Seems to be a nice piece of software. Need to investigate it further.
Archive for October, 2008
uDig GIS
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Draft of the “next generation” OSM license available
Monday, October 13th, 2008OSMF have posted a draft of the upcoming OSM license. Fred kindly has translated it into german language. If you are interested in more details, maybe the archive of legal-talk is of interest for you.
Continued SRTM processing
Monday, October 13th, 2008Wandering Allowed
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Yes, a word play, and I’m not the first one who had this idea. Anyway, we’ve been climbing the “Karlsruher Grat” today. The weather was marvellous. As many other people felt the very same, the Ridge itself and the Schwarzwaldhochstraße have been relatively crowded. We enjoyed the trip anyway, having a nice break at the Ruhestein and hiking back to Ottenhöfen where we left the car.
Golden October
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Linus blogs
Saturday, October 11th, 2008I really was late with starting my blog a couple of weeks before, so call me a dinosaur. The more I was surprised that Linus Torvalds was even later :) .
DIY MIDI controller board
Friday, October 10th, 2008First GeoEye-1 sample image published
Friday, October 10th, 2008I wonder if Yahoo has something comparable in the pipeline. BTW: Does this mysterious place named »Kutztown« really exist :-) ?!?
qtractor “The Flirty Ditz” released
Thursday, October 9th, 20084 days ago, Rui released “The Flirty Ditz”. Since its release at the LAC in Berlin back in 2007, I didn’t play much with it, mainly due to some other time consuming hobby. Rui did some cool helper applications for the linux audio community before, like qjackcontrol and qsynth.
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Woz predicts the end of the iPod
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Though I think he isn’t that wrong, I doubt this will harm Apple in any way. They always have been excellent in managing product life cycles. They will probably discontinue the iPods sooner as we all might expect, coming up with something completely new.
Downloading the whole world to your hard drive
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Ever wanted to download the whole world to your hard drive, while converting the data to elevation lines? No prob:
inc=1;for y in $(seq -89 $inc 89); do for x in $(seq -179 $inc 179); do mono ./srtm2osm/bin/Srtm2Osm.exe -bounds1 $y $x $(($y+$inc)) $(($x+$inc)) -large -step 40 -cat 1000 200 -o "srtm2osm-tiles/$y $x $(($y+$inc)) $(($x+$inc)).osm"; done; done
This theoretically should cache the complete SRTM data to your hard drive and generate some OSM files with contour lines. srtm2osm seems to have some memory issues so keep $inc between 5 and 10 degrees. srtm2osm is a great tool anyway. Thanks Igor!
Jazzbands at the annual Rock-Shop-Party
Saturday, October 4th, 2008At the annual party of the local “trumpet shop”, there have been two impressive Jazz Bands.
The »Andy Lehmann Quartett« (which unfortunately does not seem to provide a web presence) did a great job. I especially enjoyed the sound of the real, wooden Hammond and its rotary cabinet.
Electric Outlet did sound much harder, “emulating” the “typical 70th jazzrock sound” (what ever it is) . Tom Aeschbacher played a Yamaha Tyros, a Roland VR-760 and an Access Virus. If you are a fan of Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock etc., you will likely like Electric Outlet.
Math Links
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Der Schockwellenreiter has some nice links to math stuff.