GIS is dead! or “I want attention for my new blog”
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Around the blogs | No Comments »Silliest thing I've read in quite some time: The result is that the term GIS has become irrelevant. It is effectively dead — killed by lack of use and applicability by today’s map and data creators and users On the contrary - ...
Koordinates posts now at blog.koordinates.com
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | No Comments »Most Koordinates related posts will now appear on the Koordinates Blog. The latest post is a summary of Koordinates developments.
Wires, Windows and GMaps
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Auckland, Photos | No Comments »I'm not sure if the wire on this church window sill is aimed at birds or humans: [flickr]photo:2516076382[/flickr] But I wouldn't want to grab it with my hands. The location is St Patrick's Cathedral Auckland (map). I helped Google out by moving the pushpin to ...
Koordinates on Twitter
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | No Comments »Get Satisfaction now scans Twitter for keywords relating to company and product names and publishes the resulting tweets at a handy location. Tweets about Koordinates are here: http://getsatisfaction.com/koordinates/overheard
Betting on NZ politics
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | No Comments »Not with real dollars, but looks fun nethertheless: Political Stockmarket 2008 is certainly shaping up to be an interesting political year, with Michael Cullen and Labour just today changing tack to compete with National on tax cut promises. I imagine Labour's political ...
US poly geotags coming along
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | No Comments »Craig's been working on our US geotag heirarchy. Here's Brazos County in Texas correctly geotagged with its name: These polygon-based geotags are automatically calculated for every layer created on Koordinates. US cities, towns and urban areas are proving trickier as the US Census ...
DWG’s with pretty colours
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | 1 Comment »Colours in Koordinates using some of our test layers: (Don't worry, Canadians! Kiwiland doesn't have any bombs!) The resulting DWG in VectorWorks: It looks kind of 'distorted' (update: yes, there's definitely some odd things going on), and I'm hoping that's due to differences between ...
How many layers is too many?
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Geodata, Koordinates | No Comments »These 23 layers exported in one ZIP file using Koordinates: Total zipped size is 422Mb, created in about 30 minutes. Amazing. Just waiting to hear if all the exported shapefiles are AOK. Update: Yep, all check out fine.
Comments on Koordinates
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | No Comments »Another new feature available today: Comments! At some point in the future we'll add the ability to attach the comment to a part of, or drawing on, the layer map.
Koordinates layer colours in Google Earth
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Koordinates | 1 Comment »Koordinates layer colours as preserved in KML/Google Earth downloads: Pretty. DWG's are next. The coloured KML exports should be on Koordinates tonight or tomorrow.
