Paged
Elsewhere…
More geospatial news from an aggregation of web logs…
- ArcGIS Server Cloud Licensing
Hurricane Katrina’s Eyewall Animoto is a startup company that had to spin up 5000 Amazon EC2 instances in one week. They started on a Monday with 50 instances and by the end of the week they had 5000. Then a few weeks later they were back down to about 100. If they were using using Oracle […] - zigGIS and ArcGIS 9.3
Now that ArcGIS 9.3 has been finalized, I have finally gotten around to testing zigGIS 2.0.1 with it. While the source code is available, I wanted to test the unmodified binary distro. I am happy to report that zigGIS appears to work fine with ArcGIS Desktop 9.3. I guess the statement in the zigGIS About box […] - Fat Maps in ArcMap
From CDC.
Unofficial Texas State Motto: Thank God for Mississippi!
(Molly Ivins) I had to make similar maps for state statistics a few years ago. It was actually a bit of a pain in ArcMap. I didn’t want to shrink and move Alaska and Hawaii just to make it look right, so I made a layout […] - Cartograhy matters
- The dangers of relying on your iPhone
- Recovering from the fortnight from hell
Two Mondays ago I came into work in the morning to find one of my windows servers no longer booted. The short version is that all the data was fine, but the windows partition had got itself corrupted. I now have a linux server, and know more about samba and winbind than I ever thought […] - Have you got money to waste?
- When is a Number Not a Number?
… only when Double.IsNaN(double d) returns true, [Update:] or when it is not equal to itself.
I guess this makes sense, just because two things aren’t numbers doesn’t necessarily mean they are equivalent. if (double.NaN != double.NaN) Debug.Print("IEEE rules!"); - Gone fishing, left the building, moving on
- Small patch for portable GIS
Someone (thanks Bruce) has alerted me to a mistake in Portable GIS, which luckily requires a very minor patch- so minor that I am not going to release a new version now and force everyone to download it again, although it will be fixed in the next version. Basically there is a line in the […]
Want to subscribe to the elsewhere geospatial news feed? Try http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeospatialNewsElsewhere
