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Big wall of books

Thomas — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:51:09 +0000

An amazing wall of books made by computer graphics rendering. It’s a submission made by students to an architecture competition for the Stockholm Public Library. It’s interesting to see how it was made.

Via The Long Now Blog.

Historical street views from Nørrebro, Copenhagen

Thomas — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:10:59 +0000

The Local Historial Society of Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark, has released a map of historical photographs from the neighborhood of Nørrebro. The map is made using the Google Maps API and contains 50+ photos from the 1910s up to the 1970s.

The map makes it easy to find interesting photos from the area and also contains geocoded articles from Wikipedia about places in Nørrebro.

Map your blog with GeoRSS & Google Maps

Thomas — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:58:46 +0000

GeoRSS is a nice format for adding location to RSS feeds—and recently Google Maps was extended with GeoRSS capabilities.

This blog publishes a GeoRSS feed via the GeoPress plugin (see previous post GeoPress) and to illustrate the capabilites I will tag this post with the location coordinates (latitude,longitude) = 37.87,-122.3, which is where I am currently located (for those who wonders how those geographic coordinates translates to a geographic placename, I’m at UC Berkeley in San Francisco’s Bay Area).

Now, to view this blog’s GeoRSS feed in Google Maps , all we have to do is to go to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://blog.makemaps.net/rss2

Via O’Reilly Radar.

Getting Things Done with Tracks

Thomas — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:04:50 +0000

It’s been a while since previous posts to the blog, because we have been busy getting things done (GTD), amongst a couple of other things.

Getting Things Done can be carried out with lo-tech tools like pen and paper as in the case of the Hipster PDA, however yours sincerely has an inkling for trying out new software, and thus after trying out a range of different implemetations of GTD (everything from working with plain text files to dedicated productivity software), the current choice of application is Tracks. Tracks is a very pleasant application for GTD built in Ruby on Rails and was installed on my webhost without too much hassle.

Tracks is quite fast to work with; everything from adding new projects and next actions to navigating the projects and context pages for the weekly review is fast enough for me. For faster performance the installation on a local server is probably recommended.

A nice detail is that all next actions are available as text and RSS feeds for creating nice overviews of what the next action should be. Tracks is at the time of writing in version 1.043, and we are expecting and anticipating lots of improvements to a already great piece of Free and Open Source Software.

GeoPress

Thomas — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:07:12 +0000

Installed GeoPress a plugin for WordPress for easy geocoding of blog posts including the display of maps. GeoPress is free/open source software and uses Google Maps as its data source. In its current version (v2.2) GeoPress only supports a single location to be associated to a blog post—but in the future multiple locations, lines, polygons, and further customization of the map should be possible.

To show an example of the capabilities of GeoPress here is a map of Barcelona, a place I was pleased to visit recently.

Via O’Reilly Radar.