Biodiversity Informatics Facility Blog The American Museum of Natural History’s (AMNH) Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) seeks a person with training and knowledge of applications of remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and modeling to biodiversity conservation. The Biodiversity Informatics Specialist will assist in the implementation of a strong collaborative research program with American Museum of Natural History curators, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation staff, and other partners. Qualifications: Candidates should have a Master’s degree or equivalent, and advanced experience in remote sensing and GIS applications to biology- and/or conservation and or wildlife management-related projects. Working knowledge of more than one of the following software packages is preferred: ERDAS, ENVI, ARC/INFO, ArcView and open source alternatives. The American Museum of Natural History is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
If the A5 makes mobile gaming awesome, why isn't it in the iPod touch? When Apple introduced the iPhone 4S on Tuesday, the company took great pains to show off the A5 processors' ability to make games "really scream," claiming twice the computing performance and seven times the graphics performance of the iPhone 4's A4 processor. But Apple did virtually nothing to the iPod touch, arguably one of the most popular mobile gaming devices on the market, except slap on a coat of white paint and knock $30 off the entry level price. If the A5 is so awesome for gaming, why then didn't Apple upgrade the iPod touch's A4 processor? In previous years, Apple really pushed the gaming abilities of the iPod touch. Originally, we weren't exactly sure how to market the Touch. That didn't stop Apple from bumping the price up $30 one year later when it introduced the fourth-generation iPod touch. Again, Apple touted the iPod touch as a killer mobile gaming platform. First, consider what is happening to the overall handheld gaming market.
dontflush.me The idea behind this project is to allow NYC residents to help reduce the amount of pollution in the harbor. Some 27 billion gallons of raw sewage is dumped into the harbor every year. This comes from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) that open when the sewer system is overloaded. The idea is to enable residents to understand when the overflows happen and reduce their wastewater production before and during an overflow event. Inside a CSO regulator in Brooklyn. Photo: Steve Duncan undercity.org Photos of the CSO target for this prototype: The simple sensor that I am prototyping utilizes an arduino, a proximity sensor, and a cell phone. The data collected from this network of sensors will be availble to users on a website, alerts will be sent by SMS and a prototype of an in home visualization of the CSO status will be set up. A simple sketch for this device would include using a xbee network and arduino:
GisCraft Codecademy is web development education for the rest of us Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding. This small group of young hackers entered the most recent class of Y Combinator startups and built a company that aims to teach anyone how to code. Their interface is simple and even fun to use. Their traction is through the roof; Codecademy.com has seen more than 250,000 visitors in the first four days since launching. Those visitors spend around an hour each on the site, and together, they’ve completed more than 2.75 million coding exercises. The young startup could change the world by changing the way ordinary people think about coding. The site is free to use. “Codecademy leverages the best of the web and brings it to online learning,” said co-founder Zach Sims to VentureBeat. “This is the first time programming has been truly democratized.
Sitegeist by the Sunlight Foundation Блоги Гис-Лаб Итак, меня практически заставили сделать это подавляющим числом голосов на встрече, теперь мне очень интересно будет посмотреть, как же это будет использоваться Встречайте Блоги GIS-Lab ака "Песочница" (начало обсуждения). Главная страница, она же агрегатор всех блогов: персонального блога: агрегатора: Идея: Каждый может создать себе блог на GIS-Lab и писать туда что угодно. Резонно ожидать, что записи будут на тему геотехнологий. Нюансы:1. 7. Create Sticky Notes and Speech Bubbles with Text using Google Charts Learn how to create yellow sticky notes, speech bubbles, taped notes, callouts and more using the popular Google Image Charts tool. Google Charts is a perfect web-based tool for converting your data tables into colorful and attractive charts in few easy steps. It supports a wide variety of charts – from pie charts to sparklines to Venn diagrams – and there’s a helpful wizard to guide you through the process. There’s one more reason why I prefer Google Image Charts over other online solutions – you can embed a chart in your website using a data URL with an <img> tag while the actual image is rendered live on Google Servers. If the data changes later, you just have modify the chart URL and the chart will update itself. Other than data visualization charts, the online Google Charts tool can also be used for creating images that can bring attention like the popular yellow sticky notes, callouts, thought bubbles, pinned notes and more.
commercial_service Underdark blog See Web Pages in 3D with Tilt, a Firefox Extension 21 Jul 2011 While you are on a web page, activate the 3D navigation controls by pressing Ctrl + Shift + M and then use your mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan, zoom or rotate that page in any direction couch mode print story Tilt is an experimental add-on for Firefox that lets you see any web page in 3D. Download this xpi file to your desktop and then drag it to your Firefox window to complete the installation. While you are on a web page, activate the 3D navigation controls by pressing Ctrl + Shift + M and then use your mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan, zoom or rotate that page in any direction. Tilt reads the HTML structure of a page and turns all the DIV layers, ULs and other tags into 3D stacks that add virtual depth to the page. The source code for Tilt is available for download on github. Also see: Bookmarklet Adds a 3D Effect to Webpages
environmental Gis-Lab Blog Напоминание: Регулярный семинар #1-14 07.04.2014, bishop Напоминаю, что 12 апреля 2014 года (сб) в 12 часов состоится первый в этом году регулярный семинар #1-14. Центральная тема семинара ОСМ. Семинар будет проходить по адресу: м. Красные ворота, Басманный тупик, д. 6А, стр. 4, офис 302. На семинаре будут следующие доклады: Евгений Усвицкий с темой »OpenStreeetMap: что это такое и как можно применить»Артем Светлов с темой »Обзор различных аспектов ОСМ»Илья Зверев с темой »Cбор геоданных на автомобиле и их последующая обработка» Подробности о семинаре читаем: Контакты организаторов: 8(916)585-24-52 (Дмитрий) Геодезические системы пространственных координат 06.04.2014, ErnieBoyd В статье рассматриваются различные виды координатных систем: геодезические, геоцентрические и топоцентрические. Читать | Обсудить Регулярный семинар #1-14 04.04.2014, bishop 12 апреля 2014 года (сб) в 12 часов состоится первый в этом году регулярный семинар. Семинар будет проходить по адресу: м. Что будет на семинаре: Ссылки: