Category Archives: GeoSpatial

Anything and everything geospatial…

Solr and Geonames

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites. Continue reading

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OpenSearching with Geocommons

Bulk downloading data from Geocommons using python and wget. Continue reading

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Geographic to UTM Converter

Geographic to UTM Javascript Coordinate Converter Continue reading

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If you build it, they will come…

If you create a web service, no matter what, someone out there will use it! This is a fact and these days there is a web service for just about everything from the weather to where the most recent earthquakes [...]

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C# KML Generator

If you’re anything like me, you probably generate a ton of KML so I wanted to pass along a quick little method that generates a KML file from data in a C# DataSet. The real cool part about this is [...]

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