05.6.2012 

Generating a real-time topographic map with a sandbox, Kinect, and a projector.

This is the kind of thing I want to see more with augmented reality.

 04.7.2012   02.29.2012 

Mapping Kabul

We’ve just posted a map of Kabul, Afghanistan built from spatial networks GIS datasets. I built this a couple of months back (with TileMill) for some mobile field collection project work we were doing with Fulcrum. This is the sort of challenging work that our company is out there doing, bringing high-tech (yet cheap and simple) solutions to up-and-coming communities like Kabul.

 02.26.2012   02.26.2012 

Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer have a conversation about adventure games.

This was just before Double Fine raised $2.2MM on Kickstarter to fund a new adventure game.

 02.20.2012 

My talk from Ignite Spatial at WhereCampTB, talking about the OSM Tampa Bay meetup group. Check out the slides in better detail here.

It was a fun event a couple weeks ago — great participation from folks in all sorts of industries involved in mapping or using GIS tools.

 02.20.2012 
surrogateself:

CHIBA concept art for NEUROMANCER.

surrogateself:

CHIBA concept art for NEUROMANCER.

 02.20.2012 
new-aesthetic:

Beautiful Streets — hot or not for Street View, via @matlock.

new-aesthetic:

Beautiful Streets — hot or not for Street View, via @matlock.

 01.3.2012 

Stetsasonic - Talkin’ All That Jazz.

Pure 1988.

 12.27.2011 

Books of 2011

A list of books I read in 2011:

You can see more of what I’m reading and what’s on my reading list, too.

 12.2.2011   11.27.2011 
osmtampabay:

New ways to look at OpenStreetMap data.

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.

Let’s get in there and change that!

osmtampabay:

New ways to look at OpenStreetMap data.

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.

Let’s get in there and change that!

 11.12.2011 

callmeaaron:

Amazing story about hand made knives that goes deeper into the “Made by Hand” story.

Beautifully shot film about someone making great, quality products.

 11.4.2011   10.7.2011 
“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.”
Robert Cawdrey, explaining how to use his Table Alphabeticall, one of the first English dictionaries.
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