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PTB – 7/18/2007

  By glacial23 | 7/22/2007 - 12:12 pm | General, maps, Press The Button Leave a comment

The first hour was all about maps, since that’s my latest obsession (while you’re at it, check out the maphacks page – there have been a lot of updates).

The second hour was less about maps, and more about the feedback/delay system we’ve been using the past couple of weeks. I also was giving my QY-10 (yeah, I got another one) a bit of a spin.

A little something I threw together

  By glacial23 | 7/15/2007 - 8:59 pm | General, GIS, maphacks, maps, New Stuff 1 Comment

Ok, this isn’t terribly musical, but I decided to throw together a little Google Maps mash-up last night.

Basically, I took a bunch of USGS GeoName data, pulled the “summit” data (aka mountains and hills, etc.) out and reformatted it into XML. The script will then display all the mountains on the map for a particular state/territory (all 50 states, DC, and most territories are represented). For a state with a lot of peaks (California, Alaska, New York, etc.) it’s really slow to render. Be patient. Hopefully I’ll come up with something a bit faster/better soon.

Hopefully this is just the first of many “maphacks”, as I call them.

Check out MapHacks here.