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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

content management system (CMS): plone.org; open source

Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 340 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries (available in more than 40 languages).
http://plone.org/

Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain website content using only a web browser. Plone offers a rich set of capabilities for public websites, private intranets and collaborative workspaces.

demo: http://plone-demo.sixfeetup.com/

A CMS allows users to create, manage and publish content to a website without requiring a high level of technical skill.

As websites have grown larger and more complex, content management systems like Plone have grown in popularity, since they provide an efficient, easy way for people to create and edit content in a consistent, secure and controllable fashion. CMSes also enable website visitors to interact with content and with each other by contributing comments, ratings, submitting forms and more.

Plone comes with a reliable, secure, easy-to-administer object database backend known as the ZODB (Zope Object Database). In addition, Plone can easily connect to data stored in Active Directory, LDAP, Salesforce.com, SQL databases, and more.

A free Plone add-on, RelStorage, also allows enterprises with investments in Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL to store the data driving their Plone site in their existing infrastructure to be able to make use of familiar tools, clustering and failover solutions.

How does Plone compare with Sharepoint, Drupal, Alfresco and Joomla?
Plone is a true CMS with built-in publication workflow and document management features, unlike other systems such as Sharepoint or Alfresco, which are primarily document management systems with limited web functionality. This makes Plone ideal for intranets and extranets.

Plone can be customized and extended to meet the specific needs of an organization in terms of site structure, content types, workflow rules, etc. Not all CMSes offer the same level of flexibility.

Because it is built on top of Python and Zope, Plone is very secure, which is a reason why many switch from Joomla and Drupal to Plone.

Plone is 100% open source, so released, stable versions can be downloaded for free. There's no need to purchase a per-server or per-user license to get commercial support, as is the case with Alfresco or Sharepoint.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

worldometer and the Real Time Statistics Project

http://www.worldometers.info/

Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world.

Sources
Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world.

Algorithm
The counters that display the real-time numbers are based on Worldometers’ algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its estimated progression to compute the current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock. Please refer to the frequently asked questions to learn more about the mechanism.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

blogger, google maps, geoblogs: a "gadget" that maps your posts; BlurbBits

Right now users of Blogger can geotag their posts.
We need a gadget that maps our posts.

Here a solution without the "add location" function.

See http://svbillabong.blogspot.com for a dynamic geoblog map example, interactive maps are also available through menu selection at the top.
http://blurbbits.blogspot.com

I have not developed a standard XML gadget YET and you've been copied on the many reasons that I think that generating a blog based interactive sidebar map gadget is a REALLY bad idea. My mapping
solutions can be seen in the blog link mentioned above (http://svbillabong.blogspot.com).. both interactive blog navigation maps (could be a sidebar gadget link) and the geoblog dynamic maps (both sidebar "Geoblogs on this page" gadget maps and popup versions).
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BlurbBits (an introduction)

Sharing your travel adventures can be a time consuming experience. Writing updates, journals, editing/organizing and selecting photos/videos, adding captions, mapping locations, tracking your travels and then formatting them all for a website, blog or email can sometimes become overwhelming. We've been Sailing for 5 years and have over 25,000 photos, 30,000 miles of GPS tracks, blogs, websites and videos, so we understand the need/importance of easy to use methods for sharing your travel adventures.

BlurbBits is a FREE set of utilities designed to help ease the entire process, while providing easy to share viewing/mapping options even while you are disconnected from the internet (95% of our Sailing Blog posts were emailed). We are trying to revolutionize self published Travel Blogs, Sailing Blogs, and Photo blogs by using existing best in class functionality (Blogger, Google Maps, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube etc).
Spend your time sharing the moments, not formatting them.

http://blurbbits.blogspot.com/2009/01/blogger-travel-blogs.html

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BlurbBits can be added to a website, blog post or sidebar and emailed or linked into existing sites and social networks to optimize your sharing options.

To see BlurbBits in action visit svbillabong.blogspot.com. To learn more check outBlurbBits basics, our getting started overview or if you are already familiar with Blogger, the geoblogging process, if you can send an email.. you can blog and map!! Update: the easiest way to get started with Blogger is to add the Dynamic GeoBlog gadget and addLat/lng text to the Blog posts you want to map, we'll take care of the rest. Check out our utilties and other examples.

If you use Blogger you may already know about the Mail-To-Blogger interface. We write 95% of our blogs this way. We use a lat/lng string to define our location and can even send a small (250x250) photo if the email utility supports attachments (this gives people an update, a location map and optional photo).

Forum:
https://groups.google.com/group/bloggerdev/search?group=bloggerdev&q=geo*&qt_g=Search+this+group

Google Data client libraries are available to help you write client applications that use the Blogger Data API

http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/code.html

For each language, the client library provides tools and an abstraction layer, letting you construct queries and use response data without having to create HTTP requests or process HTTP responses by hand. Each client library provides classes that correspond to the elements and data types that the API uses. Each client library also provides extensions for specific Google services that have Data APIs.

Blogged Upon sample to comment about external posts using the client library
"Blog This" embedded blog editor using the client library
http://gdata-javascript-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/blogger/blog_this/blog_this.html
When you click the Login button below, you are taken to Google's AuthSub page to authorize this page to access your Blogger feeds. Once you give permissions to this page, the login button will be replaced with a text area for creating a new blog entry. The editor reads a list of your blogs using the Blogger JavaScript client library, and posts to the desired blog.
CalendBlogger Google Calendar to Blogger publisher using the client library
blog.gears offline client for Blogger using Google Gears and the client library
blog.press Blogger client using the client library

JavaScript client library

The JavaScript client library provides full read/write capabilities from within JavaScript. Read-only access is also available via raw JSON.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

geography GIS, google maps javascript API (only v3) and google web services and Google Chart Tools: more than 300 examples of various useful snippets, javascript, codes, tutorials and documentation

The JavaScript Maps API V3 is a free service (with no ads).

It provides a number of utilities for
1) manipulating maps ("like" on the http://maps.google.com web page, in fact not the same) and
2) adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

REFERENCE (all functions): http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html
This reference is kept up-to-date with the latest changes to the API.

Now just a small introduction of maps.google.com (Google Maps) in regards to Gmaps API:

1)Google Maps is a web service provided by Google. Like many other web applications, Google Maps uses JavaScript extensively (you don't need javascript coding for playing with maps.google.com). If you don't want to jump on the Web 2.0 javascript wagon, just play with maps.google.com URL parameters: http://mapki.com/wiki/Google_Map_Parameters.

The Google Maps API has 3 required pieces:

2 Javascript blocks: one to import the Gmaps API and the other to define the map.
The third piece is a html div element (that defines the size and width of the map).

2)Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time (Google uses the word satellite, most of the high-resolution imagery is aerial photography taken from aircraft rather than from satellites). With javascript and these API, you can use other images (other than the map/satellite images hosted by Google)...

3)Javascript Gmaps API is a better route planner. Depending on the area, it may allow the choice between "by car", "by public transit" (you can add your data), "walking" (you can add your data, from your GPS), "bicycling" (you can add your data, from your GPS), and by direct lines, polylines (maps.google.com has no undo function, draw lines is painful)...

4)Google Maps is coded almost entirely in JavaScript and XML. There are many customized features into the Google Maps interface but no "save" button!
For saving your maps, only two solutions/tricks: use google account for saving a maps or just bookmark (or web browser history). The fact that you simply just can't click "Save" after creating a map is absolutely ridiculous, especially if you're logged into your Google account.
(if you want to save "your maps" "your adress": http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=4cd8199bd3eb3ff2&hl=en)

In April 2007, "My Maps" was a new feature added to. "My Maps" lets users create their own map by positioning markers, polylines and polygons onto a map. The interface is an overlay on the map. A set of 84 pre-designed markers is available. Polyline and Polygon color, width and opacity are selectable. Maps modified using My Maps can be saved for later viewing and made public or marked as unlisted, in which case a user will need the saved URL with a 42 character unique ID.
Each element added to a My Map has an editable tag. This tag can contain text, rich text or HTML. Embeddable video and other content can be included within the HTML tag.

You can embed your maps in a site/blog and there are many ways to do this :

http://www.google.com/search?q=embed+my+maps&qscrl=1

Once you have created a map, you can import KML, KMZ (google earth) or GeoRSS data (http://georss.org/gml) into your map. To do this, create or open a map and click Import.
You can also add HTML, photo, video: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&answer=144364#import

You can share your maps:
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&answer=144365

If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, you can view your maps in Google Earth. To do this:
Click the KML or

in the orange title bar. Google Maps uploads a KML file to your computer that you can open in Google Earth.
You can use access this KML file using the Google Maps API:
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html

But until now there is no management system!!! Try this excellent web services: http://www.click2map.com/

Google Maps is in itself not a Geospatial Content Management System but is a powerful building block; see other articles about geo data/metadata and interoperability in this ex-ample blog ;).

At the end, the best saving method is coding with Google maps API!

5)This API is the most heavily used : http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
then you have many examples (see below).
there are many tutorials, i.e. http://www.higheredblogcon.com/library/deweese/presentation.html

6)periodically Google offers many new services:
A) The Google Maps API team will regularly update this Javascript API with new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Please consult the Javascript Maps API V3 Changelog for information on what's new in each release:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Changelog
B) many labs (click on "options" top right corner of maps.google.com),
i.e. (summer 2011) :
a)weather with maps.google:
for example, France
http://maps.google.fr/maps?lci=weather&utm_campaign=fr&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_source=fr-mapshpp-emea-fr-gns-gtn&utm_term=weather
b)new items (right click)

7) use both!!!
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Two other groups of APIs/tools are important for the geo tasks:

1)GViz: Google visualization API (Google Chart Tools)
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
All charts are populated with data using a common JavaScript DataTable class.
many tools, also in Infographics (Pins, Icons, etc)

2)GmapsWS: google maps web services: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/webservices/index.html
5 APIs:
Directions APIDistance Matrix APIElevation APIGeocoding APIPlaces API
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alternatives API, wikipedia: Yahoo! Maps, Bing Maps Platform, MapQuest, OpenLayers
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LIST OF EXAMPLES
structure: "URL link" "tab" "-"

from http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/index.html
100 examples:

All of the examples contained in the Google Maps API documentation set are listed below for quick reference. -

Basics -

map-simple.html -

map-coordinates.html -

map-geolocation.html -

map-language.html -

map-rtl.html -

map-simple-async.html -

map-projection-simple.html -

Events -

event-simple.html -

event-closure.html -

event-arguments.html -

event-properties.html -

event-domListener.html -

Controls -

control-disableUI.html -

control-simple.html -

control-options.html -

control-positioning.html -

control-custom.html -

control-custom-state.html -

Overlays -

marker-simple.html -

marker-animations.html -

marker-animations-iteration.html -

icon-simple.html -

icon-complex.html -

polyline-simple.html -

polyline-complex.html -

polygon-simple.html -

polygon-autoclose.html -

polygon-arrays.html -

circle-simple.html -

rectangle-simple.html -

groundoverlay-simple.html -

infowindow-simple.html -

infowindow-simple-max.html -

overlay-simple.html -

overlay-remove.html -

overlay-hideshow.html -

Layers -

layer-kml.html -

layer-kml-features.html -

layer-fusiontables-simple.html -

layer-fusiontables-query.html -

layer-fusiontables-heatmap.html -

layer-fusiontables-styling.html -

layer-georss.html -

layer-traffic.html -

layer-bicycling.html -

layer-panoramio.html -

layer-panoramio-tags.html -

layer-panoramio-widget.html -

MapTypes -

maptype-base.html -

maptype-overlay.html -

maptype-image.html -

maptype-styled-simple.html -

maptype-styled-complex.html -

aerial-simple.html -

aerial-rotation.html -

Services -

geocoding-simple.html -

geocoding-reverse.html -

geocoding-region-es.html -

geocoding-region-us.html -

directions-simple.html -

directions-panel.html -

directions-complex.html -

directions-travel-modes.html -

directions-waypoints.html -

directions-draggable.html -

distance-matrix.html -

elevation-simple.html -

elevation-paths.html -

streetview-simple.html -

streetview-map.html -

streetview-embed.html -

streetview-overlays.html -

streetview-events.html -

streetview-controls.html -

streetview-service.html -

streetview-custom-simple.html -

streetview-custom-tiles.html -

maxzoom-simple.html -

Libraries -

Adsense -

ads-adunit.html -

ads-adunit-format.html -

Geometry -

geometry-headings.html -

geometry-encodings.html -

Panoramio -

layer-panoramio.html -

layer-panoramio-tags.html -

layer-panoramio-widget.html -

Places -

place-details.html -

place-search.html -

places-autocomplete.html -

from http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/demogallery.html
(64 examples)
which are http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
50 directories:

45degrees/ -

articles/ -

callback/ -

circle-overlay/ -

clear-all-overlays/ -

cloud/ -

commonloader/ -

controls/ -

country_explorer/ -

custom-copyirghts/ -

devfest-2010/ -

digitalclock/ -

distancematrix/ -

draggable-directions/ -

draggable-markers/ -

drivingdirections/ -

elevation/ -

folds/ -

fusiontables/ -

geocoder/ -

geolocate/ -

infowindow/ -

infowindow_custom/ -

io-2010-bootcamp/ -

io-2010-migration/ -

latlng-to-coord-control/ -

layers/ -

localsearch/ -

map_events/ -

mapofthedead/ -

markeranimations/ -

overlayview/ -

places/ -

planetary-maptypes/ -

poly/ -

rectangle-overlay/ -

routeboxer/ -

screenshots/ -

sidebar/ -

single-infowindow/ -

smartinfowindow/ -

spreadsheets/ -

streetview/ -

styledmaps/ -

talks/ -

toomanymarkers/ -

whereinworld/ -

xmlparsing/ -

little red "ride finder" markers -

little different colored "ride finder" markers -

normal sized colored markers -

3D version of different colored "ride finder" markers -

custom markers with infowindows (v2 infowindow behavior) -

normal sized colored markers with infowindows (v2 infowindow behavior) -

different colored markers available from google -

styling the infowindow with CSS -

Mike Williams' tutorial The Basics - Part 1: Markers with info windows translated to v3 -

Mike Williams' tutorial The Basics - Part 2: Adding a clickable sidebar translated to v3 -

Mike Williams' tutorial The Basics - Part 3: Loading the data from an XML file translated to v3
with added "Zoom To, Zoom In, Zoom Out links in infowindow
With clustering -

Mike Williams' tutorial The Basics - Lots of sidebar entries (4. Select box example) translated to v3 -

Mike Williams' tutorial More advanced stuff - Part 25 Marker Categories translated to v3 -

Modified Mike Williams example that changes the marker icons on mouseover/mouseout (v3) (his example for v2 is from this page [Sidebar mouseovers] of his tutorial). -

Add marker with open infowindow on map click -

Mike William' tutorial More advanced stuff - Part 20 Passing and receiving parameters translated to v3 -

Mike William' tutorial More advanced stuff - Part 20 Passing and receiving parameters link to 2nd marker in xml (v3) - link to "Marker Two" (v3) -

Combined link to marker, link to this example -

Add markers from coordinates in text box -

Directions examples -

Directions example with custom markers (icons) -
Directions with draggable start/end markers -
Directions with draggable start/end markers, reverse geocodes the dragged location -
Directions example with LatLng waypoint -
Directions example with address waypoint -
Directions with waypoint marker -
Directions with waypoint marker and clickable polyline -
Animated directions (moving marker) -
Draggable Directions -
Draggable Directions to Xml -
Showing alternate directions -
Mile/Km Marker examples -

Geocoder examples -

Zoom to (US) state -
Zoom to country -
Simple APIv3 map with geocoding -

Elevation examples -

Google elevation example with distance calculation -

Polygon examples -

v3_polygon_example -
v3_polygon_exampleA -
v3 polygon exmple, with 3201 point polyline -
with infowindows (v3 behavior) -
64 polygons on a map -
Even more polygons on a map (try in IE at your own risk...) -
Donut polygon - Multiple holes - Overlapping holes - More complex -
Hexagon -
Polygon arc -
More Polygon arcs -
Polygon squares -
Clickable Polygon squares -
Area calculations on polygons -
Area calculations on polygons using the google.maps.geometry.spherical library -

Polyline examples -

Bounds examples -

Tabbed InfoWindows -

tabbed infowindows from xml -

geoxml3 examples & test cases (testing polyline & polygon implementation) -

show/hide markers (US state capitols) -
another marker test case -
show/hide markers - Kml with polyline and markers -
Load KML_Samples.kml -
Global Volcanism Program Weekly Report -
Simple Network Link Test - complete URL -
Simple Network Link Test - local file -
KML with Polygons -
KML Polygon with holes (now depends on winding direction, as of April 2011) -
point in polygon example -
Access individual polygons -
State of Hawaii from KML (compare to kmlLayer) -
State of Alaska from KML (compare to kmlLayer) (complex KML, usual warnings apply with IE) -
US states w/ sidebar (complex KML, usual warnings apply with IE) -
Polygons w/sidebar -
highligh individual polygons return to original color -
Highlight individual polygons (complex KML, usual warnings apply with IE) -
Custom parse function, manage "map" infowindow example -
Projected Overlay test page from John Coryat (www.usnaviguide.com) -
Highlight polylines on mouseover -
Google "CTA" example -
Dynamic sidebar of polygons in view (complex KML, usual warnings apply with IE) -
link to example -
Google "CTA" example (with highlighting and sidebar) -
Ground overlay - UN Map of Israel -
Map of Israel, Ground Overlay, Polygons -
Map of Georgia, Ground Overlay, Polygons -
Map of Africa with capitols -
multiple kml files (complex KML, may require large amounts of memory and time to render) -
two kml files -
five kml files -
six kml files -
another example with six kml files -
icons in the sidebar -
categories from kml styleID -
StyleMap rollover icon support example -
StyleMap rollover icon in KML_Samples -
StyleMap rollover polygon (multigeometry) support example -
suppressInfoWindow test -

Fusion Tables -

Fusion Tables Users Group - Developers Guide - Reference -
gviz example code -
Fusion Tables Map (started with this kml:Map of Africa with capitols) -
Fusion Tables Map with sidebar -
Playing with Fusion Tables - Natural Earth dataset and sidebars (and a modified version of geoxml3)
Italy - Greece - Albania - Georgia - UK - Russia - Israel - USA -
Fusion Tables/Natural Earth Data Country Browser -
Fusion Tables Map with sidebar -
Fusion Tables Map with sidebar, w/ polygon sidebar entries clickable -
Fusion Tables map with custom markers (specified by the load of the layer) -
two layer map, one infowindow -
three fusion layers, selected by checkboxes -
Zoom to results of query (markers) (using GViz) -
Zoom to results of query (kml) (using GViz) -

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