Here is a quick and dirty ArcGIS geoprocessing server. I mostly did this so that I can call ArcGIS routines from scripts on my linux box across a cluster of ArcGIS servers.
It is not without caveats, mostly security caveats. I work in a firewalled environment and would not recommend exposing the entire arcgisscripting geoprocessing object in a non-firewalled environment, without adding some security. With the client code I am able to write scripts that work on either Win32 or Linux with the same code.
Additionally, you will need to refer to files and directories in your scripts as they would appear to the server instance (with its windows permissions). As ArcGIS scripting routines do not directly allow the passing of GIS data to them, you will have to point to them on the server’s filesystem, geodatabase or remote ArcSDE server as you would locally on the server.
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Stumbled upon geopy while looking through a fantastic list of OSS and Linux GIS tools.
Geopy lets me code a geocoder in 6 lines of python using the google maps API.
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While ITA Software doesn’t allow you to purchase directly from their flight search, they do provide a nice airfare search and grid view where you can see mapped out in time how much of the day the flight and associated layovers will take. Pretty neat.
The Guardian goes after the approach to the “war on terra” that the Bush administration is waging. I need nor more confirmation of this than the rhetoric being used by Bush/Cheney to condemn those who want to end their jaunt into Iraq.
So I get an email this morning from a colleague with a quote from an article in it.
Using satellite and aerial imagery, research scientists from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration have calculated that
approximately 162,000 square kilometers of the United States is covered
in turf — an area roughly three times larger than any irrigated crop
currently under cultivation. And lawns are thirsty, consuming
approximately 270 billion gallons of water a week in the U.S. — enough
to irrigate 327,000 square kilometers of organic vegetables.
I immediately wrote back the following, only reading the above paragraph:
After lawns are replaced with veggie gardens.
Tiger Woods’ Caddy: Ok Tiger…now you want to hit this one over the arugula, and past the broccoli….coming to a rest just to the left of the pumpkin patch, but stay back, you DON’T want to be swatting that ball through the pumpkin patch. After that it should be a clear shot to the mirco-greens.
Tiger: I’m kinda hungry….
This is the best summary of solar energy capture methods that I have seen. It has the advantage of not being written by a science writer and gets just technical enough to help you understand the various methods.
I started working on my PhD proposal and decided that it would be best done as a wiki. I have been using MoinMoin for a wiki in my lab with my labmates. I like MoinMoin, but I don’t like how much of a pain it is to install it on debian. I decided to go back to mediawiki as it seems to be performing a bit better these days and is increasingly the standard wiki markup. So I have a mediawiki set up now for tracking my research, my reading and my PhD proposal. I might even get really brave and do my whole dissertation in wiki form.
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Nice thread over at parenthacks talking about secret ingredients for quick cooking. I think I am salivating already.
We now have four, count them, four blogs linked to the monogram.org main page. We have it set up so anyone who wants a blog can have their own wordpress installation that they can manage. Then all of their posts will be aggregated on the main monogram.org blog. Basically the monogram.org blog just points back to your personal blog for any comments people leave. Any of you long-time monogramers who would like to have a blog back, let me know.
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