ...

...and what it says about you . XKCD goes geospatial!  (Happens to everything eventually...)

My name in lights once again.  If this keeps up I'm going to have to start asking for an outrageous rider ...

According to this interesting BBC page on population , the number of humans on Earth has more than doubled in my lifetime. Anyone who h...

MapQuest has a whole range of useful and freely available web services for geospatial queries .  One of these is the Open Elevation Service ...

John McCarthy, inventor of LISP, has died at age 84.  Having finally balanced his parentheses, his atoms can now be returned to the free ...

Once you understand the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data model , the next step is to transform the data into a format usable ...