Category Archives: Technology

Unmoderated communities aren’t communities.

Posted on September 29, 2010 by John Reiser

Without a fear of social repercussions for anti-social behavior, online communities without moderation often devolve into a cesspool. Take for instance InsiderPages, a hybrid yellow pages with reviews. There are countless sites like this out there, all suffering from the … Continue reading →

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Location-based services may be a hard sell.

Posted on September 26, 2010 by John Reiser

How will our location-based services be perceived by the public? Will our smart web maps be seen as black magic? Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: Final Thoughts

Posted on August 5, 2010 by John Reiser

I stuck to this schedule because any project without clearly defined goals and time lines are doomed to mediocrity. You can only exceed expectations if you have them in the first place. Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: A Million Little Tiles

Posted on August 3, 2010 by John Reiser

The New Jersey Land Change Viewer, the online component of the Changing Landscapes research project required the generation of approximately one million map tiles. These tiles needed to be served quickly – the online viewer is meant to make the … Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: Brainstorming

Posted on August 2, 2010 by John Reiser

Back in June, the New Jersey DEP Bureau of GIS released the 2007 Land Use/Land Cover data. The data was released in record time, just slightly over 3 years from the aerial photography date. We felt that we needed to … Continue reading →

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ArcGIS available on the iPhone

Posted on July 6, 2010 by John Reiser

ESRI has released ArcGIS for iPhone. It’s now available through the App Store. It’s an iPad/iPhone app, so it should work well on both. I just tried it out on my iPhone, and it’s pretty snappy. The data loads quickly … Continue reading →

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Projects featured on Rowan’s home page

Posted on July 5, 2010 by John Reiser

I’m proud to say that I now have two articles written about my work that have been featured on the Rowan University home page. Most recently, Mapping the Guard (still on the home page) was posted, detailing the great work … Continue reading →

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More on Apple’s mishandling of geotagged photos

Posted on July 5, 2010 by John Reiser

I claimed that iPhoto was the culprit behind the mangling of the GPS coordinates embedded in my photographs. The problem likely lies in the Core Image library used throughout Mac OS X. Continue reading →

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Apple iPhoto rounds GPS coordinates to nearest second

Posted on May 29, 2010 by John Reiser

I tested the script out on my Woodstown pictures and was conflicted: I was happy the script was doing what I wanted, but I was very disappointed with the results. Continue reading →

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Geotagging a short bike ride

Posted on March 7, 2010 by John Reiser

Brought my Blackberry with me on a bike ride around Glassboro and Pitman. I used beGPS One, a Blackberry GPS logging application to record my location every 30 seconds as an NMEA sentence. I then used GPSBabel to covert the … Continue reading →

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