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== ESRI ArcGIS sucks ==
== Overview ==


Hey out there, how's your day been? Using ESRI software? I am sorry. Me too.
I keep tips and project notes here on wiki.wildsong.biz for my own use, but try to write as if I actually have an audience. If you find anything here useful or want more details feel free to contact me.


Dear ESRI:
I keep notes in this wiki but my github projects have extensive notes in them, too.


At release 10, if I touch a geodatabase, it will no longer open in 9.3. This is so stupid I won't even comment further.
My GIS related stuff including mapping, ol-react, and dockers is usually in [https://github.com/Wildsong the Wildsong repo].  
My non-GIS things and quick ideas I am testing end up in [https://github.com/brian32768 the brian32768 repo].


When I have to restart your software after crashes (which is several times a day), please allow me to recover the work I was doing. Don't make me do a "save" every 5 minutes. Gee whiz, "vi" got that capability around 1975, maybe your programmers need to get out a bit more often?
I recently started keeping a "develop" branch on my git repos so that the main branch (in theory) always has functioning code now
and develop always is under development.


Please make the '''cancel''' button work. Having to wait a few minutes (hours) wondering if the task will ever terminate, and then using Windows Task Manager to kill it is not good. Make the cancel button work EVERYWHERE, always.
In NPM, ol-react is released at @map46/ol-react


[[Image:crashed.png|Caption How long should I wait?]]
ArcGIS Online: They (ESRI) make me have two accounts, one for my general account and one for my personal/home/ArcGIS Pro account.
I really wish they did not do this.


Make the progress bars work. A graphic wiggling around is not good. Do I have a minute more to wait, an hour, a day? And if the underlying process crashes, stop the damn thing. Hello? Does anyone there actually use your products?
*My organizational account [https://wildsong.maps.arcgis.com/ wildsong] gets 50 credits a month. I need to do banners for these sites. :-)
*My personal account [https://map46.maps.arcgis.com/ map46] gets 100 credits.


Suggestion: Hire an intern. Give the intern the task of making all your programs accept filenames that are longer than 13 characters. What operating system is that from anyway? MSDOS or UNIX System III? We have moved on since then.
==Recent changes==


While you are at it, please have the intern make all the tools pay attention to the "Environment" settings. Having some tools use them and some not is really stupid. It makes using environment settings pretty much worthless.
=== 2024 - ===
2024-10 I am working on a CANBUS project right now.


Get a handle on what "relative paths" are, then make MXD projects that can actually move from one computer to another.
=== 2023 ===
'''2023-12-25''' [[Murre]] is now running Linux Mint


When you are thinking of doing a release, compare it with previous versions. If it is slower or less reliable, fix it before release. Stop doing releases before the product is stable.
'''2023-06''' Setting up [[Rotary encoder]] on an MCU


I just found out that expressions in "Map Algebra" have to have spaces around the operators. This is so funny! It is the only time I have seen a requirement for whitespace anywhere like this. Wait, did you have an intern write that parser? Maybe you should pull the interns off the design of production code and have them fix bugs instead?
'''2023-01''' Last month I had a "wellness" check at '''Columbia Memorial Hospital''' and they did nothing but a blood test then they billed me $1000. They did the same thing with my spouse. I was never able to resolve this. My health insurance should have covered this, it did two previous visits.


ESRI, you get away with a LOT because most of your customers are not programmers and don't realize how easy many of these bugs would be to fix.
'''2022-11-12''' Moved to Tektonic and shut down the Bluehost account to save money. Backups are on Bellman in ~/Backups/Bluehost
It amounts to "customer abuse".


If you were open source, all these problems would be fixed in about a day.
2022-01 It's all about IoT and [[Home control]] these days. And ham radio also. And always bicycles. And [[Svelte]] and maybe [[Jamstack]]?


People say that Microsoft is closed source because the code is so ugly... I can't imagine how hacked up the ESRI code must be.
2021-03 setting up "Esri Web App Builder, Developer Edition" ([[WABDE]]) in Docker.


== Short Term Memory ==
2020-08-10 I am building an [[Elevation surface]] for Clatsop county including contours, hillshades, shaded relief.


01-Dec-2010
2020-03-18 Docker + Python + [[Visual Studio Code]], using Remote Containers Extension, wow like crazy man.


Building gdal 1.7.3 so I can have gdal python bindings, so I can reclassify a raster. In another window, I am running a very simple ESRI Spatial Analyst reclassification, but it's taking so long that I can probably build gdal and write a python script to do the same thing before the ESRI tool completes.
2020-01-03 In spite of the fact [[Vastra]] is dead, I am working on [[Presence Detection]], now in the context of IoT.


(I assume the ESRI tool crashed but as usual, I have no way of knowing.)
=== 2019 ===


I had to add C++ to my system. Compiling.
2019-11-01 [[Asterisk]] on Bellman is broken so I am shutting it down and switching to a [[Twilio]] TwiML set up.
We almost never used it once [[Vastra]] ended. I sold my snazzy Grandstream phones on eBay.


Oh -- gdal built successfully. Installing it. Done. Updated system path.
2019-09 Things I am looking at / using for the web maps (besides React + OpenLayers): parceljs, codesplitting, jsts, [[Solr]], Redux, redux-first-router, GeoServer+PostGIS vs ArcGIS Server+MSSQL - ArcGIS in the daytime and GeoServer by night!


Trying to build Python bindings now, what a pain! In the meantime, I clicked "cancel" button, perhaps in a few hours I will know if ArcMap crashed or not. (See comment above about failure of cancel button to cancel...)
2019-07 I started experimenting with [[OpenLayers]] 6 which is in beta (and [[JavaScript]]).
Keeping my OpenLayers and JavaScript in Github, see experiments at https://github.com/brian32768/ and released things at https://github.com/Wildsong/


November --
===2017 ===
[[Raven]] got an OCZ RevoDrive and a WDC Caviar Black. [[SSD optimizations]]


* [[Web Maps the way I want them]] ---> [[GeoApt Spatial Data Browser]] --> [[QGIS]]
Survived fires in Sonoma county (2017 edition), moved to Astoria Oregon to start a new job/
* Benton county topo map for Garmin handhelds - processing DEM and LiDAR data. See [[Making your own Garmin GPS maps]]
* [[FoxtrotGPS]] - Learning OpenStreetMap! Wow, it's fun.
* House gets new doors - 1 down, 7 to go; mmm love that plaster dust
* APRS tracker
* Magnavox 9212 - just got one, now I need to build a cable for it.
* [[8track]] building kernel for C7 + [[Lilliput DisplayLink monitor]]
* [[Yaris#Sound Dampening]] - ordered materials, arrival Nov 18


== Long Term Memory ==
[[Tightening TLS security]]


17 June 2010
[[Bar code]] on my helmet.


I have been doing a lot of Windows programming, not really by choice. Today I have to try to make an Access database work properly. Why does Access still exist?
Weatherman app [https://github.com/brian32768/twilio-weatherman twilio-weatherman on github]


I am eating lunch, and I have a nice apple.
[[Signal 2017]] is done, now I need to use what I learned. [[Hackpack v3]] and [[Caller ID processing]]


The apple reminds me of Microsoft.
[[Docker]] for everything! Geoserver, MySQL, Logitech SqueezeBox... even ArcGIS Enterprise until my license expired.


A nice old lady holds one out to me and says "eat this pretty apple deary!"
[[ArcGIS Developer]]


It's all shiny and pretty on the outside but after I bite into I realized it was just polish and inside it's old and rotten, like Access. The Microsoft apple puts me to sleep for 20 years and I dream that this is the latest technology.
===2016 ===
[[Portable Windows]] Sometimes when I work onsite for clients, I can't get admin rights and just install any tools I need. So I plug in my [[Portable Windows]] external drive and away I go!


Then I wake up and discover that while I slumbered in ignorance and bliss, the world has been taken over by penguins.
10/2016 [[Anaren Bluetooth Smart Development Kit]]


It's a much richer world. I was sleeping in a walled garden owned by a miserable witch who tried to fool me into thinking it was a place of wonder.
9/2016  [[bike ped stuff]]


--
Atmel AVR stuff: [[Arduino]] and [[FutureKit Temperature Controller]]
May 2010 [[gpsd on Mac]] [[PyQt on the Mac]] ''Just can't seem to get excited about PyQt but I did give it a chance.''


16-Jan-2010 [[Alfresco]] building for Debian 64-bit. ''01-Nov-2010 I need to revisit Alfresco, it still seems like a good idea for AlseaGeo.''
[[Teensy USB Development Board]]


05 Jan 2010 [[Low-cost RTK]]
[[Running my own git server]]


21-Dec-2009 Debian Live, [[Walltop]]
Time to look at AVL again, now that I have landed in Sonoma county. [[OpenGTS]] and Traccar
only know about GSM/GPRS devices. I want to work with [[APRS]] since that's what I have available.


30-Oct-09 [[GIS on the Macintosh]]
http://www.depiction.com emcomm software


24-Oct-09 I got a nice new 13" MacBook Pro today, first Mac I have owned since the Mac IICX. She is named [[Stellar]] after Stellar's Jay.
I like this page: http://alistapart.com/article/takecontrolofyourmaps


24-Jun-09 Another thing to look at .. tools for ArcView http://www.ian-ko.com/
SDDP = Simple Device Discovery Protocol, see [http://www.control4.com/press_releases/2014/01/08/control4-provides-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-powerful-path-to-the-connected-home this press release]


03-Feb-2009 Idea of the day, create an equivalent to openstreetmap for personal weather stations. Or even better, find one that already exists.
[[3D Printing]]


30 Jan 09 Now using Google Sitesearch for this site, which integrates quite well with the Mediawiki software.
[[Garmin Monterra]]


26 Jan 09 I bought a month worth of T-Mobile data access for $20 from eBay so I am spending some time with the [[Openmoko]] Neo FreeRunner that I got last summer. ''It was fun, but the month ended and the rate went to $157. Ha ha! Good bye data access''
[[GIS Educational Resources]]


20 Jan 09 Doing a bit of Microchip [[PIC]] programming.
[[Windows 7 Sensors and Location]]


03 Sept 08 Developing cross-platform GUI applications with Python and QT4: [[PyQt]] The longer I work with Python, the more I like it. ''but QT? Meh.''
'''Where roads meet'''


Feb 17 2008 [[Streaming media servers]]
14-Jun-2013 [[Finding Intersections with Python]] It's working now. Some code fragments here for you.


Dec 24 2007 Cool link of the day
2013-Jul-25 A collection of notes about [[HTML5, CSS and Javascript]]
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/spo/livecamera.html


Ubuntu on Toshiba Magnia SG20 -- [[Otter]] -- I still fire up the SG20 once in a while when I get email requests for help.
21-July-2013 [[ARRL]] has a new course for SAR comm. I started the FEMA course and I need to work on it.


== Radio ==
20-July-2013 My new BeagleBone Black arrived. Now I have to do something with it. I have some old notes here: [[ARM processor boards]]


Jan 11 2007 - Lots of snow here last night! I am walking to work.
July-2013 [[ANT wireless]] is interesting at the moment since I bought a couple add-ons for my [[Garmin GPSMAP 62SC]] that send cadence and temperature data to it, and also I have an ANT-based Fitbit. I have a Garmin heart monitor around too.
I will carry my new radio. [[The Radio Page]]


== No more paper ==
June-2013 Investigating [[Geomoose]] and [[Geomoose on RHEL]]


Jan 2007-- I just decided I am really tired of filing all the bits of paper that collect in piles around here every year around 'tax time'. Also, I don't want to own a file cabinet anymore. It's heavy and bulky. Continued in [[No more paper]]
09-Apr-2013 GeoKettle/GeoMondrian look good but Andy suggests looking at GeoMediaPro


Jan 2009-- Update. Still don't have a working scanner. The Canoscan FB630 that a friend gave me never worked right. It is now in the junk pile.
"GeoKettle is a powerful, metadata-driven Spatial ETL tool dedicated to the integration of different spatial data sources for building and updating geospatial data warehouses."


Feb 2009 - Got a scanner off the local Craig's List. HP 3970 Works great.  
[http://www.spatialytics.org/projects/geomondrian/ GeoMondrian] SOLAP server


Nov 2010 - I see the scanner every day. It's usually peeking out from a pile of paper.
"GeoMondrian is an Open Source Spatial Online Analytical Processing Server, a spatially-enabled version of Pentaho Analysis Services (Mondrian). It has been released under the EPL."


==Maps!==
17-May-2012 Yet more stuff to look at


[[Making your own Garmin GPS maps]]
http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/


[[Google Maps]] support has been added to this wiki. (2 June 08)
[[Experiments with Telepathy]]


=== Corvallis ===
22-Oct-2011


[[Girls On The Run]] <br>
[[Mapping Vietnam]] which requires
[[CARDV Run/Walk]]<br>
[[Building GDAL on Linux]]
[[South Corvallis]]<br>
[[City of Corvallis Parks]]<br>
08-Jul-2011 [[How I build GDAL for Windows]]
[[Airport area maps]] for Paul<br>
[[Evanite Fiber Corp area]]
20-Apr-2011 - [[Coastal LiDAR]]


=== Coastal Oregon ===
24-Feb-2011 [[HuPI]] move
I've been preparing maps for my personal use on trips to [[Coastal Oregon]].
5 maps here so far.


=== Oregon Cascades ===
*[[Web Maps the way I want them]] ---> [[GeoApt Spatial Data Browser]] --> [[QGIS]]
Just one so far. More to come. [[Oregon Cascades]]
*[[FoxtrotGPS]] - Learning OpenStreetMap! Wow, it's fun.


Sonoma county: Not online right now, maps of the CDS Wireless Network. I plan on putting these static maps into Mapserver any day now...
17 June 2010


== Cartography ==
The world has been taken over by penguins. It's a much richer world. I was sleeping in a walled garden owned by a miserable witch who tried to fool me into thinking it was a place of wonder.
To learn more than you could want to know about color and shading on maps, visit these sites.


http://www.reliefshading.com/ has articles by Bill Patterson of the National Park Service
==GIS==
on producing 2d and 3D maps using natural colors.


http://shadedrelief.com/ has lots of information on shading techniques and very interesting articles about cartographers.
[http://www.alseageo.com/solarhighway.html Oregon Solar Highways] I was project lead on this one. Now I'm working for Nexus Solutions siting solar in Oregon.


==GIS==
[[GIS Jobs]] sites listing GIS job openings


[[Data sources]]
[[Data sources]]
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[http://libraries.uta.edu/ccon/video.shtm Cartographic Connections video]
[http://libraries.uta.edu/ccon/video.shtm Cartographic Connections video]


http://www.gisjobs.com/
http://www.gjc.org/
===Software===
The '''FreeGIS''' site http://www.freegis.org/ has the largest collection
of freely available GIS/CGPS software. But the collection is not inclusive
because policy prohibits them from listing free but protected commercial software. So for example, [http://trimble.com Trimble]'s free mission planning program is not available there.
[http://www.gisuser.com GISuser] has a collection of free tools.
From email: Since 1997, I have implemented sets of Java, Web & Wireless GIS
tools. Most of them are free to use. If you are interested, please
visit http://www.jshape.com for more information. -- Shiuh-Lin Lee
[http://www.ERmapper.com/ ERmapper]<br>
[http://www.mapwindow.com/ MapWindow GIS]
[http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG] is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with quick access to the most common raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS or WFS source.
Forestry GIS ([http://www.digitalgrove.net/fgis.htm fGIS™]) is a compact but  robust  shapefile editing program, digitizer and GIS data query tool for Windows®
GMT = Generic Mapping Tools: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
==== Visualization ====
[http://www.opendx.org/ OpenDX]
[http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/ Vis5D+]
==== Commercial server software ====
[http://www.alta4.com/index_engl.php Alta4] Imagemapper and GPS Photomapper
[http://tojou.blogspot.com/2006/07/awesome-online-map-with-no-flash.html imapemapper example] see [http://ci.newberg.or.us/ City of Newberg] too.
==== Mobile GIS Software ====
BBBike<br>
ESRI [[ArcPad]]<br>
[http://gimodig.fgi.fi/index.php GiMoDig] <br>
GPSDrive<br>
Hoko<br>
[http://www.mobilegeographics.com/ Mobile Geographics] mapping and navigation for PDAs (This site is PalmOS oriented)


[[Elkhorn Slough Wireless Project]] Spring 2003 CSU Monterey Bay project<br>
[[Elkhorn Slough Wireless Project]] Spring 2003 CSU Monterey Bay project<br>
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[[GRASS]] Open source GIS software <br>
[[GRASS]] Open source GIS software <br>


====Fuzzy GIS====
== GPS==
 
'''Fuzzy thoughts''' -or- '''Who gets to decide where the shoreline is, and why isn't it fuzzy?'''
 
For georeferencing historical maps, can we use a fuzzy confidence overlay to
indicate what areas of the map look good spatially and what ones don't?
 
[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3927/is_200106/ai_n8969424 GIS-based fuzzy c-Means clustering analysis of urban public transit network service: The Nanjing City case study]
 
[http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/geology/mineral/geom0015.htm Integrating exploration dataset in GIS using fuzzy inference modeling]
 
====Projects====
 
[[ArcGIS]] A few ArcObjects notes at the moment.<br>
[[Geodatabases]]<br>
[[Mapserver]] [[iMap]] <br>
[[ArcIMS]] + [[ColdFusion]] <br>
[[ArcPad]] including notes on PDAs<br>
 
[[Fusebox]]
 
[[Geocalendar]]
 
[[GoogleEarth]]
 
[[Programming for GIS]]
 
[[Software development]]
 
Web-based map viewers:
[[Feature list]] for mapserver viewers <br>
Test projects: 1. [[SWF viewer]] 2. [[Orthoviewer]]
See also [http://dl.maptools.org/dl/FlashMapserverUserDoc.html Flash support in Mapserver]
 
==== Using ArcMap as a front end to ArcIMS and/or Mapserver ====
 
'''ArcMap to ArcIMS:''' Jeroen Ticheler's script [[MXDtoAXL]] downloaded from http://arcscripts.esri.com/ -- this works quite well but breaks if version > 9.0
(There is another MXD converter on arcscripts by Mark Andrews. He provides only a snipped of VB and no instructions. Since we are not ArcObjects geniuses, Kevin and I are sticking to Veroen's program.)
 
'''ArcMap to Mapserver''' Still looking into this. On possibility is
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/avein/ avein]. See also
[http://chris.narx.net/?p=12 this page.]
 
Here is the [http://downloads.esri.com/support/documentation/ims_/ArcXML9/Support_files/arcxmlguide.htm ArcXML Programmer's Reference Guide]. To tweak ArcIMS servers and viewers you really need to know ArcXML. It's used for ArcPad configuration too.
 
[[AJAX and AFLAX]]
 
'''Server side vs client side user interfaces for web mapping'''
It's not really a matter of 'versus' rather than 'where do we draw the line?'
Some things HAVE to be on the client. Others can be implemented in either place.
 
For significant work such as editting and updating we still need a desktop app.
Web mapping should be used more for display and simple analysis, with a desktop app communicating with central data stores as the model for editting and advanced spatial analysis.
 
== GPS ==


[[General GPS project notes]]
[[General GPS project notes]]


[[Magnavox GPS reference station]] (MX-9212 aka "The Blue Box")
[[Magnavox GPS reference station]]


[[GPS on Bicycles]]
[[GPS on Bicycles]]
[[GPS and the PocketPC]]


[[GPS mission planning software]] <br>
[[GPS mission planning software]] <br>
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[[GPS simulators]]<br>
[[GPS simulators]]<br>


 
===GPS Links I find interesting at the moment: ===
=== GPS Links I find interesting at the moment: ===
 
[http://www.silcom.com/~rwhately/ La Cima] ActiveX protocols for Garmin, etc.


[http://www.nps.gov/gis/gps/gps4gis/ GPS workflow] National Park Service page<br>
[http://www.nps.gov/gis/gps/gps4gis/ GPS workflow] National Park Service page<br>
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[http://www.geospatialexperts.com/gpsphotolink.html GPS Photo-Link]
[http://www.geospatialexperts.com/gpsphotolink.html GPS Photo-Link]


== Solar/Alternative Energy ==
==Solar/Alternative Energy==
[[Solar CREEK]] -- "Clean Renewable Energy for Everyone's Kids."
[[Solar CREEK]] -- "Clean Renewable Energy for Everyone's Kids."


[[Monitoring solar installations]]
[[Monitoring solar installations]]


==Weather==
== Weather==


[[Doing something about the weather]] data loggers, xml, web sites...
[[Doing something about the weather]] data loggers, xml, web sites...
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[[Yellowstone Weatherstation]]
[[Yellowstone Weatherstation]]


== Misc Electronics ==
==Misc Electronics==


[[Thermostats]]
[[Thermostats]]
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[http://www.m-audio.com/ M-audio Microtrack] Digital audio recorder
[http://www.m-audio.com/ M-audio Microtrack] Digital audio recorder


== Wireless ==
==Accounts==
 
[[Chintimini Wireless Project]]
 
[[WRT54GS project]]
 
[[Tangent Unplugged]]
 
[[Elkhorn Slough Wireless Project]] Spring 2003 CSU Monterey Bay project
 
== Web site content management ==
 
=== Mediawiki ===
 
I am currently using the stable [[Special:Version|version]] of [http://www.mediawiki.org/ Mediawiki] which is the software used for the [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia].
 
Reasons I like Mediawiki: It is easy to install. It is easy to customize.
It is easy to learn. It is very well supported and has a large user community.
 
Update. I have been using Mediawiki for over a year now. I have deployed it at work, at home, at my ISP, and for pedalwiki.ihpva.org and solarcreek,org. I like it. I use it for site management, and I document all my work in wikis now. No more lost scraps of paper or random txt files scattered all over creation.
 
But there are things it does not do well, so I am back looking at Drupal now for ihpva.org main page.
 
==== Mediawiki extensions ====
 
There are maps in the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensions Wikipedia], so I should really look at the [http://meta.wikimedia.org wikimedia extensions] for GIS and maps first.
 
[[Gallery2]] is an image gallery that has been integrated successfully with both Drupal and Mediawiki, which makes it potentially very useful to me.
 
==== Speeding up mediawiki ====
 
...and slimming it down. When I had my own computer on the Internet I had no constraints. Now I either choose a slow virtual CPU at tektonic.net or a fast but CPU cycle limited server at Hostmonster.com. If I use too many cycles at Hostmonster they cut off access from the outside world for 5 minutes. VERY ugly.
 
I tried to put caching onto mediawiki that will stop it from being a resource hog.
Nothing seemed to help.
 
Choices
 
Built-in mediawiki caching -- since I am getting kicked out regularly I can assume this one is not good enough for my purposes.
 
memcached -- cache access to database
 
eAccelerator (http://eaccelerator.net/) -- precompile php code
 
squid -- caches html accesses. I read this suggestion on a hostmonster forum.
[http://seankelly.tv/blog/blogentry.2007-03-02.4768602564 Sean Kelly] suggests that Varnish is the way to go.
 
=== Drupal ===
 
For a while I was convinced Drupal was the best CMS so I started writing this [[Beginner's guide for Drupal]]. I stopped working on it when I quit using [http://www.drupal.org Drupal]. (Which was almost immediately...) I am leaving the page here because I might revisit it at any moment.
(and that moment is NOW. [[User:Brian Wilson|Brian Wilson]] 07:03, 13 March 2006 (PST))
 
=== Other ===
 
I might revisit [http://www.zope.org Zope] and [http://plone.org Plone]
instead. The only reason I am interested in plone right now is because of plonemap. The plonemap server seems to be down right now so I can't even research it. (29-Nov-2005) Later for this...
 
== Google pays my phone bill. ==
 
If you want to talk to me, click on this button and enter your phone number
then [http://voice.google.com/ Google Voice] will phone you.
Answer the call and wait while Google Voice phones me and connects our calls together. If you call me from a land line, you won't have to pay for the call. Since Google does not charge me for the service, I don't have to pay either.
 
<html>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://clients4.google.com/voice/embed/webCallButton" width="230" height="85"><param name="movie" value="https://clients4.google.com/voice/embed/webCallButton" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="FlashVars" value="id=39f842077fd8c0af1e2b6d4e371d05f5f8294d45&style=0" /></object>
</html>


My incoming calls come to me via [http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Gizmo] so I don't have to pay for any phone line to receive calls. I used a VOIP service for outgoing calls for a year or so but find that using Google for outgoing calls works fine too.  
Anyone that wants to edit in this wiki is welcome to do so, but I have account creation locked due to spammers.
Send me a note to get an account. [/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection <nowiki>[email protected]</nowiki>]


If you can call Gizmo phones directly my number is 747-235-5752
1 7 17 Rob Denner
My Google voice number is 541-368-7383.
[[File:RobDenner.jpg|thumb|left]]
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Latest revision as of 21:42, 15 October 2024

Overview

I keep tips and project notes here on wiki.wildsong.biz for my own use, but try to write as if I actually have an audience. If you find anything here useful or want more details feel free to contact me.

I keep notes in this wiki but my github projects have extensive notes in them, too.

My GIS related stuff including mapping, ol-react, and dockers is usually in the Wildsong repo. My non-GIS things and quick ideas I am testing end up in the brian32768 repo.

I recently started keeping a "develop" branch on my git repos so that the main branch (in theory) always has functioning code now and develop always is under development.

In NPM, ol-react is released at @map46/ol-react

ArcGIS Online: They (ESRI) make me have two accounts, one for my general account and one for my personal/home/ArcGIS Pro account. I really wish they did not do this.

  • My organizational account wildsong gets 50 credits a month. I need to do banners for these sites. :-)
  • My personal account map46 gets 100 credits.

Recent changes

2024 -

2024-10 I am working on a CANBUS project right now.

2023

2023-12-25 Murre is now running Linux Mint

2023-06 Setting up Rotary encoder on an MCU

2023-01 Last month I had a "wellness" check at Columbia Memorial Hospital and they did nothing but a blood test then they billed me $1000. They did the same thing with my spouse. I was never able to resolve this. My health insurance should have covered this, it did two previous visits.

2022-11-12 Moved to Tektonic and shut down the Bluehost account to save money. Backups are on Bellman in ~/Backups/Bluehost

2022-01 It's all about IoT and Home control these days. And ham radio also. And always bicycles. And Svelte and maybe Jamstack?

2021-03 setting up "Esri Web App Builder, Developer Edition" (WABDE) in Docker.

2020-08-10 I am building an Elevation surface for Clatsop county including contours, hillshades, shaded relief.

2020-03-18 Docker + Python + Visual Studio Code, using Remote Containers Extension, wow like crazy man.

2020-01-03 In spite of the fact Vastra is dead, I am working on Presence Detection, now in the context of IoT.

2019

2019-11-01 Asterisk on Bellman is broken so I am shutting it down and switching to a Twilio TwiML set up. We almost never used it once Vastra ended. I sold my snazzy Grandstream phones on eBay.

2019-09 Things I am looking at / using for the web maps (besides React + OpenLayers): parceljs, codesplitting, jsts, Solr, Redux, redux-first-router, GeoServer+PostGIS vs ArcGIS Server+MSSQL - ArcGIS in the daytime and GeoServer by night!

2019-07 I started experimenting with OpenLayers 6 which is in beta (and JavaScript). Keeping my OpenLayers and JavaScript in Github, see experiments at https://github.com/brian32768/ and released things at https://github.com/Wildsong/

2017

Survived fires in Sonoma county (2017 edition), moved to Astoria Oregon to start a new job/

Tightening TLS security

Bar code on my helmet.

Weatherman app twilio-weatherman on github

Signal 2017 is done, now I need to use what I learned. Hackpack v3 and Caller ID processing

Docker for everything! Geoserver, MySQL, Logitech SqueezeBox... even ArcGIS Enterprise until my license expired.

ArcGIS Developer

2016

Portable Windows Sometimes when I work onsite for clients, I can't get admin rights and just install any tools I need. So I plug in my Portable Windows external drive and away I go!

10/2016 Anaren Bluetooth Smart Development Kit

9/2016 bike ped stuff

Atmel AVR stuff: Arduino and FutureKit Temperature Controller

Teensy USB Development Board

Running my own git server

Time to look at AVL again, now that I have landed in Sonoma county. OpenGTS and Traccar only know about GSM/GPRS devices. I want to work with APRS since that's what I have available.

http://www.depiction.com emcomm software

I like this page: http://alistapart.com/article/takecontrolofyourmaps

SDDP = Simple Device Discovery Protocol, see this press release

3D Printing

Garmin Monterra

GIS Educational Resources

Windows 7 Sensors and Location

Where roads meet

14-Jun-2013 Finding Intersections with Python It's working now. Some code fragments here for you.

2013-Jul-25 A collection of notes about HTML5, CSS and Javascript

21-July-2013 ARRL has a new course for SAR comm. I started the FEMA course and I need to work on it.

20-July-2013 My new BeagleBone Black arrived. Now I have to do something with it. I have some old notes here: ARM processor boards

July-2013 ANT wireless is interesting at the moment since I bought a couple add-ons for my Garmin GPSMAP 62SC that send cadence and temperature data to it, and also I have an ANT-based Fitbit. I have a Garmin heart monitor around too.

June-2013 Investigating Geomoose and Geomoose on RHEL

09-Apr-2013 GeoKettle/GeoMondrian look good but Andy suggests looking at GeoMediaPro

"GeoKettle is a powerful, metadata-driven Spatial ETL tool dedicated to the integration of different spatial data sources for building and updating geospatial data warehouses."

GeoMondrian SOLAP server

"GeoMondrian is an Open Source Spatial Online Analytical Processing Server, a spatially-enabled version of Pentaho Analysis Services (Mondrian). It has been released under the EPL."

17-May-2012 Yet more stuff to look at

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/

Experiments with Telepathy

22-Oct-2011

Mapping Vietnam which requires Building GDAL on Linux

08-Jul-2011 How I build GDAL for Windows

20-Apr-2011 - Coastal LiDAR

24-Feb-2011 HuPI move

17 June 2010

The world has been taken over by penguins. It's a much richer world. I was sleeping in a walled garden owned by a miserable witch who tried to fool me into thinking it was a place of wonder.

GIS

Oregon Solar Highways I was project lead on this one. Now I'm working for Nexus Solutions siting solar in Oregon.

GIS Jobs sites listing GIS job openings

Data sources

Model Builder

New ESRI Services

GeoDa - An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis

Cartographic Connections video


Elkhorn Slough Wireless Project Spring 2003 CSU Monterey Bay project

Clipping orthophotos Process used in CDS Wireless project

I want documentation on every possible available addon and tool for ArcMap!! I suppose the closest thing today is the http://support.esri.com/ knowledge base. I ran across the GPS stuff today in 9.1 ArcInfo.

Refractions developed PostGIS
Manifold GIS software
Remote sensing
GRASS Open source GIS software

GPS

General GPS project notes

Magnavox GPS reference station

GPS on Bicycles

GPS mission planning software
Making your own Garmin GPS maps
Transferring GPS data

GPS receivers Some that I own, some that I am interested in.
GPS Protocols
GPS simulators

GPS Links I find interesting at the moment:

GPS workflow National Park Service page
GpPaSsion reviews and forums
TravelbyGPS
GPS Photo-Link

Solar/Alternative Energy

Solar CREEK -- "Clean Renewable Energy for Everyone's Kids."

Monitoring solar installations

Weather

Doing something about the weather data loggers, xml, web sites...

Yellowstone Weatherstation

Misc Electronics

Thermostats

M-audio Microtrack Digital audio recorder

Accounts

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