Comments on: Announcing SpatialKey - Geographic Information Without Limits

By: indiemaps.com/blog » SpatialKey: insanely good geovisualization

indiemaps.com/blog » SpatialKey: insanely good geovisualization — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:23:20 +0000

[...] Powell, Doug McCune, and Brandon Purcell have already posted great introductions to SpatialKey, so I won’t go [...]

By: Eduardo Nunes

Eduardo Nunes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:46:17 +0000

Hi Doug:

I wounder if you could tell me if there is a way one can upload for example “.wmv” files straight into flex instead of “.flv” files.

Regards

Eduardo

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:51:01 +0000

Looks like SimCity of old! Only it’s reality.. great stuff!

By: fivekitten

fivekitten — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:31:11 +0000

Dear GrammarNazi:

Many people make typos. Doug is a very intellectual person and I have no doubt that he learned the difference between “it’s” and “its” in fourth grade like the rest of us. It’s easy to make typos when you write a lot - especially if you’re excited about something. As you may know, when you read something over many, many times, it’s easy to glance over a simple typo because you have everything memorized.

Wouldn’t it be more polite to point out a typo instead of assuming that the person has a limited grasp of elementary grammar concepts?

Maybe you’re a friend of Doug’s - who knows. Maybe the post is an inside joke. But if it’s not, I just want to give my two cents. Being a writer and having to edit myself constantly - I know how something simple can be overlooked. I also know that we should never underestimate the intelligence of others and little mistakes in life should be overlooked.

Sorry to get off topic! Going to play with some visualizations now! Thanks for these great tools!

By: Randy Troppmann

Randy Troppmann — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:52:10 +0000

Doug, this is fantastic work. I agree whole heartedly that the Flash platform has a big advantage at overlaying rich interactive content over a map. I disagree that there has not been innovation in this space since google’s introduction of maps in 2005. Just ask Zach Graves at Yahoo!

By: Christopher Keeler

Christopher Keeler — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:47:37 +0000

I like the 3D Temporal Heat Index view. That was unexpected and cool.

Nice job on the app Doug. Now UM can start charging all the municipalities a butt-load of money for this shit…After all, Doug McCune doesn’t come cheap and he needs some coin to keep making more signature shirts.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56:18 +0000

Not going to lie Doug, the Wal-Mart app alone blew my mind. Definitely looking into this more. Keep on rocking

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:48:08 +0000

@Michael - yeah, you’ve got a part of the secret sauce. Now figure out how to do that with 10,000 latitudes and longitudes on a map. And once you’ve got that part figured out try doing it with about a million points And then do it fast. I’m diggin your work though, I hope you keep going with that, seeing as how I can’t post code It’ll make us all better

@Grammar Nazi - as Brandon already pointed out, I do the code, I don’t write the content. So if there’s some grammatical typo I can blame someone else… if you find a bug in the software then come bitch at me.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:38:47 +0000

I have a blog post outlining the recipe to the secret sauce. It’s really just mayonnaise and ketchup mixed together, but if you want more detail you can read the full post.

http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2008/07/06/how-to-make-heat-maps-in-flex/

Warning: I may use a slightly different brand of mayo than Universal Mind.

By: Brandon Purcell

Brandon Purcell — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:30:43 +0000

To @Grammar Nazi….you can blame that on me, I will make sure we get that fixed for you right away.