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The wildsong.biz domain has been transferred to a new owner;
my old content is now at www.wildsong.biz; please update your bookmarks. Thanks--
Brian Wilson 17:57, 7 January 2006 (PST)
I am using this site to track various interests and projects, but if you want to, you are free to add content and comment on anything you see here. To make comments, use the "Discuss this page" link at the bottom of each page.
--Brian Wilson 18:50, 28 November 2005 (PST)
Maps!
Corvallis: City of Corvallis Parks
and Airport area maps for Paul
Coastal Oregon: I've been preparing maps for my personal use on trips to Coastal Oregon. 5 maps here so far.
Sonoma county: CDS Wireless Network I plan on putting these static maps into Mapserver any day now...
Cartography
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.
GIS
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, Trimble's free mission planning program is not available there.
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
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 (fGIS™) is a compact but robust shapefile editing program, digitizer and GIS data query tool for Windows®
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
Fuzzy GIS
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?
Integrating exploration dataset in GIS using fuzzy inference modeling
Projects
ArcGIS A few ArcObjects notes at the moment.
Geodatabases
MapServer iMap
ArcIMS + ColdFusion
ArcPad including notes on PDAs
Web-based map viewers:
Feature list for mapserver viewers
Test projects: 1. SWF viewer 2. Orthoviewer
See also Flash support in Mapserver
Projects
Magnavox GPS reference station (fondly known as MX-9212 or "The Blue Box")
Garmin GPS 25-LVC Trimble [[Ace II] Lassen SQ
Currently you can read satellite data from the MX-9212
Solar/Alternative Energy
Solar CREEK -- "Clean Renewable Energy for Everyone's Kids."
Weather
Doing something about the weather data loggers, xml, web sites...
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 avein. See also this page.
Here is the ArcXML Programmer's Reference Guide. To tweak ArcIMS servers and viewers you really need to know ArcXML. It's used for ArcPad configuration too.
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.
Misc Electronics
M-audio Microtrack Digital audio recorder
Wireless
Web site content management
Mediawiki
I am currently using the stable version of Mediawiki which is the software used for the Wikipedia. At home I am running the development version downloaded from CVS.
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 Wikipedia, so I should really look at the wikimedia extensions for GIS and maps first.
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 Drupal. (Which was almost immediately...) I am leaving the page here because I might revisit it at any moment.
(and that moment is NOW. Brian Wilson 07:03, 13 March 2006 (PST))
Other
I might revisit Zope and 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...
