Geocreek

Street view and depth

Autodesk Goes Open Source with Mapserver

The Mapserver folks from the University of Minnesota and Autodesk are working together to create the Mapserver Foundation. UMN MapServer will be Branded MapServer Cheetah. Autodesk will be releasing their next generation map platform, the successor to MapGuide, as MapServer Enterprise. Both will be open source. From their open letter: “Forming the foundation is only [...]

USGS Has Feeds Available

I don’t know when it happened, but USGS now has news and earthquake feeds available. This should be the start of a great trend in government sites. So, it got me to thinking what might be available on Washington state sites. Check this out: Washingtion Department of Fish and wildlife news and sportfishing rules updates. [...]

The Humble Culture of Yahoo

I’ve been thinking about Yahoo and my earlier posting regarding Flick off and my perceptions of Yahoo as a “big” company. So I was amazed to see Christion Lindhom’s blog about going to work for Yahoo and his impressions of them as humble. He said, “One of the things I probed with them was trust.” [...]

Couple of Cool Tips for Google Desktop

Couple of things I’ve tried with Google Desktop: When it comes to photos, I’m always looking for cool things, and I like architecture; so I pointed the photos section to Flickr with an architecture tag. You could do this with any tag you want. I also brought in the geotagged tag. That led me to [...]