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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.
There was an infrequently updated blog on www.wildsong.biz for a long time but it's down right now. Map46.com is a domain I own for testing web map stuff. At this time it's living in bluehost.com (where this wiki lives.) Today has a map authored in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder and one in ol-react both are rough tests for sharing with colleagues.
I still keep copious 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 [ths brian32768 repo.
I recently started keeping a "develop" branch on my git repos so that the master branch (in theory) always has functioning code now and develop always is under development.
In NPM, ol-react is released at @map46/ol-react For consistency I should move it to @wildsong/ol-react since that's in line with the github repository.
ArcGIS Online: They (ESRI) make me have two, 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 wildsong32768 gets 100 credits. Used to be wildsong32768
Recent changes
2020-01-03 In spite of the fact Vastra is dead, I am working on Presence Detection, now in the context of IoT.
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.
2019-10-21 I just switched the scrolling direction on Windows 10 to match my Macs. How long it will take me to adapt?
2019-10-03 Upgrading to Debian Buster on Bellman broke Docker so now I have to fix it. Actually I just added the legacy package.
Not everything gets listed here. Use "Search" or click on "Recent changes" over there on the left; many pages are intentionally orphans and can only be found in search.
2019-09 Things I am looking at / using for the web maps (besides React + OpenLayers): parceljs, codesplitting, jsts, Solr, Redux, redux-first-router, GeoMoose 3, maybe even server side rendering ... in the thick of things right now. GeoServer+PostGIS vs ArcGIS Server+MSSQL - ArcGIS in the daytime and GeoServer by night!
2019-07 I am designing a new web map system base on React for Clatsop County and today I started experimenting with OpenLayers 6 which is in beta.
2018-08 Survived fires in Sonoma county (2017 edition), moved to Astoria Oregon to start a new job, and now
- Experimenting with OpenLayers again (and JavaScript).
- Using Microsoft Visual Studio now as my ArcGIS Python editor/debugger.
Keeping my OpenLayers and JavaScript in Github, see experiments at https://github.com/brian32768/ and released things at https://github.com/Wildsong/
2017, the missing parts
- Docker for everything! Geoserver, MySQL, Owncloud, Logitech SqueezeBox... even ArcGIS Enterprise until my license expired.
- ArcGIS Developer
06-2017 Busy month, 4 projects
- Tightening TLS security
- Bar code on my helmet.
- Weatherman app twilio-weatherman on github
05-2017 Signal 2017 is done, now I need to use what I learned. Hackpack v3 + GPS and Caller ID processing
12/2016
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
Older
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
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/
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
- Web Maps the way I want them ---> GeoApt Spatial Data Browser --> QGIS
- FoxtrotGPS - Learning OpenStreetMap! Wow, it's fun.
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.
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://mappractical.blogspot.com/2011/09/swiss-hillshade-model-in-arcmap.html
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
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
Magnavox GPS reference station
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...
Misc Electronics
M-audio Microtrack Digital audio recorder
Accounts
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. [email protected]
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