Are you looking for giving your OpenLayers map controls a cool appearance, smoothly integrated with the site’s theme, without writing a papyrus and scatter code among lot of files? Then have a look at jQuery UI CSS framework, a system of classes developed for jQuery UI widgets. This is the map toolbar of the webGIS… Read more »
Another busy week…and not much time for blogging, so I will just put this presentation online that I gave to a Global Change thinktank meeting I attended in Pretoria. Also a few weeks back someone I met from INPE, Brasil mentioned Spring as a potential point of collaboration with QGIS. Tonight I finally got a… Read more »
Intro A client recently asked me to prepare some aeronautical data for use with QGIS. The data was supplied in about twenty 8 bit paletted GeoTiff images. The client wanted to produce a seamless mosaic so that operators only needed to open a single file to view the rasters. Also he wanted good read access… Read more »
Eric Raymond and others worked hard to produce and excellent guide on how to ask smart questions. I often give talks about QGIS or open source development in general and I usually end it with a slide or two about how to get help, in which I cover some of the same topics listed in… Read more »
A common activity when building a web application is the ‘tweak code -> reload page -> view page source’ cycle. Obviously this gets a bit time consuming and boring after a while. Under Firefox you can use tools like firebug to dynamically inspect and alter the source for your web page, but it adds quite… Read more »
I’ve been researching options for thin clients over the past few months and trying to get my Fit PCs to boot over LTSP / etherboot (still no joy so far). I do have them working as thin clients via XDMCP thought. Along the way I have found some handy websites which I thought I would… Read more »
Hey hey hey! Our openModeller article has finally been published in the GeoInformatica Journal. Unfortunately it’s not an open access article so contact me if you want a copy (assuming I am allowed to redistribute it). Here is the abstract: Species’ potential distribution modelling is the process of building a representation of the fundamental ecological… Read more »
Today Graeme McFerren and I gave a presentation about the FOSSGIS software stack to a bunch of honours students at the University of Witwatersrand. The group was receptive and since they had pretty much never heard of FOSSGIS, it was a great opportunity to show them that there are alternatives out there! The presentation we… Read more »
Mapnik is an open source, high quality map rendering engine. From the front page of their site: “Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.” For some time I have been planning to take… Read more »
I have been working on building a small training lab. The idea is that I will have six thin client pc’s and use my day to day desktop machine as a server. The server will run dhcp and the Linux Terminal Server Project server modules to provide a boot over ethernet (PXE) service for the… Read more »