Category Archives: Technology

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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Equality in Data: Should personal addresses be redacted?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by John Reiser

Just because you have a hammer doesn’t mean you’re going to start hitting people with it. Intentionally crippling a web service and reducing accessibility should always be seen as a major step backwards. Continue reading →

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Please Rob Me: What’s the big deal?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by John Reiser

There’s been a flurry of posts across the web about Please Rob Me, a site that aggregates check-ins on sites like FourSquare, illustrating the fact that we’ve known all along: people are willing to release more information than they realize. … Continue reading →

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Presentation on OS GIS at MAC URISA

Posted on May 13, 2009 by John Reiser

Yesterday, I gave an introduction to open source GIS at MAC URISA. As the meeting was about Internet-enabled GIS, I focused on server-side software. I’ve made the presentation available on SlideShare and available as a download from my website. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Fun with Google Latitude

Posted on March 6, 2009 by John Reiser

Kate was tracking my progress home tonight, as I was going to pick up Thai food along the way. I manually set my location to “Thailand” and found when I got home, Kate was very confused as to where I … Continue reading →

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Southwest Florida

Posted on February 9, 2009 by John Reiser

Kate and I are down in Southwest Florida visiting her family. We drove down from New Jersey and used Google Latitude to share our location with her family and my parents. Kate and I also are taking some pictures using … Continue reading →

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Apple rumored to include CoreLocation in 10.6

Posted on February 5, 2009 by John Reiser

AppleInsider has a tip that the upcoming version of Mac OS X, dubbed “Snow Leopard” will incorporate the GPS and location-based services library from the iPhone into the laptop/desktop version of the operating service. They postulate that “CoreLocation will utilize … Continue reading →

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Tweets Mapped During Super Bowl

Posted on February 3, 2009 by John Reiser

The New York Times has a great interactive map showing Twitter activity during the Super Bowl. I absolutely love what the New York Times has been doing.

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Latest Google Earth has historic aerial photography

Posted on February 3, 2009 by John Reiser

Digital Urban has a writeup of one of the newest, perhaps most exciting feature to be added to Google Earth. Historic aerial photography! For many places around the globe, you now have access to previous aerial photography, as far back … Continue reading →

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