DARREN COPE

Admit it. You love Google Maps. It’s so useful that you likely use it every day for something-or-other. And if you’re a Firefox user, here’s a tip that will make Google Maps even easier to use: Firefox Smart Keywords It’s pretty simple. Create a bookmark that looks like this: The two things to note are [...]

My puzzle this morning was to clip a very large shapefile. I tried all of my usual methods (QGIS, Kosmo, etc.) and was having no success (crashing, hanging, taking forever, etc.) so I thought I would try out my old standby, OGR. I had never used OGR to clip a file based on a polygon [...]

I spent my morning today playing with some of the new data formats in OGR 1.8 (see the release notes for more info). I’ve had a massive (44.2 GB) GML 3 file sitting around for a while that I’ve had plans for. Unfortunately, until now nothing would even touch a GML 3 file that big. [...]

As many of you know, I maintain a webpage called “Darren’s Outdoor Page” which I’ve had for many years (since sometime in the early-mid 90′s…I honestly don’t remember when it started!)  The page documents my outdoor adventures, which consist mostly of wilderness canoe trips in Ontario.  I’ve been neglecting the page for a few years, [...]

Here’s the third part of the series (read Part I and Part II now if you are just joining us…) As of December 27, I am now seeing ‘reports’ in my Google Books Partner Program interface.  However, these reports are from one week prior, and every day I get one new result from the previous [...]