Why haven't we been arrested? (1)
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Autopilots are export controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which is why it's very difficult for US manufacturers to sell abroad without incredibly complicated guarantees about security procedures put in place by the buyer. That doesn't just apply to autopilot hardware; it also covers autopilot software, groundstation code and other technology in digital form such as schematics. And "export" doesn't just mean physically sending boxes abroad, it also covers "export by electronic ...
Alberto García Hierro: Horror story with GeoDjango (2)
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Last week I ported my geonames application to GeoDjango and I've ended up reverting all the changes and turning back to custom SQL. First, let me tell you what the geonames database is about. It contains almost 7 million geographical places and you can download the full dump under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. The first problem I encountered was importing the dataset. Since I need to do additional processing in their database dumps, I ...
Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby? (19)
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Foo camp attendee Ben Black alerted me to Adhearsion, a framework for developing applications in the VoIP space. Think of it as a Ruby on Rails for telephony. Developed by Jay Philllps who got frustrated by the slow uptake of Asterisk. Adhearsion is written in Ruby and lets those even without any VoIP experience write applications intuitively and productively or simply download and use a pre-written solution. With the framework extension architecture, VoIP functionality can ...
GeoCommons + Mapufacture: Consolidation in the Where 2.0 Space (7)
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Today FortiusOne announced its acquisition of Mapufacture, the web's original geo-feed aggregator. FortiusOne is the creator of GeoCommons, a geo-data repository with analysis tools (Radar post). This acquisition brings Fortiusone both talent and the technology to handle third-party feeds. Mapufacture was created by Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron, two well-known geohackers. In addition to collaborating on Mapufacture they have also worked on the Mapstraction Javascript library (Radar post) and GeoPress, a mapping plugin for Wordpress ...
Linking open geographic data (2)
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Before I read Bjørn Sandvik's post about semantic geospatial services, I didn't know there was an effort to build bridges from WS-* to the Semantic Web. More significantly, his post is a useful introduction to semantic web issues to GIS users who are more familiar with the concept of services than the concept of Web resources. The metadata in OGC service capability documents (abstract, keywords, etc) are inadequate for the purpose of machine reasoning, and ...
Radiohead & GIS (2)
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Wow. Radiohead’s new video is totally inspiring and impressive. And the best thing is, they provided all of the data for compiling the video in CSV format (since there were no images that were used in the video, just 3d data). Well, I brought the points for frame 1 into ArcMap, and got some pretty incredible visualizations. Here we have Thom Yorke in all his digital glory…
DjangoCon 2008 (21)
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For the past year or so, people have been asking for us to hold a conference all about Django. Putting together a conference is an imense amount of work, so it took us a while to get the ball rolling. However, over the past couple of months we've found a few good volunteers who've taken on the task of planning a "DjangoCon," and now the dream is a reality! For the details, I'll turn this ...
Location Awareness on the iPhone (14)
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I spent part of yesterday relocking, unbricking and upgrading my iPhone so that I could check out some of the new apps. After some trial and error, it worked (hint: you have to upgrade iTunes to 7.7 first!). I was curious which apps would use location (more than I expected) and whether or not I can make do without the iPhone 3G's GPS (I don't think I will upgrade immediately especially when weighed against 3G's ...
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Hyunhak said:
O'Reilly radar라는 오렐리에서 운영하는 블로그를 구독하려고 함.(좋아보임ㅋ)
이제 아이폰에서 location awareness 가능한 어플이 나오는데, 아직 나오지 않아 아쉽운 두 분야를 언급하고 있다.
게임과 Location tracker.
정말 location은 수많은 인터넷의 정보들을 손에 잡히게 해주는 아주 신기한 정보이다. 인터넷을 안쓰던 사람들마저 끌어드릴수있게 만드는.
An ESB for the Web? (42)
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I spend a great deal of my time encouraging "enterprise people" to think more like "web people." Focus on adoption, use platforms to enable emergent capability, build the "generative enterprise," and that sort of thing. So, imagine my surprise when I saw the web acting a bit like the enterprise with the launch of Gnip. As the web moves toward a network of widespread transactional API's, each with it's own vocabulary, it is starting to ...
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Vlado Handziski said:
"They are essentially creating a messaging bus that can provide schema translations with the added benefit of push / pull impedance matching. If REST is a web service (or close enough), then Gnip's a managed ESB." - Jim Stogdill
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Cosmin said:
putting the big E in the web... or should it be the E-Web :)
How a Classic Man-in-the-Middle Attack Saved Colombian Hostages (5)
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Last week's dramatic rescue of 15 hostages held by the guerrilla organization FARC was the result of months of intricate deception on the part of the Colombian government. At the center was a classic man-in-the-middle attack. In a man-in-the-middle attack, the attacker inserts himself between two communicating parties. Both believe they're talking to each other, and the attacker can delete or modify the communications at will. The Wall Street Journal reported how this gambit played ...
Android on the N810 Made Easy (1)
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Well hello, hello!Another amazing feat by the master porter himself and the man who brought who you an "early" ;) Diablo, Penguinbait and Qwerty12. Google's Android is now as easy as installing an application. No command line. At all.PB, Qwerty, we love you.GET IT HERE WHILE IT'S HOT!I've installed this little puppy and it's awesome. Touchscreen works. The browser is fully functional and pretty smooth. Maps, check. And, best of all, you can install more ...
Technocentric Thinking (1)
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Chad writes: I know their “motto” is “Don’t Be Evil” .. but I think it should be “Don’t Be Smart” instead.. this is some dumb thinking from Google. Trust me.. I know better than Google on how I want to download and install my software. This is just the latest in a whole lot of similar statements I’ve seen from many people across the web in a variety of situations talking about how “I know ...
Alberto García Hierro: Introducing FRF, the Fiam's RSS Framework (1)
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I'm starting to notice a problematic pattern in Django: some components are not extensible at all. There's no problem when you are using it in the same way the framework developers intended, but when you want to do something which deviates from the Django standard, you're screwed. That's what happened to me yesterday. I wanted to add a RSS feed for public notes at byNotes, featuring GeoRSS information, but as far as I'm concerned Django ...
ImageSat : Public/Private Partnership in Intelligence Imagery (1)
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Source: INTELLIGENCEONLINE Supplying observation satellites on a turn-key basis to its customers (see article on Page 5), the Israeli firm ImageSat is an intriguing example of how Israeli state-owned groups can hitch up with private investors.ImageSat’s Eros A and B satellites sprang out of Israel’s Ofeq military program. Israel Aerospace Industries, architect of Ofeq, is the main stakeholder in ImageSat with a 37% holding (see graph below). But ImageSat also employs a lot of former ...
OAuth for Google Data APIs (5)
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Posted by Wei Tu, Google Accounts TeamThe Google Data APIs have always been built on open standards, and today we're proud to announce that all of the Google Data APIs support OAuth - an open standard for authentication. You'll now be able to use standard OAuth libraries to write code that authenticates users to any of the Google Data APIs, such as Google Calendar Data API, Blogger Data API, Picasa Web Albums Data API, or ...
Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery (1)
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Cool news from Microsoft: its Google Earth competitor, Virtual Earth, is now accepting user-generated aerial imagery. Unlike Google Earth, where your own data can only be superimposed on the "real" Google Earth data, and people will only see it if they use a special URL, Microsoft is offering to integrate user-submitted data in the core data set. For DIY Drones and our RC aerial photography cousins, that means a great way to share our imagery ...
Nokia Acquires Plazes: To Be Ovi's New Mapping App (2)
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Nokia, the world's leading handset manufacturer, has announced its intention to acquire LBS web app Plazes. Berlin-based Plazes will provide Nokia with a social mapping property for Ovi, its new web portal. Congratulations to CEO Felix Peterson and the rest of the Plazes team! Nokia is getting a full-featured web property. Plazes has been around for a long time and has had the time to build all of the features that you need to manage ...
Storage Space, The Final Frontier (2)
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Developers who have found our cloud computing model attractive have been asking us to be a little bit more open about what we are planning to do in the future. To date we've simply announced new additions to the Amazon Web Services lineup, with immediate beta availability at the time of announcement. Earlier this year we started to post specifications for new features along with requests for feedback. We did this for the Amazon S3 ...
