This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<meta charset=utf-8 /> | |
<title></title> | |
<script src='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.js'></script> | |
<script src='http://codeorigin.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js'></script> | |
<link href='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' /> | |
<!--[if lte IE 8]> | |
<link href='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.ie.css' rel='stylesheet'> |
<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" /> | |
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> | |
<style> | |
html, body, #map { | |
height: 100%; | |
padding: 0; |
#!/bin/bash | |
# Sync Homebrew installations between Macs via Dropbox | |
# | |
BREW="/usr/local/bin/brew" | |
# first get local settings | |
echo "Reading local settings ..." | |
rm -f /tmp/brew-sync.* |
/* | |
Taken and cribbed from blog.datalicious.com/free-download-all-australian-postcodes-geocod | |
May contain errors where latitude and longitude are off. Use at own non-validated risk. | |
*/ | |
SET NAMES utf8; | |
SET sql_mode = 'NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO'; | |
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS postcodes_geo; |
Recently, I had to implement an offline mapping solution for an iOS application. Here's a walkthrough of how to do it.
I generated a tile database using TileMill. I used the Route-Me iOS library which provides a map view that supports offline tile sources.