mapping When Pop Culture and GIS Collide April 28, 2006 by admin | 213 Comments on When Pop Culture and GIS Collide Was really surprised yesterday when I looked at site statistics and saw traffic was 4 times normal. Intrigued I took a look at the most recently created maps and found this: Cruise Itinerary for MI3 on 5/3/06 Apparently somebody created an “Itinerary” for Tom Cruise’s launch of MI3 and posted it online. Is it real? […] Read more »
mapping SRC Open Sources their Geocoder April 25, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Read over at DirectionsMag that SRC has chosen to open source their Explorer geocoding product. I love the idea of putting more tools out their in the open source arena, especially in the area of geocoding. But remember its all about that data, and these days its seems like getting data coverage is the hardest […] Read more »
mapping Geocode right from Excel April 19, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Esin S sends along this clever script that uses Yahoo’s REST geocoding service to geocode right in Excel (replace appid=XXXX with your own appID): Function gCode(Street As String, city As String, state As String, zip As String) As String Dim XMLDOC As MSXML2.DOMDocument Dim xm, xm2 As IXMLDOMNodeList Dim init, ConnectURL As String Dim temp […] Read more »