Some of you were noticing that the Intersection analysis was a bit slow and we noticed that it was using quite a lot of memory – the larger the dataset, the worse it performed. We tackled this head on and have rolled out a much better algorithm, which, I’ve measured as being between 7 [...]
Loading KML Files So lets say you have a bunch of kml files you want to load into Geocommons. Of course, its fairly easy to load these through the web UI, but if you need to do this often enough, it would be nice to have a program to do it for you – after [...]
Continue Reading →We realized that this post was just too useful for only developers, so we moved it over to the main GeoIQ Blog.
I’ll be posting up some details on how the Fusion Tables adapter works under the hood in GeoIQ and how we can actually connect into a lot of [...]
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Today we launched the major refresh of GeoCommons – essentially “2.0″ as we were literally up to that version number anyways, but it also fits a lot of what we’ve done under the hood. I don’t want to give it all away – each of the team members will be sharing [...]
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This week my fellow GeoIQ engineer Derek Carter and I attended JSConf 2011 in Portland, OR. If you don’t know about this conference, and what it’s like, you should find out. It’s not like many other conferences out there. It gathers an impressive list of the some the world’s most forward thinking JavaScript experts. There’s [...]
Continue Reading →Early next month is JSConf, which will be bringing some of our engineers to Portland. We thought it would be a great time to meet-up with some of our Portland friends and show what we’ve been working on. PIE has been gracious enough to provide us with a space on Sunday afternoon May 1st from noon until 6pm
Continue Reading →It was a cold and rainy Friday morning when I headed out to Reston, Virginia for RubyNation, a local ruby conference. Attending were hundreds of the Washington area’s finest ruby developers, as well as programmers from as far away as India. What follows are what I consider the highlights of the conference.
The opening [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s the informal design process I’ve more or less evolved over the years. I’ve used it when I’ve had designers block and couldn’t get past a white canvas; I’ve used it to bring order to complex projects with hundreds of vague and conflicting requirements and I’ve used it for relatively simple component designs. Sometimes I complete it on paper in a few minutes, sometimes it takes a week. Treat the process like a fractal – use it to define the high level multi-page flows or use it to define page layouts and individual components.
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GeoIQ Blog- White House Maps and the Federal Cloud February 16, 2012 Andrew Turner
- UNEP/GRID-Arendal launches OCEANIDS February 15, 2012 Andrew Turner
- Using the Google Translate Function to Make Multilingual Maps in GeoCommons February 9, 2012 Sean Gorman
- Tech@State Panel – Realtime Awareness February 2, 2012 Andrew Turner
- 2011 in Review January 27, 2012 Andrew Turner