CAS Frappr Map

January 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

CAS is by far my favorite Web ISO solution. In the past I have posted about it’s popularity at other institutions.

Along those lines is this cool Frappr map of CAS deployments worldwide.

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Google Earth, an Eye on Katrina

September 10, 2005 | 60 Comments

On CNN this morning they ran a segment about Google’s satellite imagery available through Google Earth. I’ve been excited about Google Maps and Google Earth for awhile, so enjoyed watching them show shots of New Orleans before and after Katrina. Google has made updated Katrina related imagery available on their site. One thing CNN said that amazed me was that just a couple years ago they paid over $10,000 for access to satellite imagery Iraq. Now Google is providing a similar service to the general public for free.

If you don’t have Google Earth yet, go get it. This is one of the coolest desktop applications I’ve played with in a long time. I like that I can bookmark my favorite locations and add notes. Then I can play back a tour of those points automatically. I’m certain I will end up wasting a lot more hours using this. I’m even considering paying the fairly reasonable $20 yearly fee to get Google Earth Plus.

The following are some fantastic related sites that have sprung up since the inception of Google Maps and Earth.

Another great must see site is Google Sightseeing. They’ve highlighted some of the most interesting things to see in Google Maps or Earth.

I’ve also recently been turned on to Google Earth Hacks. This site has a lot of great downloadable features to work with Google Earth specifically.

The Google Earth KML Tutorial has information about how to create KML files for sharing Map data.

Finally gCensus has combined census data with Google Maps to produce some fantastic results as you zoom in. This is a very useful resource.
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Google Maps API

July 10, 2005 | 65 Comments

Casey turned me on to the Google Maps API and I’ve been looking for an excuse to play.

On Friday I went to UNH in the morning, back to Plymouth late in the day, and then drove up to Waterville, ME that night. Basically 7.5 hours of driving. I was curious how far apart these points would look when plotted on a map. Check it out below:

I would really like if they had a feature in the API allowing me to draw lines along the route I took. Maybe version 2.

The other mildly annoying thing about the API is having no really easy way to get longitude and latitude points when you need them. I ended up writing a little alert(point.x); alert(point.y); on points I was setting on click (based off a simple mod to an example. The other solution is to use something like geocoder.us

As for Casey’s annoyance about the specifics of the license key to a directory, I just registered a key generically for nosheep.net, assuming I could use it anywhere, simple solution. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out, couldn’t put API pages in any subfolders… So, iframe solution for me as well.

Update: It turns out this isn’t working in IE. I guess I need to fix that… On a lighter note Safari loves it!

Update 2: A-ha! I had a line break in my key code and apparently IE couldn’t handle that… fixed now, good to go as best I can tell.

Update 3: I’ve been getting a lot of incoming traffic looking for Google Earth, for more actually about that, Google Earth, an Eye on Katrina

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