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Announcing LearnWebMapping.com

John Reiser — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:50:32 +0000

I am pleased to announce that I have started another blog, LearnWebMapping.com. This summer, I am offering a Web Mapping & GIS Services course through Rowan University Online. To promote the course and to help keep myself mentally focused on web mapping concepts and technologies, I set up Learn Web Mapping. I will post as often as possible – aiming for daily – with tips, announcements, and articles related to web mapping. At this time, I intend to keep the blog ad-free; actually, the only advertisement being for my online course.

Go check it out. The first article is on the Digital Blue Ridge Parkway project from the University of North Carolina. I give an overview of the map itself, and then some details on the technology used to the make the web map.

I welcome any feedback you have, either here in the comments or via Twitter.

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Back to the New Normal

John Reiser — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:24:03 +0000

It’s been a while since I last posted to the ol’ Blog. After I returned from the DevSummit in March, my free time dwindled down to nothing. The end of the spring semester has been a whirlwind of activity; developing an online course, tackling several research projects, presenting at the National Guard’s CFMO University, and the usual end of the semester tasks like grading, projects, etc. Now that the semester is over and I’m a little more free to tackle projects, I hope that I’ll be able to blog some more about GIS in New Jersey. I’m still going to be busy; we have two faculty members to replace and even more students in our GIS courses, but I think summer will be a good time for me to refocus on programming and developing our GeoLab into a more robust research lab.

One interesting project that has popped up recently is NJ’s Broadband Map. You can dig through the data to find which areas of the State are served with broadband Internet. I think the color scheme needs to be rethought, as dark green to light purple is better suited to divergent or bimodal data, not to a linear progression of 1 to 8 broadband providers.

I’ll be at the ESRI DevMeetup tonight in Philadelphia, giving a lightning talk on the Land Change Viewer app I developed. Next week at the NJGF, I’ll give a 5 minute talk on the ArcGIS license monitor application I’m writing. I’ve got a couple other tidbits in the pipeline and hopefully I’ll be able to share them here in the next few weeks.

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blog update

John Reiser — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:58:22 +0000

After far, far too long, I’m updating this blog. I originally intended to use this blog to highlight interesting geography and GIS articles with a short commentary. I’ve decided to change direction – the updates you find here will be (hopefully) substantial updates and original content. I hope to return to somewhat frequent posting, at least once a week.

So what about those links I should’ve been postin’? Well, geography and GIS links are now “microblogged” using Twitter and Facebook. My new employer, Rowan University, is working to develop a Geographic Research Lab. I’ve created a page for the Lab on Rowan’s web site, Facebook, and Twitter. If you’re interested in GIS/Geography news, check us out.

In the near future, I hope to have an update here about my experience uploading a very large GIS data set to OpenStreetMap. We’ll see how that goes, considering my wife’s due date is next week.

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UK magazine on why OpenStreetMap is brilliant

John Reiser — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:41:17 +0000

Just two days after I wrote about OpenStreetMap, PC Pro, a UK computing magazine, posted a blog about the brilliance of OpenStreetMap. This entry is a much better introduction to OSM than what I previously wrote.

Blog Updates

John Reiser — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:15:39 +0000

This blog has been lacking in content lately. Kate and I have been working on purchasing a house in Glassboro. We’re making settlement at the end of the month. Once we move in and get adjusted, they’ll be more time for the blog and all my other side projects.

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Web Mapping featured on Rowan’s homepage

John Reiser — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:27:00 +0000

Currently on Rowan’s homepage is an article on the Geography Department‘s work on bring GIS to the greater university community. The article focuses on our recent web mapping work; specifically the Land Use Change viewer and NJ State Atlas. I’m quoted several times in the article, so I’m excited about that.

Direct link to the full article: http://www.rowan.edu/today/news/index/FS/118

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ArcGIS 9.3 now shipping

John Reiser — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:48:15 +0000

ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.3 has now been released and should be arriving soon if you’ve kept your ~~tithing~~ maintenance up to date.

Post your hopes and expectations of 9.3 in the comments below.

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LibLAS 1.0 Beta Released

John Reiser — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:47:22 +0000

LibLAS, an open-source (BSD) licensed software library for reading and writing ASPRS‘s LAS format.

From their website:

libLAS provides excellent coverage of the ASPRS LAS 1.0 and 1.1 specifications, and it provides support for copying variable length records from one file to another. As of 1.0.0-beta-1, support for creating your own variable length records is limited to the C and C++ APIs. libLAS concentrates on reading and writing point data for processing pipelines from C++, C, and Python.

The beta version of 1.0 supports creating any of the vector formats supported by OGR. This makes it all the easier for open source users to handle LiDAR data.

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