http://spatialviews.com GIS, Mac, Interweb, and me! Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:35:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thousands of trees and hundreds of homes are burning around you - what to do? Well, hop on the segway and text Mom of course :o) http://spatialviews.com/2008/11/16/fires/ I was extremely interested to see what Mozilla would announce for the Geode project, and the result is surprisingly simple, yet incredibly powerful. Now I can imagine a world where one commutes into work, pulls out their laptop, starts up Firefox and it notices that you are at your office so ... http://spatialviews.com/2008/10/08/firefox-genius-loci/ Mozilla support developers well, with MDC an excellent resource. A giant step forward was taken with FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) in Firefox 3, but for me the serious missing piece in the puzzle; where is the FHIG (Firefox Human Interface Guidelines)? Mozilla have always been protective of their brand (perhaps ... http://spatialviews.com/2008/08/25/firefox-fuel-but-no-fhig/ I am pleased to bring to Minimap the power and simplicity of Fire Eagle. Due to hit the addons.mozilla.org site soon, now you can access and update your Fire Eagle location right from within your favorite mapping addon. Learn more.Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: fireeagle, firefox http://spatialviews.com/2008/08/23/fire-eagle-and-minimap/ I see the Devo Firefox addon from chimney came in as a runner up in the extend Firefox 3 contest (one of the winners if I had my say!). Wow, what an awesome addon that has huge potential, and takes a massive step towards Alex Faaborgs idea of a Firefox ... http://spatialviews.com/2008/08/22/devo-for-firefox-awesome/ Have got to remember to watch this beeb show on Sunday http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539529.stm Blogged with the Flock Browser http://spatialviews.com/2008/08/05/britain-from-above/ Something that has appeared on my radar recently is Gustavo Niemeyer's geohash (see wikipedia article for further explanation). I had a quick look and it was very easy to add Geohash support to Minimap. The extension will now recognise geohash.org links (drag and drop onto sidebar, or decode from context ... http://spatialviews.com/2008/07/23/geohash-and-minimap/ Just a quick post from my iPod touch using the new wordpress app. Took me ages to get it set up, app was authenticating but not allowing me past first page - it's all in a missing 'www' http://spatialviews.com/2008/07/22/testing-wordpress-app/ Hi all, with the upcoming release of Flock 2 (currently in Beta2), I have had a look at my extensions and all seems to be pretty broken. I am unable to simply bump up the version compatibility. Something, somewhere is going wrong with all the extensions and it is going to ... http://spatialviews.com/2008/07/18/a-note-about-my-flock-addons/ Just a quick note to say I shall be attending the ESRI User Conference in London in October if anyone wishes to meet up. http://spatialviews.com/2008/07/15/esri-emea-user-conference/