Comments for geoLibro http://geolibro.wordpress.com information and news from a GIS Librarian at Purdue University Libraries Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on This Blog is Moving/Has Moved (2007 May 22) by AnferTuto http://geolibro.wordpress.com/this-blog-is-movinghas-moved-2007-may-22-2/#comment-897 AnferTuto Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:37:36 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/this-blog-is-movinghas-moved-2007-may-22-2/#comment-897 Hola faretaste mekodinosad Hola faretaste
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]]> Comment on qGIS 0.8 Preview 1 by geoLibro http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/qgis-08-preview-1/#comment-696 geoLibro Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:53:45 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/qgis-08-preview-1/#comment-696 Who be Jim? Who be Jim?

]]> Comment on qGIS 0.8 Preview 1 by Bill Compton http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/qgis-08-preview-1/#comment-695 Bill Compton Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:59:25 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/qgis-08-preview-1/#comment-695 Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

]]> Comment on New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week by geoLibro http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-639 geoLibro Wed, 23 May 2007 15:30:44 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-639 Kristen, you're right. A world music collection would be especially good for this. It would be another instance of something that is starting to happen all over: geospace as the menu, maps as catalogs to library collections. As for GE v. ESRI? I am becoming kind of a jerk about this. The more I work with <a href="http://ka-map.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=home.html" rel="nofollow">kaMap</a> and <a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu" rel="nofollow">MapServer</a> and other open source tools, the less and less I want to do anything with ESRI. I'm not a developer, of course, so although I wouldn't argue that ESRI is inferior, I have come to appreciate being able to look inside of these applications and just start hacking away until it works (letting <em>real</em> coders fix my mistakes later, of course). Anyway, maybe you should proceed with the very distant notion that your world music geodata might someday become part of an integrated (but extensible) data store (that another library could connect to, for example, or that other users could access and mash into something else). I've been working on a couple of projects and as we go further in I've been thinking more and more about how valuable it will be to allow users to mash with our data and tools. There might be grant money in <em>that</em> that could help pay for your student assistant. Kristen, you’re right. A world music collection would be especially good for this. It would be another instance of something that is starting to happen all over: geospace as the menu, maps as catalogs to library collections. As for GE v. ESRI? I am becoming kind of a jerk about this. The more I work with kaMap and MapServer and other open source tools, the less and less I want to do anything with ESRI. I’m not a developer, of course, so although I wouldn’t argue that ESRI is inferior, I have come to appreciate being able to look inside of these applications and just start hacking away until it works (letting real coders fix my mistakes later, of course).

Anyway, maybe you should proceed with the very distant notion that your world music geodata might someday become part of an integrated (but extensible) data store (that another library could connect to, for example, or that other users could access and mash into something else). I’ve been working on a couple of projects and as we go further in I’ve been thinking more and more about how valuable it will be to allow users to mash with our data and tools. There might be grant money in that that could help pay for your student assistant.

]]> Comment on New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week by Kristen http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-637 Kristen Tue, 22 May 2007 19:45:01 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-637 Very Cool. We will have a new library completed this coming winter. We have a good deal of music CDs and yesterday a colleague mentioned the ability to play music on a station within the library (ala Borders Bookstore). I'm not sure what permissione we may need to set something like this up (still need to do the research), but your project seems like something quite feasible for me to get a student assistant on with regards to our world music collection. Now....do I go with using Arc Products, or Google Earth? hmmmmmm..... Very Cool.

We will have a new library completed this coming winter. We have a good deal of music CDs and yesterday a colleague mentioned the ability to play music on a station within the library (ala Borders Bookstore). I’m not sure what permissione we may need to set something like this up (still need to do the research), but your project seems like something quite feasible for me to get a student assistant on with regards to our world music collection.

Now….do I go with using Arc Products, or Google Earth?

hmmmmmm…..

]]> Comment on Somewhere Here by geoLibro » Blog Archive » Somewhere Here (Update) http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/somewhere-here/#comment-635 geoLibro » Blog Archive » Somewhere Here (Update) Tue, 22 May 2007 11:46:55 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/somewhere-here/#comment-635 [...] the BBC story about a map-addressed letter. entchevdotcom is testing if the USPS can call Bude, UK’s postal prowess by sending a letter [...] [...] the BBC story about a map-addressed letter. entchevdotcom is testing if the USPS can call Bude, UK’s postal prowess by sending a letter [...]

]]> Comment on GeoTagging iTunes tracks by geoLibro » Blog Archive » New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/geotagging-itunes-tracks/#comment-634 geoLibro » Blog Archive » New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week Tue, 22 May 2007 10:48:54 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/geotagging-itunes-tracks/#comment-634 [...] try this for a while: since I’m doing this anyway by geotagging my iTunes library, every Friday I’ll post for download an mp* file (mp3, mp4, etc.) of some song that happens [...] [...] try this for a while: since I’m doing this anyway by geotagging my iTunes library, every Friday I’ll post for download an mp* file (mp3, mp4, etc.) of some song that happens [...]

]]> Comment on New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week by geoLibro http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-631 geoLibro Tue, 22 May 2007 01:50:15 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-631 Andrew, you've convinced me. I have a whole lot of songs in the queue, geoRSS is fun already and will only get better (perhaps with the help of <a href="http://georss.org/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/GeoPress" rel="nofollow">certain wordpress plugins</a>), and Dreamhost has a really good deal going right now. Thanks, Mr. Turner. Andrew, you’ve convinced me. I have a whole lot of songs in the queue, geoRSS is fun already and will only get better (perhaps with the help of certain wordpress plugins), and Dreamhost has a really good deal going right now. Thanks, Mr. Turner.

]]> Comment on New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week by Andrew Turner http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-627 Andrew Turner Mon, 21 May 2007 12:20:51 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-627 Great idea - for hosting, it may be worth checking out Dreamhost. For approx $8/month you get 'nearly unlimited' data storage & bandwidth, and easy install/setup (and actual ssh access) for WordPress et al. Then you could have a KML (and GeoRSS!) link to all past geo-songs. Great idea - for hosting, it may be worth checking out Dreamhost. For approx $8/month you get ‘nearly unlimited’ data storage & bandwidth, and easy install/setup (and actual ssh access) for WordPress et al.

Then you could have a KML (and GeoRSS!) link to all past geo-songs.

]]> Comment on New Feature: GeoMP3 of the Week by geoLibro http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-612 geoLibro Sat, 19 May 2007 02:43:10 +0000 http://geolibro.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/new-feature-geomp3-of-the-week/#comment-612 Exactly the idea. Same thing. Cool. And I have some Ramblin' Jack on my list, too. But there's also a pretty "high potentiality," as Snoopy Miller said, for the "commoner" (me) to bitch out of this. I can barely cobble together the time to write <em>regular</em> posts here. Exactly the idea. Same thing. Cool. And I have some Ramblin’ Jack on my list, too. But there’s also a pretty “high potentiality,” as Snoopy Miller said, for the “commoner” (me) to bitch out of this. I can barely cobble together the time to write regular posts here.

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