A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Conversion result implemented in Google Maps, using data of my hometown Deinze, Belgium To convert ESRI shapefiles to geoJSON (which you can perfectly use JavaScript and thus pass on to Google Maps, see screenshot above) you will need GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) — Mac Users: download here. I have installed GDAL 1.9 Complete but …
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Needed to convert LAMBERT 1972 (EPSG:31370) coordinates to WGS84 (EPSG:4326) for a project I’m working on in order to use the coordinates with Google Maps (which uses a SphericalMercator (EPSG:900913) projection). Took me quite a while to find the needed algorithm, so hereby I’m listing them (and am providing the JavaScript implementation): JavaScript: var lambert72toWGS84 …
Just pushed a new project to GitHub named Simple REST API Explorer, a simple way to showcasing and exploring all endpoints of your RESTful API. The demo allows you to call some Twitter API endpoints a sample RESTful API I’ve quickly knocked up as the Twitter API is rather unstructured. Update the index.html file to …
Joseph Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals. Support the international effort to arrest him, disarm the LRA and bring the child soldiers home. Watch this video, and spread the word. It’s always been that the decisions made by the few, with the money and the power, dictated the priorities of their government …
The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a …
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SQLite compiled to JavaScript through Emscripten var db = SQL.open(); db.exec("CREATE TABLE my_table(a INTEGER, b INTEGER, c VARCHAR(100));"); db.exec("INSERT INTO my_table VALUES(1,13153,’thirteen thousand one hundred fifty three’);"); db.exec("INSERT INTO my_table VALUES(1,987,’some other number’);"); var data = db.exec("SELECT count(*) FROM my_table;"); sql.js demo → sql.js source (GitHub) →