I wrote a blog entry for the spatial networks blog with my thoughts on the current state of GIS and geospatial technology in education. There’s been some great feedback to the post so far, from both students and educators alike.
As one who went through a university program for geography not too many years back, I know the kinds of things I was exposed to during that time — and even with the massive growth of the geo industry since then, there’s been little perceptual shift in focus for many of these programs.
A new Transport layer has been added as a new renderer layer to OSM. The new tiles come courtesy of Andy Allan (of OpenCycleMap) and include things like bike routes, bus routes, subways, rail systems, and train stations.
Even though the Tampa Bay Area doesn’t have quite the vibrant public transit systems of some cities, rendering data for custom use-cases like this shows the real power of the detailed data beneath the surface of OSM. It shows the value of adding things like route information, bus stops, and bike paths. You can see from the map that Tampa has pretty decent coverage of route information, while Pinellas has hardly a thing.
“Gentle reader, thou must learne the Alphabet, to wit, the order of the Letters as they stand, perfectly without booke, and where every Letter standeth: as b neere the beginning, n about the middest, and t toward the end. Nowe if the word, which thou art desirous to finde, begin with a then looke in the beginning of this Table, but if with v looke towards the end. Againe, if thy word beginne with ca looke in the beginning of the letter c but if with cu then looke toward the end of that letter. And so of all the rest. &c.”
With their recent successful entry into the consumer products and software markets with the Kindle devices and the marketplace, I knew they must be cooking up something to utilize their crazy behind-the-scenes infrastructure services.
Silk uses their EC2 platform to decouple the rendering of web pages on mobile browsers from the hardware limitations of lower-power devices. They’re doing some amazing smart stuff to offload page rendering, image optimization, and caching to EC2. Amazing.
He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two (or the divisions under their previous names), the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.
