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November 25, 2005

Land shark!

Not really. This is about a whale shark, but land shark is funnier :)

Came across the following site the chronicles that tagging and tracking of a whale shark from the Seychelles. I believe these are animals being tracked by David Rowat in the Seychelles (wish they were online here David, hint, hint :), but the articles don't seem to mention him.

http://www.seeadlerpost.com/

They are making cool use of the new Google Earth (not Google Maps) tool. If you haven't downloaded and tried Google Earth yet you should. You can zoom around the world looking at things in 3-D perspective view. It even has topographic models of major cities in the US.

Also interesting is where I found the post. SlashGIS, a daily GIS e-newsletter that I started following a few weeks ago.

Posted by Michael Coyne at 10:05 PM | | Comments (1)

November 04, 2005

Sounds like...

Cool! I just realized that the database server I use has a "sounds like" function that allows you to match terms that sound alike, not just exact matches. I have implemented this in the sea turtle glossary. The upshot is that the glossary can now match search terms that you enter even if you mispell them (to a point ).

 Give it a try: bathemetry

Now I just need to figure out where else this feature might come in handy... 

Posted by Michael Coyne at 12:34 PM | | Comments (0)

November 03, 2005

Testing

This is a test of the new WYSIWYG editor based on tinyMCE.

Cool formatting tools. But no spell checking 

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Unfortunately doesn't seem to work in Safari. It doesn't break, just reverts to Convert Line Breaks (I hope). Seems to work ok in Firefox, but typing is a bit sluggish.

Posted by Michael Coyne at 07:38 PM | | Comments (0)

Data Motherlode

I thought I'd share one of my favorite global data resources.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ben/gmt.html

Sorry, a lot of the data (not all) are only useful if you are a GMT enthusiast.

Posted by Michael Coyne at 03:18 PM | | Comments (0)

SQL for Geography

Just a note to self about an interesting site:

http://geosql.blogspot.com/

The latest article notes an upcoming article about looking at sea surface temperature through time that I don't want to miss...

Posted by Michael Coyne at 09:20 AM | | Comments (0)