May 2008
8 posts
RIchard Knippers' GIS Coordinate Reference... →
Yet another great set of pages discussing aspects of coordinates systems and GIS.
Wrapping my head around the idea that the Earth is actually a really odd, nubbly ellipsoid rather than a sphere feels akin to trying to imagine a round world in a flat earth society…
Charlie Savage: Cartography →
A series of posts that talks you through many aspects of GIS systems.
Cartographical Map Projections →
Another good map projection site.
Map Projections: From Spherical Earth to Flat Map →
Really great (visual) introduction to different types of map projections.
iPhone SDK XML Parsing
While doing some iPhone hacking tonight, I had to write some code to parse some XML documents, and noticed that neither NSXMLDocument or NSXMLParser were available in my local iPhone documentation set.
I eventually discovered that the iPhone SDK does include support for event-based XML parsing via NSXMLParser, but not DOM-based parsing. This makes sense, but I’m still not sure why...
Git - SVN Crash Course →
Found this tutorial really helpful when trying to get my initial bearing in Git, coming from using SVN for the past 5 years.
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I’m spending the weekend figuring out how to use Git to manage the source code for a iPhone mapping project I’m working on. I’ll try to live-blog my research and experiences, and then give a shout out to my new projects!