GeoLabs

UPDATE: I’ve had some criticism of the geo_scaffold code… which was really meant for my personal use. I’m tuning it up for a public release… check back in a few weeks.
Introduction
Following on from my last post where we created a mapping app using geo_scaffold I am going to show how to use cURL to play [...]

Edgerails: If I want to run edgerails with all my geostack development tools it can get quite long winded. So I have tried to compile this post hoping to it will inspire me to create a script to automate it … something like railify which I forked from Nicolás Sanguinetti with that very intent. Also [...]

There is a little post on getting Google Earth and Rails apps talking to each other at: GE-Rails. There is even a hint on using merb instead or Rails

Rails GIS Hack Slides are now available for download at rails.nomad-labs. Also on SlideShare Enjoy!

Its been a great 2-3 days hangin’ with some of my hero’s from the Ruby/Rails world. On Friday we had dinner with Dr Nic and today I learnt about the finer points of RSpec with Dr Nic and Geoffrey of Peepcode fame at the Sankt Oberholz.
Geoffrey also made the fatal mistake of showing Aleks [...]

Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]

I’ll try to post some code snippets on the use of GDAL Ruby bindings. In case you don’t already know there is a bleeding edge gentoo overlay maintained by Kashif at gentoo geo-overlay
I am working on a howto for using that as well to build a gentoo box with some of the latest Open Source [...]

Wetlands are regarded by nature conservationist as unique ecosystems. They often exhibit delicately balanced environmental conditions and support a wide range of exotic plant and animal species. Wetlands are also often protected by various environmental laws and conventions. Last year when I was visiting Pakistan I learned about the Pakistan Wetlands Project that is under [...]

Since i have volunteered to write the gdal ruby-binding test cases i thought it would be a good time to try out some of the ogr ruby-bindings. Charlie Savage has done a lot of work on the gdal SWIG ruby biniding and already written the test suite for OGR. Thanks to his excellent instructions on [...]

… announcing yet another take on getting PostGIS working with Ruby on Rails. Our goal (well, one of them) is to make it easy to arrange for web-based presentation of geographic data, with mouse-sensitive polygons, line-strings, and the like. The code is still quite new, but it’s to the point that other people [...]