Huge Update to Planet Geospatial

By James Fee | Published: March 29, 2007

I know, I’ve been claiming that I’ve been working on a better Planet Geospatial than the one that currently exists for quite some time now. Well the good news is that its done and the DNS should be updating as we speak. The older Planet software was dated and couldn’t handle Atom feeds well (which is why half the feeds were a mess). Well I’ve switched to Sam Ruby’s new Planet branch, Planet Venus. I’ve been trying with little success to get running on my existing host (for probably 6 months now) and finally broke down and switched hosts (check out the new improved Planet Geospatial here for sneak peak). Give it some time for the DNS to get updated, probably about 48 hours for everyone to be running the new site. All the old urls should work after this transition and you’ll all be much happier with the result.

Thanks to Sean for helping out with me finding a new host and pestering me about the Atom support.

Expect some issues over the next day.

UPDATE 1 – there seems to be a configuration issue. I’m tracking it down so if you see a page that says “Not application mounted at the root of this domain”, just come back in a while and it will be resolved.

UPDATE 2 – everything appears to be working now. If you still get the old site, just keep checking back…

UPDATE 3 – Looks like Websense has reclassified PlanetGS as “Information Technology” so those who were getting blocked might be able to actually read Planet Geospatial now.

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15 Comments

  1. KoS
    Posted March 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    fyi….planetgs as of this afternoon has been blocked by USDA. Not sure if temp or perm.

    KoS

  2. Dave Smith
    Posted March 29, 2007 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    Looking great, James! – so far, no broken HTML or other issues…

  3. James Fee
    Posted March 29, 2007 at 5:46 pm | Permalink

    @Kos, you can also use http://cageyjames.webfactional.com/. Maybe that will work for you if its blocked.

  4. Chris C.
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    Hey James,

    I’m getting blocked access too – it’s coming under the category of ‘Sex’.

    Have you added some fruity blogs to pgeo? Or are some ESRI bloggers dropping the F-bomb when they are discussing the reliability of ArcGIS et al? :)

  5. KoS
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 6:14 am | Permalink

    James…the other linked you posted is also being blocked.

    You have been a bad little boy. :)

    KoS

  6. James Fee
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    What firewall is blocking you?

  7. Jim
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 6:34 am | Permalink

    The new site is great James.

    Good Job!

  8. mcsqrd
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 7:18 am | Permalink

    I am also getting blocked, ‘Sex’ not allowed

  9. matt
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    blocked by the state of TN, ’sex’ category

  10. James Fee
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 7:51 am | Permalink

    OK what is the service that is blocking you? I can get them to open access if you tell me what company to contact.

  11. KoS
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 10:07 am | Permalink

    I’m going to work on my end to get the site unblocked. I can petition the agency to allow your site through. Just sucks I have to go through red-tape…..grrrr

    KoS

  12. James Fee
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 10:17 am | Permalink

    This blog was blocked by SonicWALL a couple weeks ago as a “games” site. These companies are amazing in how you have go through hoops to get legit websites opened up.

    At a company i worked at years ago, they blocked things like Dell and such because they were consumer sites, but ESPN was open because the execs needed to get their sports scores. (not that i was complaining)

  13. dan stark
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    we use Websense and you’re apparently one sexy fellow :)

    http://www.danstark.com/mapping/oops.jpg

  14. James Fee
    Posted March 30, 2007 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    Great news for those blocked by Websense:

    Thank you for writing to Websense. The site you submitted is a virtually hosted site that was not in our database. However, it shares an IP address with another site in our database which caused an unintended overblock. The site has been reviewed and categorized accordingly: http://www.planetgs.com/ – Information Technology Categorization updates should be available in the next scheduled publication of the database. A new database is published every business day, five days a week, Pacific Standard Time. Thank you for your assistance, The Websense Database Services Staff J.B. Friday, March 30, 2007 3:57:07 PM
  15. 1389
    Posted September 2, 2007 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    While researching for more information about censorware and blogs, I happened to notice your post about a site being blocked by SonicWall.

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    1389

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