Posted by Shady
Mon, 05 May 2008 05:30:00 GMT
So, another school project of mine ends up on the web: WorldBuy. It started life as my final project for CSE486 (Distributed Systems) but I liked it so much I decided to put it online.
Basically, you can click on a region and it will give you some general information about where you clicked. You can then search amazon for products related to that area. Products can be saved per region, and ranked so that a user can see what other people think are good products for a given place.
It's very, very, very beta at the moment. No user accounts, no per user places or products, and the search itself isn't particularly refined, but I think there is a lot of potential here.
It is also serving as a testbed for the new features I added to the geonames rubygem I wrote about in a previous blog post. The site makes use of both the paid account support, and the country info method. I made a custom rubygem with the new geonames features, and this site currently uses that.
I have a bunch of plans for features to add to this site, and I intend to keep working on this site. If you use it and like it, or don't like it, let me know!
Posted in School, GIS, Mapping, Cartography, Development, Ruby | Tags amazon, geography, schoolproejct | 1 comment | no trackbacks
Posted by Shady
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:00 GMT
For a final project in one of my classes, I made some maps of New York State language usage and foreign born population (the only measure of 'immigration' that the census bureau keeps track of).
The maps and a discussion about how they were made can be found here
Share and enjoy, if you have any comments leave them attached to this blog post.
Posted in School, GIS, Mapping, Cartography | Tags immigration, language, newyork | no comments | 1 trackback
Posted by Shady
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:49:00 GMT
This is, without a doubt, the best map I have ever seen. I'm actually jealous that I didn't think of it first.
You can find a larger version of it
here.
Posted in GIS, Mapping, Cartography | Tags areacodes, cartography, hos, ludacris, maps, rap
Posted by Shady
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:07:00 GMT
MySQL is nice enough for your average web application. Even larger applications can be run on it with the appropriate amount of tuning voodoo (see: wikipedia). There is even the MySQL MaxDB product (essentially SAPDB rebranded after its GPL release) available for Enterprise level MySQL, although this is not available for OS X.
Core data is also a nice solution for persistence inside a single application.
Oracle can also be run on OS X, provided you enjoy being turned upside down and shaken over a large funnel until all your money comes out. Not that this pertains specifically to Oracle on OS X, it's really more of an Oracle feature in general.
Each of these database server options are available for OS X. And they all have their various uses and proponents. So why am I here talking about Postgres? Well,
- It's Free (speech, and beer).
- It's enterprise ready (I seem to recall the .org primary name servers run on postgres)
- PostGIS
Read more...
Posted in OSX, GIS | Tags GIS | 1 comment
