In the mailbox today:
“Hello Ulf
The brand new SpeedoMeter for BlackBerry® shows the current speed right on your phone. The speed shown is based on GPS and how fast your device is moving.”
- I do not have a Blackberry. If I had a Blackberry I would get upset if it just took of.
/Ulf
Björn Harrtell created this great version of a new Snake game. Initially made for Android but with no Desire-phone this was another option:
Made entirely in javascript. HTML5 is slowly winning me over…this is fun.
/Ulf
A great piece of advice on Twitter today:
I guess this means You should leave no comments/trace in the code and definately only check in data anonymously…
/Ulf
To continue the mapping of my drive I took the workbench for a spin down the FME folder. The result is presented below:
As we all know, Python is a pretty deep story while tcl is getting kind of fat by now… (ooops).
Also I’m not really surprised that the plugin_builder is a complicated story but the xml-section does not look very intimidating at all!
C:\Program Files (x86)
This turbulent continent needs exploring. With my trusted reader “Directory and File Pathnames” and the supertransformer “NetworkTopologyBuilder” I created a geometric world map of all the folders:
Here is a snapshot of the FME Workbench. (If You are interested please make a comment to this post and I’ll send it to You with some safety instructions before use).
Adobia
Even before this country was mapped, we new it existed and that it was big. Now we can clearly see that it truly is huge. Spreading from South to East it is the place where You can travel from a simple place like “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe” to the very far, far away and exotic:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\air\ApplicationUpdater\src\ApplicationUpdaterDialogs\com\adobe”.
(Ironically You end up in the city “adobe” – same name as Your starting point).
The CommonFiles
This region is close to anarchy. Jumping between left and right it will probably collapse in the nearby future. Windows, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo scattered all over the place…
Googles Earth and iTunis
One could believe that these countries would cover large areas but they don’t. However, they certainly are packed with places:
Cultural Foundation Miro
I have no clue where this entity came from. Zooming in reveals strange information:
/Ulf
In 2004, the EU ordered Microsoft to pay the largest fine ever handed out by the organization, $794 million. According to Wikipedia the background was:
Deja Vu anyone? I am thinking of Steve Jobs blocking of Flash. It certainly is, wonderfully ironic, that Steve is dancing around the same European fire as Bill. (Meaning the European Commission and not that Volcano on Iceland).
Personally I think Steve is so right in hanging on to proprietary operating systems. The word “proprietary” is not always a bad word. “Proprietary” is necessary for the development of cutting edge technology like iPhones and iPads. You just can’t sit around and wait for someone to define the standards for You. Now, Android is great, but admit it… Steve was years ahead of that.
Even if I would enjoy the choice of what to run on all my iThings, I also accept that they are proprietary due to their brilliance.
But what if the European Commission are not that forgiving to yet another Denietary system? Oh the iRony…
/Ulf
Nope! This is not a post about the INSPIRE directive.
Those who now me probably now about the FME art stuff. Today I felt like paying the latest Volcano business some attention. I fired up FME Workbench (and probably failed miserably):
FME Volcano Art
You can also play with the 3D-PDF version.
The BETA launch of Openaddresses.org was anounced on twitter today! (http://twitter.com/jaykayone)
FME-users can now try the OSM extractor also with Openaddress-data.
If You are unfamiliar with how the OSM extractor details You can read about it in our Nov 2009 post: FME for Open Street Map
In short:
1.Start with http://bbox.me/osm and locate a place for extraction of address points.
2. Select “Openadress.org FME” for workspace.
3. Download the workspace and open it with FME Workbench.
4. When You run the workbench FME will call the OpenAddresses.org Webservices and retrieve the addresses (max 500 by default. This can be changed with some FME-knowledge but don’t overload the Webservice):
(Note: This is only BETA and we will someday implement a viewer without FLASH…)
/Ulf
This is certainly great news. OSM writing capabilities :
http://blog.safe.com/2010/03/sharing-your-data-on-openstreetmap/
/Ulf
I find the trackpoint API interesting. You can try it here:
http://bbox.me/bbox.html?id=320
Basically it lists the OSM trackpoints uploaded in the current bbox. (Well, it lists 5000 points at the time.)
My hope (and guess) is that it lists the most recent tracks. That would possibly make some interesting uses of it.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Retrieving_GPS_points
