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Christopher Schmidt
Personal blog · crschmidt.net/blogprogrammingweb
Christopher Schmidt writes Technical Ramblings, a personal blog at crschmidt.net about programming and web. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Christopher Schmidt's blog for its GIS and web-mapping posts, such as a choropleth proof of concept and the Google projection EPSG:900913 that became EPSG:3857. Comments cite it as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An archive of some of my geeky pursuits in technology and otherwise.
What Hacker News says?
If you are willing to pay money, tools like AmMaps and Tableau can fill the "pre-assembled" requirement. For free, you can use the Many Eyes project to do this kind of visualization as long as you can transform your data source into the required format. There was also a neat proof of concept that someone from the OpenLayers community did a while back: http://crschmidt.net/mapping/choropleth.html I've used that code…
Comment linking /mapping/choropleth.html
on “How far can you get from a McDonald's in the continental US?”Submitted Python Decorators: What they are underneath as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI used a similar mapping library, http://openlayers.org/ , around 4 years ago. It thought it was nice at the time. The documentation wasn't great, but there were decent examples and the support for GIS standards like WMS and WFS was solid. It looks like people have increasingly become dissatisfied with it and started working on alternatives like leaftlet. http://vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog/index.cgi/wherecampeu-2011:2011-0.…
Comment linking /blog/archives/472/perceived-flaws-ofopenlayers/
on “Leaftlet - A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps”Submitted What Makes a Nerd? Passion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell, I was expecting something about the "Google projection" for maps, unofficially noted as the slightly different EPSG:900913 [1] until finally standardized as EPSG:3857 [2]. [1] http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/243/google-projection-900... [2] http://www.epsg-registry.org/report.htm?type=selection&entit...
Comment linking /blog/archives/243/google-projection-900913/
on “600613”Submitted DotCloud: GDAL in Python in the Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gold Rush: A metaphor for programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some things OpenLayers Shouldn’t Do as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
