Kelso I prompted a flurry of PostGIS hate (and some love) on Twitter last week, documented via Storify. I’ve been using PostGIS for around 2 years now both at Stamen and before that at The Washington Post. Let me say upfront that PostGIS is amazing and is definitely in the top 5 best FOSS4G (free and open source software for geo) out there. It doesn’t matter how awesome something is unless it’s usable. Besides the specific issues outlined below, PostGIS lacks basic functions required for spatial analysis found in ArcToolbox. @PostGIS asked me for details on how it could be friendlier and I’ve itemized around 20 below. If a project that is considered core to the FOSS4G stack (eg Mapnik, PostGIS, etc), the project needs to act like it. Our servers at Stamen run Ubuntu Linux and we have a variety of them, running different combinations of applications and operating systems. Request 1a: Core FOSS4G projects should be stable and registered with official, maintained APT Ubuntu package list. 2. Fixed?
atNight El projecte / The project atNight és un projecte de recerca que parteix de la constatació de l'existència del concepte de paisatge nocturn i és, precisament des d'una definició àmplia del terme paisatge, que la investigació vol establir ponts entre els coneixements de diverses disciplines humanístiques i tècniques. La investigació afronta la descripció del paisatge com a relació sensible i cognitiva entre les persones i el seu entorn i, per consegüent, vol aprofundir en el procés d'identificació de la ciutadania amb el seu territori. El projecte "aNight" explora la relació estètica que s'estableix entre el ciutadà i la pell de la ciutat, entenent el paper de la nit i el de la il•luminació artificial com a elements claus per a una nova articulació del paisatge urbà; un paisatge que considerem essencial reivindicar ja que l'habitem en el nostre temps d'oci i socialització. atNight is a research project based on the (re)definition of the term "nightscape".
GIS and Agent-Based Modelling Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb Avert your eyes: The obscenity that is Franklin's 31st Street. At rush hour. We often hear city officials proclaim their view of the "natural" progression of a road as needing to be BIGGER and WIDER as the years go on. A few years back, aldermen in my city lobbied hard for an obscenely wide road to be built behind the Northwestern Mutual Life headquarters. After all, went the argument, it'll need to get that big eventually.... This viewpoint is deeply flawed, to say the least, and it's costing our cities an enormous amount of money. People who travel down 31st Street for the first time (most Franklin residents are unaware that it exists) are utterly shocked at its immensity. No - the smart money is on REDUCING the width of roads and streets. A growing number of metro area cities are taking a broader, greener view of street repairs.Instead of just rebuilding worn roads, cities such as Bloomington, Richfield and St.
GIS and Science About MANU FERNÁNDEZUrban policies analysis / Strategic urban thinker and designer of innovative urban actions Interested in working on projects related to urban economy, local sustainability, urban innovation processes and actions, digital cities and civic engagement in public space. My research and consulting activity has been focused on three main fields:• Adaptive urbanism: I have been concerned of how economic crisis is impacting cities, basically in the Spanish context (but using international cases as a reference) and I am advocating for an adaptive urbanism. This is based on the idea that we suffer three main problems we have to face and work on together: economic restrictions (which means the age of big urban interventions is over), climate change (which means we need to adapt built environment) and a social change that is transforming society with new paradigms of learning, governance, companies,..
NetLogo Home Page NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge. What can you do with NetLogo? Join mailing lists here. Download NetLogo Go to NetLogo Web NetLogo comes with a large library of sample models. TRANSIT-CITY / URBAN & MOBILE THINK TANK Blogs