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[[Anaren Bluetooth Smart Development Kit]]
== Overview ==
[[bike ped stuff]]
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.
Atmel AVR stuff: [[Arduino Uno]] and [[FutureKit Temperature Controller]]
I keep notes in this wiki but my github projects have extensive notes in them, too.
[[Running my own git server]]
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].
Time to look at AVL again, now that I have landed in Sonoma county. OpenGTS and Traccar
I recently started keeping a "develop" branch on my git repos so that the main branch (in theory) always has functioning code now
only know about GSM/GPRS devices. I want to work with [[APRS]] since that's what I have available.
and develop always is under development.
http://www.depiction.com emcomm software
In NPM, ol-react is released at @map46/ol-react
I like this page: http://alistapart.com/article/takecontrolofyourmaps
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.
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]
*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.
[[3D Printing]]
==Recent changes==
[[Garmin Monterra]]
=== 2024 - ===
2024-10 I am working on a CANBUS project right now.
[[GIS Educational Resources]]
=== 2023 ===
'''2023-12-25''' [[Murre]] is now running Linux Mint
[[Python and Pylons and Jinja2]]
'''2023-06''' Setting up [[Rotary encoder]] on an MCU
[[Windows 7 Sensors and Location]]
'''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.
== Corvallis open source meeting notes ==
'''2022-11-12''' Moved to Tektonic and shut down the Bluehost account to save money. Backups are on Bellman in ~/Backups/Bluehost
[[CVO-OSGIS]]
2022-01 It's all about IoT and [[Home control]] these days. And ham radio also. And always bicycles. And [[Svelte]] and maybe [[Jamstack]]?
== Short Term Memory ==
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.
07-Aug-13 [[Fleet management]]
2020-03-18 Docker + Python + [[Visual Studio Code]], using Remote Containers Extension, wow like crazy man.
'''Geospatial catalog'''
2020-01-03 In spite of the fact [[Vastra]] is dead, I am working on [[Presence Detection]], now in the context of IoT.
25-Jun-2013 I have taken the next steps in creating [[PostGIS]] data warehouses now for both Alsea Geo and GEO-CEG.
=== 2019 ===
Now I am looking for a tidy way to track the metadata about the data I am busily loading into the warehouses.
[[Geonetwork]] looks like it might fit the bill.
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.
'''Where roads meet'''
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!
14-Jun-2013 [[Finding Intersections with Python]] It's working now. Some code fragments here for you.
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/
13-Jun-2013 Notes and thoughts on my [[Nexus 7]] android tablet.
===2017 ===
07-Jun-13 Friday. [[Benton county building upload]] Okay so it's taking longer than I expected. Almost 1 year now.
Survived fires in Sonoma county (2017 edition), moved to Astoria Oregon to start a new job/
2013-Jul-29 Q: How do you keep a SAR van alive? Current data, everything working remotely and disconnected from the big Cloud?
2013-Jul-25 A collection of notes about [[HTML5, CSS and Javascript]]
Weatherman app [https://github.com/brian32768/twilio-weatherman twilio-weatherman on github]
For GEO-CEG I need to look at alternatives to Google Hangouts and a good [[Calendar] app. And about 30 other things.
[[Signal 2017]] is done, now I need to use what I learned. [[Hackpack v3]] and [[Caller ID processing]]
21-July-2013 [[ARRL]] has a new course for SAR comm. I started the FEMA course and I need to work on it.
[[Docker]] for everything! Geoserver, MySQL, Logitech SqueezeBox... even ArcGIS Enterprise until my license expired.
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]]
[[ArcGIS Developer]]
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.
===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!
June-2013 Investigating [[Geomoose]] and [[Geomoose on RHEL]]
10/2016 [[Anaren Bluetooth Smart Development Kit]]
May-2013 I am interested in [[3D Printing]] now because I got a Replicator 2.
9/2016 [[bike ped stuff]]
09-Apr-2013 GeoKettle/GeoMondrian look good but Andy suggests looking at GeoMediaPro
Atmel AVR stuff: [[Arduino]] and [[FutureKit Temperature Controller]]
14-Mar-2013 Directions Mag webinar on how USFS is using Google Earth
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]
12-Oct-2012
[[3D Printing]]
[http://linuxcertified.com/linux-ultrabook-lc22.html This Linux ultrabook] looks cool.
[[Garmin Monterra]]
Okay so last month I got a 1970 [[MG Midget]], joined the local Corvallis British Car Club,
[[GIS Educational Resources]]
and decided I should have a complete welding and metal working shop at home.
Gearing up mentally for SOTM in Portland tomorrow. I'd rather stay home and work on the new welding shop. I am wiring, insulating, and sheet rocking. I plan on putting metal on top of the sheet rock to stop stray sparks from setting the house on fire.
[[Windows 7 Sensors and Location]]
Funny, I did welding and cutting extensively in my parents' attached garage, never set anything on fire, and they never cared. Now I am very concerned and cautious.
'''Where roads meet'''
No doubt, my shop should include the ability to use computer aided design software and CNC equipment.
14-Jun-2013 [[Finding Intersections with Python]] It's working now. Some code fragments here for you.
Wouldn't you know, it turns out Linux runs rampant in the CNC world.
2013-Jul-25 A collection of notes about [[HTML5, CSS and Javascript]]
Also I am now an [[Android]] developer and a Javascript developer and a board member of a forming non-profit.
21-July-2013 [[ARRL]] has a new course for SAR comm. I started the FEMA course and I need to work on it.
30-June-2012 Trying to build [[QT5]] from sources but failed
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]]
28-June-2012 My [[Raspberry Pi]] arrived! Installed QTonPi and fired it up.
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.
17-May-2012 Yet more stuff to look at
June-2013 Investigating [[Geomoose]] and [[Geomoose on RHEL]]
"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."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
16-May-2012 Migration to new service provider.
17-May-2012 Yet more stuff to look at
Hostmonster was throttling my CPU about 1/2 the time. Now on Tektonic.net
[[Developing Benton County topo map]], see also See [[Making your own Garmin GPS maps]]
[[Experiments with Telepathy]]
22-Oct-2011
22-Oct-2011
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[[Mapping Vietnam]] which requires
[[Mapping Vietnam]] which requires
[[Building GDAL on Linux]]
[[Building GDAL on Linux]]
04-Aug-2011
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui ELOGeo] is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material about open geospatial data, software and standards, in order to facilitate the digital preservation and scholarly communication in the open geospatial community.
ESRI ArcMap Extensions: ST-Links [[SpatialKit]] for directly connecting to spatial databases without ArcSDE
08-Jul-2011 [[How I build GDAL for Windows]]
08-Jul-2011 [[How I build GDAL for Windows]]
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24-Feb-2011 [[HuPI]] move
24-Feb-2011 [[HuPI]] move
01-Feb-2011 [[Sony PRS-650 Reader Touch Edition]]
*[[Web Maps the way I want them]] ---> [[GeoApt Spatial Data Browser]] --> [[QGIS]]
* 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 ==
17 June 2010
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.
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.
--
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.''
05 Jan 2010 [[Low-cost RTK]]
21-Dec-2009 Debian Live, [[Walltop]]
30-Oct-09 [[GIS on the Macintosh]]
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.
24-Jun-09 Another thing to look at .. tools for ArcView http://www.ian-ko.com/
03-Feb-2009 Idea of the day, create an equivalent to openstreetmap for personal weather stations. Or even better, find one that already exists.
30 Jan 09 Now using Google Sitesearch for this site, which integrates quite well with the Mediawiki software.
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''
20 Jan 09 Doing a bit of Microchip [[PIC]] programming.
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.''
Ubuntu on Toshiba Magnia SG20 -- [[Otter]] -- I still fire up the SG20 once in a while when I get email requests for help.
== Radio ==
Jan 11 2007 - Lots of snow here last night! I am walking to work.
I will carry my new radio. [[The Radio Page]]
== No more paper ==
I just noticed this old entry, and indeed I really do scan things now. I file the scans in a Dropbox folder.
I have 2 scanners. The one I use is part of a Canon all in one that a friend gave me. What I like about it is
the "automated document feeder" (ADF) that lets me scan piles of papers. Also, since it does duty as a copier and printer, it is usually accessible. The HP 3970 is usually disconnected and buried under a pile of papers.
2007 Jan -- 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]]
2009 Jan-- The Canoscan FB630 that a friend gave me never worked right. It is now in the junk pile.
2009 Feb- Got a scanner off the local Craig's List. HP 3970 works great.
==Maps!==
[[Making your own Garmin GPS maps]]
[[Google Maps]] support has been added to this wiki. (2 June 08)
=== Corvallis ===
[[Girls On The Run]] <br>
[[CARDV Run/Walk]]<br>
[[South Corvallis]]<br>
[[City of Corvallis Parks]]<br>
[[Airport area maps]] for Paul<br>
[[Evanite Fiber Corp area]]
=== Coastal Oregon ===
I've been preparing maps for my personal use on trips to [[Coastal Oregon]].
5 maps here so far.
=== Oregon Cascades ===
Just one so far. More to come. [[Oregon Cascades]]
Sonoma county: Not online right now, maps of the CDS Wireless Network. I plan on putting these static maps into Mapserver any day now...
== Cartography ==
A PDF [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.library.yale.edu%2FMapColl%2Ffiles%2Fdocs%2F08_Classic_Cartography_in_ArcMap.pdf&ei=_xI2U_qrM6iiyAHQnoDYAg&usg=AFQjCNG5p3aOwHS_zivbIQDnMGJ7JGm61g&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc Classic Cartographic Technique in ArcGIS]
=== Shaded relief ===
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
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.
[[Swiss hillshading]] (and lots of cartography info)
[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.
[http://www.alseageo.com/solarhighway.html Oregon Solar Highways]
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>
[[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®
[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]]
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[[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>
[[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]]
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>]
[[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.
1 7 17 Rob Denner
[[File:RobDenner.jpg|thumb|left]]
==== Mediawiki extensions ====
<br clear="all" />
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.
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.
My incoming calls '''used to'' come to me via [http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Gizmo] so I didn'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.
Then a couple years ago Google bought Gizmo. As of April 1 2011, Google has shut down Gizmo. I am not very happy about this, but it was a free service so I can't complain too much.
My Google voice number is 541-368-7383.
Anyone that wants to edit in this wiki is welcome to do so, but I have account creation locked due to spammers.
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. :-)
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!
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!
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.
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.
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 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."
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.
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Oregon Solar Highways I was project lead on this one. Now I'm working for Nexus Solutions siting solar in Oregon.
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.
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