Category Archives: GIS

Mapping My Twitter Followers – No Code Needed

Posted on February 14, 2011

The Challenge I’ve been pondering what new data sets to add to the GeoSandbox for a while now. It’s been a couple of weeks since the last addition, and I felt things were getting a little stale. Once again, a … Continue reading →

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GeoSandbox grows up to be a “Real boy”

Posted on February 3, 2011

A quick update on the status of my little experiment. This morning I got it in my head that I wanted to access my GeoSandbox in ArcMap through WMS, and allow others access to it through the same mechanism. Through … Continue reading →

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Setting up my GeoSandbox

Posted on January 31, 2011

It’s been 3 weeks since I set up my little GeoServer experiment and started populating it with various datasets. I thought I’d outline the things I’ve been working on, and what I plan on looking at next. I couldn’t have … Continue reading →

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Serving Maps for Free

Posted on January 9, 2011

The Goal This weekend I started down the road to fulfilling one of my New Year Resolutions: Get some maps online. And by maps online, I don’t mean posting links to KML files, screen shots, or PDF exports from ArcGIS. … Continue reading →

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ArcGIS 10 Annoyances – Picture Properties Bug Not Fixed

Posted on September 25, 2010

Here’s another annoyance I just ran into today. When I try to resize an inserted graphic in a map layout using the Picture Properties dialog box, the new values are not saved. In fact, when I open the Picture Properties … Continue reading →

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