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Google Releases Elevation Web Service

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Fuzzy

Wow. Just…wow. Google has released an elevation web service and ElevationService for Maps API v3. Basically you can send it a latlon or a series of latlon’s and it’ll give you the elevations. Or you can send it a path … Continue reading →

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Using GeoServer, Openlayers, and CQL Filters

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Fuzzy

I received a request this week to put Census Questionnaire Centers (QAC) on a web app ASAP. In case you don’t follow the Census’ every move: Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) are spaces, donated by community partners, where staff from the … Continue reading →

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Using @font-face For Better Typography

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Fuzzy

I’ve been on a big web design kick lately, so I thought I’d do a quick post on using @font-face for custom typography on your web page. @font-face has been around since CSS2, and the first browser to take advantage … Continue reading →

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How I Made the Cloud Thing

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Fuzzy

I’ve already been asked several times how I did the floating cloud bit in the header, so here it goes. Fair warning: if you were expecting some miraculous bit of coding here you’re going to be sorely disappointed. First, I’m … Continue reading →

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Make Smarter – Apache Lucene and Solr, iPhone Development, GIS Intro

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Fuzzy

First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr, courtesy of IBM. Lucene is high performance text search engine, Solr is a search platform using Lucene, and they are both open source projects … Continue reading →

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