Tag Archives: maps

Maybe I Shouldn’t Depend So Much on Google Maps

Posted on August 11, 2008 by jcole

Can there be a darkside to my beloved Google Maps? The guy who writes xkcd thinks perhaps so: Now that’s a quandary.

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Embedding Google MyMaps in webpages

Posted on June 5, 2007 by jcole

Google Maps is cool, and I found a link to a Spanish-language blog entry describing how to load the map with the proper overlay in the “Embed one of My Maps” thread on the Google Maps API group. Now my … Continue reading →

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Amarok makes my iPod happy

Posted on April 6, 2007 by jcole

In populating my new iPod with music I discovered an annoying thing: album art was only being loaded for music ripped and encoded with iTunes. Well, that sort of made sense, okay. But iTunes does not give you a way … Continue reading →

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Making maps for the fire department

Posted on November 7, 2006 by jcole

I’m on the committee that’s working on new mapbooks for BVFD. None of us are GIS people, and there are two ways to approach this problem. One is simple (but limited) and one is hard (but powerful). Here’s the simple … Continue reading →

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LSU-Auburn 2006, flotsam and jetsam, star maps

Posted on September 19, 2006 by jcole

I don’t have much to say about LSU-Auburn. No one would be talking about how terrible the officiating was if we’d won. But the harsh reality is that championship-caliber teams find ways to win games, zebras be damned. Matt Zemek … Continue reading →

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