Building a General Purpose GeoJSON Viewer with Leaflet

Last week I shared my initial experiences with Leaflet and I thought I’d share a small demo I built with it – a general purpose GeoJSON viewer. GeoJSON and Leaflet As I mentioned at the end of my last post, GeoJSON is a specification for encoding ad hoc geographic data. Here’s an example: { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "id": 0, "properties": { "Code": "FRLA", "Name": "Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site" }, "geometry":... more →
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Geolocating General Surovikin

The investigative journalists at Bellingcat have been developing some important tools and methodologies for geolocating images. On Wednesday they applied their investigative geolocating powers to identify the location of General Sergey Surovikin. On September 4th a photograph of Surovikin was posted online, accompanied by the message “General Surovikin has emerged. He’s alive and well, home Maps Mania… more →
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news digest: Sonatype’s enhanced JavaScript capabilities, Mendix expands cloud deployment options, and General Assembly launches CODE for Good – SD Times – SDTimes.com

news digest: Sonatype’s enhanced JavaScript capabilities, Mendix expands cloud deployment options, and General Assembly launches CODE for Good – SD Times  SDTimes.com “JavaScript” – Google News… more →
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