So, I was perusing ArsTechnica earlier today and came across this article: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/crowd-sourced-world-map.ars
In short: they recapped the origins of OSM, discussed their goals, and then went on to discuss some of the projects that have stemmed from OSM's data. Pretty cool …
Well, I finally got around to posting the stuff that my Future of Computing poster talked about. My final project can be seen here (http://www.ist.temple.edu/trafficdemo/displayComparison.html). Some notes about it:
Every year, the CIS department (College of Science and Technology, Temple University) hosts the Future of Computing competition. For graduate students, it's an opportunity to show off some of their research. For undergrads, it's a chance to show off some of their projects or some of the cool things that …
Last night, I spent some time checking over a graph that I created (This particular graph was the graph of connected traffic sensor stations throughout the Minneapolis road network). While looking through my results in QGIS, I came across some strange behavior. It turns out that I found a possible …
Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking: Why PHP?
Well, I have a fairly small graph (< 650 nodes), so trying to get a C or Java to interact with my preexisting PHP software isn't worth the boost in performance. The implementation I found can read my graph from my database …