Category Archives: Technology

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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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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