palewire

Locating the story: The latest in mapping

A collection of links for a NICAR 2012 presentation. It will suggest broad themes for the past year, and try to support them with examples from work in the field. This is a work in progress. Feel free to crap on it, or add your own ideas.

Escape from Google Maps

• Google changed the rules of the game. There are now usage limits. Read about them here
• TileMill, custom tiles, need examples
• Links to ranty blog posts from Nestoria guy and others
• One replacement is simple line maps drawn using HTML5 technologies like SVG, Canvas and VML. You saw this example a lot in election maps during the GOP primaries, like NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, LAT

panuta

Command Line Tools for Xcode

Command line tools comes bundle with Xcode prior to 4.3 version. After 4.3, you need to install a separated command line tools yourself.

First, go to this url and login using Apple Developer account (Free to register)

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

abernier

box2d.org

mbostock

license: gpl-3.0

sjwilliams

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvorbis --with-nonfree --with-gpl --with-libvpx --with-pthreads --with-libx264 --with-libfaac --with-libtheora

aboutaaron

ChSound::Application.routes.draw do
  #get "list/index"
  resources :list

  #get "gallery/index"
  resources :gallery
  
  # Set List/index as root
  # app can now be accessed at 0.0.0.0:3000
  # instead of 0.0.0.0:3000/list/index

troyericg

<!-- to force a mobile view on a responsive site. Place in-between the header tags. -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;">

/* To correctly size elements with borders and padding */
html {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
*, *:before, *:after {
  box-sizing: inherit;
}

ascheink

require 'nokogiri'
require 'httparty'

puts "Scraping ids of detainees in custody"
ids = []
(1..10).each do |n|
  response = HTTParty.get "http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/held?page=#{n}"
  page = Nokogiri::HTML(response)
  ids += page.css('#detaineesTable a').map { |link| $1 if /detainees\/(\d+)/ =~ link['href'] }.compact
end

aboutaaron

<div id="slideshow">
    <img id="container" src="http://placekitten.com/400" alt="kitten" />
    <img id="container" src="http://placekitten.com/250" style="display:none;" alt="kitten" />
    <img id="container" src="http://placekitten.com/300" style="display:none;" alt="kitten" />
    <img id="container" src="http://placekitten.com/200" style="display:none;" alt="kitten" />
    <img id="container" src="http://placekitten.com/500" style="display:none;" alt="kitten" />
</div>

<script src="solution.js"></script>

celoyd

This is my default career advice for people starting out in geo/GIS, especially remote sensing, adapted from a response to a letter in 2013.

I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or conference) o