Parsing WMS GetCapabilities with jQuery

I’ve been thinking about adding an “anything” layer to one of my sites. By anything, I mean any layer being shared by our WMS server. There are lots of times when someone asks if they can see this or that on GeoPortal, a

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Podcast

Big hat tip to Vish for the idea. 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384<!DOCTYPE html><

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You Get What Everyone Paid For

How many times have you seen this quote associated with open source software? "You get what you pay for." Whenever I see that, I throw up in my mouth a little bit. Everybody in the community around an open source projec

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Make Smarter - Digital Humanitarianism, Field Guide to Web Applications, Open Advice

First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a TED Talk by Paul Conneally titled Digital Humanitarianism. It talks about how mobile devices like phones have fundamentally changed disaster response, and it talks about mapping

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GIS Poster Using Inkscape

The City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are doing an internal (I think) technology summit, and I volunteered to do posters for GIS and another department. I ran across this great post

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New Hampshire Passes Open Source Bill

Via Slashdot, a bill passed in New Hampshire requires state agencies to consider open source software when acquiring software and to promote the use of open data formats. Here’s the meat of it from the comments: I. For

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GeoPortal v2.4 is Out

This is primarily a styling release to catch up the open source project with some changes I made to Mecklenburg County’s site. There are some code tweaks here and there. You can download it here. Enjoy, and if you have

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Responsive Design Bookmarklet

Found via CSS Tricks, Benjaminkeen.com has a great bookmarklet for testing your responsive web design. Toss the bookmarklet in your toolbar, go to the page you want to test, and hit it. You’ll get your page in a series o

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Lego Man in Space

This is awesome. Two high school kids, a weather balloon, a Lego man and a camera. They got over 80,000 feet, which is at the edge of space. Shared by Tom Eigelsbach on Google+.

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Fuzzy Tolerance Podcast

Unless you have eagle eyes, watch it in at least 720p. ResourcesQuality of Life Dashboard Beta SiteFork Me on GithubQOL Data on Fusion TablesUltimate CSS Gradient GeneratorGoogle Image Chart EditorGoogle Translator Sty

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