Huge update to Planet Geospatial

Huge Update to Planet Geospatial

March 29th, 2007 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized

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.

Tags: Planet Geospatial·Site News

15 responses so far ↓

1 KoS // Mar 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm

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

KoS
2 Dave Smith // Mar 29, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Looking great, James! - so far, no broken HTML or other issues…
3 James Fee // Mar 29, 2007 at 5:46 pm

@Kos, you can also use http://cageyjames.webfactional.com/. Maybe that will work for you if its blocked.
4 Chris C. // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:08 am

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 // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:14 am

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

You have been a bad little boy.

KoS
6 James Fee // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:15 am

What firewall is blocking you?
7 Jim // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:34 am

The new site is great James.

Good Job!
8 mcsqrd // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:18 am

I am also getting blocked, ‘Sex’ not allowed
9 matt // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:38 am

blocked by the state of TN, ’sex’ category
10 James Fee // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:51 am

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 // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:07 am

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 // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:17 am

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 // Mar 30, 2007 at 2:17 pm

we use Websense and you’re apparently one sexy fellow

http://www.danstark.com/mapping/oops.jpg
14 James Fee // Mar 30, 2007 at 4:09 pm

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 // Sep 2, 2007 at 9:42 pm

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