GUI to Plot Driving Speed

Published on May 27, 2008 under Tech Blog

I needed another Python fix, and I need one pretty badly. I spent the weekend wondering why it appears to be impossible to edit the GUIDs inside an Exchange mailbox store (read: NOT the GUIDs stored in AD for Exchange). Anyways, I digress. My goals were simple. I wanted to ... Read more.

Another Baby Step

Published on April 29, 2008 under Tech Blog

I showed a few of my co-workers my graph and one replied -- oh! that's really cool. (I think only two of my co-workers are actually interested in my geekyness). He then emailed me tonight a .kmz file containing a colorized file of his speed. I looked at the kml ... Read more.

Baby Steps at Graphing Traffic

Published on April 27, 2008 under Tech Blog

You can likely tell that I've been having some fun with graphing and mapping recently. I was reading a few articles about GIS and stumbled upon a pretty darn cool project at Webopticon, which included cool pictures. I showed it to my girlfriend thinking she would find it interesting, ... Read more.

Installing Mapnik on Ubuntu 7.10

Published on April 19, 2008 under Tech Blog

I have managed to install mapnik 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.1 and various SVN releases in-between on Ubuntu. While this isn't in itself exciting, I think I manage to stumble at every installation. I typically forget to add the flags when building, so, to prevent myself from stumbling again, I'm going to ... Read more.

GPS on the SkypePhone

Published on Feb. 3, 2008 under Tech Blog

Yesterday I was sort of curious if I could use my 3 Skypephone in a pinch if I got lost, which here in Sydney, happens quite often. Luckily 3's Skypephone has both Bluetooth, and supports j2me apps. Mobile GPS unit, here I come. The recipe to get maps on your ... Read more.

Size of Uncompressed OSM File

Published on Jan. 8, 2008 under Tech Blog

I've been playing around with OSM a little lately, and have been meaning to construct my own slippy map. At first I wanted to do it on my VPS -- but with rather limited storage, and even more limited memory, there just isn't a way. Three problems exists: the ... Read more.

Crappy Traffic Graphing

Published on Dec. 30, 2007 under Projects

Status: 10% I've heard that Sydney is one of the most livable cities in the entire world -- a statement I would generally agree with. However. whoever made this statement obviously didn't drive to work every day. I've reached the conclusion that one of the biggest (and only) ... Read more.

Setting up a Mapnik Server on Ubuntu

Published on April 27, 2008 under Notes and Tutorials

First, we go ahead and install the needed packages. I've tried to include "my" list of packages that were needed to get a vanilla 7.10 image up to steam. apt-get install build-essential libltdl3-dev autoconf libtool automake \ postgresql postgresql-8.2-postgis postgresql-server-dev-8.2 \ wget subversion libboost-python1.34.1 libboost-thread-dev \ libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev \ ... Read more.

Notes on Installing mod_tile for Mapnik

Published on April 22, 2008 under Notes and Tutorials

I have no idea if these notes on how to install mod_tile will be useful for anybody. The current readme states that you need to edit the source code, but never actually where. Well, this is where, at least until the code can either take switches or can auto-configure itself. ... Read more.