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National Register of Historic Places Geocoded

Posted on January 9, 2011 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

The National Park Service website offers a dataset containing a list of all of the 85,000 entries of the National Register of Historic Places along with geopoint information for most all of the entries.  As is frequently the case with…

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UTMy: Converting UTM Geodata to Latitude / Longitude

Posted on January 7, 2011 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

UTM, or Universal Transverse Mercator, encoded geodata seems to be very common in some of the datasets I am playing around with from data.gov.  In order to make that data useful to me and play well with the other data…

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Parallel Lines and Google Maps v3

Posted on December 27, 2010 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

Still working on a mapping project.  A section of the code involves drawing bounding boxes around various points of a Google Map polyline. Reading up on the geometry involved I came across an excellent demo of the part of the…

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Posted in Geekery, Google Maps, Hackery

I grew up in (39.0483284, -95.67803955): Dataset of Geocoded US Cities

Posted on December 15, 2010 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

I’m working on a mapping project at the moment and have delved into the world of geopoints and GIS.  Joy oh joy. From my day job I have seen that there is a wealth of free data available at data.gov,…

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The forgotten cron job

Posted on September 22, 2010 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

Diamonds might be forever, but cron jobs are no slouches. Upon adding a new cron task to a development machine I noticed that I had a cron job that had been running on the hour, every hour, since sometime in…

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Posted in Geekery, Hackery, omgCron