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Serving RDS/TMC info via GeoRSS

As RSS and GeoRSS get more popular every day, here are my 2ct: Once again recycling old code: pulled my RDS/TMC decoder out of the drawer and made a running setup. Then wrote a simple script to generate a GeoRSS feed from it. The hardest part is getting the traffic information formatted right: having a [...]


Scientific imaging with AS3 maptech-lib

Just a quick note: received a request to use Maptech on microscopic images. Threw together an adapted client. The original demo is no longer available. Please see the enhanced demo. A server-side script scans for directories holding zoomify images, sorts them lexically and adds then to the client in sort order. Zoomify’s ImageProperties.xml is extended [...]


2-d barcodes

When thinking of a mass-licensing mode for MaSSOnAIR i thought of a barcode (as there are webcam barcode readers for flex). Then i remembered semacode, a way to encode a url in a 2-d barcode. When i did some research on the technique, i found that semacode actually is a Data Matrix implementation Data Matrix [...]


Decoding RDS and TMC

Since the beginning of this year, my partners at vianovis have licensed teleatlas vector-maps and are busy creating pixel-maps for general use; compatible to zoomify and therefore maptech. Now that i have access to real street maps, i opened my drawer and pulled out an old project of mine: decoding RDS (Radio Data System) and [...]