6/28/2006 11:32 pm First update in a long time Updated geonames and benchmark datasets to the latest versions. Loaded a new set of superfund data Inactive: 11413 Active: 5354 10/02/2005 8:20 am Re-wrote the vector layer generator to now include name labels. Re-built the vector dataset to include all of the names. 9/23/2005 9:00 am Loaded a new set of superfund data. Looks like the EPA is releasing locations again for many sites. Inactive: 11462 Active: 5253 Priority: 192 9/15/2005 Loaded the Tiger 2004-se dataset into the vector database. Now it includes river data. 6/24/2005 1:00 am Switched the sex offender dataset back to private mode 6/23/2005 8:00 pm Because of a slashdot story about mapping the locations of sex offenders, I switched the dataset to public, and posted a comment about it. 6/21/2005 8:30 am Added callback system so that I can use the mapper as an input widget in other web sites. Fixed the metainfo SOAP system to match the new schema changes at terraservice - re-enabled it. Wrote a new cleanup script to fix bad dates when parsing dumps of the Michigan Sex-Offender data. Currently I only have this data set turned on for the test site. 6/14/2005 8:30 am Updated geonames and benchmark datasets to the latest versions. 5/23/2005 2:30 am Loaded latest update of the superfund database Inactive sites: 11293 -> 11297 Active sites: 5453 -> 5461 5/09/2005 6:24 am Geourl.org support is back. I'm leaving the support for geocrawler.ofdoom.com in place, even though it duplicates most of the data. Database lookups are cheap, you might as well pick both and make sure you see all of the info. 5/09/2005 2:30 am Updated the superfund data for the first time in months. I found a copy of the data from last October. For every site that had a Lat/Lon entry in that dataset, I'm using that location. For sites that didn't, I'm geocoding them against the Tiger 2004-fe dataset. 5/08/2005 I haven't updated the Superfund data for a while, as the Lat/Lon fields had been missing from the exported data. Now they've removed the fields from the record description, so it looks like it's intentional. check http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/products/reclayout.htm#site The Lat/Lon used to be in columns 385-405. Now they are skipped over. 3/16/2005 4:00 am Moved the caches to the internal Roxen cache system, rather than calling Cache.cache. This saves one thread per cache for cleanup, and lets data be shared. 3/14/2005 7:00 am Added the vector overlays to the image mode. Added a cache to the vector layer generator. 3/7/2005 7:00 am Added geotag generator. This should make it easier for people using the mapper to tag their webpages. 3/1/2005 7:30 am Oops - at some point in the past, when I was reloading the landmark data, I neglected to load most of the data for Ohio. I've reloaded it, and it works now. 2/28/2005 9:00 am Vector dataset is now loaded. 2/27/2005 11:50 pm The 8 gig dataset is built, and is being loaded. 2/27/2005 3:00 am Building of the 8 gig dataset of the vector data for the entire US is nearing completion. As soon as it finishes generating, I'll split it into 100 meg blocks, and start loading it. I'm including the following details: All road data (from highways to footpaths) All Railroad data (current and abandoned) All of type 'C' (powerlines and pipelines). I had to leave out water features - It was larger than the road data. Since geourl.org is back up, I checked to see if I could reactivate support for that overlay, but they don't have the XML feed up that they used to have. Looks like I'll just be sticking with my geocrawler. 2/23/2005 5:00 am Reloaded superfund data. Now 19919 sites are in the database. Started moving vector overlay support from the test site to the main site. Currently only Michigan is populated with vector data. I'll add more states once I figure out how much detail I can add before the database gets too big. 2/1/2005 8:30 am Reloaded the superfund data, after re-processing the addrersses with the new tiger-2004 dataset. Gained 19 sites for a total of 13757 New coverage data is broken. Re-crawling terraserver to build a new input set for the optimizer. If this doesn't work, I'll have to re-write it again.. Until I get it working, I forced photo and topo image types to always be available. 1/26/2005 2:30 am Looks like the new optimizer I wrote for the coverage databases is working well, so I rebuilt the photo coverage database. Reducing it to 0.5 degree resolution dropped the size from 49484 records to 11616 records, and appears to have eliminated the gaps between coverage areas that made the mapper suddenly change modes. Reducing the resolution to one degree would have dropped the size to 8334 records, but caused problems with areas like Groom Lake. Next I'll rebuild the Topo coverage data at 0.5 degree as well. 1/25/2005 6:00 am Big upgrade. Added support for more layered tile formats to the front end. Updated the metainfo script to support the new tile formats. Fixed a major bug in the image saving code. Added a second icon to the superfund choice, to show active sites Added support for the new entry types in the new landmark dataset (cave and ruin - right now there are only 5 or 6 entries in these catagories, but I suspect more will be reclassified in an upcoming update) 1/25/2005 3:00 am Updated the full landmark database with the latest data from the USGS. Updated the benchmark database with a full new load from the noaa. Made some changes to the tileserver code to support more than two layers. 1/18/2005 2:42 am Updated the superfund site data with the latest dump the EPA has released. 1/12/2005 4:09 am Fixed the SOAP client I wrote to support recent changes at terraserver, and re-added the creation date query option. 1/12/2005 4:00 am Added Changelog, and link to it from the map page.