Hatfield looking for an Information System Specialist

Hatfield Consultants, the place that I work, is looking for an Information System Specialist. The full job posting is online here. This person will work on all sorts of interesting projects, ranging from local linear development applications, to aquaculture applications to international opportunities in Africa and SE Asia.

Required Skills and Experience

• Must be able to work independently and with a team to design, implement and test web based data management, project management and collaboration systems;
• High attention to detail;
• Excellent English written and verbal skills;
• 5+ years experience developing ASP.NET/PHP/Java web applications;
• Be able to work in a team context with non-technical users;
• B.Sc (Computer Science), B.Tech, B.Eng or related degree with equivalent experience;

Canadian Place Name Trivia

Some interesting Canadian place-name trivia. In all, we have a lot of pleasant places, but we’re not all that creative when it comes to lake names! (“hey – that lake looks pretty long, let’s call it Long Lake!”)

Source: http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/info/trivia_e.php

Most Common Place Names in Canada

Most Common Feature Names in Canada

Yahoo Maps in Indonesia and Viet Nam

Yahoo has turned out to be the first of the big-three online mapping sites (Yahoo, Google and Microsoft) to have detailed road-maps of Indonesia and Viet Nam.

So now you can finally figure out how to drive from Bogor to Yogyakarta.

Source: Yahoo Geo Technologies Blog.

Google Earth for the IPhone

I know that we don’t need yet another reason to get an iPhone, but Google has just added a great reason – Google Earth is now available for the iPhone.

Palin’s foreign credentials tested

In response to Palin’s comments about her foreign policy experience based on being able to see Russia from Alaska, Michael Koswowsky has set up a special map using his “HeyWhatsThat” tools. Looks like there are only 4 very hard to reach spots where you can see Russia in Alaska.

Google Earth layer of Myanmar cyclone data

The UN Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) has released a Google Earth layer showing the path of the cyclone and the extent of the flooding that recently hit Myanmar.

Click on this link: http://services.google.com/earth/kmz/nargis_n.kmz

(source: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/unosat-layer-of-myanmar-cyclone-data.html)

Here’s an interesting website:

This guy asks people to walk around places connected to a lie-detector and a GPS.

Out come maps of “locational physiological arousal”.

Maps are viewable in Google Earth.

http://biomapping.net/

BC Forest Service Information

For backroad adventures, I have found some great online resources to refer to:

• BC Forest Service Campground Alerts
• A listing of all BC Forest Service Sites (pdf)
• Online Map of BC Recreation Sites
• Squamish Forest Service Road Status
• Chilliwack Region Forest Service Road Status
• Chilliwack Region Forest Service Road Closures

OpenSource real-time trip-routing

Hi All:

For any of you that have played with the real-time trip-routing in Google Maps, there is now an OpenSource version available.

A demonstration is available here: http://boston.freemap.in/routing.html

This system utilizes the following parts:

1. UMN MapServer for WMS based map image generation;
2. TileCache for tiled WMS generation and caching;
3. PostGIS for data storage;
4. pgRouting for postGIS based route finding;
5. OpenLayers for the javascript based map viewer

The demonstration is a little bit clunky compared to Google’s (probably all because of server speed), but shows the power of what OpenSource can do!

Google Earth as a flight simulator

Google Earth 4.2 can now be used as a flight simulator!

• Google’s official announcement
• Google Earth Blog flying tips