Update 1-7 : New evidence blows my best-case scenario out of the water, but no worries (see below) Update 1-7, on hour later : Or perhaps it does not, just keep the popcorn close For those of you who have been sleeping for the past couple of hours, Google just released a map making application.… Continue reading Google Map Maker and OpenStreetMap – My five cents
Month: June 2008
Google App Engine – On uploading serious bulk data
“The Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications”, says Google. Sounds like that could come in handy for my route altitude profile. The NASA SRTM dataset has 1.5 billion data points just for Australia and I have no idea how many people will use… Continue reading Google App Engine – On uploading serious bulk data
Demonstration
I built a simple website that displays the altitude profile for four different example routes. But you can already get the altitude profile for any route in Australia through an XML-RPC request to: http://bak.sprovoost.nl:8000/ And then call one of the following two functions: altitude_profile(route) : returns an xml document altitude_profile_gchart(route) : returns a Google Chart… Continue reading Demonstration
Internet Dependancy and the 15-Minute People
This is the second time that I am living in another country for a while and once again I have stumbled into a huge problem that I believe is massively under appreciated by many. I need the internet, but it’s not as ubiquitous as you’d think. Has anyone seen the South Park episode about this?… Continue reading Internet Dependancy and the 15-Minute People
Apartment
Its been a while since my last travel related post. To make a long story short: I spent a week in lovely Canberra and another week in warm Brisbane. I then discovered that the combination of programming and traveling was a bit too much of good thing, so I decided to fly back to Melbourne… Continue reading Apartment