James Fee GIS Blog

My policy on Planet Geospatial has been if you want in, just ask, and you’ll be added. I’m not sure this can continue as the noise is just too much to make Planet Geospatial of any value. So I’m in the process of cleaning out the feeds and reducing it from the 144 [...]

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Here are some of the latest blogs I’ve added to Planet Geospatial:

http://jeffhobbs.net/ - Jeff Hobbs’ Intergraph and GIS Technology Blog
http://slashgeo.org/ - SlashGeo (added back in)
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/ - Henri Bergius
http://www.bostongis.com/blog/ - Boston GIS Blog
http://geochalkboard.wordpress.com/ - GeoChalkboard
http://idvux.spaces.live.com/ - Designing Composite Applications

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Here are the new blogs I’ve added this week:

Mapperz (technically not new as I had removed it by mistake)
GeoWeb Blog
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
GeoMusings (added back in)
Thinking in GIS - Paolo Corti (again dropped for no reason)

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I got an email from someone who likes Planet Geospatial, but wants to know when and what feeds I add so they can update their feed reader. I used to have a change log, but that got a little behind so I figure I’ll just blog when I add feeds. The 5 6 [...]

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If you receive the email subscription to Planet Geospatial, you’ll need to update your email again. I’ve tried to work with FeedBurner to recover the email subscription list, but they can’t do that.
So, if you want to renew your Planet Geospatial email subscription (there were about 400 of you), you’ll need to [...]

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Something has happened at Feedburner and the PlanetGS RSS feed has been deleted. They are working at bringing it back, but I’m not too hopeful that they’ll get it straitened out. The smart thing to do is just use the native Atom feed below.
http://www.planetgs.com/atom.xml

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Christopher Schmidt set up an IRC channel and we’ve started talking shop. I’ve put the coordinates on the Planet Geospatial page, but you can grab them here if you wish.
Planet Geospatial IRC
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #planetgeospatial
Update - Christopher has a web based IRC client for those who can’t install or use IRC on their workstations.

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Just got a confirmation from 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Yes you can see, the PHP lite Planet GS has finally crashed. The view is not pretty.
The good news is that the new/old Planet GS built on Python is just about ready to go. I’ve got the DNS to change over so as soon as that takes, we’ll be back to having a [...]

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Well the php script hung again bringing down Planet GS once again. I think its time to dump the php and move back to python. At least there I understood what I was doing. It will take me a couple days to get it back in order, but it will be back.
For [...]

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I got it back up and running, but it seems the large amount of feeds had caused PHP to time out. I’ve got a subset of feeds in there right now and I’ll start adding the others back in over th next day or two.
So if you don’t see your blog in Planet GS [...]

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Well I’ve got it back up and running. There was/is some sort of weird PHP4/5 thing going on that I’m still trying to debug. Anyway I’ll keep at it and we should be back in business on Monday.

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Planet Geospatial is down while I try and figure what has happened in the last 2 days. PGS is supposed to build once every hour but for one reason or another it builds every time someone hits the page which is why it has been running really slow lately. I’ll keep you updated [...]

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A couple of people have asked and I’ve finally been able to do it. You can now subscribe to a daily email of all Planet Geospatial posts. Everything that is in the RSS feed for that day will be included. Just follow the link on the right side of Planet Geospatial or [...]

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Believe me it is still in alpha stage, but if you’d like to see what PGS 2.0 will look like click below:
http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/planetgs/
Believe me it needs some work. I still need to get the cron working so that it builds automatically, but when that gets figure out, the old site goes away. You’ll notice [...]

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I see Sean updated his Planet Geospatial Scrubber Greasemonkey script. This is a great resource for those who don’t like some feeds showing up in Planet Geospatial You might not be interested in Google Earth, so you could block all Ogle Earth and Google Earth Blog posts from showing up. Just [...]

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Looks like Blogger is out of beta. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn’t SPAM Planet Geospatial.

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While on my trek to rural Oklahoma and the land of 14.4 AOL modem connections, I began to rely on my Treo 700p for email and web access. One thing I noticed that navigating my blog was impossible. Well after some work and a great little plugin my blog now works on all [...]

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OK, it was as simple as ESRI.com overloading my hosted server:
The XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX IP address was firewalled on the server. Most likely there were a high number of connections coming in from this IP and causing load issues on the server. ESRI.com should no longer have any issues reaching the site, I have removed [...]

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