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This is a detailed HowTo on deploying a MapProxy instance on Enterprise Linux (CentOS 5.5) for production. I worked this out for the deployment of the CRC806-Database MapProxy instance. It will describe a setup using Apache with FastCGI (mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid) on a blank CentOS 5.5 amd64, which is also described shortly and more generally (focused on debian/ubuntu) in the MapProxy documentation.
This is a short tutorial on how to clip an SRTM DEM file with gdal_translate to a smaller spatial extent provided by an other dataset.
To proceed you will need GDAL installed on your computer. For information on how to obtain and install the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), see this website. If you are a lucky ubuntu or debian user, you can install GDAL with the following simple command:
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
1 Download the SRTM data
Go to: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
This is a basic tutorial on rendering OpenStreetMap (OSM) Maps with Maperitve.
1 Maperitive Installation
To install Maperitive on your computer please refere to the openstreetmap wiki.
-> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive
On this page you will also find valuable additional Info about Maperitive.
2 Get the OpenStreetMap Data
In this tutorial, we will produce a OSM map of Barcelona, Spain.
Downlaod the spain.bz2 OSM file for from: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/
Extract the bz2 file to a working directory (for example 'Data') in the Maperitive installation folder: ~/Programme/Maperitive/Data
This is a blog post about installing UNR 10.4 (Lucid) on a Asus t91mt convertible Netbook with GMA500 (poulsbo) drivers and full multitouch touchscreen support.
- Download the UNR distro ISO from http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook/get-ubuntu/download
- Follow the instructions on that site to create an bootable USB drive from the ISO
- Plug the USB drive to your t91mt and boot, press the F2 key on to select the USB drive to boot from.
- Follow the install instructions
2. Install touchscreen with multitouch support
This "Pfingst"(pentecost)-hollyday weekend I attented SIGINT 2010. The event took place at the KOMED event centre located in the MP6 and MP7 buildings of the MediaPark in the centre of Cologne, which is in walking distance from my home. :)
This week I had time to follow the 26c3 remotley from home via video live streams. And this was a really great and inspirational experience to me. Here is what it looked like on my computer during the conference:
I had all three live streams from the different conference tracks on screen, so I was able to switch between the talks if one got boring to me. This is actually a great enhancement opposed to being present physically on a conference.
Oh Boy!! This is about when its starts to get nasty with LaTeX editing.
I'am writing my Diplomathesis at the moment, and I choosed LaTex for the typesetting, which is normally without a doubt the best choice you can take for that task.
But I'm now at a point, where it starts to get nasty...
For the purpose of splitting my bibliography references into two bibliographies (one for the referred normal scientific literature and one for referred websites).
Hi there!
I just installed Google Sketchup 7 with wine on Ubuntu 9.04 and it works! 
But I have to say, there are some minor "bugs" you have to take care of, to get it up an running nice.
One of the few available CityGML Viewers out there is LandXplorer CityGML Viewer from Autodesk.
As you can find out on their homepage, it is a proprietary product and at the moment only available for MS Windows Platforms.
This is normally bad news fro Linux users like me. But luckily there is wine.
