In my last post, I used some SQL to help identify breaks in the OpenStreetMap's road map. If you recall, I created a table that contained a list of points and descriptions for each of those points. In this post, I'll use this table to create a WMS layer …
In my last post, I wrote about the Linode that I won as a door prize at the Central PA Open Source Conference. After the initial setup, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. After some thought, it hit me: I'll move my GIS project to the cloud …
Tim Henry and I went to the Central PA Open Source Conference in Harrisburg, PA a few weeks ago (16OCT). We had a pretty awesome time!
We got to HBurg kind of late (around 10ish, I think), but we still managed to make it in time for lunch and to …
A few weeks ago I submitted a proposal to speak at CPOSC. I recently received an email notifying me that my proposal was selected! I'll be speaking at Harrisburg University on Saturday, October 16th. I'll be talking about open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and my traffic research project. If …
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 …