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Author Archives: John Reiser
Changing Landscapes: A Great Release
Release date was finally here. I woke up in a panic just before 6am because I fell asleep before John sent me the PDF of the report to be posted to the website. I posted the report, double checked to … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Web Mapping
Tagged Changing Landscapes, CRSSA, geolab, Old Media
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Changing Landscapes: A Million Little Tiles
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
Posted in Aerial Photography, Data, In the News, Technology, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Amazon, Apache Tomcat, Arc2Earth, Changing Landscapes, CRSSA, geolab, Geoserver, GIS, Google Maps, TileCache
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Changing Landscapes: Brainstorming
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
Posted in Data, Google Maps, In the News, Technology, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Changing Landscapes, CRSSA, DEP, geolab, GIS, Google Earth, Google Maps, KML, LULC
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Release of “Changing Landscapes in the Garden State”
The last month has literally been a blur as we’ve worked to get the data for the report together and then into a series of interactive, animated web maps that show the progression of urban change over 21 years. Continue reading
Posted in Data, Google Maps, Planning, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Animation, Land Use, visualization
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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap
ESRI has just released an add-in for ArcGIS 10 allowing ArcGIS users to download data from and contribute to OpenStreetMap. Marten Hogeweg announced the tool and news spread pretty quickly. While I agree with the favorable reception the tool has … Continue reading
Posted in ESRI, In the News, OpenStreetMap, Tools and Scripts
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ArcGIS available on the iPhone
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
Posted in ESRI, OpenStreetMap, Technology
Tagged App Store, ArcGIS, ESRI, iPhone, OpenStreetMap
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Projects featured on Rowan’s home page
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
Posted in Data, New Jersey State Atlas, Teaching, Technology, Web Mapping
Tagged ArcGIS, Internship, Mapping, Rowan University, SDSFIE, Web Mapping
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More on Apple’s mishandling of geotagged photos
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
Script: Geotagged Photos to GIS
I think it’s somewhat ridiculous that ArcGIS Explorer has the ability to add geotagged photos to the map, but ArcGIS Desktop doesn’t have a built-in means of recognizing geotagged photos. Continue reading
Posted in Data, ESRI, Visualization
Tagged ArcGIS, geotagging, National Guard, python, scripting, SDSFIE
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Apple iPhoto rounds GPS coordinates to nearest second
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