NOTICE: Contact & Twitter
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April
If you need to contact me, you can use the contact form, I usually answer quickly. Please be aware that I post on this blog only seldom. My main channel of posting updates, lately, has been twitter.
mapping illegal horse tracks with OpenStreetMap
6
February
One of the most interesting things about OSM is the fact that it allows you to “map the reality”, map the ground-truth, not what the State-run maps tells you it’s there, but what is actually there. Recently, on 10. January, an illegal horse racing, in a sort of clandestine racetrack was blocked by the military [...]
L’unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia
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February
L’unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia. Il significato della geografia è che essa presenta la terra come la sede duratura delle occupazioni dell’uomo. (John Dewey) Alle elementari avevo un maestro che insegnava geografia e che tirava giù una carta geografica del mondo davanti alla lavagna. Avevo un compagno di classe al sesto [...]
OpenStreetMap Haiti Statistics
29
January
For a poster I’m working on for the Geomatics for Crisis Management conference, I did run some simple stats on the Haiti Planet extracts. After the recent Earthquake, and after the donation of free/libre aerial imagery there has been an increase in user contributions. These are the total number of users in the Haiti planet [...]
OpenStreetMap ad Haiti
24
January
La mancanza di mappe aggiornate alla reale situazione post-terremoto rischiava di compromettere le attività di salvataggio. Dopo il terremoto ad Haiti la macchina internazionale degli aiuti si è immediatamente messa in moto, questa volta, una importantissima azione è stata svolta dai volontari openstreetmap. Poche ore dopo sono state rese disponibili foto aeree delle zone colpite, [...]
geo search using Lucene + SOLR + OpenStreetMap
18
January
An interesting article on finding geo data (OpenStreetMap) using common-use search software as SOLR a java frontend to Lucene. Apache Lucene is a Java™-based, high performance search library. Apache Solr is a search server that uses Lucene to provide search, faceting, and many more capabilities over HTTP. Both are licensed under the commercial-friendly Apache Software [...]
Old Map of Pavia
31
December
This is an historical map of my city, Pavia, Italy, scanned from out copyright source. The file is large enough to be printed on a 50 by 75 sheet of paper.
cubed art
29
December
To my non-artistic eyes this smart artist creates folding cubes that you need to donwload –> print –> cut –> fold with no need for glue. An amazing piece of art.
digiKam 1.0 with OSM
28
December
Release 1.0 of digiKam the open source software for professionally managing pictures just came out. It will work under Linux and Windows and this coming release boasts several enhancements including support for geotagging images using OpenStreetMap carthography. All it takes is selecting some images from your library and locate them to the right spot on [...]
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