We have, and continue to work on a number of projects. This page gives details of some of them.
^ topThe EcoMapCostaRica.com website was created in support of an ecological study of the reforestation sites by the University of Dallas Biology Department. The field work has been performed by University of Dallas students as a part of their Field Ecology class over a number of years. Field sites are on the Leaves and Lizards Arenal Volcano Cabin Retreat in Costa Rica, and monitor the recovery of the forest and associated ecosystem. This site documents field seasons from 2008 to date, including panoramic photographs and interactive maps of field data. A panoramic photograph viewer/comparer was created in Silverlight to allow locations to be compared between years. The reforestation project started in 2007, so this chance allows a rare possibility to chart rainforest recovery from the very beginning.
As well as providing an outlet for information from the project, the project hosted blogs for students and educators. It also incorporates an interactive maps of the field data. Maps have been produced using Bing Maps; UMN MapServer & OpenLayers; and Google Earth v3. KML is used extensively to store map annotation.
Winwaed Software Technology LLC also managed the panoramic photograph and Trimble Field Computer aspects of the project.
Go to the EcoMap Costa Rica website.
^ topWinwaed Software Technology LLC are regularly contracted to write short Microsoft MapPoint based projects. These take a variety of forms, but typically involve batch mileage computation, batch data processing, or data plotting.
For further details of our MapPoint products and services, see our MapPoint-dedicated Mapping-Tools.com website.
^ topThe Dallas Wetlands Project grew out of a project for Dr. Margaret Brown, who required a quick way for students to process data in her labs for the University of Dallas Undergraduate Environmental Science class. The initial project was for a small inference engine which processed student field data to determine if a field location constituted a wetland or not. The conclusions were displayed using Gistix.
An updated system was created for the Fall 2008 class, that uses an updated system based on PHP, MySQL, and final display using Bing Maps.
Go to the Dallas Wetlands Project page.
^ topAn ongoing series of projects involve Natural Language Processing. Developments, research, and sample code is being published on the MoNLP blog. Material will typically concentrate on Python and C#, cover the more compuational (rather than linguistic) side of the subject.
Browse the Musings on Natural Language Processing website and subscribe to the RSS news feed.
^ topThe GeoWeb Guru website is a new website hosting articles and news for all matters involving the geospatial web. Articles include book reviews, technical overviews, and how-tos.
Browse the GeoWeb Guru website and subscribe to the RSS news feed.
^ topThe Equal-Area-Maps.com website was created as a demonstration of how to create global equal area web maps using UMN MapServer and OpenLayers. Equal area maps are essential for most geostatistical applications, but most geostatistical web maps continue to use the Mercator map projection. The maps demonstration a simple global map with a graticule, coastlines, and national boundaries. Some of the maps also allow third party KML or GeoRSS files to be plotted.
The site has since been extended to also include a number of polar map demonstrations. These are implemented in a similar manner, but use various azimuthal projections centred on the North Pole. Only one of the projections is actually an equal area projection, but the other polar projections have useful and interesting properties.
Go to the Equal-Area-Maps.com website, have a look at the different projections, plot some of your data, and learn about the applications where these projections should be used.